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Past ExhibitionsGallery Timebomb by Deb Hoy Tip of the Iceberg The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, in partnership with Philadelphia Sculptors, is hosting an exhibition of small sculptures by five artists whose art addresses the impact of climate change on our environment. Artists in “Tip of the Iceberg” have created small scale work as an allegory for the potential change that just one individual can affect. By combining found objects of contrasting origins, Deb Hoy juxtaposes the natural and the industrial in an attempt at co-existence, pointing a way to the possibility of post- industrial transformation and hybrid species. Carla Liguori’s delicate grouping of cast sheep portrays the fact that all life forms share the same matter. Showing the interconnectedness between animals and humans, her work suggests that it is not only the latter that follows one another blindly. Keiko Miyamori uses tree roots embedded in blocks of clear resin as a symbol of preservation to unite the natural with the man-made, and suggests the possibility of living in harmony. Emily Sullivan’s delicate and poetic works made from wire and black velvet are both tender and playful and convey presence and absence. Their blackness absorbs light but also reflects on the beauty and perhaps impending tragedy of the natural world. The fired and glazed clay works of Austin Tremellen physically convey the intensity of extreme heat, and the process of firing the clay represents the increased temperatures we feel as a direct result of global warming. The dripping and crawling glazes also resonate as metaphors for the spread of diseases caused by increasing temperatures. Green Machine 
Green Machine is a multi-media based exhibition that explores the relationship between nature and technology. Through site-specific installations and an interactive media lab, the viewer is invited to consider three very different reactions to the surrounding landscape. The selected works place emphasis on technology and the man-made, while simultaneously exploring the ephemeral nature of location, sound, universality and time.
Implements Implications This exhibit provides the opportunity to reflect on our agrarian cultural heritage with works that incorporate used garden tools. The pieces included provide a direct link to our history. The artists in this exhibit have rescued some well worn tools and created new art objects that encompass both functionality and fun!
Before, After, and Between: Variations of the Landscape The exhibition portrays work by four artists who interpret the landscape as it is, as it should be, or how it might become. The works bring us face to face with texture, color, and form, in addition to evoking an imaginary world where man and nature are in a true symbiotic relationship. 
Visual Meditations – John Phillips This presentation of images of delicate, fragile lichen formations in a large-scale format creates an environment in which the viewer becomes a participant rather than spectator. The surfaces of the rocks are aerial views of mountain plains and tundra and the fluidness of the colors moves us through the space as if floating on the water.
Organized in partnership with Philadelphia Sculptors, this gallery exhibition featured a new twist to the concept of conservation and preservation. Industrial byproducts and materials otherwise destined for environmentally destructive landfills took on new identities as they are creatively reincarnated into functional objects.
This exhibit included a collection of The work in this exhibit combined the natural and the scientific in an imaginary world created with simple materials such as: fabric, wire, egg cartons, feathers and seed pods. The work explored the complex relationships between organisms and their environments through larger than life interpretations of the micro insect world, transforming the mundane into the extraordinary.
In her figurative works, isolated human figures interacted with elemental architectural and landform environments and reflected on the development and mastery of skills and knowledge to modify the natural environment. Outdoor Site-Specific Installations
As part of the Center’s educational commitment, the art program introduced a segment that encourages investigation by local university students interested in exploring environmental issues as part of their artistic vocabulary. These installations commented on issues such as historical shifts in land use, eradication of invasive species, and sustainable architecture. Working in teams the students used natural materials found at the Center.
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Re-Use ReFuse– David Edgar, Ni Luh Wayan Ayu, Leo Razzi, Neil Benson, Lena Helen, Jeff Davis
Natural Artifice –Lisa Murch
Figures, Animals, and Landforms - Laura D’Angelantonio
University of the Arts Students - Jee Yoon Kim, Weng Kok Lee, Marianne Contreras, Lauren LeBlanc, Margie Manogue, Benjamin Quinn-Kerins, Jennifer Bradley, Nathaniel Butler, Jennie Johnson, Christopher Gauvain and Alexander Stanton