Ned Smith original painting Click on image to download print-quality version

GRANTHAM, Pa. (Nov. 30, 2007) — From Dec. 7 to March 7, the Oakes Museum at Messiah College will display 30-35 pieces of the works of Ned Smith, self-trained artist and naturalist for whom the Ned Smith Center for Nature and Art in Millersburg is named. Titled “A Lifetime in Art,” the pieces vary from paintings to watercolors, line drawings and pencil sketches. The exhibit may be viewed in the Oakes Museum, located in the Jordan Science Center on the college’s Grantham campus, on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3–8 p.m. and on Saturdays from 1–5 p.m. Admission is $6 for adults and $3 for senior citizens and children under 12. Those with Ned Smith Center membership cards receive a 50% discount. The museum is closed from Dec. 22–Jan. 2.

“A Lifetime in Art” emerges from the many works Ned Smith created throughout his life, as well as from the nearly 120 cover paintings he created for “Pennsylvania Game News” while employed at the Pennsylvania Game Commission. The exhibit swap was the brainchild of Kenneth Mark, director of the Oakes Museum, and Jerry Regan, executive director of the Ned Smith Center. They have made a reciprocal arrangement for a selection of the Oakes Museum’s collection of African mammals to display at the Center at a later date.

For more information about the Oakes Museum, visit www.messiah.edu/oakes. 

Messiah College, a private Christian college of the liberal and applied arts and sciences, enrolls 2,800 undergraduate students in 55 majors. Established in 1909, the primary campus is located in Grantham, Pa., near the state capital of Harrisburg. A satellite campus affiliated with Temple University is located in Philadelphia.