Artists representing six decades of legacy gathered at Bucks County Community College’s (BCCC) Hicks Art Center in August to celebrate “The Faculty Emeriti Arts Exhibition” which showcases various works through October by 27 retired professors and administrators from 1965 to 2025 including previously unseen pieces, said officials.
The opening reception on the Newtown Campus also gave the artistic community the opportunity to meet Carolina Blatt, Ph.D., the new dean of the School of Arts and Communication. Blatt, dean of BCCC’s School of Arts and Communication, addresses visitors to “The Faculty Emeriti Exhibition” August 28 on the Newtown Campus. “Bucks’ reputation as a creative wellspring in the community is due in large part to the exceptional artists who have populated our faculty and nurtured our students,” Blatt said. The show, which is free and open to the public, runs through October 25.
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Gallery visitor Frank Pronesti reflects on Charlotte Schatz’s “Study for War in the Gulf” (1991, acrylic on paper) at “The Faculty Emeriti Exhibition” at BCCC’s Hicks Art Center. Schatz (1929 – 2023) taught at BCCC for more than 30 years.
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Bruce Katsiff, who chaired BCCC’s arts department in the 1970s and 80s before becoming the founding director of the Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, chats with Emmi Schatz, whose mother Charlotte Schatz (1929-2023) taught at Bucks for more than 30 years.
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Jon Burns (left), faculty member at BCCC, talks with gallery visitor Joe Seltzer before artwork by Bruce Katsiff entitled “Alan Goldstein (BP)” (2011, archival pigment print).