The Hicks Art Center Gallery at Bucks County Community College has announced the opening of the summer exhibition, Astronomical: Gazing Inward and Beyond on view from June 5 – Sept. 8. The Gallery is located in the Hicks Art Center building on the Newtown campus.

The artists in Astronomical: Gazing Inward and Beyond look to celestial bodies of constellations and galaxies that have sparked curiosity, amazement, narrative folklores, the metaphysical and scientific discoveries since Mesopotamian times as source material for their artworks.

Participating artists include Charles Bennett, Alicia Fredericks, Katelyn Garcia, Christine McHugh, Erica Ryan Stallones, LeRoy Stevens and Andrea B. Wallace.

As a retired aerospace engineer, Bucks County resident Charles Bennett had a remarkable career designing power systems for many NASA and Government satellite programs, including GPS, EOS (Earth Observing System), and Apollo, while specializing in advanced battery and solar array designs.

Alicia Fredericks contribution to the exhibition of her multi-color print of a rocket and planets was created in BCCC Arts and Communication faculty Caren Friedman’s spring 2022 Silkscreen course.

Based in Philadelphia, artist Katelyn Garcia’s two ceramic sculptures are meticulously crafted to represent the innumerable craters and surface variations of the moon.

Learn more at Bucks County Community College.

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