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Lycoming College Art Gallery in downtown Williamsport is set to open its doors to the community for the annual juried exhibition featuring the thesis works of Lycoming College graduating art students. “Parallax: Lycoming Graduating Senior Art Exhibition” opens Friday, April 10, with an artist reception at 5:30 p.m. The exhibition will run through May 9 and is free and open to the public.
Juror’s Statement: Parallax is the apparent shift in an object's position when viewed from different, distinct locations. Embracing different points of view and varying interpretation, this exhibition is a constellation of layered, personal works that pivot around healing, self expression, shadows and light, and wayfinding in challenging times. These artists each express themselves in ways that are at once confident and curious, inviting the audience to imagine the nonlinear path from inspiration to creation.
The Lycoming College Senior Show is the culmination of thesis projects for graduating students studying studio art. All studio art majors are required to produce a cohesive body of professional thesis work and must be chosen by an outside juror to exhibit in the Senior Show in order to graduate. The juror for this year’s thesis exhibition is Lycoming College Artist-in-Residence, researcher, and visual storyteller, Nina Elder.
Elder’s residency includes a solo exhibit at the Lycoming College Art Gallery that brings together two video works “Overburden” and “Tongue Stones” and thirteen drawings from two series, “Uplift” and “Timepieces”. As an artist and researcher, Elder creates projects that reveal humanity’s dependence on, and interruption of, the natural world. She is also devoted to rural communities and often overlooked places; she regularly works outside of urban cultural centers and the commercial art world. Elder lectures as a visiting artist/scholar at universities, develops publicly engaged programs, and consults with organizations that seek to grow through interdisciplinary programming.
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.
The 2026 Senior Art Show features works from the following juried graduating seniors:
- Rachel Barnable – studio art major
- Atzin Bravo-Guzman – 3D animation major, astronomy minor
- Ezra Castillo – 3D animation major, 2D animation minor
- Megan Klansek – photography and corporate communication double major
- Eleanor Punko - 3D animation major, 2D animation minor
- Camille Sgrecci – studio art major, business administration minor
- Victoria Burton – psychology major, painting minor
- Gabriella Fugon – musical theatre major, photography minor
- Natalia Thomas – environmental science and biology:ecology double major, photography minor
The Lycoming College Art Gallery, located in downtown Williamsport at 25 W. Fourth St., contributes to the city’s arts culture and allows the College to become more involved with the surrounding community. Lycoming art students have the opportunity to interact with visiting artists and learn first-hand the inner workings of an art gallery.
The gallery is open Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays from 4-8 p.m. For more information, please visit the gallery online.