The Bogigian Gallery will host an exhibition of artwork by students from Hagerstown Community College (HCC) from Feb. 2 through Feb. 28.
The show features drawings, paintings, sculptures, and photographs by current visual arts students from HCC’s Department of Visual Arts. HCC and Wilson are partnering to provide opportunities for students seeking growth in their disciplines and an exhibition venue outside Hagerstown. The exhibition also provides a professional-like gallery experience for those students wishing to transfer to Wilson or other four-year institutions. Both colleges offer degrees in visual art, graphic design, and web design and collaborate to benefit students thinking about furthering their education and working toward a bachelor’s degree.
HCC and Wilson work with students to develop broad disciplinary skill sets, content knowledge, and critical and creative thinking skills to prepare tomorrow’s leaders for the challenges of a complex world. The exhibition celebrates institutional collaboration, student scholarship, and artistic voice.
The Bogigian Gallery, on the second floor of Lortz Hall, is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Admission is free. For additional information or an appointment, contact Professor of Fine Arts Philip Lindsey at 717-264-2783 or philip.lindsey@wilson.edu.
“Voices from the Wine Dark Sea,” an exhibition at the Hankey Center, showcases the diversity of perspectives in the ancient world ringing the Mediterranean Sea. On show are artifacts from the Wilson College Antiquities Collection accompanied by primary source texts telling the stories of individuals and groups from centuries ago.
“This exhibition focuses on lifting up the voices of marginalized individuals in the ancient world, including women, the previously enslaved, and those who did not conform to society’s expectations,” said curator Bonnie Rock-McCutcheon, ancient world studies faculty. Rock-McCutcheon noted that the ancient world is often assumed to be, or presented as, “white” and predominantly male-oriented in curricula. This exhibition will go some way to redress this bias.
“As an institution rooted in the liberal arts and sciences, Wilson College believes that diverse perspectives and experiences deepen learning and enhance understanding. Thus, the College is motivated to represent material culture accurately and teach its related curriculum,” said Wilson president Wesley R. Fugate. “Studying the diversity within the Ancient World is a unique opportunity for our region’s students and lifelong learners to see the past as it truly was.”
The exhibition can be seen in person, online, or can be taken to schools in the region. “We are also excited to offer programming and customized workshops for student groups of all ages, whether you want to come to us, or you want us to come to you,” Rock-McCutcheon said. “Those who are farther away can experience the exhibit and objects through augmented and virtual reality applications, which will be accompanied by lesson planning materials on our website.”
The ability to take the collection “on the road” allows Wilson to better meet the needs of high schools interested in examining the diversity of past cultures. The exhibition is part of the “Building Equity: Making the Barron C. Blewett Hunnicutt Gallery and Antiquities Collection Accessible to All” project at the Hankey Center and Archives. The collection contains over 500 items from Egypt, Mesopotamia, Italy, Greece, Palestine, and Syria, spanning a wide array of media, including ceramics, glassware, coins, metal objects of various types, terra-cotta figurines, and sculpture. Some of these items are included in the current exhibition.
The exhibition, programming, workshops, and digital curation are made possible by funding from the Classical Association of the Atlantic States, the Society for Classical Studies “Ancient Worlds, Modern Communities” program, and the “Arts for All” grant opportunity of the Greater Harrisburg, Community Foundation, a regional foundation of The Foundation for Enhancing Communities.
“I am thrilled to receive the ‘Arts for All’ grant for our work enhancing the antiquities collection and Hunnicutt Gallery,” Rock- McCutcheon said. “In Fall ’21, we opened ‘Voices of the Wine Dark Sea;’ in spring ’22, support from this grant will help us make the collection a regional resource for local schools and colleges. This grant will enable us to host student groups on campus, make in-school workshops available to them, and create digital resources that will be freely available online.”
Currently, Wilson College is one of a few private, nonprofit institutions of higher education with a curated collection of Middle Eastern, Mediterranean, and African antiquities in the area. For information about visiting, email Rock-McCutchen at brock@wilson.edu.
The website for the exhibition is https://www.wilson.edu/voices-wine-dark-sea
Open to aspiring or established writers
If you’re 14 years or older and interested in creative writing, you’re invited to our 2022 Creative Writing Colloquium on Saturday, March 5, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Brooks Science Center auditorium. You can take lessons on writing technique, ask questions about the publishing process, and hobnob with published authors.
