Indications: Teresa Cervantes

Indications: Teresa Cervantes
August 15 – November 29, 2025

Please join Saint Joseph’s University for the opening reception of Indications: Teresa Cervantes at The Marvin Samson Museum for the History of Pharmacy. The event will take place on Friday, September 5th from 5 – 7:30 p.m. at Griffith Hall (first floor, 601 South 43rd St.) on Saint Joseph University’s West Philadelphia campus.

Free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.

About the Exhibition: The Marvin Samson Museum for the History of Pharmacy presents work by Artist-in-Residence Teresa Cervantes. Drawing on traditions of apothecary craft, pharmaceutical marketing, and visual art, Cervantes’ compounded artistic approaches divulge the hope, fear, and purpose contained within the domestic medicine cabinet. As sites of ritual self-construction, medicine cabinets are porous spaces bridging the personal and political, the corporal and corporate. Indications invites viewers to consider the active ingredients of play, poetry and touch as forms of resistance to today’s increasingly corporate health and wellness industries.

Public Hours:
Thursday 2-6 p.m., Friday 1-5 p.m., Saturday 12-4 p.m., and by appointment
Curator Led Tours:
First Saturdays in September, October, and November at 1 p.m.
See website for full schedule of programs: sju.edu/pharmacymuseum/exhibitions

Access information: Saint Joseph’s University is dedicated to hosting inclusive and accessible events. If entering Griffith Hall through the Main Entrance at 601 S 43rd St., there are three sets of doors, each with five stairs leading up from street level. The middle set of stairs has railings on both sides. There are two sets of manual, wooden doors visitors must go through before entering Griffith Hall’s foyer, which leads directly to the entrance of the museum gallery. Griffith Hall also has an ADA accessible entrance with a ramp, railing, automatic doors, and elevator, as well as accessible restrooms and parking. Please contact us ahead of time to arrange an escort through this entrance, which is locked to the public. Two air filters will be running in the gallery.