The Susquehanna Art Museum's fall/winter exhibit will host materials and vistas from nature that, while beautiful in their simplicity, have been shaped by complex traditions.

In Scapes and Scrapes: Landscapes and Wood Turning From PA and Around the World, the awesome communicative power of classical landscape painting will accompany an impressive collection of the world's best woodturning.

"Visitors to this exhibit are going to be struck by its sheer beauty. These landscapes and wood objects are extremely satisfying to the eye," said Susquehanna Art Museum Executive Director Rusty Baker. "Our job as a museum is not only to display these works to their best advantage, but to explain the traditions and techniques that produced them."

The museum is proud to show works from The Pennsylvania Center for Landscape Painting in Ardmore and the "Challenge VI: Insights and Inspirations in Contemporary Turned Objects" from the Wood Turning Center in Philadelphia. The show will include works by 12 Pennsylvania landscape painters who have attended summer workshops run by the Pennsylvania Center for Landscape Painting. The founder Joseph Sweeney will lecture on his technique and motivations December 4, 2001 at noon in the galleries of the Susquehanna Art Museum. The wood turning exhibit, featuring 82 pieces, depicts the traditions and styles of objects produced on the lathe by turners from around the world. Objects range from the purely functional to sculptural pieces that strike both serious and whimsical notes.

Shaping objects on a lathe is similar to shaping on a potter's wheel, except that the rotation occurs horizontally. The lathe rotates the material and the turner shapes and carves it with a cutting tool resting on a firm parallel device. One major feature of turning is that once wood is removed from the piece, it cannot be added again.

To educate museum members and friends, woodturners from the area will present and discuss their work and techniques at a special event December 15, 2001 in the Doshi gallery from 5 - 7 p.m.

The Pennsylvania Center for Landscape Painting is an organization dedicated to environmental education through the collaboration of the arts and sciences. Philadelphia's Wood Turning Center is dedicated to education and appreciation of this unique art.

The Susquehanna Art Museum is located in the Kunkel Building at 301 Market Street. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday 11a.m. to 3 p.m. and Saturday from 11a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission fee is $2 for adults and free to children aged 12 and under.

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