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Specialties: As the greater Lehigh Valley's leading creative institution, the Allentown Art Museum stimulates minds and creates inclusive spaces for people to explore and exchange ideas. Established in 1934. The Allentown Art Museum was established through a grassroots effort led by the teacher, painter, and critic Walter Emerson Baum (1886-1956). Founded and incorporated during the Great ...
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Aug 4, 2022 · The Allentown Art Museum has offered visitors the opportunity to visit for free every Sunday, as well as the third Thursday of the month. The museum has seen, by far, the most visitors on Sundays.
Sep 24, 2023 · May 6 through September 24, 2023. Scheller, Fowler, and Rodale Galleries. Amid the change and turmoil of the 1960s, fashion became a laboratory for defining identity. Fashion as Experiment explores how young people used clothing as a space for both play and protest during this era. In the mid 1960s, teens and young adults used fashion to reject ...
Explore the collection of the Allentown Art Museum. Our collection comprises over 20,000 objects. Our rich and varied holdings reflect both local and global artistic traditions, with particular areas of strength in textiles, Renaissance painting, American art and prints. Our online collection's information updates weekly as objects are added ...
Nov 11, 2023 · Threaded with moonlight is Fraleigh’s newest body of work, inspired by the Allentown Art Museum’s rich textile holdings and the long history of textiles as a medium associated with female labor. This trio of large-scale paintings and accompanying suite of small works explore spinning, stitching, and weaving as acts of power. In these works ...
Jan 16, 2024 · Olivia Marble. ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Snaps, claps and tears filled an Allentown Art Museum gallery Monday as visitors processed a trauma shared around the world. Allentown Art Museum held a reception for its new immersive and interactive exhibition "Restoring Petals," which reflects on the isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic and honors those who died.
The Allentown Art Museum is pleased to announce that thanks to a generous legacy gift from the Century Fund and lead support from Lehigh Valley Health Network and City Center Allentown and J.B. and Kathleen Reilly, the Museum is instituting Free Admission for All, Forever, beginning Saturday, August 27, 2022. “Becoming an admission-free ...
