2016-2017 Cultural Series Events
The York College Galleries are dedicated to providing opportunities to explore the visual arts in a setting that promotes
learning, discovery, and appreciation. The galleries on our main campus were established in 1994 as the centerpiece of the
Music, Art, and Communication Center, and rededicated in July 2006 as Evelyn and Earle Wolf Hall. Comprising two
adjacent galleries, the Cora Miller Gallery and the Brossman Gallery, these exhibition spaces serve a vital role in our
community by attracting nationally and internationally renowned artists to York.
The YCP Galleries also host monthly First Friday exhibitions and events at Marketview Arts, located at 37 W.
Philadelphia St. in the downtown York arts district. Exhibitions have featured emerging and established regional artists
and renowned visiting artists, including Wayne White's site-specific FOE installation, and the national juried sculpture
exhibition, Mirror, Mirror.
Gallery Hours:
Monday, Tuesday, Friday 9:00-5:00 PM
Wednesday, Thursday: 9:00-9:00 PM
Saturday: 10:00-4:00 PM
Sunday: Closed
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Faculty Biennial Exhibition
September 1–October 1, 2016, York College Galleries
Opening Reception: September 1, 4:00 p.m., Wolf Hall Lobby
The YCP Faculty Biennial offers an opportunity to view recent work by full- and part-time faculty from York College's
fine art and graphic design faculty. This exhibition reflects the faculty's dedication to pursuing creative research and an
active studio practice. The works in the exhibition cover a wide range of disciplines and media, including photography,
painting, printmaking, drawing, illustration, jewelry, sculpture, and installation. Among the exhibiting faculty are
professional artists with active exhibition records who have won many awards, including the Janet & Walter Sondheim
Prize, The Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Award, and several Best In Show awards from national juried exhibitions.
Faculty members have also exhibited their work nationally and internationally from New York to New Delhi.
Hard Pressed: DBP@YCP
Artist Lecture: September 1, 5:30 p.m., DeMeester Recital Hall
Reception: September 1, 4:00 p.m., Wolf Hall Lobby
Printing Demonstration: September 1, 12 - 4 p.m., Wolf Hall Entrance
Drive By Press is a collaborative print experience on wheels, created to educate and share the contemporary practice of
printmaking It began with an etching press in the back of a truck and a collection of 200 contemporary American prints
but has evolved to three mobile operations, over 450 schools visited, and 450,000 miles traveled. The goal is to
demonstrate the power of the multiple, educating students in a variety of techniques, and shedding light on current trends
in printmaking. Following a full afternoon of printing DBP co-founder Greg Nanney will lecture on the history of
printmaking and demonstrate how it remains a vital art form.
Location: Marketview Arts, 37 West Philadelphia St.
Printing Demonstration: September 2, 3:00-8:00 p.m., Marketview Arts Entrance
First Friday Exhibition/Reception: September 2, 5:00-8:00 p.m. Coni Wolf Gallery,
First Friday: Downtown with Drive By Press
Marketview Arts
Drive By Press will set up their mobile printmaking studio at York College's Marketview Arts building for September's
First Friday Art Walk. DBP will demonstrate printing techniques and print custom T-shirts using a wide array of wood
blocks. Customers can bring their own shirts or purchase one from DBP. The printing demo will run for most of the
afternoon and will be followed by a reception in the second floor Coni Wolf Gallery. The exhibition will feature
selections drawn from the DBP Collection, which is the largest known collection of contemporary prints, most of which
have been donated by faculty and students.
Helen Zughaib: Arab Spring (Unfinished Journeys)
October 20 –November 22, 2016, York College Galleries
Preview Reception/Gallery Talk with Helen Zughaib: October 19, 5:00 p.m.,
York College Galleries
Helen Zughaib was born in Beirut, Lebanon but left in 1975 as her country descended into civil war. Zughaib’s concern
for those affected by war and violence, particularly women, is a major theme in her work. Her "Weeping Women" series
began in the wake of Israel's 2006 attack on Lebanon and her "Witness" series followed her experiences as U.S. Cultural
Envoy to Palestine in 2008. This exhibition reflects Zughaib's response to the complexity of the Arab Spring and its
aftermath, capturing the initial optimism while lamenting the lives lost and fractured in the violence that followed. Above
all, Zughaib aims to combat stereotypes and dispel misconceptions.
