Hicks Art Center Gallery
The Roosevelt Project: Photographs by Fran Orlando
May 22 - July 3, 2024
Opening Reception May 22, 4 -7 p.m.
Bucks County Community College is pleased to announce the opening of The Roosevelt Project: Photographs by Fran Orlando at Hicks Art Center Gallery at Bucks County Community College’s Newtown Campus on May 22.
The exhibition features more than 40 portraits from Orlando’s project photographing the residents of the small New Jersey town in the late 1970s. Roosevelt, New Jersey, began in the 1930s as Jersey Homesteads, a planned community to help Jewish garment workers escape poverty and the city. Although the social experiment failed when the factory closed a few years later, the town soon became a rural mecca for artists such as Ben Shahn, Bernarda Bryson Shahn, Gregorio Prestopino, and Jacob Landau.
You can the full press release here.
For additional information please visit Hicks Art Gallery Center, follow our Instagram account @bcccartscomm or call 215-968-8432.
Hosted by the Bucks County Community College, Arts and Communication Department at Hicks Art Center Gallery.
Gallery Hours:
Monday - Thursday day 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Saturdays 12 - 4 p.m.
Image: Jonathan Shahn with bust of Peri Prestopino, 1980/2023, archival pigment print
About the Hicks Gallery
Hicks Art Center Gallery provides a varied series of curated art exhibitions and related programming in support of the Arts & Communication Department and as an important educational and cultural resource for the community.
Exhibitions and related programming are free and open to the public unless otherwise indicated. The Gallery is located in Hicks Art Center on the Newtown campus, the locus of the College's Department.
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