Aerial view of campus with Williamsport, the Susquehanna River and Bald Eagle Mountain as a backdrop

Art Gallery 2026-27

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. The gallery is open the following hours during exhibitions.

Fridays 4-8 p.m.
Saturdays 10-2 p.m.
Sundays 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

Guadalupe Martinez: Becoming River, 2026, multi-channel video installation with sound.

Guadalupe Martinez: Becoming River
Sept. 4-Nov. 28, 2026
Artist Reception: Oct. 14, 4:30 p.m., Trogner Presentation Room, Krapf Gateway Center

“Becoming River” is contemporary artist Guadalupe Martinez’s solo exhibition at the Lycoming College Art Gallery and the artist’s first show in Pennsylvania. Curated by Marisa C. Sánchez, Ph.D., assistant professor of art history, in collaboration with the artist, “Becoming River” is Martinez’s meditation on the West Branch of the Susquehanna River and its tributaries, and her reflection on the river’s profound presence in the landscape and the surrounding region.

Through her research and in thinking about the river’s existence, the artist expressed “The Susquehanna is an ancestral presence, a humble yet powerful witness. It is over 300 million years old. I was amazed to learn that it predates the Atlantic Ocean and the breakup of Pangaea. This was a profound insight about time, and to the expansive dimensions by which we are constantly relating; being contained by without noticing. A cosmic omnipresence so much larger than ourselves and our culture.”

At the gallery, “Becoming River” is an immersive installation that includes five large-scale projected video works, including three from Martinez’s poetic project “Reflections on a Window Glass” (2020) and the debut of two new videos focused on the river and created by the artist specifically for this exhibition. Filmed in Williamsport, Pa., during the first part of her residency, these two videos explore Martinez’s experience of the river. Conceiving this waterway as a “powerful witness,” Martinez’s approach considers the river’s livingness, which recalls for Sánchez the writings of Robert Macfarlane, who claimed that “Rivers are our first singers, our first storytellers…[they are] a kind of storage medium, as well as a narrative force. We tell our stories with and through rivers.”

In “Becoming River,” Martinez invites viewers to reflect on what this river has held, what it has carried. Visitors to the gallery can contribute to “River Stories,” an interactive section within the exhibit where the artist encourages them to share their stories about their relation to the river. This section of the exhibit provides space for the exchange of ideas and includes images from her “Sensorial Archive: Reserva Costanera Sur,” made between 2012-2015, along the Río de la Plata in Buenos Aires. This work provides further context for her interdisciplinary artistic inquiry that approaches the landscape not merely as a geographic site, but as a living, embodied archive. Martinez has said of this aspect of her Sensorial Archive, “Soil, vegetation, rubble, atmospheric conditions, and the rhythm of the tides carry the deep imprints of political history and ecological transformation. Through walking, collecting, filming, and drawing, my practice attunes itself to these more-than-human forms of remembering, exploring how sensory aesthetics can access historical truths that language and conventional archives cannot hold.” In line with this, Martinez offers visitors a somatic exercise titled “Rock Ritual,” a self-guided exploratory walk that moves beyond the art gallery to the banks of the Susquehanna.

This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts’ Grants for Arts Projects (GAP), which was awarded to Lycoming College in support of Sánchez’s grant proposal. To find out more about how NEA grants impact individuals and communities, visit www.arts.gov.

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 Fridays 4-8 p.m.; Saturdays, 10-2 p.m.; Sundays 4-8 p.m. For more information, please visit the gallery online or email fischera@lycoming.edu.

Gallery Submissions

To submit work for consideration for a Gallery Exhibition:

Contact Alysia Fischer, Art Gallery Coordinator, fischera@lycoming.edu

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