Selected Program History

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Richard Hood, Director (1975-1988)

1957 - 58

September 20 - October 19
The Art of Glamour Fashion Art from Glamour Magazine

October 25 - November 23
Shokoku Hidaka (watercolors) First American showing. Also Japanese prints from the Philadelphia Museum of Art

October 25 - November 23
Girl Scout Uniforms (An International Selection)

1958 - 59

September 26 - October 25
Fabrics by Paula Stout

November 5 - November 25
Style and Security

December 5 - January 3
Create a symbol for Brotherhood (student project)

January 9 - January 30
Paperback Book Designs

1959-60

October 9 - November 14
The Lunning Collection

1960 - 61

September 22 - November 4
Fabrics International

November 20 - December 31
Art Directors Club

January 3 - February 3
Directors Choice

February 23 - March 30
Masterpieces of Drawing

April 6 - May 4
Alumni Annual

June 6 - June 30
Young Designers Exhibit (student Annual)

1961 - 62

September 22 - November 4
Fabrics International

November 20 - December 31
Art Directors Club

January 12 - February 18
Japan Print Association

February 23 - March 30
Master Piece Drawing

April 9 - May 4
Alumni Annual

June 12 - July 2 Young Designers (student Annual)

1962 - 63

September 4 - September 22
Microphotographs -- Small World by Dr. Vishniac

September 14 - October 20
Experimental Graphics (Alco Press)

November 2 - December 1
Color Photography
American Society of Magazine Photography

Feb. 13 - March 16
Direct Mail: Ballinger's Book

Mar 29 - April 27
Alumni Annual

June 8 - June 26
Young Designers (student annual)

1963 - 64

October 14 - November 9
The Bold Tradition: Mexican Art Today I.B.M.

January 17 - February 22
Contemporary Fine Presses in America

March 13 - April 18
Craftsmanship Defined

1964 - 65

September 17 - October 14
Dieter Roth: Snow - 1st American Exhibition

October 22 - November 19
Annual Photography

December 3 - January 2
Of Time and the Image (Evaluation of the Artistic Image)

Faculty Biennial

January 15 - February 13
Homage to The Print Club - 50th Anniversary

February 11 - March 4
Students Choice (20 students select and hang work they would most like to collect)

February 26 - March 27
David Hare (Sculpture Exhibition)

April 9 - April 28
Doyle, Dane Burnbach inc. (Advertising Design)

June 11 - July 1
Young Designers (Student Annual)

1965 - 66

September 17 - October 14
Erik Nitsche (Exploring the Universe Posters for General Dynamics)

October 22 - November 19
Fine Arts Fabric Design: Alumni Exhibition To Honor Aurelius Renzetti-Sculpture

December 2 - December 28
Of Time and The Image (Evaluation of the Artist's Image)

February 11 - March 4
Students Choice (20 students select and hang the things they would most like to collect)

March 11 - April 9
Henry Moore - Sculpture - Traveling Exhibition compiled by the Institute of Contemporary Art)

April 15 - May 13
Guggenheim Fellows in Photography (thirty-one Guggenheim Fellowship winners in Photography)

June 11 - July 1
Young Designers (Student Annual)

1966 - 67

September 16 - October 8
Art in Science

October 22 - November 18
Alumni Exhibition (Art Education & Dimensional Design)

December 2- December 28
Faculty Biennale

January 3- January 20
Multiples

February 3 - January 23
Type Directors Annual, Trademarks International

March 3 - March 24
The Faculty Collects

April 1 - April 28
Polish Graphic Art

1967 - 68

September 9 - October 10
Benton Spruce Lithographs

October 19 - November 17
Charles Eames - (Furniture, industrial and consumer product design, graphics and exhibits)

December 1 - January 2
Graphic Alumni, Basel (work produced at the Allgemenine Gewerbeschule, Basel)

January 12 - February 9
Directions - 1968 (Designers selected by the Department Directors)

March 8 - April 9
Line

April 19 - May 21
Projects for PCA

1968 - 69

September 8 - October 6
Artist's Sketchbooks Part 1: Philadelphia

October 9 - 15
Industrial Design Society of America - Student Chapter Exhibit

October 22 - November 24
Private Notation: Artists' Sketchbooks ll

December 10 - January 20
Alumni Exhibition: Retrospective of the College's first hundred years

Janet Kardon, Director (1975-1978)

1977 - 1978

January 23 - February 18
Exposure: Alumni Exhibition of Ten Contemporary Photographers - Larry Bach, George Krause, Terry Hourigan, Phil Laino, David Lebe, Mario Moino, George Obremski, Elaine O'Neill, Kathy Seltzer and Jeff Weisel

February 27 - March 25
Siah Armajani: constructed a model of Red School House for Thomas Pine, while in residence at PCA

April 21 - May 20
Seventies art: Paintings and sculptures done since 1970 by artists over seventy years of age.