The colloquium is an educational event open to writing enthusiasts from south-central Pennsylvania and northern Maryland. Writers from all backgrounds are encouraged to register for the event, including high school and college students, writing and English teachers, published and unpublished authors, and anyone interested in putting words on the page. Attendance is a remarkable opportunity to exchange ideas and come away with focus, new tools, writing mentors/guides, and inspiration.
The colloquium, which includes lunch, is free, but registration is required by February 26 at https://www.wilson.edu/creative-writing-colloquium-2020-registration. Check-in begins at 8:15 a.m. More information is available at https://www.wilson.edu/wilson-college-creative-writing-colloquium Questions? Contact colloquium director Michael Cornelius at mcornelius@wilson.edu
The Colloquium workshops include:
“Genre and Style” presented by Ashley Barner Barner is the author of five books: the medieval fantasy Blue Feathers (Loconeal); the nonfiction book The Case for Fanfiction (McFarland); and the fantasy books Force Majeure, Freeing Fortune, and Mr. Pembroke’s Ward (Notus), all co-authored with best friend, Jennifer Sanders.
“Creating A Sense of Place in Your Work” presented by Alicia Drumgoole Drumgoole is an Assistant Professor of English at Hagerstown Community College and wrote her first novel, Premonition, under the pen name Agnes Jayne in 2015. She is the founder of a local writing group called The Mountain Scribes in Harpers Ferry, WV, and contributed to two anthologies: Last Writes: Haunting Tales from the Mountain Scribes (2017) and The Appalachian Compilation (2018).
“Writing as an Act of Gratitude” led by Wilson College Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Practice Matt McBride An award-winning poet, McBride is the author of the collection City of Incandescent Light (Black Lawrence Press) as well as two additional chapbooks of poetry. He is the recipient of a Devine Fellowship, a George Elliston Fellowship, an Ohio Arts Council Grant, and a Writers in the Heartland residency, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
“Resources for Writers Who Want to Be Published” led by the Chair of Wilson’s Division of Arts and Letters Michael Cornelius Cornelius is the author/editor of 23 books of fiction and nonfiction across a variety of genres, including horror and historical fiction. He has been a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, the Science Fiction Research Association Pioneer Award, an Independent Press Award, and American Library Association prize.
An Author’s Q&A session will be held at the end of the day.
The colloquium is underwritten by the Arts for All grant opportunity of the Greater Harrisburg Community Foundation, a regional foundation of The Foundation for Enhancing Communities.
The Class of 1955 Spring Research Stipend has been awarded to Joshua Legg, MFA, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and MFA Program Director. The $2,000 stipend will help fund a catalog for two upcoming exhibitions curated by Legg at Wilson’s Cooley Gallery. The first will present the work of Adam DelMarcelle, a visiting assistant professor of graphic design at Wilson. The second will feature works by artists committed to bearing witness to the times they live in and their experiences and challenging the status quo. In addition, the stipend will help pay for materials in support of Legg’s art project—a series of paintings “examining the ways in which Christianity has been misused as a front for racism in America.”
War on Drugs and Stages of Overdose by Adam DelMarcelle
DelMarcelle’s exhibition “Epidemic” is centered around the ongoing opioid epidemic in this country and its effects on communities. “A Call to Question” is a collection of works by artists contacted by DelMarcelle as part of his MFA thesis on activist-driven art. Legg will curate both shows and produce a catalog to document the artists and their work.
Stations of the Cross XII: American Spring 2020 by Joshua Legg
Legg, a transdisciplinary artist in his own right, has been working on a series of paintings that ask questions about the relationship between the misuse of Christian images and beliefs and the perpetuation of racism in this country. Originally conceived as a series of paintings based around the Stations of the Cross, each “station” would examine the death of an unarmed black man by the police. It has since broadened its scope to include “the social movements and political machines that perpetuate racism and deadly violence against [Black, Indigenous, and people of color] and their communities.”
“I am grateful to have received The Class of 1955 Spring Stipend Award this year,” Legg said. “The award will allow me to expand my practice-led research as both a curator and a painter.” He added that awards like this support Wilson’s current strategic plan to “forge a culture that supports the faculty and staff experience.” Furthermore, he explained that by funding artists like he and DelMarcelle, whose art is deeply concerned with social justice, this stipend directly supports Wilson’s mission and values.
College volunteers aged 18 to 80 turned out to build a shed to complete a family’s new home in Franklin County, Pa. The collaboration between Wilson and Habitat for Humanity of Franklin County (HFFC) was the brainchild of Habitat’s Mark Story and Wilson’s Rev. Derek Wadlington.
