Villanova University Art Gallery
Nancy Baker Cahill: Through Lines
Opening Reception: September 6th from 4-6pm
On view from: September 6, 2024 - January 17, 2025
Introducing Nancy Baker Cahill: Through Lines, a mid-career survey exhibition traveling from the Georgia Museum of Art.
Expanding upon her background in traditional media, the artist redefines the possibilities of drawing in contemporary art. Through Lines moves across spatial dimensions and media, following Baker Cahill as she investigates materiality and immateriality. Featuring drawings, sculptural installations, and single- and multi-channel videos, the exhibition traces Baker Cahill’s mark-making from traditional modes of artistic production into new media. The works invite reconsiderations of the art historical canon in the face of emerging technologies while examining site, time, and space as they relate to the physical body, the digital, the permanent, and the ephemeral.
Image: Nancy Baker Cahill (American, b. 1970), “Slipstream Canon,” 2023. 4k video, total run time: 2:30, 1920 × 1080 pixels. Courtesy of the artist.
Beyond the Gallery
Envisioning the Environment: Art and Sustainability at Villanova
Commuter Lounge, 2nd Floor, Connelly Center
Opening Reception: November 13th from 4-6pm
On view until August 2025
In Envisioning the Environment: Art and Sustainability at Villanova, students explore humanity’s past and present impact on the environment, using the university’s art collection to envision a future of sustainable coexistence.
Curated by students in the course Curating Art & Public Engagement, the artworks in Envisioning the Environment offer a unique perspective into the current climate crisis—that of an artist. Though the works differ in scale, medium, and subject, each asks you to consider what is at stake in our environment. No matter humanity’s interference, nature persists.
Curated by Reily Brown, Jackie Nathanson, Riley Nelson, Eva Nicolosi, Brianna Reis, Issie Russo, Clara Scanlon, and Ethan Silva (students in the Honors Art History course Curating Art and Public Engagement) with support from Dr. Leah Pires (Art History) and Jennie Castillo (Director and Curator).
Get involved with the sustainability movement and save the date! On Tuesday, December 10 we’re hosting a clothing swap, mending and art workshop at the exhibition from 6-8 p.m. Details to follow.
Image: Alma Naes, New Shoots, 2015, print with hand applied acrylic paint on paper, Edition 1/1, 20.75 x 17.25 inches, Villanova University Art Collection, Gift of the Artist, 2015-MIXM-023
Sustainable Development Goal #12 Mural at Villanova
Outside of the Connelly Center, facing Vasey Hall
Global Philadelphia Association (GPA) and Villanova University are partnering to debut a public art mural for Sustainable Development Goal #12 – Responsible Consumption and Production. This SDG emphasizes sustainable practices, reducing waste, and creating a more responsible production-consumption cycle
The artwork, created by artist Maggie Hobson-Baker, will be unveiled at Villanova University. It portrays humans as active guardians of the environment and emphasizes their interconnectedness with one another and the Earth.