May 25 - June 15
Annual Student Exhibition

1978 - 79

September 5 - October 7
Alice Aycock

October 16 - November 11
Books Books Books

November 17 - December 15
Point

January 22 - February 16
Olag Skoogfors/Alumni Show

February 26 - March 24
Ritual Objects African mask: Variations on a Theme

April 23 - May 19
The Hand Colored Photograph
Contact Sheets/selected images of major photographers

May 27 - June 18
Annual Student Exhibition

1979 - 80

September 15 - October 12
Words and Images

October 20 - November 9
Paul Rand: Art / Play / Design

November 17 - December 15
Anne & Patrick Poitire

After Image: Projects of the 70's

January 23 - February 18
Olag Skoogfors/Alumni Show
Exposure: Alumni exhibition of ten contemporary photographer - Larry Bach, George Krause, Terry Hourigan, Phil Laino, David Lebe, Mario Moino, George Obremski, Elaine O'Neill, Kathy Seltzer and Jeff Weisel

February 26 - March 24
Ritual Object

February 27 - March 25
Siah Armajani: constructed a model for Red School House for Thomas Pine, while in residence at PCA

April 21 - May 20
Seventies Art: Painting and Sculpture done since 1970 by artists over seventy years of age. Ilya Bolotowsky, Giorgio Cavallon, Ralston Crawford, Willem deKooning, Alfred Jensen, Louise Nevelson, Jack Tworkov, Esteban Vicente and Adja Yunkers.

May 15 - June 20
Annual Student Exhibition

1980 - 81

September 15 - October 12
Words and Images

October 20 - November 9
Paul Rand: Art/Play/Design

November 5 - December 13
Chromatic Structures

November 17 - December 15
Anne & Patrick Poirier
AfterImage/Projects of the 70s

February 1 - February 25
Bill Stephens: Furniture and Office Systems

March 6 - April 8
Outsider: Painting and sculpture by 20 artists who work outside of mainstream culture or aesthetic some artist include; Martin Ramirez, Joseph Yoakum, Henry Darger, Elijah Pierce and Filipe Archuleta.

April 13 - May 16
Gerhardt Knodel: Chairman of fibers Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art will create a project at PAC gallery designed using fabric as the major structural element. Knodel was in residence at PCA for installation of this project.

February 27 - March 28
Folk Art

April 1 - April 18
Insights #1: Banshees of Terry Rosenberg


Renaming PCA: The University of the Arts

Eleni Cocordas, Director (1982-1989)

1981 - 82

September 3 - October 2
The Janus Press 1975-80 A traveling exhibition from THE Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington

September 18 - October 24
Ritz and Peter Jacobi

November 9 - December 19
Projects for PCA 7: Paul Thek
Invited artist to design a site specific project to be installed on University Campus

January 25 - February 18
Earthly Bodies: Irving Penn a traveling exhibition from Marlborough Gallery, NYC

February 26 - April 3
Production Lines: Art/Craft/Design. Guest curator by Elsa Weiner

April 12 - May 15
Missionary Chronicles: Photographic Documentation of the Human Condition Preserved in the Historical Photo Collection of the United Methodist Church c. 1900 - 1925

1982 - 83

January 24 - 29
Scholastics Exhibition

January 21 - March 26
Samuel Yellin: Metal Worker

February 11 - March 19
PCA Invites: An Exhibition of Works by Artists in the Historical Archives of the Women's Interart Center of New York City

March 18 - April 6
Philadelphia Artists

April 9 - May 28
PCA Faculty Show

April 15 - May 14
Projects for PCA 8: Richard Fleischner

September 3 - Oct 2
The Janus press 1975-1980 A travelling exhibition from the Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of

September 9 - October 8
Twentieth Century American Watercolor: Traveling exhibition from Gallery Association of New York State, Hamilton
After Ten Years: Painting/Drawing Dept Alumni Invitational

