Spring 2021 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 of the museum’s
various core collections. Highlights include Pennsylvania German toleware, wood carving,
and turned works by Joseph Lehn, glassworks by Dale Chihuly and other artists, and
paintings by Lloyd Mifflin, Karel Appel, Caroline Peart, Al Loving Jr., and Bill Hutson.
“The unexamined life is not worth living.” New York painter Francie Lyshak cites Socrates’s
irreducible maxim as an idea common to every phase of her extensive and affecting
body of work. Often turning her focus inward to stare down and pick apart a lifetime
of personal experience—some of it highly traumatic—she offers viewers a cascade of
stories and spaces into which they can immerse themselves spiritually and emotionally
as well as visually. Drawing on a training and professional career in art therapy,
Lyshak wields her knowledge of painting as a tool for surveying the landscapes of
mind and heart. The Capstone Exhibition at F&M traditionally features works by graduating art students.
This year’s exhibition includes works by Tamara A. Conner, Quinn Evans, Shania I.
Lopez, Emma Shen, S. M. Sutter, Parker H. W. Williamson, and 妍利 Yanli.Nissley Gallery: Spring 2021
Francie Lyshak: Mysterious Visions
Disconnected: Capstone Exhibition