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Art Gallery 2025-26
The Lycoming College Art Gallery and the student-run Lycoming College Downtown Project Space are both located at 25 West Fourth Street in downtown Williamsport. Some exhibitions are housed in both spaces.
- Summer Gallery Hours during exhibitions: Thursday, Friday, and Saturday 5-9 p.m.
- Fall and Spring Semester Gallery Hours during exhibitions: Thursday, Friday, Saturday 4-8 p.m.
- The Gallery is closed during academic breaks.
Check out our recent Artists-In-Residence: Pedro Lasch, Nicole Dextras and Aaron Hughes.
Upcoming Exhibitions
Transplanted Forest: Seung Lee
Friday, Nov. 7, 2025-Jan. 31, 2026
“Transplanted Forest: Seung Lee,” a solo exhibition by Korean American contemporary artist Seung Lee, features paintings, drawings, and an immersive, large-scale installation that invites visitors into a meditative bamboo environment — an evolving, light-filled space that foregrounds strength, flexibility, and renewal.
At the heart of the exhibition is “Bamboo Forest for the Future,” an installation that Lee first developed in 2022 at the Garage Art Center (Queens, N.Y.) and Gallery 90 (Center Moriches, N.Y.). Reimagined for the Lycoming College Art Gallery, the work transforms the gallery into a contemplative landscape of towering bamboo forms and expansive works on paper, encouraging visitors to sit, breathe, and reflect on our present moment and the world we are shaping together.
Nina Elder
Canaries, from the series
Timepieces 2022
Wildfire charcoal and graphite on paper
24 x 36 inches
Courtesy of the artist
All actions have a past and a future
Feb. 6-March 28, 2026
Gallery Reception: March 20, 5 p.m. – Artist-in-Residence Nina Elder will be in conversation with Marisa C. Sánchez, Ph.D., assistant professor of art history and curator of the exhibit
“All actions have a past and a future” presents the work of artist, researcher, and visual storyteller Nina Elder (b. 1981), whose intricate drawings and videos invite viewers to contemplate our environmental impact. The artist’s material practice includes the use of coal and wildfire charcoal, industrial pulp mill waste, and marine motor lubricant to address natural resources and extractive industries. With a focus on changing cultures and ecologies, Elder creates projects that reveal humanity’s dependence on, and interruption of, the natural world. She observes: “We are interfering with geologic time and geologic process, and I don’t know if the earth will heal from what we have done to it.” However, “I believe we can take actions now that mean we will be ancestors to a better future.”
Nina Elder
Mom's Hands, from the series
Timepieces 2022
Wildfire charcoal and graphite on paper
24 x 18 inches
Courtesy of the artist
Elder is devoted to rural communities and often overlooked places; she regularly works outside of urban cultural centers and the commercial art world. She advocates for collaboration, fostering relationships between institutions, artists, scientists, and diverse communities. At Lycoming College Art Gallery, Elder’s exhibit will include a “learning lab” for hands-on creative engagement that aims to stimulate curiosity, reflection, and dialogue. The “learning lab” will be a meeting place to share ideas and learn together, encouraging visitors to the gallery to explore connections with the themes and ideas explored through the artist’s work on view.
From March 16 – 20, Elder will be an Artist-in-Residence at Lycoming College and is part of the interdisciplinary Environmental Justice Symposium on campus this spring semester. Elder will deliver a public talk titled “Quantum Curiosity” on Tuesday, March 17, 4:30 p.m. in Trogner Presentation Room, Krapf Gateway Center, Lycoming College. This is event is open to the public.
Recent solo exhibitions of Elder’s art have been organized by University of Colorado, SITE Santa Fe, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, and museums across the United States. Her work has been featured in Art in America, VICE Magazine, Hyperallergic, and on PBS. Elder’s writing has been published by Dark Mountain, Routledge Press, and American Scientist, among others, and her research has been supported by the NEA, the Warhol Foundation, Rauschenberg Foundation, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and Mellon Foundation. When she is not traveling for research, exhibitions, and teaching, Elder lives off the grid in Colorado.
Elder holds an M.F.A. in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute and a B.F.A. in painting from the University of New Mexico. More about Elder can be found online at https://www.ninaelder.com/studio-response.
Senior Student Exhibition
Opens Friday, April 10, 2026
Past Exhibitions
Rebecca Ruige Xu and Sean Zhai
Sept. 5-Nov. 1, 2025
Opening Reception: Sept. 5, 5 p.m.
Dwelling in becoming is the act of inhabiting the space between what is and what is yet to be. To dwell, in Heidegger’s sense, is to live attentively within the unfolding of existence, finding meaning through active presence in the world; becoming names a state of continual change, where nothing is fixed and each moment holds the possibility of transformation.
This two-person exhibition, featuring the works of artists Rebecca Ruige Xu and Sean Zhai, emerges from precisely such a condition. We do not yet fully understand what new technologies like artificial intelligence will bring, yet we are already using them to alter the structures—technological, cultural, and societal—that shape how we live. This is a moment of profound transition, a collective dwelling in becoming, where the old is unsettled and the new remains undefined. Through fine art printmaking, sound-responsive installation, visual music, data visualization, and generative art, the works function as creative queries, probing what it means to make, to sense, and to act when human agency is continually reshaped through its entanglement with technological systems. The works do not aim to resolve such questions but to leave them open, inviting us to linger in uncertainty and consider what forms of meaning and connection might emerge if we choose to dwell here, in the midst of becoming.
About the Lycoming College Art Gallery:
The Lycoming College Art Gallery is located in downtown Williamsport at 25 W. Fourth St. The gallery contributes to the city’s arts culture and provides a way for the College to become more involved with the community surrounding it. Lycoming art students have the opportunity to interact with visiting artists and their work, as well as learn first-hand the inner workings of a gallery.
This fall, the gallery is open on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, 4-8 p.m. For more information, please visit the gallery online at www.lycoming.edu/art/gallery/ or email yogodzinski@lycoming.edu.
Gallery Submissions
To submit work for consideration for a Gallery Exhibition:
Contact John Yogodzinski, Art Gallery Coordinator, yogodzinski@lycoming.edu.
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