Mark Story, HHFC’s community engagement director, read an article about Rev. Wadlington’s work with student volunteers in “Wilson Magazine.” Always on the lookout for potential collaborators, Story’s interest was piqued by Wadlington’s goal of having students engage in community actions and help nonprofit organizations.
Story contacted Wadlington about renewing or reinventing the relationship between the College and HHFC. Historically, Wilson had a partnership with HHFC, including having a Habitat chapter on campus during the tenure of Wadlington’s predecessor Rev. Rosie McGhee. But between one thing and another, interest had waned, and the chapter had disbanded.
Wadlington was enthusiastic. He considered HHFC an ideal organization to connect his student volunteers with the wider community. For both men, the inspiration and motivation were to connect people with one another through actions that build communities, make a difference, and work for the common good. All they had to do was come up with a project to get the ball rolling.
At the time, HHFC was completing their 50th home in Franklin Co. Having Wilson students volunteer their time on this project was the obvious first choice. Wadlington would arrange to bus students to the home, and HHFC would train them in construction techniques—the traditional Habitat use of volunteers. Unfortunately, thanks to COVID-19 restrictions, that was not possible.
The men were not deterred. If they couldn’t bring Wilson to Habitat, Story wondered, could they bring Habitat to Wilson? He suggested building a shed on campus and delivering it to the home once completed. Wadlington replied, “I don’t have permission to say this, but YES! YES! YES!” Thus, the “Shed Some Light” project was born.
For one week, a parking lot on Wilson’s campus became a construction site for the shed. “We had a steady stream of volunteers,” Story said. “Then one afternoon, the softball team showed up, and suddenly we had more than 18 people there all trying to work on this little shed at the same time. It was a bit overwhelming, but we managed.”
HHFC’s mission is not just to build homes for deserving families but to bring volunteers together and teach them some construction techniques. “We brought a nail gun,” Story said. “We could have done it all by hand with hammers, but we wanted to teach something new.”
The shed was completed with the help of many students, staff, faculty, an 80-year-old alumna, and even College President Wesley R. Fugate, then delivered to the home HHFC had built. Wadlington said, “I love that our community built a shed that will be part of Habitat’s 50th build - it provides a tangible, long-lasting connection between Wilson and the community.”
Half the materials were paid for out of the Chaplain’s funds. According to Story, the other half was given by an anonymous donor who “is someone very close to Wilson.” The shed was transported to the home free of charge thanks to Esh’s Storage Barns.
Wadlington and Story see this as the first of many projects Wilson College and HHFC do together. “Will we build more sheds at Wilson? Probably,” Story said. “Will there come a day when Wilson students can pile in a van and come to work at a Habitat site? Hopefully.”
Wilson has received a $16,000 grant from the Thoroughbred Education and Research Foundation (TERF) for scholarships of $4,000 to four students pursuing equine or animal-related majors.
The recipients are Kaylee Bill ’22 of Seven Valleys, Pa., a veterinary nursing major with a concentration in EQUI-ASSIST®; Drew Stevens ’22 of Harleysville, Pa., an equestrian studies major; Natalie Cowdrick ’22 of Hagerstown, Md., an equestrian studies major; and Rebekka Visniesky ’22 of Ridgway, Pa., a veterinary nursing major with a concentration in EQUI-ASSIST®.
Students enrolled in the majors of veterinary nursing, animal studies, equine studies, and equine-facilitated therapeutics may be considered for the TERF scholarships. Scholarship awards are based on student need, scholastic achievement, and equine-related aspirations.
TERF awards scholarships consistent with its mission of promoting equine education and research by sponsoring scholarships in veterinary medicine and supporting organizations that are educating the public in the proper care of horses. The Board of Directors of TERF meticulously selects grant recipients in a competitive grantmaking process in the spring. TERF has provided $72,000 in scholarship awards to Wilson College since 2015.
The 2021-2022 TERF grant program at Wilson is directed by Ann O’Shallie, chair and professor of equine studies and equine facilitated therapeutics, and Tammy Ege, chair and associate professor of veterinary nursing.
The College announced a scholarship drawing for students vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus. Three lucky students will win scholarships in the amounts of $5,000, $3,000, or $1,000 that they can use toward their spring semester, 2022, education.
Every vaccinated student will be entered into a random drawing. To be eligible, students must show proof of vaccination by Oct. 18.