September 16 - October 15
PCA Life Drawings, c. 1928 - 1948

October 13- Nov. 6
Lost Philadelphia: a selection of Photographs from the Library company of Philadelphia

October 22 - December 14
Affects/Effects 2: PCA Faculty Exhibition

November 19 - January 8
Affects/ Effects 1: PCA historical Faculty Exhibition

February 11 - March 19
PCA Invites: An Exhibition of Works by Artists in the Historical Archives of the Women's Interart Center of New York City

March 18 - April 6
Philadelphia Artists

April 9 - May 28
PCA Faculty Show

April 15 - May 14
Projects for PCA 8: Richard Fleischner

May 27 - July 31
Student Annual Exhibition

1983 - 84

September 9 - October 8
Twentieth Century American Watercolor: Travelling exhibition from Gallery Association of New York State, Hamilton

After Ten Years: Painting/Drawing Dept Alumni Invitational

September 16 - October 15
PCA Life Drawings, c. 1928 - 1948

September 24 - October 20
William Lescaze/ The Rise of Modern Design in America

October 22 - December 14
Affects/Effects 2: PCA Faculty Exhibition

October 25 - November 17
Contemporary Art from Tianjin, People's Republic of China

December 3 - 7
24 Frames per Second/History of Film Class Year End Project Exhibit

March 9 - April 14
Contemporary Dutch Textiles

March 29 - April 27
Contemporary Illustration by PCA Alumni, 1970-80

April 7 - 21
William Ely Exhibition for Illustration

April 26 - May 18
Developments: An Exhibition of Recent Works by 17 Photographers

May 3 - 17
Student Annual Exhibition

1985 - 86

September 27 - November 2
Memphis/Milano: Furniture, Furnishings, Experiments and Ideas In the New Design

November 15 - December 21
The Prints of Albert-Edgar Yersin

November 15 - 30
Cover Story: Diorama Americana Philadelphia AIA and Pennwalt Corporation Design Competition

December 6 - 21
Search for Hero: Works of Jacob Landau

February 15 -18
Geoffrey Beene Design Retrospective

February 28 - March 29
Harry Soviak Retrospective

May 17 - June 25
Student Annual Exhibition


Merge Howard A. Wolf and Edith Rosenwald to form Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery

1986 - 87

Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery

September 2 - 27
Ed Colker and Stephen Tarantal

September 2 - 30
Annual Faculty Exhibition

November 14 - December 20
Elbow Room: A Sculptural Installation By Robinson Fredenthal

February 27 - April 5
Dan Dailey: Simple Complexities in Drawings & Glass 1972 - 1985

Haviland Galleries

March 13 - June 16
Art Fabric Philadelphia

April 4 - 17
Ely Awards Exhibition

April 26 - May 9
Ceramics#& Fibers Exhibition

May 16 - July 24
Student Annual Exhibition

1987 - 88

Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery

September 2 - 30
Duchampiou: An Exhibition Of Faculty Artworks
Inspired by The Example of Marcel Duchamp

October 16 - November 13
Lois Greenfield Dance Photography

November 19 - December 22
Experiences in Offset Lithography

February 19 - March 12
Universal/ Unique: Visual & Verbal Statements by
31 Graphic Design Educators

August 22 - September 2
Ceramics by Je Duck Park

Haviland Galleries

September 2 - 30
Textile as Language: the Woven Image

September 25 - October 30
Sculpture & Drawings: Tom Butter &Anthony Visco

1988 - 89

Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery

September 9 - October 15
The Arts of the Book

November 3 - December 3
Frogart: Images and Objects By Frogdesign

February 17 - March 10
April Greiman Large Scale Projects

March 15 - 22
The Art of Music: Posters by Milton Glaser

Haviland Galleries

February 28 - March 31
The Craft Enigma

1989 - 90

Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery

November 10 - December 22
Barbara Kasten Photographs

February 16 - March 17
Alex Grey: Sacred Mirrors

March 30 - April 21
A New Decade: the Evolution

Leah Douglas, Director (1990-1999)

1990 - 91

Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery

September 4 - 22
Claire Van Vliet/Janus Press

September 7 - October 13
The Art of Marcy Hermansader

October 18 - November 3
Dorthea Hoffman: Drawing Exhibition

November 9 - December 21
Who's Afraid of Red, White And Blue? An Exhibition by Donald Lipski

