Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College

We are so grateful to the Mexican Cultural Center for honoring the Philip & Muriel Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College with a Friends of Mexico Award for the exhibition Enrique Bostelmann, Apertures & Borderscapes and accompanying educational and public programs. @pewcenterarts

Making this show opened up an entire new wilderness to me. “Fever” now on view at the Berman Museum of Art thru Nov 24th. Unending thanks to @allenframenyc for making Photographs that endure and inspire. From the curator Deborah Barkun: Through immersion in a multisensory, multimedia collage, Emily Wells’ Fever transports visitors to New York, circa 1981- 1991. This dynamic and boundless period of creative exploration was at once fueled and devastated by the advent of HIV/AIDS. Wells mines the activist and artistic abundance of this milieu to envision and enact creative impulses of a fictional band. The project draws inspiration from artist Allen Frame’s Fever, a photographic documentation of the intimate social lives of New York artist friends in the unfettered period immediately preceding HIV/AIDS’ grievous onset. Wells’ eponymous work imagines five musicians and their engineer recording an album. Visitors encounter this world through sound recording, photography, and video, montaged with archival and found footage of climate calamity, AIDS activism, artistic legacies, and horses galloping with abandon down a freeway. Yet the archival impulse of Fever’s time travel is inflected and mediated by a melding of analogue and digital technologies. These layers reveal simultaneous processes of reflection, retrospection, and immediacy. Here, the artist surtaces as both author and avatar, asking us to contemplate how we contend with histories, losses, and unknown futures. As the Berman Museum’s 2026 interdisciplinary visiting artist in residence, Wells enlisted Ursinus student research assistants Arin Captis (‘27), Lucy Fabiszewski (27), Hayden James (27), and Caroline Yuratich (‘26) to assist with the development of this project.

FEVER - my solo multi-media exhibition opens Thursday. Join me + @allenframenyc + @rachelstern in conversation at @bermanmuseum to celebrate. 5-7 PM Photo an in process shot during install, more documentation in the coming days/weeks.

Step inside "Fever," a new multi-media installation by Interdisciplinary Visiting Artist in Residence Emily Wells. Spanning 1981–1991, the exhibition explores music composition, role play, performance, expanded cinema, and the enduring, painterly experience of making an album. Created with the assistance of Ursinus students, "Fever" unfolds through assemblage, photography, tape machines, video, and performance—inviting visitors into Wells’s daily practice and the layered research behind her work. Inspired in part by photographer and writer Allen Frame’s photo book "Fever," the exhibition reflects a dynamic exchange across media, memory, and artistic process. 🎉 Opening Reception 📅 March 26 | 5–7 PM Join us for a reception (5–6 PM) followed by a conversation between @emilywellsmusic and @allenframenyc (6–7 PM). Link in bio to RSVP. 📍 Berman Museum of Art, Ursinus College 🗓 On view March 26–November 24, 2026

Fever opening March 26 at the Berman Museum of Art In three short weeks my first solo multi-media exhibition will open. Creating this show has been a new way to think, to make, and to attempt communication through video, music, drawings, process materials, and photographs. Much of the work revolves around a group of friends photographed in 1981 by the artist Allen Frame and published in his book Fever. From these images I’ve “cast” an imaginary band who I’ve inhabited as a way to perform and record the songs for my next album. Inside this make believe and my invented relationships with the “band members” are many layers of devotion, elegy, and a kind of time travel I often find myself attempting in both research and art making. I will do my best to share more about this work through our own little portal here on the phone in the coming weeks and months, but my hope is that the work, often mediated through abandoned technologies, is experienced in person. To my absolute delight, @allenframenyc himself and photographer @rachelstern will join me in conversation at the opening as we celebrate from 5-7 PM on Thursday March 26th. The @bermanmuseum is located just outside of Philadelphia and is free and open to the public. My show will run March 26 - November 24. More details in bio

Artist Syd Carpenter (@sydcrpntr ) is truly deserving of the recognition and publicity she’s receiving! Her talent, originality, and impact speak for themselves. Planting in Place, Time, and Memory at Woodmere is a comprehensive retrospective celebrating over 50 years of Carpenter’s influential career, and is part of a multi-site celebration of her work. A huge thank you to Peter Crimmins (@petercrimmins ) and WHYY (@whyy ) for sharing Syd’s story. A visit to all three exhibitions at Woodmere, Frances M. Maguire Art Museum at Saint Joseph’s University, and The Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College is highly recommended!

We’re thrilled to announce the opening of Syd Carpenter: Home Bound in Wood, Steel, and Clay 🌱 On view at the Berman Museum of Art January 22-April 5, this exhibition presents new and select works by Philadelphia‑based artist Syd Carpenter, whose powerful sculptures explore memory, heritage, and the enduring importance of land. From monumental reimaginings of everyday forms to multi-media installations honoring Black agricultural traditions, Carpenter’s work speaks to resilience, lineage, and place. Join us for a celebratory opening and an in‑depth conversation between Syd Carpenter and Jennifer Zwilling, Curator and Director of Artistic Programs at The Clay Studio on Thursday, February 5. RSVP at the link in bio. This exhibition is presented in conjunction with two other major institutions: Planting in Time, Place, and Memory at @woodmereart (Jan. 24-May 24), and Re-Union: Syd Carpenter, Martha Jackson Jarvis, Judy Moonelis, Sana Musasama, and Winnie Owens Hart at @maguireartmuseum (Jan. 14-March 29), together comprising a landmark, multi-site retrospective of Carpenter's remarkable career. Photo of @sydcrpntr in her studio by @mattbender . Mother Pin Ascending courtesy of @pff_collection .

