WPU Galleries

Join us in the University Galleries for a unique and exciting event on February 25th from 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM at the Ben Shahn Center for the Visual Arts, Room 20. We are thrilled to present Carousel: A Comic Performance and Picture Show featuring live comic reading by Charles Fetherolf, Gideon Kendall, and R. Sikoryak. All three artists are featured in the spring exhibition “Sunday Comics: The Creative Page,” on view in Court Gallery through March 20, 2025.

This event is open to all, and we invite you to experience the magic of live comic reading and join in this art community-building experience. Don’t miss out on an unforgettable evening of creativity and connection!

Cristina de Gennaro’s work explores aspects of the “feminine” in relation to aging and the association in Western culture of the “feminine” to earth and decay and the ironies these notions present regarding the obvious biological connections the feminine has to birth and life. She has exhibited her drawings and paintings, installations, videos, and performances in museums and galleries nationally including the Portland Art Museum, the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, the Glyndor Gallery at Wave Hill, the Hunterdon Art Museum, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, the Dallas Museum of Art, The Women’s Building, and the Center on Contemporary Art, among others. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, Millay Arts, the Fundación Valparaiso, the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, the Jentel Foundation, and was a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome and the GlogauAIR Artist Residency Program. Her work has been reviewed in the New York Times, High Performance, Artweek, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Dallas Times Herald, and The Oregonian, among others. She has received artist grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Oregon Arts Commission and participated in the New York Foundation for the Arts Mark 10 Program. De Gennaro received her MFA in Studio Art from Stanford University and is currently adjunct professor of Art at William Paterson University and New Jersey City University.

Come see “Turf Drawing: Westtown, NY” and “Turf Drawing: Westtown, NY #2” by de Gennaro, as well as the work of 10 other artists and members of the Department of Art faculty, in our “2024 Faculty Exhibition” on display in Court Gallery, Ben Shahn Center for the Visual Arts.


Cristina de Gennaro, “Turf Drawing: Westtown, NY,” 2022, charcoal on mylar, 42 x 42 inches, courtesy of Jessica Talos
Cristina de Gennaro, “Turf Drawing: Westtown, NY #2,” 2023, charcoal on mylar, 42 x 42 inches, courtesy of Jessica Talos