Current Exhibitions
Wilkes-Barre Skyline by Alice Welsh Jenkins
Educating and Inspiring Generations: Women’s History Month
March 8–30, 2025
The theme for 2025’s National Women’s History Month is “Moving Forward Together. Women Educating and Inspiring Generations.” The Everhart Museum supports wholeheartedly the idea of education, inspiration, and working together to uplift generations–it is our main cause and mission. In support of the theme’s directions, the curatorial staff has organized a special exhibition highlighting works from our collection by women artists.
UNIVERSAL CODES: WORKS BY DANIEL MARTIN DIAZ
January 8–April 27, 2025
Arizona-based artist Daniel Martin Diaz pulls from an eclectic mix of influences including fantastical Mexican religious iconography, mystical votive offerings, the Early Netherlandish painters, Gothic ornamentation, arcane religious sigils and medallions, alchemy, and the symbolism of secret societies to create distinctive paintings. Much of his work examines the concepts of death and religion, as he seeks to pose questions but not answer them.
Peace, Love, and Music
August 15, 2024–March 30, 2025
In celebration of the 55th anniversary of the Woodstock Music Festival, Peace, Love, and Music is a retrospective on the sights and sounds of the 1960s, touching upon both the popular culture and the political and social aspects that shaped the country during this era.
Showcased in this exhibition are posters, records, art, photography, including a collection of photographs of Bob Dylan taken by renowned photographer Jim Marshall, and signed guitars from members of some legendary bands that performed at Woodstock including Mountain, the Grateful Dead, and Santana, among others.
This exhibition is generously supported by PNC Bank.
Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, Newport Folk Festival 1963,
by Jim Marshall
Bob Dylan and Len Chandler, Newport Folk Festival 1964,
by Jim Marshall
Herbert Simon: Painter…Sculptor…Printmaker…Master
November 21–March 30
A retrospective of the life’s work of sculptor, printmaker, and painter Herbert Simon, this exhibition presents the wide breadth of the artist’s prolific and diverse output in all facets of his artistic quest.
Born in Nashville, Tennessee, teaching and practicing throughout the United States, and finally settling in Northeastern Pennsylvania, Simon shifted from representationalism to pure abstraction, eventually settling on a place somewhere between the two. Having studied with leading figures of abstraction including Hans Hofmann, Robert Motherwell, and Phillip Guston in the mid-century, and highly inspired by the industrial landscape of Northeastern Pennsylvania and simple everyday objects later, Simon developed an approach encompassing both styles to satisfy his vision.
I Think Continually of Those Who Were Truly Great by Ben Shahn (1898–1969)
Ben Shahn Exhibition: Freedom Summer, 1964
Ongoing
An exhibition of work by Ben Shahn, best known for social realism reflecting his left-wing political views, is now on view in the Works on Paper gallery thanks to a generous donation from Ken Marquis. The included works revolve around figures of the Civil Rights movement.
The Works on Paper gallery highlights selections from the rich collection of ink sketches, charcoal drawings, engravings, etches, photographs, and more in the Everhart’s holdings, which comprises hundreds of works.
This gallery is sponsored by John A. Farkas in loving memory of Nancy S. Farkas and John Anthony Farkas, Jr.