One of the most dramatic and striking installation's of Dina works was in 2018 at The Philip and Muriel Berman Museum Of Art in Collegeville, PA.⁠ ⁠ "STAINLESS" featured over 20 of her stainless steel assemblages and was the first major exhibition to focus solely on this body of work.⁠ ⁠ Excerpt from the 2018 press release: ⁠ ⁠ "The dramatic sculptural assemblages of Philadelphia-based Israeli artist Dina Wind make use of ordinary, yet unexpected materials that coalesce into abstract compositions of color, form, and texture. ⁠ ⁠ Using only stainless steel in this series, rather than her typical use of slashed tires and twisted fenders, rusty tools and broken household objects, the works seem to come together intuitively, welded together from disparate forms.⁠ ⁠ The implied animation of such objects gives Wind's sculptures a sense of pent-up energy and wry humor, recalling the long tradition of still-life painting alongside expressionistic abstraction."⁠ ⁠ @bermanmuseum ⁠ ⁠ #bermanmuseum #stainless #steelsculpture #abstractexpressionist #womenartists #dinawind

Planting in Place, Time, and Memory celebrates five decades of Syd Carpenter’s influential career as she has continually redefined the boundaries of ceramics. Opening at Woodmere on January 24, 2026, this landmark retrospective will highlight her innovative explorations at the intersection of African American history, land and agriculture, the human body, and the elemental materiality of clay. Mark your calendars for an opening celebration on January 24 with a private members’ tour with Syd Carpenter, and lectures, programming, and events later this month! Supported by @pewcenterarts , this comprehensive exhibition will be held in conjunction with two other major institutions, including Re-Union: Syd Carpenter, Martha Jackson Jarvis, Judy Moonelis, Sana Musasama, and Winnie Owens Hart, January 14-March 29, 2026 at @maguireartmuseum , and Syd Carpenter: Home Bound in Wood, Steel, and Clay, January 22-April 5, 2026 at @bermanmuseum . Photos of Syd Carpenter in her studio in Mt. Airy by @mattbender .

Enjoy this flipthrough of our new catalogue for upcoming retrospective, Syd Carpenter: Planting in Place, Time, and Memory. This beautiful book stands as a testament to the profound and evocative work of Syd Carpenter, celebrating over 50 years of her influential career. The landmark exhibition will showcase the full breadth of Carpenter’s artistic journey, highlighting her innovative explorations at the intersection of African American history, land and agriculture, the human body, and the elemental materiality of clay. Planting in Place, Time, and Memory will be open at Woodmere’s Smith Hall on January 24, 2026, and will be shown in conjunction with two other major exhibitions on Syd Carpenter: Re-Union: Syd Carpenter, Martha Jackson Jarvis, Judy Moonelis, Sana Musasama, and Winnie Owens Hart, January 14 - March 29, 2026, at the Frances M. Maguire Museum at St. Joseph’s University (@maguireartmuseum ) Home Bound in Wood, Steel, and Clay, January 22 - April 5, an exhibition of contemporary works by Carpenter at the Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College (@bermanmuseum )

Join us at @ulisesbooks on December 11 from 6–9 PM for the New Neighbors catalog launch, celebrating the recent exhibition at the Berman Museum of Art. ✨ Featuring Philadelphia artists in dialogue across mediums, New Neighbors brings together faculty from Ursinus College and creatives from across the region to explore relationships, proximity, and the conversations that emerge through artistic exchange. @ursinuscollege studio art faculty—David Aipperspach, Cari Freno, Sarah Kaufman, and Sarah Pater—were each invited to exhibit work alongside an area artist or creative entity of their choosing, with whom they feel an affinity. The resulting exhibition brings their work into visual, material, or conceptual dialogue with work by Sarah McEneaney, Chad States, Tony Bragg, and the duo Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib. 📚 Reception 6–9 PM 🎤 Informal artist talk at 7 PM The catalog includes four newly commissioned essays and exhibition photography that highlight each artist pairing and offer deeper context for the work. Contributing authors: @jacobfeige , @kati_gegenheimer , @rebexar , and @stan_mir_satellite Book design by @komprehensive Come celebrate with us and take home a copy of the catalog! Link in bio to RSVP. @daippers @carifreeus @sarahkaufmanphoto @sarahrpater @sarahmce @chadstates @bigheadpainting @hironakasuib

⏰ One week left! Don’t miss your chance to experience "New Neighbors" and "A Day in the Terraced Rice Fields" before they close on November 26. These two powerful exhibitions, featuring work by an incredible group of Philadelphia artists, have transformed the Berman this fall. Be sure to stop by and experience these remarkable bodies of work while they’re still on view! 📚 And mark your calendar: we’re celebrating the release of the "New Neighbors" exhibition catalogue with a book launch at Ulises Books in Philadelphia on December 11. More details to come! @daippers @carifreeus @sarahkaufmanphoto @sarahrpater @sarahmce @hironakasuib @chadstates @bigheadpainting @colette_fu @ulisesbooks 📸: @margoreedstudio and @hurenzong