Exhibitions
GREAT PERFORMANCES
ARE JUST THE BEGINNING
OF THE NORTON CENTER
EXPERIENCE.
In addition to rotating gallery exhibitions in the Grand Foyer, the Center boasts an expansive display of permanent art and sculpture year-round, including the Ex Astris sculpture, the Haven Gillespie Fountain and Plaza, and works by Auguste Rodin and Stephen Rolfe Powell ‘74.
Grand Foyer Gallery
Monday – Friday
9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m., Free
Guided group tours are
available by request.
A RETRO PERSPECTIVE: REVISITING PRINTS FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION
In 1973, the Norton Center celebrated its grand opening with an exhibition of works loaned by the prestigious Guggenheim Museum. Many of the artists who were featured are now considered pioneers of Modern Art — artists like Andy Warhol, Karel Appel and Adolph Gottlieb. The exhibition inspired Centre College to actively collect graphic works by these artists and their contemporaries, resulting in the purchase of around 20 prints that are now part of the Norton Center’s permanent collection.
To celebrate the Norton Center’s 50th anniversary, selections from this special collection of prints will be exhibited in a way that contextualizes their connection to Centre College and their place in the larger history of Modern Art. The exhibition will include research by Centre’s senior Art History students to further situate the legacy of these artists and their work from a contemporary cultural perspective.
PERMANENT COLLECTION
PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS
Photographs, videos, artist biographies and additional resources from previous special exhibitions are available.