By Katherine Reese~

There is something soothing about wandering around an art gallery and viewing the variety of pieces housed within. If you’re looking to get lost in the beauty of art, there are many galleries in and around State College to explore.

Most recently, I went to see the Central Pennsylvania Farms exhibit that just opened at the Bellefonte Art Museum. The exhibit is housed in the first floor Windows Gallery of the museum. It was created by the Farmland Preservation Artists of Pennsylvania and includes photographs and paintings in a variety of media. Each piece takes the observer back to Pennsylvania’s agricultural roots.

If you are not so interested in agriculture as I am, several other exhibits are on display at the museum as well. One gallery holds the pottery works of Lynne Anne Verbeck.

Another contains the “Paintings of Monhegan Island, Maineby artist Jeanne McKinney. A third floor gallery even houses collaboration of history and artwork celebrating the Underground Railroad, which ran through Bellefonte.

Many other galleries exist throughout the State College area as well. They contain a diverse array of exhibits, one of which is sure to peak your interest. Some of the most prominent exhibits are found in the galleries within the HUB-Robeson or the Palmer Museum of Art. The HUB gallery is currently housing an exhibit on Eclectic Collections, a compilation of collections from sources as diverse as the Frost Entomological Museum at Penn State to the Mateson Museum of Anthropology.

In downtown State College there is the Woskob Family Gallery at 146 S. Allen St. This past weekend they had their First Friday event for November, which celebrated art education through a variety of exhibits. One of their prominent current exhibits is Joelle Dietrick and Owen Mundy’s The Speed of Thinking Wall Project which is displayed on the ceiling at the entrance to the gallery. The Woskob family gallery will be open for the First Friday celebrations on Dec. 7 from 5-8 p.m.

Many locations exist in and around State College that contain great artwork. I went to the Central Pennsylvania Farms exhibit because the content interests me. But within one of the may locations listed above,  there is sure to be something that will interest everyone!

Further gallery listings for State College can be found in a Klio blog post from 2017.