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  • Weyers-Sampson Gallery

    The Weyers-Sampson Gallery is located on the first floor of the Howard Miller Student Center. Contact Prof. Sean McConnor at 724-589-2095 for more information.

    Gallery hours

    • Spring 2024 :: M/W/F  10am - 2pm || T/Tr 1pm - 3:30pm
    • Or by appointment, contact Prof. McConnor at 724-589-2095 or smcconnor@thiel.edu.
    • Gallery will be closed for Spring Break March 9th  - 17th and for Easter March 29th - April 1st.

    Upcoming Exhibitions

    Bobby Baker Portrait Drawings – Friends and Family in Prayer and Praise
    January 24th – March 8 th, 2024
    Artist Talk and Reception – Jan. 24th, 2pm in the gallery

    Bobby Baker, Greenville resident and a 1977 graduate of Thiel College, will exhibit his portrait drawings in the Weyers-Sampson Gallery located in the Howard Miller Student Center on Thiel’s campus.

    For 20 years, Bobby has been working on a series of art works called “Friends and Family in Prayer and Praise.” The realistic images have been produced using pen and ink and colored pencil. The exhibit is a selection of Bobby’s favorites from these past two decades.


    Previous Exhibitions

    Points of View: 20th Century prints from the Thiel College Permanent Collection

    • Bill Mancuso – The Pleasures of Sketching (October 25th – Dec. 8 th, 2023)
    • Highlights from the Marlin Casker Print Collection (Sep 6 – Oct 11, 2023).
    • Student Curated Print Exhibition: Selections from the Thiel College Permanent Collection (Oct 20 – Dec 5, 2022)
    • Sean McConnor : Sabbatical Works, Plus. (Sep 12- Oct 14, 2022)
    • 20th-century prints from the Thiel College Permanent Collection (Feb 18 - Mar 31, 2022)
    • Black History Timeline (Feb 18 - Mar 31, 2022)
    • J.D. Titzel : Graphite Drawings  (Oct 20 - Dec 1, 2021)
    • Points of View: 20th Century prints from the Thiel College Permanent Collection (Sept 8 - Oct 8, 2021)
    • Fred Staloff, Works on loan from the Butler Institute of American Art (Youngstown, Ohio) (Jan. 22 - April 3, 2020).
    • Thomas McNickle, Works Revisited (Oct. 23 - Dec. 9, 2019).
    • Justus Cotterill, Emotional Rescue (Sept. 11- Oct. 18, 2019)
    • Corita Kent: Selected Works from the Thiel Collection (Feb. 28 - March 29, 2019)
    • Bill Simon and Nancy Connelly, Selected Works (Jan. 17 - Feb. 17, 2019
    • Selected Works on Paper (Oct. 23 - Nov. 28)
    • Mark Franchino and Jeremy Boyle, Contemporary Drawings (Sept. 12 - Oct. 12, 2018)
    • Shawn Williams, Sculptural Prints (Feb. 22 - April 5, 2018)
    • Truths and Fictions, Paintings and Drawings by Terry McKelvey (Jan. 18 - Feb. 16, 2018)
    • Images of Luther, Celebrating the 500th Year Anniversary of the Reformation (Oct. 31 - Dec. 1, 2017)
    • Women Printmakers, Highlights from the Thiel College Permanent Collection (Sept. 13 - Oct. 17, 2017)
    • Christopher Ryan, Lucid Moments & Liminal Spaces (Feb. 23 - March 31, 2017)
    • Benedict Oddi, Scouts and Nomads (Jan. 17 - Feb. 17, 2017)
    • Richard Mitchell, The Vaudeville Team of Jesse Block & Eva Sully: A Photographic Family Album (Oct. 25 - Dec. 7, 2016)
    • Thomas Paquette, Itinerant Views (Sept. 14 - Oct. 11, 2016)
    • Thiel College Professor of Sculpture Jesse Amar, M.F.A., Sabbatical Report: An Exhibition of New Sculpture (March 15 - April 8, 2016)
    • James Stewart, Philip Terman and Susan Frakes, Images for Philip's Poems and the Making of a Book (Jan. 20 - Feb. 26, 2016)
    • Jack Hayes, Dreams of Color (Oct. 28 - Dec. 4, 2015)
    • Christian Kuharik, Recent Works (Sep. 16 - Oct. 16, 2015)
    • Kristin Becker, Language Pieces (Feb. 25 - April 3, 2015)
    • George Schroeder, Painting and Collage (Jan. 21 - Feb. 20, 2015)
    • Dave Thomas, Ceramic Sculpture (Jan. 21 - Feb. 20, 2015)
    • Malcolm Christhilf, Form and Color (Oct. 22 - Dec. 3, 2014)
    • Rabecca Signoriello, Layers (Sep. 19 - Oct. 17, 2014)
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