Panel Discussion: Perspectives on Peace
Featuring Helen Zughaib, Joyce J. Scott, and Rita Duffy
November 10, 5:30 p.m., DeMeester Recital Hall
Helen Zughaib lived mostly in the Middle East and Europe before coming to the U.S. to study art at Syracuse University.
Her work has been widely exhibited internationally and is in the collections of the White House, World Bank, Library of
Congress, and the Arab American National Museum in Detroit, MI. In 2008, she was U.S. Cultural Envoy to Palestine. In
2009, she was sent to Switzerland under the State Department's Speaker and Specialist Program. Her paintings have been
gifted to heads of state by President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Zughaib views the arts as an
important tool for shaping and fostering dialogue about the Middle East.
Fall Senior Exhibition
December 9–20, 2016
Senior Presentations: December 9, 5:00 p.m., DeMeester Recital Hall
Opening Reception: December 9, 5:45–7:15 p.m., Wolf Hall Lobby
This exhibition features the work of Division of Art students in their final semester at YCP. Senior Fine Art majors
display their final bodies of work, often organized around cohesive thematic and/or formal concerns. Senior Graphic
Design majors exhibit their final projects, which began with the introduction of a common design problem during their
final semester that seniors interpret individually. Students work collectively during their final semester to refine their
creative vision and learn to present themselves and their work in a professional manner. This process culminates with the
Senior Presentations and Exhibition. A reception and announcement of awards will follow the presentations in the Wolf
Hall Lobby and York College Galleries respectively.
Hank Willis Thomas: Unbranded: A Century of White Women 1915-2015
January 16–February 18, 2017, York College Galleries
Lecture/Reception Begins: February 9, 5:30 p.m., DeMeester Recital Hall
Hank Willis Thomas explores notions of virtue, power, beauty, privilege, and desire by selecting advertising portrayals of
white women between1915-2015 and removing text or logos identifying the product being sold. He said, "I think what
happens with ads when we put text and logos on them, we do all of the heavy lifting of making them make sense to us.
But when you see the image naked or unbranded, you start to really ask questions. That's why we can almost never tell
what it's actually an ad for because ads really aren't about the products. It's about what myths and generalizations we could
attach and the repetition of imagery of a certain type."
Photo conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas works primarily with themes related to identity, history, and popular culture.
His work is in numerous public collections including The Museum of Modern Art New York, The Solomon R.
Guggenheim Museum, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. His collaborative projects have been featured
at the Sundance Film Festival and installed permanently at the Oakland International Airport, The BirminghamShuttlesworth International Airport, The Oakland Museum of California, and the University of California, San Francisco.
He was recently appointed to the Public Design Commission for the City of New York. Thomas is represented by Jack
Shainman Gallery in New York City and Goodman Gallery in South Africa.
James Johnson: Forgetting is Important
Lecture: February 22, 5:30 p.m., DeMeester Recital Hall
Reception: February 22, 6:30 p.m., Wolf Hall Lobby
James Johnson is Associate Professor of Photography and Digital Arts at Moore College of Art in Philadelphia, PA. He
had solo exhibitions at Vox Populi in Philadelphia as well as Oakland University, Rochester, MI, The Contemporary
Museum, Baltimore, MD, and Fleischer Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA. His work has been included in group exhibitions
in cities such as London, Chicago, New York, Boston, and Seattle. He was the recipient of the Independence Foundation
Fellowship in the Arts in 2011 and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Individual Creative Artists Fellowship in 2007
and 2009. Johnson's art makes reference to architecture and issues surrounding representation, economics, and power. He
is influenced by Conceptual Art and Minimalism. His studio is in Philadelphia.
