Contemporary Arts & Culture
The Woskob Family Gallery is a contemporary art space in downtown State College that brings a cohesive and carefully curated program of exhibitions and events to central Pennsylvania. Run by Penn State’s College of Arts and Architecture, the gallery serves as a laboratory for exploring how the arts can catalyze creative placemaking.
The gallery’s mission is to forge new relationships between the university and local communities, increase the perception of downtown State College as a cultural destination, and spark new creative enterprises. Through partnerships with the borough, local government, and arts and cultural organizations, we seek greater local investment in arts and culture projects.
The gallery is generously supported by the Borough of State College.
The Woskob Family Gallery receives state arts funding support through a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Current Exhibitions
COMADRES EN LA COMUNIDAD | CO-MOTHERING IN THE COMMUNITY
Leslie C. Sotomayor | Sophia Villalobos | Katy Ballard
March 18–May 31, 2024
Opening Reception: 4/5 | 5–8 PM
The group show grapples with issues of gender expressions, addiction and recovery, surviving oppressions, relationships, straddling socio-economic statuses, mother/ daughter relationships and loss and grieving as sites of mental health.
UNDER PRESSURE | a participatory experimental art installation
February–August 2024
Under Pressure centers on the abandonment of normalcy, reimagining new perspectives, and embracing new forms of both being and making.
Large-Scale, Site-Specific Installations
Call for Artists
Woskob Family Gallery announces an open call for artists to submit proposals for large-scale, site-specific installations to be displayed in our downtown contemporary art gallery. We welcome a diverse range of artistic mediums, including 3D and 2D work, digital projections, and light installations.
After reviewing the information below, if you have any questions, would like to view the space or review its floorplan, or require further information, please don't hesitate to contact the gallery manager, Zsuzsanna Nagy, at zzn24@psu.edu.
Past Exhibitions
In Vulnerability
Melissa Forkner Lesher: HIGH STRUNG | A sculptural installation
Mengqi Xu: I See Fish in the Somber Woods | 林深时见鱼
Marian Bailey: patterns of a life
Naomi Reis: Talisman for Unknown Territories
Tactile Perceptions, Two Interactive Installations
Nichole van Beek: Grow Forward Together
Stacy Levy: When Art works
Catie Dillon: Remain in Light
Megan Gottfried: Room to Room
Alex Russell: kaleidoscope answers
Dana Lynn Harper: Field Guides
Yeonhye Park: The Eternity of the Moment
Jack and the Beanstalk
Brian Alfred: Kinda Lovely
Joshua Frankel: Animation from A Marvelous Order
Rachel Hayes: Syzygy
Dannielle Tegeder: Seigolomsoc / Cosmologies
Alec Spangler: Folded Section
Race and Revolution: Still Separate, Still Unequal
Joelle Dietrick and Owen Mundy: The Speed of Thinking
Keith Lemley: A Theory of Everything
Visit Us
Gallery Address:
146 S Allen Street, State College, PA 16801
We are located in the Penn State Downtown Centre Theatre.
Hours:
Fridays 12:30-5:00 PM
Mailing Address:
101 Borland Building, University Park, PA 16802