A Way to See the World: Works on paper by Autumn C. Wright
A Way to See the World: Works on paper by Autumn C. Wright
View the Exhibition: AUGUST 24, 2026 - oCTOBER 15, 2026
SYKES GALLERY ι BREIDENSTINE HALL - 1st Floor
Exhibition | AUGUST 24, 2026 - OCTOBER 15, 2026
Reception & Artist Talk | SEPTEMBER 14, 2026
Reception Time | 5:30 - 7:00pm
Artitst Talk | 6:00pm
Gallery Hours ι Standard business hours for Sykes Gallery are Monday - Friday from 8:00am-4:00pm.
About the Exhibition
A Way to See the World is an exploration of personal landscapes, spaces, and natural objects. The images are celebrating space, patterning, and process. The artwork exposes the structures of the outside world revealing the layers from ground to the sky or the buildup of microscopic organisms to make up the macroscopic world. Size and perspective are altered in a way for viewers to explore, find, and make connections between the big and small.
Process is an important factor in the outcome of the pieces. Experimentation with different printmaking processes and photography are used together to produce the images. Each printmaking technique lends itself to a different set of variables that can be controlled and played with. The unpredictability of the processes dictate the start of a piece and then the outcome is controlled by adding in or layering other materials.
By using multiple viewpoints at once, both in the images and in the installation of the work, it will lead to multiple points of discovery and experience. There is a change between the expected and the unexpected, the familiar and the unknown.
About the ARTIST
An alumna of Millersville University, Autumn C. Wright received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 2011 with a concentration in Printmaking and Drawing. In 2017 she graduated with her Masters of Fine Arts in Printmaking from Indiana University. Currently, Autumn is an artist and educator living and working in York, Pennsylvania and surrounding areas. She has attended artist workshops at Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina, The School of Visual Arts in Chautauqua New York, and a photography study abroad program to Japan. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally.
Autumn’s artwork is a product of close examination of natural objects, experimentation with mixed materials, and is informed by the history of scientific and private collecting. She engages themes centering on biology, microscopic and macroscopic systems, memory and iconography to create multi-media artwork about the natural world.
She spends most of her free time making art, baking, gardening, and hanging out with her husband and dog.
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University Holidays
Campus Closed- New Year’s Day - observed 01/01 (Thursday)
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Day - 01/19 (Monday)
- Memorial Day - 05/25 (Wednesday)
- Independence Day - 07/04 (Saturday)
- Labor Day - 09/07 (Monday)
- Thanksgiving Day - 11/26 (Thursday)
- Day after Thanksgiving Day - 11/27 (Friday)
- Christmas Day - 12/25 (Friday)
- 12/26 (Saturday) - 12/31 (Friday)
- New Year’s Day (2027) - 01/01/27 (Friday)
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Directions & Parking
Directions - Google MapsTo the MU Police Station for a Parking Permit ... As you drive down N. George Street, you will make a right on to Frederick Street at the Library. Directly behind the Library is the entrance to the Boyer Parking lot. The University Police Station is directly infront of the parking lot. Please stop in to request a free daily parking pass from the attendant at the main desk. This parking pass will be valid for white lines spaces only.
To Breidenstine Hall - Sykes & Swift Gallery ... As you proceed down George Street. On the left, you will see the Sugar Bowl which will put you on Normal Avenue. At this turn, you will see a campus street sign for "Breidenstine Hall" (Department of Art & Design). Stop at the first stop sign and proceed straight. You will pass Biemesderfer Stadium and Chryst Field on your left hand side. A little further on the right you will see a square brick building with teal and white placards with the words "Art & Design". This is Breidenstine Hall, your destination of 46 E. Frederick Street. Sykes Gallery will be on the ground level of this building. Please address the department secretary in room 101 for access to the entrance for handicap accessibility. Swift Gallery is on the third floor. There is an elevator available.To the Bus Parking Lot ... West Cottage Ave & North George St.
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Parking Permits
Daily campus parking permits are required before 4:00 pm and available at the campus Police Station in Lebanon House on 237 N. George St., Millersville, PA 17551. These permits will only be valid for white, not yellow lined spaces. The station is open from 8:00 am – 4:30 pm. (717) 871-4357.