Jan Conradi: On Writing and Design
Lecture: February 23, 5:30 pm, DeMeester Recital Hall
Reception: February 23, 6:30 pm, Wolf Hall Lobby
Jan Conradi, Professor at Rowan University, is a design educator with a primary focus on typography and design history.
Her book, Lella and Massimo Vignelli: Two Lives, One Vision, was published in 2014. Her previous book, Unimark
International: The Design of Business and the Business of Design, was published in 2010. She has authored numerous
articles and her project and course materials have been featured in books by Phil Meggs, Rob Carter, Elizabeth Resnick,
and Steven Heller. Conradi has presented at AIGA Education, TypeCon, and the Design Exchange International
conferences. She was an Art Director at Wm. C. Brown Publishers in Dubuque, IA. In her spare time, she focuses on
letterpress printing, creating artist books and typographic experiment.
Annual Juried Student Exhibition
March 16–April 6, 2017
Opening Reception: March 16, 5:00–7:00 p.m.
Graphic Design Juror: Jan Conradi
Fine Art Juror: James Johnson
The exhibition features selected work from YCP students taking courses in fine art and graphic design. Students submit
work for consideration and guest jurors select works that are exceptional, represent our program, and exhibit well
together. Graphic design juror is Jan Conradi, Professor at Rowan University with over 20 years of experience in design
education. Fine art juror is James Johnson, Associate Professor at Moore College of Art. His art is influenced by
Conceptual Art and Minimalism, and encompasses installation, sculpture, and photography and makes reference to
architecture and issues surrounding representation, economics, and power. Awards will be announced at the opening
reception at 5:30 p.m. in the Cora Miller Gallery.
Spring Senior Exhibition
April 28–May 6, 2017
Presentations: April 28, 5:30 p.m., DeMeester Recital Hall
Opening Reception: April 28, 6:30–7:30 p.m., Wolf Hall Lobby
The exhibition features the work of students from the Division of Art in their final semester of study at YCP. Seniors
majoring in Fine Art display final bodies of work, often organized around cohesive thematic and/or formal concerns.
Seniors majoring in Graphic Design exhibit final projects, which began with the introduction of a common design
problem that each senior interprets individually. The students work collectively during their final semester to refine their
creative vision and learn to present themselves and their work in a professional manner. This process culminates with the
Senior Presentations and Exhibition.
Cody Bannon: Appell Fellowship Exhibition
Cora Miller Gallery
June 8–July 7, 2017
Opening Reception: June 8, 5:00–7:00 p.m., Wolf Hall Lobby
Artist Talk: June 8, 6:00 p.m., Cora Miller Gallery
Cody Bannon was awarded the fifth annual Appell Arts Fellowship, a residency program open to recent YCP graduates
that provides housing, parking, studio space, and a stipend. This exhibition is the culmination of a year's worth of artistic
production made possible by this fellowship.
Bannon graduated from YCP in December 2015 with a BA in Graphic Design. He received 2nd Place in the Fall Senior
Exhibition for work that included a hand-printed book emphasizing his love of printmaking and automobiles. During his
senior year, Bannon served as President of the York College chapter of AIGA and collaborated with The Rooted Artist
Collective on the exhibition The Shirt Show.
Typorama 7.0
Brossman Gallery
June 8–July 7, 2017
Opening Reception: June 8, 2017, 5:00-7:00 p.m., Wolf Hall Lobby
What began as an impromptu opportunity to exhibit Typography II final projects has become a York College Galleries
tradition. Showcasing the typographic work of students, Typorama demonstrates the varied media use and
experimentation of our Graphic Design program. Students engage in wordplay, expression and analysis of form, all in a
distinctively letter-based way. Sometimes funny, sometimes poignant, and always with the viewer in mind, students
challenge themselves to create pieces that push the limits of their creativity, ability and command of language. Graphic
Designers at YCP are taught the importance of self-initiated creative work, as an integral part of doing excellent clientdriven work. Typorama gives us a peek at the depth and breadth of their inquiry on many levels.