We regularly host artist talks, film screenings, live music, performances, and more.

Check out the list of upcoming events below and join us!

Upcoming Events.

Artist Talk: Mark Tenant
Oct
29

Artist Talk: Mark Tenant

  • Conway Hall, Room 156 | Salisbury University (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Painter, Mark Tenant taught at the Academy of Art University, in San Francisco, where he also served as the Director of Graduate Fine Art. He taught Museum Copying at the Louvre, Paris, the Met Museum in New York, and the Legion of Honor in San Francisco. His paintings are represented by galleries in New York, Oslo, Paris, Madrid, Montreal, and Palm Springs, California. 

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Artist Talk: Chris Combs
Nov
12

Artist Talk: Chris Combs

  • Conway Hall, Room 156 | Salisbury University (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Combs creates interactive sculptures that explore surveillance, control, and algorithmic failure. Using facial recognition and motion sensing, his works respond directly to viewers, blending technology with wood, metal, and found objects. Both immersive and critical, his practice invites audiences to question the systems that increasingly shape human experience. 

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Hataałii Musical Performance
Oct
22

Hataałii Musical Performance

In addition to his visual work, Hataałii is an accomplished singer-songwriter. He will present a live solo performance featuring selections from his growing catalog of songs, which weave together stories of life, identity, and community. 

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Closing Reception & Artist Talk for: Singe the Head
Oct
22

Closing Reception & Artist Talk for: Singe the Head

Hataałii is a Navajo artist whose multifaceted creative practice spans visual art, music, and poetry. This special program brings together both a solo exhibition and a live musical performance, offering an immersive look into a distinctive, emerging, artistic voice. 

Join us for the Closing reception of Singe the Head and an artist talk from the artist himself!

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Professionals Talk: Ashley and Lee Hall, Paleontology Museum
Oct
15

Professionals Talk: Ashley and Lee Hall, Paleontology Museum

  • Conway Hall, Room 156 | Salisbury University (map)
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For over 150 years, dinosaur skeletons have loomed over families and school groups like sentinels of bygone worlds. But how do these colossal fossils end up erected in halls of polished marble and glass? Where on Earth do they come from? Join paleontologists and conservators Ashley and Lee Hall, for an intimate, first-hand look at digging and conserving dinosaur fossils. 

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Artist Talk: Roxana Alger Geffen
Oct
8

Artist Talk: Roxana Alger Geffen

Exhibiting TACTILE artist, Roxana Alger Geffen is an award-winning sculptor and collage artist living and working in Washington, D.C. For more than two decades she has exhibited her work nationally and internationally. Geffen studied visual art at Columbia University as an undergraduate and received her MFA in painting from Boston University. 

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Artist Talk: Janis Mandrus
Oct
1

Artist Talk: Janis Mandrus

  • Conway Hall, Room 156 | Salisbury University (map)
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Janis Mandrus is a former Associate Conservator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. She holds master’s degrees in both Art History and Art Conservation. In her talk, she will explore the field of art conservation and share insights from her work at the Met, including specific projects and related travel experiences.   

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Artist Talk: Natalie Kuenzi
Sep
17

Artist Talk: Natalie Kuenzi

Exhibiting TACTILE artist, Natalie Kuenzi explores ideas of growth, movement, and acceptance. Working across high and low art media, her sculptures and installations embody seemingly incongruous states simultaneously.

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Punk the Capital: Building a Sound Movement  Screening & Q&A with Filmmaker James June Schneider
Dec
4

Punk the Capital: Building a Sound Movement  Screening & Q&A with Filmmaker James June Schneider

When punk rock emerged in Washington DC, it united powerful music, friendships, and clear minds. This film is the first to explore the challenges faced by this subculture in the late 1970s. Featuring Bad Brains, Henry Rollins, and Ian & Alec MacKaye, it delves into the ideas and sounds of this transformative scene.

