Silber Art Gallery
The opening of the Silber Art Gallery in the Goucher College Athenaeum fulfilled President
Kraushaar’s vision of more than 50 years ago: to provide a suitably secure gallery dedicated
solely to the exhibition of art, both from the Goucher collection and from contemporary
artists and collectors outside the campus.
The Silber Art Gallery was made possible through the contributions of Sidney and Jean
Flah Silber. Mr. and Ms. Silber have long appreciated the capacity of the visual arts
to express meaning, communicate the insights and emotions of the individual, and convey
the character of a place, a people, and a time. They realize how powerfully art can
teach, both inside the classroom and beyond, and they understand the lessons it offers
students of the human experience and the natural world. The gallery is the new home
to Goucher’s permanent collection and its critically acclaimed program of contemporary art exhibitions.
With 1,000 square feet of exhibition space and a 21-foot ceiling, the gallery is capable
of housing large-scale art works. In addition to enabling us to display selections
from the college’s permanent collection, the gallery hosts a range of programming, from the traditional
to the experimental, featuring the work of students, emerging artists, and established
names alike.
Current Exhibit
We Care: Works by Corita Kent
Exhibit Dates: September 10 to December 16, 2022
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 22, 6 – 8pm
Corita Kent was an artist, an educator, and an activist for social justice and the anti-war movement. A member of the religious order Mary of the Immaculate Heart, Corita used her faith, her distinct design sensibility, and aesthetic influences from packaging to pop art to create her unique prints that inspire attention to and action against the critical issues of her time. The selection of boldly colored text-based serigraphs are on loan from U.S. Province of the Society of St. Sulpice. We Care is presented along with the Special Collections & Archives’ exhibition of the same title, which documents the Goucher community’s participation in activism and protests throughout the college’s history.
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Financial support and contributions provided by the Baltimore County Commission on Arts and Sciences, the Goucher College Center for Writing, Arts and Media, the Lahey Fund, and other supporters of the contemporary arts.