Exhibitions

The Annual In-House Exhibition at GoggleWorks Center for the Arts highlights the vibrant creativity community that makes up our day to day. This annual showcase features work by our dedicated staff, inspiring instructors, talented studio renters, and select resident organizations. Together, these artists represent the heart of GoggleWorks, cultivating a dynamic environment where learning, experimentation,…

GoggleWorks Center for the Arts is proud to present the Annual Studio Artist Exhibition, a showcase dedicated to the artists who make our studios a vibrant hub of creativity. Featuring both current and former Studio Artists, the exhibition honors the ongoing exchange of ideas, skills, and inspiration that define our community. From painting and ceramics…

Joe Hocker’s work investigates the layered relationship between landscape, culture, and the regional history of Southeastern Pennsylvania. Working with photography, material processes, and historical inquiry, Hocker constructs site-based projects that explore how human activity and environmental transformation are mutually imprinted on place. His ongoing body of work, Hidden River, reveals how the past lingers within…

This exhibition brings together nearly two decades of Stephanie Rado Taormina’s creative evolution — from her earliest abstract works of 2007 to the figurative abstractions of today. Each period reflects a distinct chapter in how she has lived, seen, and expressed the world around her. In the beginning, Taormina’s paintings explored form and feeling —…

In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, when the monster stirs to life for the first time, the book says there is a “convulsive motion” in the limbs. Invoking something like a newborn animal scrambling clumsily and desperately to stand, or arms reaching after long sleep with tingling fingers too weak to pull one’s weight forward. The limbs…

The first universal organizing principle in Mindy Flexer’s work is transformation. As a plein air painter early in her career, she recognized herself as a transient being, capturing fleeting moments. Witnessing the final days of beloved comrades and the first days of new life, she came to understand the impermanence of individual lives and entire…

The Berks Art Alliance began in November of 1941 as The Art Haven Guild of Berks County and changed its name to the Berks Art Alliance in 1947.  The first annual membership exhibition was held in March of 1944 at the studio and gallery at 538 Centre Avenue, Reading.  That show continues today at the…

GoggleWorks Center for the Arts is proud to present the Open Call for the Annual Studio Artist Exhibition, a showcase dedicated to the artists who make our studios a vibrant hub of creativity. Featuring both current and former Studio Artists, the exhibition honors the ongoing exchange of ideas, skills, and inspiration that define our community.…

About the Exhibition: Epiphany In Epiphany, artist Hyeyoung Shin presents a selection of new works alongside earlier pieces inspired by moments of recognition, realization, and appreciation in her life as an artist, mother, and woman. For Shin, each work included in this exhibition contributes to a personal life landscape—one shaped by awe-filled revelations as well…

The Annual In-House Exhibition at GoggleWorks Center for the Arts highlights the vibrant creativity community that makes up our day to day. This annual showcase features work by our dedicated staff, inspiring instructors, talented studio renters, and select resident organizations. Together, these artists represent the heart of GoggleWorks, cultivating a dynamic environment where learning, experimentation,…

GoggleWorks proudly presents Sculpted Stories: Visual Narratives in Clay, a national juried exhibition featuring ceramic works by professional artists from across the country. Selected through an open call, the exhibition highlights the narrative potential of clay—where stories are not spoken, but sculpted. The featured artists explore storytelling through form, surface, and symbolism, offering visual narratives…