Exhibitions
Lehigh University Faculty Exhibition
January 28 - May 23, 2025
Reception: February 4, 5:30 -7pm
Lehigh University Art Gallery located at Zoellner Arts Center
420 East Packer Ave, Bethlehem PA 18015
Gallery Hours
Tues & Thurs 11am-7pm
Wed & Fri 11am-5pm
Sat 1pm-5pm
The multidisciplinary practitioners who form the core of the Department of Art, Architecture and Design at Lehigh University share a common teaching philosophy centered on experiential learning and critical visual thinking. This philosophy is informed by their work outside the classroom as individual makers, theoreticians, and historians. This exhibition brings together a cross-section of their expansive work.
Featuring: Anna Chupa, William Crow, Amy Forsyth, Ho’o Hee, Wes Heiss, Wes Hiatt, Jenny Kowalski, Kevin Lahoda, Maurizio Masi, Deirdre Murphy, Nik Nikolov, Alina Tenser, Jason Travers. and Christina Chi Zhang.
ACQUISITIONS
University of Pennsylvania, Hayden Hall
Oculus Major, a 6 panel painting is newly installed at the University of Pennsylvania’s Hayden Hall Department of Earth & Environmental Science. Deirdre Murphy’s artistic practice investigates the intersection between art, science and climate change through the lens of biological patterns and data visualization and welcomes the students into the main lobby.
Nurture Nature Center Acquisition
The Nurture Nature Center, located in Easton Pennsylvania is dedicated to building community resilience to environmental risk by leveraging the power of informal science education, art-centered approaches to learning, and community dialogue. Murphy is thrilled to have her work included in their permanent collection.
Performance Collaboration
Gradients is a dance theatre piece devised by Lyra Butler-Denman and William Acker. It was created during a residency at Chimaera Gallery in Philadelphia immersed in Deirdre Murphy’s exhibition Gradients of Growth.
Gradients of Growth, examines the impact of the Anthropocene climate on tree cavity-nesting birds and East Coast pollinator species through paintings and monoprints, focusing on ecological hope and environmental healing. Click here for more information.
In the News
Celebrating Art and Nature: Deirdre Murphy’s Residency and Upcoming Exhibition
The Steward, Lower Merion Conservancy Fall Newsletter
Residencies
Lower Merion Conservancy
Climate Action Artist -in -Residence at Lower Merion Conservancy, Gladwynn PA
Lower Merion Conservancy
Climate Action Artist in Residence
The Lower Merion Conservancy is pleased to announce Deirdre Murphy as the inaugural Conservatory Climate Action artist-in-residence. The Conservatory is devoted to protecting and promoting environmental wellness and sustainable public land management as well as historic preservation to promote conservation and climate change awareness. Murphy will produce her Contemporary Herbarium print series based on native pollinators from the cottage studio garden and use the forest as inspiration for her studio painting practice. The Conservancy advocates for policies, programs, projects and has a youth education program in which she will participate.
Foreman’s Branch Bird Observatory
Washington College, Chestertown Maryland
Artist in Residence & Visiting Artist
Washington College’s Foreman Branch Bird Observatory welcomes Deirdre Murphy as the artist-in-residence where she will produce a site specific art commission for the new bird banding station and have an exhibition at the MuSE Museum. The commissioned artwork will visually communicate the trends that FBBO is finding in the avian migratory patterns along the Eastern Shores of the Chesapeake Bay. This project is made possible through the generosity of Charles T. Bauer Charitable Foundation.