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Lucian Perkins | Artist Talk
Nov
7

Lucian Perkins | Artist Talk

Join us for an artist talk with, Lucian Perkins, two-time Pulitzer winner and 27-year Washington Post photographer, covered major events in the U.S. and abroad, including Russia, the first Palestinian uprising, and wars in Yugoslavia, Iraq, and Afghanistan. He co-founded Moscow's InterFoto festival and published HARD ART DC 1979 and Runway Madness.

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Alec MacKaye & John Nieves: Table Talk on the Punk Movement & performances!
Nov
6

Alec MacKaye & John Nieves: Table Talk on the Punk Movement & performances!

  • Holloway Hall, Jackson Family Auditorium, Salisbury University (map)
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Alec MacKaye is an American singer and musician best known as a member of the DC hardcore bands Untouchables, the Faith, Ignition and the Warmers. Today, he is vocalist in The Hammered Hulls, Chief Preparator at The Phillips Collection, and a writer graduating as a Lannan Fellow at Georgetown University in 2011. Followed by performances by Hammered Hulls as part of the HARD ART DC exhibition.

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Lely Constantinople | Artist Talk
Nov
6

Lely Constantinople | Artist Talk

Join us for an artist talk with, Lely Constantinople, a Washington, DC photo-based artist, has exhibited nationally and internationally for over 20 years. Her work is in the Anacostia Community Museum, Smithsonian National Museum of American History, and private collections. She is also a photo editor, archivist, and teacher.

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Wicomico River Stories with Gina Bloodworth and Shane Hall
Mar
29

Wicomico River Stories with Gina Bloodworth and Shane Hall

The place we now call Salisbury has always shaped-- and been shaped by-- the Wicomico River. Join our "mobile classroom" to explore the often-overlooked stories and features of Salisbury's downtown and waterfront. Through reflective dialogue and participant observation, we'll connect with the past, present, and future of the river and those who call it home.   

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Electric Liquid Exhibition Reception
Jan
31

Electric Liquid Exhibition Reception

  • Salisbury Univeirsty - Fulton Hall- Room 109 (map)
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This new media exhibition explores urban environments in nature and the role of water in them. Through video projections, installations, and sculptures, Silva's personal experiences and research points to how this electric fluid plays in the fabric of human existence and asks if we are ready to deal with a world shaped by water.

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Cara Wade - Faculty Artist Talk
Nov
14

Cara Wade - Faculty Artist Talk

Using traditional black and white techniques, and alternative 19th century photographic processes with a 21st century spin, Wade attempts to tangibly express the circumstances that both plague and stimulate her.

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Muriel Hasbun Closing Reception & Close, Slow Looking
Oct
26

Muriel Hasbun Closing Reception & Close, Slow Looking

  • Salisbury University Art Gallery | Downtown (map)
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Join Jayme McLellan, curator and acting Director of University Galleries, for a closing reception and Close, Slow Looking program where the curator unpacks and discusses works from the show, Murie Hasbun: With the Pulse of A Community / Con el pulso de una comunidad. This program is an opportunity to learn, share, and create community.

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Exhibition Reception & Artist Talk
Oct
24

Exhibition Reception & Artist Talk

Join us for an engaging artist talk and reception featuring John Mosher. Mosher will discuss his artistic process, influences, and current exhibition 'Wanderer'. The event will provide attendees an opportunity to interact with the artist and gain insights into his creative journey. The reception will follow, allowing for further conversation and connection over refreshments. This event is free and open to the public. We look forward to seeing you there!

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Johab Siva Artist Talk
Oct
3

Johab Siva Artist Talk

Washington, DC-based Brazilian visual artist and art educator Silva uses new media to respond to urban development issues in green regions. Silva holds an M.F.A. from Maine College of Art and Design and an M.A.T. from Corcoran College of Art and Design. His works have been exhibited nationally and internationally, and reviewed in The Washington Post, Sculpture Magazine and PBS.

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Philosophy Cafe
May
4

Philosophy Cafe

Please join Dr. Yujia Song, an Associate Professor with the Philosophy Department at SU for a friendly and mind provoking seminar of philosophical discussions, free and open to the general public!

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