Exhibition on display:
August 24 – October 2, 2026
Art Space, located in the Classroom Building room 100 at Penn State Schuylkill Campus
Gallery Hours: Monday through Friday, 12:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Meet the Artist:
Thursday, August 27 | 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.

About the artist:

Berks County artist Jon Bond has forged an art career for more than fifty years. The gentle declivities surrounding his art studio in Kempton are dotted with Pennsylvania Dutch farmsteads, replete with fencerows, piles of fieldstones, and abandoned farm implements. These hills and valleys in the shadow of the Kittatinny Ridge are no better or worse than others, but they are the places Jon knows best.

Jon’s work is often set in nature, and his muted palette brings forth mysterious elements, scenarios and objects with an almost dreamlike quality. Jon finds immeasurable subject matter that inspires his art in this part of Pennsylvania, and this exhibit titled “Beyond the Ridge” at the Penn State Schuylkill campus features a selection of oil, egg tempera, and watercolor paintings created over the past several years. Twenty-five works in this show were inspired during Jon’s hikes on the lands surrounding Hawk Mountain Sanctuary. Be sure to access the audio tour and learn the stories behind the artwork.