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Arcadia Exhibitions
In keeping with the measures enacted by the University to protect the health and well-being of the community, our galleries are closed until further notice. Please explore our website and return to this page for future updates. For more information on Arcadia's response to the current health crisis, please follow this link.
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Virtual Exhibitions
Online Program
Pine | Copper | Lime
Episode 70 : Christina Weyl and the Women of Atelier 17
“Women have always been fighting this struggle to make themselves known, to speak some truth to a community that may not want to hear it, but they’re there. They’re there and they need to be heard.”
In a podcast with Pine|Copper|Lime, independent scholar, curator, and writer Christina Weyl discusses her upcoming exhibition with Arcadia University. Their conversation was prompted by the Feminist Art Coalition.
The wide-ranging interview focuses on Weyl’s research for her recently published book with Yale University Press, The Women of Atelier 17: Modernist Printmaking in Midcentury New York.
Weyl is a wealth of information on twentieth-century printmaking, as well as this groundbreaking studio. We learn about how World War II was the catalyst that moved the studio from France to New York, the atelier's connections to The New School and to the Surrealists, and the famous (and infamous) women who came out of it, from Miriam Schapiro to Louise Bourgeois.
Weyl also touches on the struggles of twentieth-century women artists that are especially relevant today, including the challenges of balancing work with family life, providing child care, and staying productive during a global pandemic.
In Memoriam
The staff of Arcadia Exhibitions is saddened to hear of the passing of Zina Davis, who in 1979 became Beaver College's first official gallery director.
For information on her life and career we provide the following links:
Zina Davis (1943–2020), A tribute by Bonnie Hayes
The Richard E. Fuller Gallery (1962–85): A History of Arcadia University's First Exhibition Space
April 20–October 11, 2015
Great Room Lobby
Coordinates: Drawings and Prints Marking Five Exhibitions at Beaver College (1977-84)
April 8–21, 2015
Arcadia University Art Gallery
Threading the Maze
August 27–October 18, 2015
Arcadia University Art Gallery
Zina Davis at the entrance to the Beaver College Art Gallery (now Spruance Gallery), c.1985, photo: University Archive