The Widmann Art Gallery at Kings College is excited to announce its upcoming gallery schedule.
The Gallery is located on the first floor of the Sheehy-Farmer Campus Center with viewing hours Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4:30 P.M. and Saturday and Sunday as arranged.
Oren Helbok | Railroading: The Hardware, the Landscape, and the People
Exhibit: Tuesday January 7th – Wednesday January 29th
Meet The Artist: Friday January 17th | 5-8PM
Born in the Bronx in 1965, Oren B. Helbok missed the age of steam on our nation’s railroads, but that doesn’t stop him from trying to relive it wherever and whenever possible. Although he ran away from a steam locomotive the first time he saw one, at age 2, he quickly reversed course, and since 1972 he has photographed and ridden steam trains from approximately coast to coast. Oren’s father, John, gave him his first camera, and Oren learned photography using black & white film and printing in “wet darkrooms” (including at least one bathroom and a bedroom). After having children in the late 1990s, Oren took a decade-plus-long break from “serious” photography (he took many thousands of snapshots of the kids during that time) before starting up again, with a borrowed digital camera, in 2009; now he has his own DSLRs and gets out trackside as often as possible. No longer working in a darkroom, Oren uses free, downloadable GIMP software – “the poor man’s Photoshop” – and lets others do his printing. Oren lives with his wife, Sara, in Bloomsburg, within convenient walking- and bicycling distance of almost everything he needs.
African American Evolution of Music | Multicultural Office
Exhibit: Monday February 3rd -February 28th
*Check Out the Website (Multicultural Programs (MISP) | King’s College) for more Black History Month Events Let’s Celebrate Black History Month! Walk around each display and see the photos of rhythm and music. From slavery until now, music has been an important role of expression. Not only will you see, but you can also hear as you put on your air pods/earphones and surround yourself with the music as you walk through.
John Belardo: The New Adam & Dante | Campus Ministry: Stations of the Cross
Exhibit: Monday March 3rd – Thursday March 27th
Meet The Artist: Wednesday March 12th | Time: TBA
John Belardo was educated as a sculptor at the New York Academy of Art and the Newington Cropsey Academy of Art and as an apprentice in the studio of Richard McDermott Miller. His work is wide ranging from monumental public installations to digital prototyping and design as well as large-scale ceramic sculpture. Mr. Belardo will be honored in 2024 as the Artist in Residence at Brookgreen Gardens Center for American Sculpture. In 2022 he received the Artist in Residence at Chesterwood, (historic home of Daniel Chester French). His sculptures and drawings have recently been exhibited at Brookgreen Gardens, Azarian McCullough Gallery, Butler Institute of American Art, Vytlacil, Lodge Gallery, The Cathedral of St John the Divine, Salmagundi Club, Lyme Art Association and the World Maker Faire at New York Hall of Science. His work is permanently installed at Georgetown University, Cooperstown NY, and Lehman College CUNY. He recently presented the talk, “Piccirilli Studio” at the NSS Annual Conference. Mr. Belardo won the Gold Medal from the Hudson Valley Art Association (2014) and the Silver Medal from the Allied Artists of America (2023). He is a Fellow of the National Sculpture Society and a faculty member at Lehman College CUNY, the New York Academy of Art, Newington Cropsey Foundation Academy of Art, Art Students League of New York and was a visiting scholar for the Institute for American Universities.
Spring 2025
Omar Rodriguez Jr. & Julia Poncavage | Lifted in Light
Exhibit: Tuesday April 1st – Friday April 25th
Meet the Artist: TBA
Julia Gwen Poncavage of Mountain Top, PA and Omar Rodriguez, Jr. of Scranton, Pennsylvania are presenting, “Lifted in light”, a phrase which has abundant personal significance to them. Rooted in faith and selective passages such as Matthew 19:26, which reads, “with man this is impossible but with God all things are possible”, this theme is a reflection of their experiences and a reminder of unexpected miracles that they hope everyone, regardless of faith can be inspired and encouraged by.
Julia Gwen Poncavage is an art honors graduate and teacher at Sue Hands Imagery as well as an active student at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) in Philadelphia.
Omar Rodriguez Jr. Graduated with high honors from Luzerne County Community College and has contributed to the school’s art department as an instructor of 5 years. He is also an alumni of Ani Art Academy Waichulis and former student of artist Joel Carson Jones.
Both Julia and Omar have been recognized by the Art Renewal Center (ARC) in past salon competitions as finalists and award winners
Annual Student Media Exhibit Mass Communications Department
Exhibit: Thursday May 1st – Friday May 16th
Dr. Mercincavage coordinated this Media Exhibit every year since 2011 to showcase the creativity of King’s College students enrolled in Mass Communications courses and her graphic design course in the CORE curriculum. The title of the display is the Annual Student Media Communications Exhibit. It is a compilation of mostly printed graphic design works (e.g., print ads, magazine article spreads, posters, web pages, social media ads, photography, etc.). Computers will be used to showcase students’ video and audio works from the Mass Communications broadcasting courses. Sometimes students submit work from their experience at WRKC or The Crown.
What is Juneteenth | Multicultural Office
Exhibit: Sunday June 1st – Thursday June 19th
Holidays often become commercialized, their origins overshadowed by festivities and sales. Juneteenth is no exception. Discover the true meaning and history behind Juneteenth through this self-guided exhibit—a celebration of freedom, resilience, and heritage.