Upcoming
Home Body
This exhibition is experienced in two parts – Home, an indoor gallery exhibit at 3 Dots Downtown and Body, a walk in which viewers forage for artworks amidst Downtown State College. Home Body invites the audience to imagine the possibilities and consider the consequences of human and nonhuman interactions that create our lived environments.
ClearWater Conservancy’s 2023 Art & Chocolate
Welcome! ClearWater Conservancy’s Art & Chocolate gallery exhibit showcases the work of local artists across a variety of styles and mediums. While each piece of art is one-of-a-kind, they all share one remarkable similarity – the artists who created them chose to donate and auction their work to support ClearWater’s efforts to protect and connect vital landscapes, wildlife habitat, and waterways throughout our region.
Art and nature are closely connected and often found within each other. Both also have a tendency to connect our community in the most positive of ways. Can you reflect on the last time you explored a local outdoor destination, listened to local music, or created your own piece of art? How would you describe the feeling or feelings that followed? If you found yourself feeling inspired or in awe, that’s not a coincidence. Art and nature are two of just a few things that can elicit a sense of awe, a feeling that’s proven to increase our generosity, raise our willingness to help someone, and boost a positive mood.
ClearWater Conservancy expresses its sincere gratitude to the artists and community partners, including 3 Dots Downtown, who make Art & Chocolate a successful fundraiser and celebration in support of local conservation work. A supportive community, inspiring local artists, and awe-inspiring nature — just three of the countless reasons that makes Central PA such a wonderful place to live, work, and play. We also thank you for being here today. Enjoy the show!
P.S. Wondering about the chocolate portion of Art & Chocolate? Join us here on February 17 from 4-8 p.m. for cocktails, sweet treats, and gallery show for everyone. You can reserve your own box of treats by purchasing a Super Sweet ticket online.
Landscape | Landuse
For over a century, artists have found inspiration in the nineteenth century expeditions of America’s southwestern frontier conducted by the United States Geological Survey (USGS). As both a romantic and scientific endeavor, these surveys and the dramatic photographs that accompanied them, inspired unprecedented westward expansion and nationalist fervor combined with a hunger for mineral wealth that continues to shape our relationship with the land. Landscape | Land Use includes a selection of artworks inspired by notions of landscape as both national inheritance and raw material, repurposing imagery from these surveys – along with historic mapping and modeling techniques used by surveyors themselves – to visualize the complex forces that shape our relationship with the land.
Home Body
This exhibition is experienced in two parts – Home, an indoor gallery exhibit at 3 Dots Downtown and Body, a walk in which viewers forage for artworks amidst Downtown State College. Home Body invites the audience to imagine the possibilities and consider the consequences of human and nonhuman interactions that create our lived environments.
The Dreamer’z Dojo
It’s easy to feel overwhelmed, alone and hopeless in a world full of stress and division. Is that the only option? This exhibition explores that question by bringing to life an illustrated book.