Art, photography and sports! Make your mark, Allentown, by joining us Sunday, June 24, for a fun, family friendly celebration of our current exhibition Who Shot Sports. There will be a ton of free activities for all ages inside the Museum and outside in Arts Park, including art making, music, yoga, gallery tours, a photography workshop with Lehigh Valley Steelhawks player Dante Holmes and more!

Admission to the special exhibition Who Shot Sports is free to everyone today.

Event Details

INSIDE THE MUSEUM

Noon–4 p.m.
–Free entry to the Museum and all exhibitions, including Who Shot Sports.
–Families can create together team pennants and customize a baseball cap upstairs in the Museum’s Crayola Classroom.

Noon–2 p.m.
In a workshop setting teens can learn the principles of photography and explore their own unique photographic perspectives with photographer Jett Ulaner. On hand to assist with the day’s activities in Rodale Classroom is Lehigh Valley Steelhawks player Dante Holmes.

Noon & 2 p.m.
Free guided tours of Who Shot Sports

1 p.m.
This screening of the documentary film Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai tells the story of Kenya’s grassroots Green Belt Movement that encouraged rural women and families to plant trees. Wangari Maathai, the movement’s founder, was the first environmentalist and the first African woman to win the Nobel Prize.

OUTSIDE THE MUSEUM, ON FIFTH STREET & IN ARTS PARK (or inside the Museum if raining)

Noon–4 p.m.
–Deejay KJ Lehigh will be spinning an upbeat blend of music in front of the Museum.
–Try some stretching and yoga in the Park with an instructor from Easton Yoga.
–Families can make sun prints and golf-ball art—artworks that focus on movement and action in celebration of Who Shot Sports.
–Tootsee the Clown will be creating smiles with balloon art and face painting.
–Community organizations tabling the event: Allentown’s Parks & Recreation Department, Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center, City of Allentown EMS, Community Bike Works, 6X Basketball Organization, Upside Allentown.
–Food trucks from around the Valley will be serving up eats, including Ciaó for Now Café, A Taste of Soul, SmokeHouse, Cool Treats Ice Cream.

Noon
–DWA (Drummers with Attitude) will present a street drumline performance in front of the Museum. Led and created by Kevin Travers, DWA is a diverse group of drummers and dancers that has been performing since 2000 throughout the Philadelphia area for the Philadelphia 76ers, Soul, Flyers and Phantoms, and at community events.
–The LV Phantoms’ mascot, meLVin, will be mingling with his fans as part of the Phantoms’ street team.

1:30-2:30 p.m.
IronPigs mascots FeFe and FeRROUS can be found at every IronPigs home game at Coca-Cola Park. Today FeFe will be at the Museum helping us celebrate Who Shot Sports.

“Make Your Mark, Allentown!” is part of the Museum’s HeARThstone Project and is supported by the generosity of the Harry C. Trexler Trust. The HeARTHstone Project is rooted in the belief that art can and does change lives.

“Make Your Mark, Allentown!” is presented in partnership with

As Hinduism developed in India, it enveloped a vast range of local deities into its pantheon; many new deities also emerged over time. Many Hindus regarded these deities, totaling some 330 million by some believers’ count, as manifestations of one supreme, universal spirit, known as Brahman.

Similar to Christianity, some Hindus explain this singular entity as a trinity of male forms: Brahma (The Creator), Shiva (The Destroyer), and Vishnu (The Preserver). Other Hindus, however, explain the supreme deity in female form, or Shakti. Shakti manifests herself as a variety of powerful goddesses: Durga, Lakshmi, Parvati, Sarasvati, and Kali. These deities, whether male or female, may manifest themselves in a variety of forms, including avatars.

Explore the world of this Indian sculpture through an exquisite exhibition of such avatars.

With thanks and appreciation to Professor Michael W. Meister, W. Norman Brown Professor of South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania, and his students (Nachiket Chanchani, Sarah Gibbons, Rubab Qureshi, and Steven Vose) for their assistance in research. With special thanks also to Dr. Henri Schildt, Independent Scholar, Helsinki, for his research and reattribution of the sculpture of Subrahmanya.

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Decorative Arts Corridor

The Japanese have printed fabric for centuries using katagami, hand carved mulberry paper stencils. These stencils’ intricate designs and bold style amazed the European and American artists who encountered katagami at the turn of the century. Many became collectors and drew inspiration from these stencils—including architect Frank Lloyd Wright, whose library from the Little House is on view at the Museum. This selection of katagami from the collection highlights their appealing designs and cross-cultural history.

There will be four rotations of katagami; the first will be on view April 8–August 5, 2018.

Katagami: The Japanese Stencil is supported through the generosity of the Harry C. Trexler Trust, Julius and Katheryn Hommer Foundation, The Century Fund, Bernard and Audrey Berman Foundation, Leon C. and June W. Holt Endowment, Martin Guitar Charitable Foundation, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Friends of the Museum.

Scheller, Rodale, and Fowler Galleries

Who Shot Sports: A Photographic History, 1843 to the Present, guest curated by distinguished photographic historian Gail Buckland, highlights sport photographers and their place in the history of photography, not merely sports history.

As the exhibition demonstrates, the finest sports photographers, their skills honed from years of practice, are capable of capturing a fleeting moment and making it memorable, often from a surprising or revealing point of view. Driven to freeze action and portray what the naked eye alone cannot see, sports photographers have played a leading role in the evolution of camera and film technology.

Featuring more than two hundred photographs Buckland has chosen for their aesthetic, cultural and historical significance, the exhibition includes images of many different sports from nations around the globe. The period it covers—1843 to the present—makes it the most thorough exhibition of sports photographers ever organized. The exhibition will be divided into sections that focus on themes such as the beginnings of sports photography, the Olympics, solo and team sports, portraits, life off the field, and fans. In its breadth and beauty, Who Shot Sports captures its subject’s universal appeal.

Header image: Bob Martin (British, born 1959). Serena, 2004, printed 2016. Inkjet print, 8 1/2 x 12 7/8 in. (21.6 x 32.8cm). Courtesy Bob Martin.

Who Shot Sports: A Photographic History, 1843 to the Present  is organized by the Brooklyn Museum and curated by Gail Buckland, Benjamin Menschel

Distinguished Visiting Professor at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art.

A companion book published by Alfred A. Knopf accompanies the exhibition.

The Allentown Art Museum would like to thank the Presenting Sponsor of Who Shot Sports:

Additional support for the presentation of Who Shot Sports at the Allentown Art Museum has been provided by the County of Lehigh, Service Electric Cable TV and Communications, Coordinated Health and the Lehigh Valley IronPigs.

The exhibition program at the Museum is supported through the generosity of the Harry C. Trexler Trust, Julius and Katheryn Hommer Foundation, The Century Fund, Bernard and Audrey Berman Foundation, Leon C. and June W. Holt Endowment, Martin Guitar Charitable Foundation, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Friends of the Museum.