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The Henry Gallery

The Henry Gallery strives to be a cultural asset for Penn State Great Valley and the local community. The Henry Gallery’s exhibition program focuses on group shows of local and regional arts and artists and the community organizations that support and encourage their work.

The gallery opened in 2010 and is named for Joseph and Marilyn Henry who made a major gift to expand its facilities, art acquisitions, and programs in January 2013.

Located on the second floor of the Penn State Great Valley Conference Center, the Henry Gallery is free and open to the public Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and when the campus is open for evening events.


Current Exhibit

The ART of Storytelling
Curated by Da Vinci Art Alliance
January 17 - March 17

Opening Reception: Thursday, January 19 | 5:30 – 7:30 pm
Register here

Artwork made up of smaller fabric squares

"The ART of Storytelling" pays homage to age-old textiles as artists develop new approaches to their art.

Credit: Penn State
A blue quilt

"The ART of Storytelling" pays homage to age-old textiles as artists develop new approaches to their art.

Credit: Linda Dubin Garfield
A quilt with a variety of colors and patterns

"The ART of Storytelling" pays homage to age-old textiles as artists develop new approaches to their art.

Credit: Eleanor ​​​​​​​Levie
Artwork of an older man teaching a child to play a cello

"The ART of Storytelling" pays homage to age-old textiles as artists develop new approaches to their art.

Credit: Cynthia​​​​​​​ Philkill
A quilt with a spiral pattern

"The ART of Storytelling" pays homage to age-old textiles as artists develop new approaches to their art.

Credit: Christina E​​​​​​​ Johnson
Tye dye with a purple pattern on top

"The ART of Storytelling" pays homage to age-old textiles as artists develop new approaches to their art.

Credit: Christina E​​​​​​​ Johnson
A quilt with words, heart buttons, and wedding photos

"The ART of Storytelling" pays homage to age-old textiles as artists develop new approaches to their art.

Credit: Cynthia​​​​​​​ Philkill
Multiple squares with different images and text

"The ART of Storytelling" pays homage to age-old textiles as artists develop new approaches to their art.

Credit: Valetta
A mixed media piece of art, including blue fabric that turns to strips and threads

"The ART of Storytelling" pays homage to age-old textiles as artists develop new approaches to their art.

Credit: Elsa Wachs
Wall tapestry made up of squares with different images

"The ART of Storytelling" pays homage to age-old textiles as artists develop new approaches to their art.

Credit: Valetta

Storytelling is the interactive art of using words and actions to reveal the elements and images of a story while encouraging the listener's imagination. Storytelling forges connections among people, and between people and ideas. Stories convey the culture, history, and values that unite people.

Artists have been telling stories since the first caveman drew a hunter killing a mammoth on a cave wall. When religion became a core experience in more modern humans, we used art to bring to life stories in religious scripts. Artists use color, line, gesture, composition, and symbolism to tell a story. A picture does tell a thousand words.

Holding hands with the past while pointing toward the future, nine artists pay homage to age-old textiles as they develop new approaches to their art. Each has their own long-developed practice of working on canvas or with paper, wool roving, cloth, and other materials. Techniques include painting, printing, felting, piecing, stitching, quilting or weaving. These artists take their place in a time-honored sisterhood of skilled makers from centuries past whose creations were often disparaged as “women’s work.” Each of the artists have daringly and confidently spun new ways to combine strands and shapes, sweep color and pattern across a surface, and express both softness and strength, and both joy and resolve as they reveal their stories.

Linda Dubin Garfield is a printmaker and collage artist whose series “Paper Art Quilts” honors traditional quilt settings. Susan​​​​​​​ Leonard is an art quilter whose quilts reveal personal stories and win prizes. Christina E​​​​​​​ Johnson challenges stereotypes encouraging individual empowerment. Eleanor ​​​​​​​Levie is an art quilter, working with recycled fabrics she has printed, squeegeed, stamped, and stenciled. As a painter working on canvas with a variety of organic, mark-making techniques. Sandi Neiman ​​​​​​​Lovitz is showing works from her “Tapestry” series. Valetta uses images and words to create wall tapestries. Cynthia​​​​​​​ Philkill offers insight into the people who she creates using interesting materials. Elsa ​​​​​​​Wachs, a painter, explores an ever-expanding palette of mixed media, combining digital art and other new technologies with traditional materials. Marcie ​​​​​​​Ziskind creates complex textiles involving wet felting, layering, sculpting, and embroidery.

As these women connect with the past, they also connect with each other, through threads of conversation, encouragement, and inspiration, sharing their stories with each other as well as those who see their work.

Upcoming Exhibit

Facing Forward: Portraits Looking to Our Future
Curated by Artists Equity
April 3 - May 31

An abstract painting of a person riding a bicycle through nature

"In Nature I Am Whole" by Jennifer Chernak

Credit: Jennifer Chernak
A painting of a woman with a glowing outline of the State of California in front of her

"Caitlyn's California" by Karin Crossley

Credit: Karin Crossley
A painting of a person in a white shirt sitting in a black chair while looking away

"I Remember" by Barbara Dirnbach

Credit: Barbara Dirnbach
A painting of a person in blue shorts and a red button down top

"Coming Of Age" by Liz Silbaugh

Credit: Liz Silbaugh
A painting of a person emerging from a tree

"Emergence" by Robyn Stone

Credit: Robyn Stone

Opening Reception: Thursday, April 6 | 6:00 – 7:30 pm
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This exhibit will focus on portraiture to tell stories of inspiration, hope, challenge, and change that faces this unusual time in history head-on. It has always been the role of art to document, examine, and make sense of a concept and our moment in time. What better vehicle to begin to process, capture, and reflect on who we are today than portraiture?

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