Join the Sordoni Art Gallery on Saturday, October 12 from noon to 2 pm for our next Second Saturday Family hour! This free event for creatives of all ages allows families to come together and enjoy our current exhibition. What is nonobjective art? Also called non-representational art, nonobjective art defines…
Join SAG Director Heather Sincavage as she walks you through the women trailblazers included in the Memories & Inspiration exhibition. Several of the artists were instrumental in advocating for fair representation of artists of color in museums and texts. Discover their lasting legacy through this intimate discussion amongst the art.
Sordoni Art Gallery’s current exhibition, Memories & Inspiration, features a variety of printmaking. It is a fun way to make multiple pieces of art at once. Join us on November 9 from noon to 2 p.m. for a stamp making workshop! We will be making stamps for coasters and notecards.…
In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, "Remember This House." The book was to be a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and assassinations of three of his close friends: Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. At the time…
In a 2018 TED Talk, Deal described his work as “honoring Indigenous experiences, challenging stereotypes, and pushing for accurate representations of Indigenous people in art.” It is in these "disruptions" of stereotypes and ahistorical representations which Deal uses the term to describe his work. Gregg Deal has exhibited his work…
For this Second Saturday Family Hour, we will explore mark-making. This process helps us create depth and texture in artwork. Our two activities, resist painting and layer painting, will help us learn about layering in are and how marks interact over time. Don’t forget to join us for storytime with…
Join us for a free zine-making workshop by Jess Meoni, Community Organizer, Scranton Punk Collective. No experience is necessary and all materials will be provided. Space is limited. Please register with melissa.carestia@wilkes.edu. This workshop is intended for adults college-aged and older. A mover-and-shaker from Northeast Pennsylvania, Jess Meoni creates platforms…
Join us as we create zines inspired by ourselves. A lot of Gregg Deal’s work explores his identity. This theme, along with the influence of punk culture, is the perfect mixture for a zine, a self-made magazine! Using collage and drawing materials, kids will create a zine while thinking about…
Artist George Catlin was born in Wilkes-Barre in 1796 and dedicated much of his career to depicting Native American life and culture, becoming the best-known “Indian painter” of the nineteenth-century United States. Catlin’s paintings aimed to preserve the traditions of Indigenous peoples facing displacement but also perpetuated racial stereotypes and…
Susanne Slavick is an artist, curator and the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Art at Carnegie Mellon University. She studied at Yale University, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, and Tyler School of Art in Rome and Philadelphia. Her traveling curatorial projects include When the Bough Breaks (2019); Marx@200 (2018); Unloaded (2015-19);…
Join us for a mesmerizing celebration of art and technology! Experience video-mapped projections transforming the buildings of the SOMA Arts District (South Main Street), featuring original works by artist Jeff Dobrow and a special community-created projection. Be part of this free, family-friendly event that brings together creativity, community, and culture in the heart…
Family Tree brings together the work of four sisters to ‘talk about trees.’ Join us for a special Second Saturday Family Hour, where kids will explore their family history and design their very own family tree! Through this activity, we’ll learn about genealogy—what it means, why it’s important, and how…