![Robert Gerhardt](//www.pct.edu/files/news/images/2016/01/5_6003092_PCTo-150x150.jpg)
![A student takes notes at the exhibit.](//www.pct.edu/files/news/images/2016/01/3_6003025_PCTo-150x150.jpg)
![Engaged patrons converse near one of Gerhardt's favorite images: “NYPD Traffic Officer at Prayer, Park 51, Manhattan, NY,” taken at a once-proposed mosque site near Ground Zero.](//www.pct.edu/files/news/images/2016/01/2_6002999_PCTo-150x150.jpg)
![A crowd gathers as the artist speaks.](//www.pct.edu/files/news/images/2016/01/1-_6003083_PCTo-150x150.jpg)
![“Boy Scouts at their Weekly Meeting, Muslim American Society, Brooklyn, NY" (foreground) is among the gelatin silver prints on display.](//www.pct.edu/files/news/images/2016/01/4_6003015_PCTo-150x150.jpg)
A campus reception was held Thursday for an artist whose work employs old-school photojournalism – compelling images on black-and-white film, developed in a darkroom – to tackle a fresh-from-the-headlines merging of cultures. “
Muslim/American, American/Muslim,” featuring the work of Robert Gerhardt, continues in The Gallery at Penn College through March 4. While billed as a gallery talk, Gerhardt's well-attended opening echoed the objectives of the artwork itself: to encourage discussion and blur the boundaries between different backgrounds, practices and faiths. Hours for the gallery, on the third floor of Madigan Library, are 1-4 p.m. Sundays, 2-7 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays, and 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesdays and Fridays (closed Saturdays and Mondays). The exhibit has also been featured in
The Huffington Post and on WVIA's "
ArtScene" radio program (select the Robert Gerhardt audio file from the series menu).