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ODU's Baron and Ellin Gordon Art Galleries will be closed during the ODU Fall Break 10/10 – 10/13/2026. We'll look forward to seeing you when we reopen on 10/14!

🖼️: Larry Heath (b. 1945 - d. 2014), "Moonbeam Home in a Jar," 2000. Cut roofing metal sculpture, 12"x8.875"x7". Purchased from the artist in 2001. 2007.77.01. by @gordonartgalleries

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Today’s tour of “Bread and Puppet Theater: Sculpture in Action” in conjunction with the @olddominionmfa LitFest will begin at 12 PM at the Gordon Art Galleries, instead of 12:30 PM as posted on our website. Apologies for the inconvenience! by @gordonartgalleries

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Tomorrow 9/24 @ 12:30 PM! Join us at the Gordon Art Galleries for a talk with Virginia State Folklorist Katy Clune from @virginiafolklife and @va_humanities. She’ll discuss ongoing audio and photo documentary projects capturing continuities and changes in the food ways and culture of Virginia’s Eastern Shore.
Free and open to the public! by @gordonartgalleries

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Join us on Wednesday, October 7 at 12:00 p.m. for a curator's tour of Bread + Puppet Theater: Sculpture in Action with Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth. Chronicling over 60 years of art and performance by the legendary theater company, the exhibition explores some of the central recurring genres of performances and characters that Bread and Puppet have become celebrated for. The tour will focus on puppetry as a material and visual language, the company’s influences and references, and the collective vision of a decades-long oeuvre across many forms of media.

Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth is Director and Curator of the Gordon Art Galleries at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. His work has appeared in publications of the Smithsonian Institution, The American Anthropological Association, The American Folklore Society, The University of Illinois Press, The University of Indiana Press, West Virginia University Press, and Cambridge University. His 2023 book Finding the Singing Spruce: Musical Instrument Makers and Appalachia's Mountain Forests (West Virginia University Press) was a finalist for the Weatherford Book Award for Best Nonfiction book about Appalachia.

View the full festival schedule at the Literary Festival link in our bio 📖 by @gordonartgalleries

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Now on View! Food, Community, and Climate is photo exhibition based in an oral history project conducted by @virginiafolklife at @va_humanities. The exhibition poses questions about changing environment, culture, and food on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. by @gordonartgalleries

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Join us tomorrow (9/12) @ 12 PM for a puppet theater performance designed to educate and entertain kids K-3! A grumpy crab and inquisitive mermaid are joined by a chorus of singing oysters to explore our coastal environment. Free and open to the public! by @gordonartgalleries

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Art comes to life at ODU. 🎭

“Bread + Puppet Theater: Sculpture in Action” recently opened at the @gordonartgalleries, bringing more than six decades of puppetry, performance and visual storytelling to campus.

Visit the Gordon Art Galleries and experience the exhibition through December 12. A smiling visitor wearing a patterned headscarf looks upward while viewing large puppets and artwork at the Bread + Puppet Theater exhibition. by @gordonartgalleries

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Today’s Community Learning Experience (CLE) was all about connection! Explorers visited @gordonartgalleries on the campus of @olddominionu to explore current connections to each of their classes.

They found synergy and inspiration in the works of Ju Yun, Bread + Puppets Theater, and photos from Food, Community, and Climate on the Eastern Shore.

“You don’t make art with just paint, it can be all types of things like hair, signs, and more.”-CaMiyah, 6th Grade Explorer taken in ODU Baron and Ellin Gordon Art Galleries by @gordonartgalleries

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Bread and Puppet Theater: Sculpture in Action
An Exhibition of Puppets, Paintings, and Prints
On View September 4 - December 12, 2026 at @gordonartgalleries.

Over six decades, Bread and Puppet Theater and its founders Peter and Elka Schumann have employed a visual language through puppetry to satirize systems of power, call everyday people to action, and honor humanity’s creative place within the sweeping breadth of life. This exhibition features common recurring puppets and characters who have acted in the company’s processions, protests, plays, and pageants since the 1960s. They are presented in active, vibrant tableaus true to the company’s practice of putting art into action.

Admission is free. 5 life-sized puppets on display at Gordon Art Galleries at Old Dominion University. One wears an orange apron and holds a mug, the second wears a flannel shirt and holds a shovel, the third wears a flower apron and holds a wooden spoon, the fourth wears a brown dress and apron and holds a broom and the fifth wears a flannel shirt and holds a pot. by @gordonartgalleries

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For the next two months YOU can join the Gordon Art Galleries and @oduarts to help those in need this fall! Non-perishable food items can be dropped off at the Galleries. Have a lot to give? Pick up a bag from us for your donation. All donations help support @npschools_va students and @olddominionu students through the Monarch Pantry. link in bio for more information! taken in ODU Baron and Ellin Gordon Art Galleries by @gordonartgalleries

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We are pleased to announce the acquisition of nine works by Charles Sibley, renowned painter and founder of ODU’s art department. Gifted by Sibley’s family, they show the technical and thematic range of his work and highlight his interest in nautical scenes and the uncanny. The paintings will join other works of Sibley’s and influential ODU Art Faculty in the University Art Collection. Keep an eye out for the pieces on campus and in future exhibitions! by @gordonartgalleries

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ODU’s Baron and Ellin Art Galleries are pleased to present our Fall 2026 Exhibition Season. Keep an eye out for innovative and engaging programming coordinated with these exhibitions. All exhibitions and exhibition receptions are free and open to the public!

Ju Yun: Fragments of Memory
August 28 to November 14. Opening reception August 27, 6 to 8 p.m.

Bread + Puppet Theater: Sculpture in Action
September 4 to December 12. Opening reception September 3, 6 to 8 p.m.

Food, Community, and Climate on the Eastern Shore
September 8 to September 26.

ODU Art Department Fall Senior Exhibition
December 4 to December 12. Opening reception December 3, 6 to 8 p.m.

@oduarts @oduartsletters @oduartdept @odustudentlife by @gordonartgalleries

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