January 22 - March 5
Colin Chase: Sculpture

March 22 - May 3
Albert Paley: Sculpture

1991 - 92

Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery

September 13 - October 31
Festival Mythos: Robert Motherwell

January 17 - February 15
Shooting Back: An exhibition of Photographs by Homeless children

February 21 - March 27
Burns, Frimkess, and Makins: Contrast and Continuum

April 3 - May 8
The Map is Not the Territory

Haviland Galleries

September 13 - October 31
Ritual Offerings: Photographs by Laurence Bach

Arronson Gallery

September 13 - October 31
Twelve Eclipses by Ken Hiebert

1992 - 93

Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery

September 11 - December 4
Czech Cubism: Architecture and design

September 10 - October
George Bunker: Memorial Exhibition

January 21 - March 4
Outside from Within: Lilian Bell, Leslie Dill, Jeanne Jaffe, and Regina Vater

March 18 - April 29
The Impulse to Abstract: Artists Working with Fibers

1993 - 94

Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery

Sept - 9 - October 29
George Bunker: Landscapes 1949-1989

November 4 - December
Objects and Souvenirs: Artist Multiples Work of Eight Philadelphia Artists

Jan 21 - March 4
Out Side From Within: Lilian Ball, Lesley Dill, Jeanne Jaffe and Regina Vater

March 18 - April 22
The Impulse to Abstract: Recent Works by Ritzi Jacobi

Arronson Gallery

January 14 - Feb 11
Warren Seelig

Haviland Galleries
October 15 - Nov 5
Margot Lovejoy: installation

1994 - 95

Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery

September 9 - October 27
Process and Form: Drawings by Judith Shea 1984 - 1994

November 4 - December 10
Objects and Souvenirs: Artists' Multiples: Joseph Begonia, A.P Gorny, Carolyn Healy, Maria Lee, Stacy Levy, Gabriel Martinez, Eileen Neff, Stuart Netsky, Michael Macfeat, Buy Shaver, Steve Staso and Robert Younger

January 20 - March 3
Chez Anne by Chrysanne Stathacos: Homage to the fictitious 19th century Parisian Artist

April 28 - May 12
After -Wards: CAD Alumnus Banita Ambrose, Fritz Dietel, and Diane Logan

1995 - 96

Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery

January 12 - February 23
Fred Otnes: Collages

1996-97

Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery

September 6 - October 26
Elaine Reichek: Guest of a Nation

November 1 - December 16
Objects & Souvenirs: Artist Multiples: Phoebe Adams, Hilary Harp, Steven Beyer, Jane Irish, Virgil Marti, Bill Scanga, Richard Torchia, Bill Walton

February 28-April 18
Jon Kessler: Unplugged

1997 - 98

Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery

September 5 - October 26
Mel Kendrick: Parallel Structures

November 7 - December 19
Objects and Souvenirs: Artist Multiples

January 9 - March 6
Richard Reinhardt: Full Circle, A legacy of Metal Work

March 20 - May 8
April Gornik: selected Paintings

March 20 - May 8
Richard Reinhardt: Full Circle, A legacy of Metal Work

1998 - 99

Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery

Sept 11 - Oct 24
Gregory Crewdson: Mise en scene

November 5 - December 18
Objects and Souvenirs: Artists Multiples

Sid Sachs, Director (1999 - present)

1999 - 2000

Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery

September 3 - October 16
Pictorial Abstraction: In conjunction with Temple Gallery Tyler School of Art

November 4 - December 4
Pierogi 2000: The Flatfiles

January 15 - February 26
Vito Acconci: Public Art

January 28 - March 4
Lebbeus Woods

March 19 - April 4
Making Marks: Graphic Design Retrospective, 1968 Alumni Graphic Design

March 20 - April 16
The Mating Habits of Lines: Sketchbooks and Notebooks of Ree Morton

April 16 - May 9
X: the First Decade, the Next Page, 10th Anniversary of the PCAD Book Arts Program

May 20 - July 1
Student Annual Exhibition

2000-2001

Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery

August 30 - September 30
Thomas Nozkowski: Drawings

October 5- October 31
2001

November 3 - December 2
Conceptual Realism

February 19 - March 10
In Black and White: Landscape Prints by Claire Van Vliet

March 19 - April 8
Dan Jocz Un common Sense: A Retrospective Exhibition

2001 - 2002

Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery

August 29 - October 6,
Arnold Roth: Freelance A Fifty Year Retrospective

October 10 - October 31
The Strengths of Collections

November 10 - December 5
Lets Get to Work: An exhibition curated by Gavin Wade and Jonathan Van Dyke