“I want to encourage all members of our community to get vaccinated,” Wilson College President Wesley R. Fugate said. “The data is very clear: those who get the vaccine are less likely to contract the virus, spread the virus, have severe illness, be hospitalized, or die.”
He noted that the Delta variant was “a great deal more contagious than the original strain of the virus.” And because Delta is the dominant variant nationally and locally, we have to redouble our efforts to combat the virus on campus and in the community.
“I know that we all are exhausted from the challenges facing us because of the pandemic,” Fugate said. “Let me remind you to afford each other patience, kindness, and understanding.”
Chambersburg, Pa. — A free exhibition of artwork will open Wednesday, Sept. 8, at the Bogigian Gallery, Wilson College, featuring the work of members of The Foundry. The gallery is in Lortz Hall.
A reception to mark the opening will be held at the gallery from 4:30 to 6 p.m.
The exhibition will include a selection of member artwork from The Foundry—an artist co-operative located at 100 South Main St., Chambersburg, Pa. Current members have been invited to exhibit two works of art. Viewers can expect to see paintings, drawings, photographs, sculptures, and more!
Wilson College and The Foundry have partnered on a number of exciting exhibition opportunities for Wilson students and Foundry members.
For additional information or an appointment, contact Philip Lindsey at 717.264.2783, or philip.lindsey@wilson.edu.
Wilson College is the first college in Pennsylvania to offer post-baccalaureate teaching certification in American Sign Language (ASL). This teaching certification, awarded through the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE), is accepted in most states.
ASL is growing in popularity with students across the country. According to a recent survey by the Modern Language Association, ASL almost pipped German to be ranked the fourth most popular language taken by college students. And increasingly, ASL is being offered in high, middle, and even elementary schools as a "foreign language" equivalent.
"ASL is the fourth most used language in the world," Theresa Whitebread, one of Wilson's first ASL certification students, said. "It makes sense that it should be offered as a foreign language option. Not to mention, there's always a chance you could lose your hearing as you age. Why not start early to allow yourself a life filled with communication?"
However, there are not enough qualified teachers to meet the demand. When the Bethlehem School District decided to offer ASL to high schoolers, they recruited ASL interpreters to teach. Whitebread, Kimberly Elliott, and Tanya Fedorak, all experienced ASL interpreters, jumped at the chance to teach students the language. Unfortunately, they could not earn the professional certification required by the state because there was no program in place to certify teachers in ASL. That's when PDE approached Wilson and asked us to develop a path to ASL certification.
Beth Byers, Wilson's director of teacher certification pathways, said the department chose us because we have a long track record of providing qualified individuals with the instruction they need to become certified teachers. Our Foreign Language Intern Pathway (FLIP) is primarily online, and students complete their certification while teaching.
PDE and the College worked out the requirements, and Wilson has accepted its first four students. "The program offers insightful classes that educate us while also allowing me to have the ability to work full time and take care of my children," Whitebread said. "The asynchronous online approach is not just me and my computer. My professors are always willing to communicate with me, and they set the classes up in a way that makes learning enjoyable."
Whitebread teaches students from 9th grade through 12th grade. She said they choose the class for a variety of reasons, "from they took other languages and wanted to try something different to they think this will be easier than other languages." In her experience, the one common misconception is "that ASL is just a signed version of English. Once students start to learn true ASL, they realize that, just like any other language, there are rules and grammar that must be followed. It takes some getting used to when switching from learning a spoken language to a visual language, but when the students take the time to learn about the language and culture, they end up really enjoying their educational opportunity."
FLIP is for teachers who already have a bachelor's degree and wish to become certified in the subject they are teaching. Some colleges offer ASL certification as part of their undergraduate degrees. However, Wilson College is the only institution in Pennsylvania to offer this certification for those who already have a bachelor's degree in another subject. To qualify, a student has to be currently employed by a school (schools can hire teachers without certification if they agree to pursue certification within a given amount of time). Prospective students must also pass the ASL Proficiency Interview run by Gallaudet University and pass the state's general competency tests. School districts often reimburse the costs of certification for their teachers. To learn more about teacher certification at Wilson, email tcp@wilson.edu or go to www.wilson.edu/teacher-certification.
*Correction: Acknowledgement of Kimberly Elliott’s and Tanya Fedorak’s participation added February 17, 2024.
Wilson College Office of the Registrar Spring 2021 Dean’s List
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