HUB-Robeson Galleries
Experience the power of contemporary art right in the heart of campus. The HUB-Robeson Galleries bring diverse exhibitions and creative projects to the Penn State community, celebrating the transformative impact of artists and ideas. From thought-provoking installations to collaborative student displays, there’s always something new to discover.
Explore exhibitions in the HUB Gallery, Art Alley, exhibition cases, and public spaces throughout the HUB-Robeson Center—free and open to all.
Photography
Personal photography is encouraged so you can capture and share your experience—unless otherwise noted in the exhibition. News media are welcome; please ask a gallery attendant or office staff for a visual permission form if you’d like to take photos for publication.
Current Exhibitions
The HUB–Robeson Center Galleries present a dynamic lineup of current exhibitions, each offering a distinct lens on creativity, identity, and contemporary culture. Together, these rotating shows highlight the voices of student, local, and visiting artists—inviting the campus community to explore diverse perspectives, spark conversation, and experience the transformative power of art right at the center of campus.
Jenee Mateer, Pearl, 2023. Photo: Courtesy of the artist
Entropy, Jenee Mateer
Oct 23, 2025 – Feb 16, 2026
Art Alley
Jenee Mateer’s work explores time as a visible force—particularly as it manifests in the quiet transformation of her own garden. Drawing on the traditions of still life, especially the Renaissance-era “nature morte” (“dead nature”), Entropy reanimates the genre to investigate cycles of decay, regeneration, and meaning-making in both nature and art.
Rachel Bacon, Coalessence (detail), 2023. Photo: Courtesy of the artist
Hybrid Zones, Rachel Bacon and Meredith Davenport
November 6, 2025 – March 8, 2027
HUB Gallery
Hybrid Zones is an immersive exploration of the post-industrial landscape of Eastern Pennsylvania’s anthracite coal region. Through drawing, photography, and video installation, the artists trace the environmental and psychological imprint of centuries of resource extraction. In this powerful new body of work, Bacon and Davenport confront the entanglement of human and nonhuman systems, reflecting on how deeply industrial history is inscribed into the land—and into us.
Open Call for Proposals
The HUB Galleries welcome proposals from professional artists, curators, Penn State affiliates, students, and the community.
Past Exhibitions
The HUB-Robeson Center Galleries have hosted a wide range of vibrant and thought-provoking displays—from student art installations to cultural showcases and community partner exhibits. These past exhibitions highlight creativity, identity, and dialogue, offering students and visitors a chance to engage with diverse perspectives and experiences across campus.
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April 25 – August 4, 2024
HUB GalleryJuliana Cerqueira Leite is a Brazilian sculptor based in New York who explores the complex histories and futures of representing the human form through her work in sculpture, drawing, and video. She works directly with her body as both material form and generator of meaning, interacting with materials like plaster, clay, and rubber to capture movements as shapes. Leite questions agency and individuality by probing ideologies that define the boundaries of a body and its ability to generate significance through action. Her work captures movement within clay-filled molds, holding plaster against her skin, and casting an inner hollow of her body.
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June 7 – September 24, 2024
Art AlleyIn the exhibition, Expansive habitat, the rhizome of home, artists Vee Adams and Andrea Narno ask the question: What is home when home moves and migrates as we do? Through collaborative efforts, they reimagine and redefine the conceptof connecting with a place by creating cyanotype quilts and soft sculptures. Each work features photographic imagery that captures the plants they have cultivated, collected, and treasured in their natural habitats.
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March 15 - August 30, 2024
Exhibition CasesCabinet of Curiosities: Collecting Then and Now, presented by the Penn State University Museum Consortium (PSUMC), is a captivating and collaborative exhibition that delves into the history of museums, demonstrating their evolution over time while retaining the enchanting allure of previous Cabinet of Curiosities displays. The exhibition features a variety of objects that demonstrate how museums have adapted to present issues in collecting and maintaining.
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March 1 – August 30, 2024
Exhibition CasesThe Penn State Center for Arts and Crafts’ artists and instructors exhibition features artwork representing a wide range of art classes available at the Center. The Center for Arts and Crafts has offered non-credit adult art classes to Penn State students, faculty, and staff during each of the university semesters for more than 40 years.
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March 18 – April 14, 2024
HUB GalleryThe Annual Graduate Research Exhibition at Penn State celebrates research in all its aspects as an essential part of graduate education. Established in 1986, it challenges graduate students to communicate their research and creative endeavors to a general audience. The exhibition features artists working in various mediums and encourages them to present their work in clear, comprehensible terms to people outside their fields. The best works and presentations receive monetary awards.
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March 2 – May 24, 2024
Art AlleyAlyssa Dennis is an interdisciplinary artist, earth activist, educator & clinical herbalist. Her art practice centers on conventional forms of building and the convenience that keeps us compartmentalized within a dangerously abstracted relationship with nature and our own bodies. The imagery she creates explores the impact of manufactured landscapes on our internal and external ecosystems, shaping our existence with non-human life and, ultimately, ourselves.
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October 3, 2024 – January 27, 2025
Avani Patel’s cultural background has had a profound impact on forging her identity as an artist. As a young girl living in India, she fell in love with the patterns of dresses, exotic colors, the sound of music, as well as the spectacle of both theatre and cinema. Effectively symbolizing the rhythm of her daily life, they are all fluidly interconnected. Indian culture is the starting point of her work. Patel also creates work from nature, which includes everyday surroundings of personal narratives and memories. This range of cultural experiences expressed through film, theatre, music, and performance are all sources of artistic inspiration for her. She uses mark-making and repetition as tools to signify change in nature, passing time and retention and rejection of memory. Even though she is far away from home, Patel continues to explore the boundaries between Eastern and Western cultural influences with paintings that call to mind these textiles, costumes, exotic flora and spices, and a diversity of rhythmic sounds. She believes that art has the power to raise awareness about major environmental issues and their cultural consequences.
Group Tours and Programming
Class, student organization, office, and other group visits are welcomed. We can create an interactive and dymanic workshop or experience that connects students with the arts.