Kong Ho's Work in Harrisburg

The work of Kong Ho, associate professor of art at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, is on display in the Pennsylvania Capitol in Harrisburg.

“Reverberation: An Invitational Exhibit of the Work of Four Artists with Disabilities” is being sponsored by House Speaker Keith R. McCall, D-Carbon.

The work of four artists with disabilities is on display this month in the Capitol’s East Wing Rotunda.

The exhibition is being co-sponsored in honor of National Disability Employment Awareness Month by the Governor’s Cabinet and Advisory Committee for People with Disabilities and the Pennsylvania Association of Rehabilitation Facilities.

“I am proud to serve as the sponsor of the exhibit of these very talented artists,” McCall said. “I hope many people will be able to see the exhibit and appreciate the gifted and distinguished artists that created these pieces.”

Before moving to the Capitol, “Reverberations” was on display at the Pennsylvania Association of Rehabilitation Facilities conference in State College from Sept. 21 to 24 at the Nittany Lion Inn.

Ho said the title of the exhibition was the idea of his wife, Dr. Martie Geiger-Ho, visiting professor of art.

“The exhibition title implies that this exhibition is not only to recognize, but also to highlight the contribution of these selected distinguished artists with disabilities for their artistic achievements and inspirations,” Ho said.

Ho, who walks with leg braces as a result of polio, is director of the interdisciplinary arts program at Pitt-Bradford, where he has taught since 2001.

He has participated in more than 90 international and regional exhibitions including 14 solo exhibitions. His work has been exhibited in venues such as the United Nations headquarters in New York City; the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; Union Station and World Bank headquarters in Washington, D.C.; the Hong Kong Museum of Art; and the Peking Museum of Art in China.

Prior to coming to Pitt-Bradford, Ho taught art and design at several universities and founded the Hong Kong Mural Society, a nonprofit art organization promoting mural art in his native Hong Kong.

He has developed a reputation in mural art after organizing more than 30 granted large-scale public mural projects.

Next year he will travel to the National Academy of Art in Sofia, Bulgaria, to teach mural painting and study fresco and other traditional methods on a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program Lecturing Award.