Tour the Winter Visual Arts Center with Franklin and Marshall's Sheldon Wenger, Assistant Director for Project Management. Designed by Steven Holl Architects. Drawing on Franklin & Marshall College’s motto Lux et Lex, the Winter Visual Arts Center for the Art, Art History, and Film Department is conceived as ‘light’ in complementary/contrast to the ‘heavy’ exemplary brick architecture of the 1856 ‘Old Main’ original campus building. A gradual exterior ramp connects from Old Main’s axis to a second-floor entrance of our new building, just above a ground floor entrance facing the newly formed ’Arts Quad.’ The building activates the southern end of the campus as a new campus destination as well as reinforcing the college’s historic axis by extending it to the south and reaching out to the town.
‘Back Stage Tour’ - Led by campus celebrities, AVP & Director of TSS, John Coccia, and Director of IET, Teb Locke. This dynamic duo will lead participants on an ‘excellent adventure’. This informal and surely entertaining tour of some of our more highly tech-enabled spaces will likely be both informative and a good time. Sites on the tour will range from our ‘guerrilla efforts’ to birth a contemporary studio from an ancient and largely abandoned campus space to our maker space, hybrid-optimized classrooms and a few of our other campus favorites. We will happily stop off at some ‘tech sad’ spaces and maybe you can give us a few of your favorite ideas for making something better and more usable with limited resources, for example. Join us for a campus walkabout.
Did you know Lancaster was once infamous as a “wide open” city for vice? Around 1900, police and other officials encouraged and even participated in prostitution, gambling, and drinking. Join Alison Kibler, professor of American Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, on this history tour, walk the streets of Lancaster with an expert guide and learn about the brothel keepers, bartenders, and pool hall hustlers who shared the streets with corrupt politicians and righteous reformers a century ago. Discover the history of wage-earning women, Lancaster nightlife, and changing sexual values through the stories of the men and women of Lancaster’s red-light districts. The tour lasts 90 minutes and ends near the evening Reception location, Tellus 360.
This tour is off-campus. Attendees will meet the tour guide at 38 Penn Square in Downtown Lancaster. It is a 90-minute walking tour (wear comfortable shoes). It will conclude at the location of our Opening Reception.
