Selected Program History
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