Fall 2022 Exhibitions
The museum’s permanent collection gallery is named in honor of F&M alumnus Thomas
W. Nissley ‘55 and his wife Emily Baldwin Nissley, who together generously provided
funding for its care and programming. The exhibition is a broad sampling from the
museum’s various core collections and includes indigenous material culture, regionally
created furniture, fiber arts and crafts, as well as paintings, sculptures, works
on paper, and glass arts. Highlights include works by renowned artists such as Luigi
Rist, Aharon Bezalel, Nanette Carter, Al Loving, and Keith Haring. The Nissley Gallery features a spotlight on contemporary local artists. Padmini Mongia
is an English professor at F&M who completed a cross-pollinator residency at the Winter
Visual Arts Center in the spring of 2022. Mongia wanted to explore links between word
and image. Taking an online course in Thuluth calligraphy,in preparation for the residency,
she also took an online course on art and Jungian individuation where she learned
about the mandala. Her experimentation with the tools and techniques of Thuluth calligraphy
and the mandala came together during the residency and resulted in the work on view
in the Nissley Gallery. Mongia's work is included in the online exhibition of the
Nissley Gallery.
In 2002, art collector and philanthropist Madeleine P. Plonsker began traveling to
Cuba to learn more about Havana’s thriving art scene. The Light in Cuban Eyes focuses
on photography from 1990 to 2013, which spans Cuba’s “Special Period in the Time of
Peace," a difficult and tumultuous era resulting from the withdrawal of financial
support from the former Soviet Union. Plonsker states that the contributing artists—including
Juan Carlos Alom, Adrián Fernández Milanés, Marta María Pérez Bravo, Cirenaica Moreira,
and Glenda León—shoot their worlds in styles ranging from fabulist to gritty.
The Phillips Museum of Art at Franklin and Marshall College is honored to present
F&M faculty, staff, and emeriti from the Department of Art, Art History, and Film
in the biennial exhibition, Resurgence. Artists in the exhibition include Caitlyn
Bishop, Kevin Brady, Linda Cunningham, Carol Hickey, John Holmgren, Bill Hutson, Rick
Kent, Magnolia Laurie, JunCheng Liu, Virginia Maksymowicz, Jeremy Moss, and Jason
Thompson. Each of the 12 artists were invited to present new work in a variety of
media from drawing, painting and printmaking to sculpture, photography, and film.
Nissley Gallery: Fall 2022
Local Artist Spotlight: Padmini Mongia
The Light in Cuban Eyes: Selections From The Madeleine P. Plonsker Collection
Resurgence: The F&M Art, Art History, and Film Department Biennial