The mission of the Handwerker Gallery is to enhance the academic offerings of Ithaca College with a diverse range of scholarly exhibitions, lectures, colloquia, and events in its role as a pedagogical resource. In exploring the various meanings inherent in art and artifacts, the Gallery collects preserves, protects, displays, and interprets objects of aesthetic, cultural, and intellectual significance.
Exhibitions are coordinated with attention to the needs of the faculty, students, and staff at Ithaca College, as well as, the interests of the larger Ithaca and Finger Lakes communities.
The Gallery provides an outlet for creative work and intellectual discourse for students and faculty in diverse programs across campus, including Art, Art History, and Architecture; Cinema and Photography; Theatre Arts; and Writing. In addition, the Gallery directly supports the teaching of Art History at the College through experiential learning as part of a gallery-based interdisciplinary educational experience that strengthens the College’s distinctive Humanities program.
The Handwerker Gallery respectfully acknowledges that we are located on unceded traditional lands of the Cayuga Nation, members of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, who have stewarded this land for generations. This land was unlawfully taken by New York State after a treaty was made between the Six Nations and General George Washington in 1779, which granted sovereignty to the Haudenosaunee Nation within its lands. As members of the Ithaca College Community, we actively recognize that the lingering consequences of settler colonialism continue to reverberate to this day.*
* Established 12/2022 by Handwerker Gallery Student Staff, subject to periodic revision as appropriate.
