June 14, 2007
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
For more information, please contact:

Noel Feeley, Interim Director

(814) 472-3920

Travis Mearns, Public Relations Coordinator

(724) 238-6015

STATE-TOURING EXHIBITION COMPLETES ITS RUN AT SAMA-LORETTO

Loretto—The Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art at Loretto announces that the exhibition Outside the Centers/On the Edge will finish its statewide run in Loretto, beginning June 29. An exhibition of 15 Pennsylvania artists, including Hollidaysburg resident, Rebecca Strzelec, Outside the Centers/On the Edge celebrates the strength and innovation of artists living and working outside the state’s major metropolitan areas. The exhibition will remain on view through September 30.

Each artist takes an unconventional approach to his or her work in materials, content and form. Their works demonstrate that just because the perspectives of these artists are influenced by their more "remote" locales, they do not lack formal sophistication or theoretical rigor.

Outside the Centers/On the Edge has been touring the state for a year and a half. It was organized by a consortium of Pennsylvania museums and university galleries, with the support of the Picture Pennsylvania Traveling Exhibition program of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. The exhibition was co-curated by their directors: Erie Art Museum (John Vanco); Pennsylvania College of Art and Design Gallery (Kristy Krivitsky); Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University (Dan Mills); Sharadin Art Gallery, Kutztown University (Dan Talley); and Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art (former director Michael Tomor).

The Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art at Loretto is located on the campus of Saint Francis University. Hours of operation are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and 1 to 5 p.m. weekends. The Museum is open to the public free of charge. For more information, call the Museum at (814) 472-3920 or visit www.sama-art.org.