Gina Siepel: To Understand a Tree encapsulates 6 years in communion with a single tree. Bridging art, ecology, and queer experience, the project approaches wood as a living being and explores interconnection, habitat, and environmental responsibility. Organized by the Museum for Art in Wood and curated by Jennifer-Navva Milliken.

Artist Marie Cochran reimagines the novel "Those We Thought We Knew," by David Joy that explores themes of generational trauma, and betrayal through the story of a young Black artist who returns to her ancestral home. This exhibition is presented in collaboration with Bucknell's Critical Black Studies program.

Radical Memory, Strategic Forgetting: Race, Symbolic Power, and the Politics of Commemoration at Storer College in West Virginia Lecture by Professor Michael J. Drexler This talk intervenes in memory studies and African American intellectual history by analyzing how the memory of slavery and John Brown's legacy was contested within the symbolic and institutional space of Storer College, a historically Black school in Harpers Ferry. Drawing on A.J. Greimas's semiotic square, I develop a typology of commemorative strategies—radical remembrance, strategic forgetting, sanitized commemoration, and erasure—while Pierre Bourdieu's theory of the field reveals how actors like Frederick Douglass, Alexander Crummell, and W.E.B. Du Bois negotiated unequal access to institutional legitimacy and symbolic capital. A case study of Du Bois's failed 1932 effort to install a John Brown plaque at Storer College illustrates the tension between radical memory and liberal respectability. The essay concludes by linking these historical contests to contemporary struggles over military base names, public monuments, and cultural institutions, showing how commemoration remains a site where racial politics and national narratives continue to be shaped, challenged, and constrained.

Tree Time with Amy Levan4:30 p.m.Samek Art Museum, Bucknell University, Elaine Langone Center, top floor701 Moore Avenue, Lewisburg, PALocal Shade Tree Commission volunteer, Amy Levan, talks about the importance of urban trees.