Exhibitions

Our first floor Gallery, located on the right as you enter the building from 6th Street, features rotating special exhibitions, free and open to the public.
February 2 - April 30, 2024 picture

Orbis: The Natural World

Elayne Bryn’s digital art is inspired by the natural world. The "Orbis" series is a collection of digital images; Celestial, Terre, and Marine, that depict images of the sky, the land, and the sea. Her work is warmed by an iconic sun face inspired by 17th century celestial cartography and botanical images from Renaissance gardens. She explores the undersea world through drawings made by naturalists who recorded their observations. These images are now preserved digitally in historical scientific archives that are now posted in open- source sites on the internet. The modern world meets the ancient natural world through Elayne’s large digital images that are reproduced in vibrant colors on archival paper.

The artist will give two gallery talks: on March 6th and April 3rd, at 12:00 p.m. 

Elayne Bryn was born and raised in suburban Philadelphia. She graduated from the Philadelphia College of Art with a BFA in illustration. She is also a graduate of Villanova Law School. She now works in her studio outside of Philadelphia and in Los Angeles. In May, 2023, Elayne won the First Place Award for Digital Art at the Beverly Hills Art Show.

May 13 - August 30, 2024 picture

Constructing Knowledge: 300 Years of The Carpenters’ Company of the City and County of Philadelphia

2024 marks the 300th anniversary of the Carpenters’ Company of the City and County of Philadelphia. This exhibit will celebrate the past 300 years of the Company and its membership, and explore the way in which those members physically constructed the landscape of Philadelphia, while contributing to the standards and definitions of the current architecture, engineering, and construction trades.

Curators: Jeff Cohen, Alyssa Constad, Tom Stokes, Carol Smith, Janice Woodcock

This event will be co-sponsored by Keast & Hood Structural Engineers, Kieran Timberlake, and Turner Construction.

Photo by Charles Uniatowski, courtesy of the Carpenters’ Company of Philadelphia.

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