January 16 - February 25
Transcendent and Unrepentant

March 1 - 31
Philadelphia Photo Review Project: A celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Philadelphia Photo Review

April 5 - May 15
James Hyde

2002-2003

Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery

August 29 - September 30
Real/Setup: Photographic Selections from the West Collection at SEI

October 16 - November 30
Yvonne Rainer: radical juxtapositions 1961-2002

January 24 - March 7
Tapio Wirkkala: eye hand and thought

March 20 - May 7
The Other Tradition: Philadelphia Imagists

May 19 - June 20
Daniel Jackson : Dovetailing History, a retrospective

2003-2004

Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery

September 9 - October 15
Why Jack Pierson

October 17 - November 24
Iron Works

Jan 20 - Feb 21
Keith Goddard: This Way That Way

February 27 - April 9
Rosalyn Drexler; To Smithereens: Paintings 1961 - 2003

June 15 - August 15
Trace

Arronson Gallery

Jan 24 - Feb 10
Roland Jahn and Influences: Contemporary Glass Exhibition

2004 - 2005

Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery

January 18 - Feb 22
Field Questions

February 28 - April 3
Building References

April 11 - May 15
Wade Saunders: Domestic Life

June 15 - 25
SuMFA 10th Anniversary: curated by Rob Storr and Elaine Reichek

2005 - 2006

Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery

September 9 - October 16
Philippe Apeloig: Design Work

October 19 - December 5
Maira Kalman: The Elements of Style

December 10 - January 6
Summer M.F.A. 2005 Thesis Exhibition

January 18 - February 26
Stuart Netsky: painting retrospective

March 16 - April 16
Mariella Bettineschi
See a virtual tour of parts of the exhibit

April 21 - May 1
MFA Book Arts/Printmaking Thesis Exhibition Part 1

May 5 - 14
MFA Book Arts/Printmaking Thesis Exhibition Part 2

2006 Exhibition of Book Arts/Printmaking MFA degree candidates

May 17 - June 15
Undergraduate Student End of Year Exhibition

Hamilton and Arronson Galleries, Solmssen Court

September 23 - 24
ITE Retrospective

October 19 - December 5
Book Arts/ Printmaking M.F.A., Works in Progress

November 9 - December 5
Signe Wilkinson: drawings

December 10 - January 6
Summer M.F.A. 2005 Thesis Exhibition

January 18 - February 26
Stuart Netsky: painting retrospective

The Press at Colorado College:
The Pressroom as Classroom

Jim Trissel
March 3 - March 22

March 29 - April 17
William Ely Awards for Illustration

April 22 - May 13
Junior Photography Exhibition

May 17 - June 15
Undergraduate Student End of Year Exhibition
Cont'd in Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery

2006 - 2007

Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery

September 5 - October 19
John Duff: Something the Mind Knows

October 23 - November 22
Ann-Marie LeQuesne: After the Fact

December 9 - January 5
MFA Ceramics/Painting/Sculpture Thesis Show

Spring 2007

January 22-February 27
Robert Crumb: My True Inner Self

February 15-March 18
Matthew Leibowitz: Graphic Design

March 2-April 8
Dan Friedman: Radical Modernism

April 15-May 15
MFA Book Arts/Printmaking Thesis Exhibition

May 20-June 1
Annual Student Show

June 25 - July 25
Erin Boyle & Edward Waisnis

Hamilton and Arronson Galleries, Solmssen Court

September 10 - October 10
Milton Glaser: Graphic Design

October 13 - 28
MFA Book Arts / Printmaking Works-In-Progress Exhibition

October 13 - November 10
Urban Voids

November 2 - 20
UArts at 130

December 9 - January 5
MFA Ceramics/Painting/Sculpture Thesis Show

Spring 2007

January 22 - February 10
Northampton Community College: Art Faculty

January 22 - February 10
ASMP Focus Philadelphia

February 15 - March 18
Matthew Leibowitz: Graphic Design

February 16 - March 18
Staff Exhibition and Performance

March 23 - April 17
Ely Awards Exhibition

April 23 - May 11
Photography Alumni Show

May 20 - June 1
Annual Student Show

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