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The Trout Gallery is the art museum of Dickinson College. As a teaching museum, The Trout Gallery promotes curiosity, collaboration, and understanding through active engagement with communities, ideas, and artworks. It serves the students, faculty and staff, and alumni of Dickinson College; the residents of the Carlisle-Central Pennsylvania area and their visitors; and the broader academic and artistic communities.

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The mission of Education at The Trout Gallery is to activate the power of art to illuminate human lives.  Through close looking, training in visual literacy skills, hands-on demonstrations and guided inquiry, our programs foster interdisciplinary explorations that connect people, art, and ideas.

Collection Highlight

Faith Ringgold
(Born 1930 - )

Dear Selma, Every Time I See a Dime I Think of You

Silkscreen on paper
30.33 x 22 in. (77.05 x 55.88 cm)

2010
2025.22

Purchase of the Friends of The Trout Gallery

This work is on view now in the exhibition, A Measure of Value.

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Telephone: 717-245-1711

Email:

trout@dickinson.edu

Mailing:

The Trout Gallery

Dickinson College

P.O. Box 1773

Carlisle, PA 17013

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