Exhibitions
The Gallery hosts exhibitions of scholarly importance drawn from its collections and those of other institutions and lenders. The exhibitions coordinate and complement the museum’s collections holdings.
Image: detail from Takahashi Shotei (aka Hioaki), Teahouse in Rainy Night at Kiridoshi, Woodblock print: ink and color on paper, c. 1930s, 2018.3.12, Purchase of The Trout Gallery at Dickinson College.
Imprint: Selected Gifts from Eric Denker '75
June13 - Sept. 13, 2025
Reception Sept. 5, 5-7 pm
This exhibition celebrates one of The Trout Gallery’s most generous donors: art historian, curator, educator, and Dickinson College alumnus Eric Denker ’75, PhD. Since his graduation from Dickinson College fifty years ago, Dr. Denker earned his doctorate from the University of Virginia, worked as a Senior Lecturer at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, and served as the Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Over the decades, The Trout Gallery has received nearly 900 objects from Dr. Denker. The breadth of Dr. Denker’s giving not only reflects his own passions as a collector, but he also leaves a significant imprint upon the community by fostering a deeper understanding of the arts across time periods and cultures.
Image: Winslow Homer (American, 1836-1910), Art Students and Copyists in the Louvre Gallery, Paris (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XII,) 1868, Wood engraving on paper, 9 x 13.75 in. (22.86 x 34.925 cm), The Trout Gallery, Gift of Eric Denker '75 in memory of Neil Hirsh, 2004.5.5.
To Listen Deeply
June 13 - Dec. 13, 2025
Reception: Sep 5, 5-7 pm
While most works of art engage with the senses of sight and touch through their form (texture, materiality, shape), To Listen Deeply, curated by Trout Gallery intern Sophy Nie’25, examines how sound is a key component for diverse works of art. Taking inspiration from American experimental composer Pauline Oliveros’s “Deep Listening” philosophy, which encourages a heightened awareness of our sonic environment, this exhibition invites viewers to engage with the works of art on multiple sensory levels, to pay attention to perceived visual and acoustic vibrations – to listen deeply.
To Listen Deeply includes two original sound compositions by Dickinson College student Zuzu Black `25 created in response to works in the exhibition. Click HERE to listen to each.
Image: Manuel Alvarez Bravo (Mexican, 1902-2002), Violin Huichol, 1979, Gelatin silver print on paper, 8 x 10 in. (20.32 x 25.4 cm), The Trout Gallery, Gift of Lawrence and Carol Zicklin, 1986.1.2.2.
Wendy Red Star: Her Dreams Are True
Sept. 26, 2025 – Feb. 7, 2026
Her Dreams Are True provides a new perspective on the role of archives, museum collections, and personal memory in Apsáalooke (Crow) artist Wendy Red Star’s prints and photographs. Throughout her large body of work, Red Star reconsiders and liberates archival photographs and materials from a fixed historical moment. This exhibition provides visitors with an opportunity to see the artist’s recent works that recontextualize hand-painted illustrations of artifacts in the Denver Art Museum’s Indigenous collection. Red Star juxtaposes these cultural belongings with her own photographs of the Crow Nation’s annual fair in Montana. Returning to her hand-written notes in the Bíiluuke series (2023), Red Star also provides a nuanced intervention with Apsáalooke heritage items from several public collections. More than a meditation on the past, Red Star’s archival work looks to the future and offers a new perspective on rematriation.
Wendy Red Star is this year’s recipient of Dickinson College’s prestigious Arts Award. The Dickinson College Arts Award honors an individual or group who has made an outstanding contribution to the creative or performing arts. The Arts Award was initiated by the faculty and endowed in 1959 by gifts from members of the board of trustees, notably C. Scott Althouse and Sumner Drayer, in honor of William W. Edel, president of the College from 1946 to 1959. Previous Arts Award recipients include Robert Frost, John Cage, David Mamet, and Toshiko Takaezu. As part of the award celebration, each recipient visits Dickinson College to share their work and ideas with the community.
On Nov. 7, 2025 at 7pm Dickinson College President John E. Jones III will present the Arts Award to Wendy Red Star in Rubendall Recital Hall in Weiss Center for the Arts. The public presentation will include a welcome by Amanda Cheromiah, Ph.D. (KawaiKa-Laguna Pueblo), Executive Director of the Center for the Future of Native Peoples, and an interview between the artist and Professor Darren Lone Fight, Proud Member, Three Affiliated Tribes; Citizen Mvskoke Nation and Assistant Professor, Department of American Studies.
All events are free and open to the public.
Image: detail from, Wendy Red Star (Apsáalooke (Crow), b. 1981), Set FL iítaashteeuuxe (buckskin dress), 2023, archival pigment print on Satin Photo Rag, edition 3 of 3, 16 x 35 in. Image courtesy of Sargent’s Daughters, New York. Ó Wendy Red Star. The Trout Gallery, Purchase of the Friends of the Trout Gallery.
A Measure of Value
Jan. 16 - Apr. 4, 2026
This exhibition considers how art and artifacts intersect with economic principles of markets, both as physical embodiments of currency and as commentary on monetary systems. Many works of art function as media of exchange, units of credit, stores of wealth, and measures of value. From ancient coins to contemporary prints, the diverse selection of objects on display offers visitors an opportunity to consider the dynamic relationship between artistic and economic notions of value.
This exhibition features work by artists Faith Ringgold, Sue Coe, Andy Warhol, and the Guerilla Girls among others, as well as a selection of ancient Roman coin and Tuareg, Jonga, and Akan currency objects.
Image: Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987), $1, 1982,, Screenprint on Lenox museum board, 19.75 x 15.625 in. (50.165 x 39.688 cm), The Trout Gallery, Gift of The Andy Warhol Foundation, 2014.1.4.
Eadweard Muybridge: Animal Locomotion*
Feb. 20 - Apr. 4, 2026
Eadweard Muybridge is best known for his first-of-its-kind scientific study, Animal Locomotion, that used photography in a new way. In sequential series of still photographs, Muybridge explored the actions of bodies, animal and human, in motion. Muybridge’s legacy is connected to the advent of film, the use of photography in legal and scientific contexts, disability studies, and the way humans conceptualize time. This exhibition is curated by senior art history majors under the direction of Professor Elizabeth Lee.
*Title TBD by student curators
Image: Eadweard Muybridge (English, 1830-1904), Plate 627 from "Animal Locomotion," 1887, Black and white photograph, dry plate process on paper, 13.75 x 19.375 in. (34.925 x 49.213 cm), The Trout Gallery, Gift of Samuel Moyerman, 1987.4.76.
Senior Studio Art Majors Thesis Exhibition*
Apr. 17 - May 17, 2026
Throughout a year-long seminar, senior studio art majors engage in sustained and critical studio inquiry that results in the creation of ambitious and cohesive bodies of artwork, a selection of which are included in an end-of-year thesis exhibition. Under the collective direction of Dickinson's studio art faculty, the students develop individual projects made in a variety of media and share a commitment to the investigation of conceptual, material, formal, historical, political, and aesthetic concepts in their scholarship.
*Title TBD by student artists