October 6, 2025
The Allentown Art Museum has named Chris Bernecker as Chair of its Board of Trustees. Bernecker is the Senior Vice President for H. T. Lyons Inc., part of Equans MEP Services (MEP Services), which is headquartered in Allentown. He brings 36 years of design, construction, and preventative-maintenance experience to the Museum. Prior to joining the […]
October 3, 2025
Are you a teenager with a passion for art, or do you know one? Then consider involving them in the Art Museum as a Teen Volunteer! It’s a great way for creatives aged 14 to 18 to gain valuable experience. Teen Volunteers help with our weekend family programming (ArtVentures) and occasional Third Thursday evening programming. […]
September 22, 2025
We’re thrilled to announce a dynamic expansion to the Museum’s contemporary collection, featuring four distinctive artists whose work challenges, inspires, and enriches the conversation around art today. “All of these artists are new to the collection,” says Elaine Mehalakes, the AAM’s vice president of curatorial affairs. “These exciting additions join other recently acquired works […]
September 18, 2025
On Saturday, October 4, 2025, at 1 p.m. the Allentown Art Museum will host La Sinfonía del Muro de Flores (The Symphony of the Wall of Flowers), a multimedia live performance that unites original music, contemporary dance, storytelling, and visual art into an immersive sensory journey. The performance will last 45 minutes and be followed […]
September 15, 2025
On Thursday, September 18, 2025, the Museum will host the Lehigh Valley Artist Meetup as part of our Third Thursday activities. The idea for the Meetup came from artists Brandon Dominguez and Elise Schaffer, who want to foster connections among local artists. Using art making as an ice breaker, the pair hopes to build a […]
September 12, 2025
Donald Bortz took this photograph of his daughter Brenda in the kitchen of their home at 23rd and Tilghman streets in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in 1951. It will be on view at the Allentown Art Museum along with other food-themed photographs in the exhibition Selections from the Photography Collection starting September 12, 2025, and continuing through […]
September 2, 2025
Our Dutch tall case clock has returned from conservation and is on view again in Kress Gallery. This clock was made by Anthonie van Oostrum around 1750, and after nearly three centuries of use our curatorial staff determined it was showing noticeable signs of age. Its musical mechanisms were seizing, and both its moon phase […]
August 20, 2025
The Allentown Art Museum joined the Da Vinci Science Center in hosting educators and staff of the Arts Academy Elementary Charter School (AAECS) for a professional-development experience on August 19 and 20, 2025. Branded “The Arts of Science,” the initiative is designed to deepen cross-disciplinary learning, spark innovative teaching strategies, and strengthen the educational ecosystem […]
July 23, 2025
John Singer Sargent fans excited by the Sargent & Paris exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York are invited to spend time with an early work by the celebrated artist on view right here at the Allentown Art Museum. Sargent, an American painter who traveled widely and lived most of his life […]
July 23, 2025
Our staff is constantly looking for new ways to keep our audiences excited and engaged—and the recent move of our Renaissance and Baroque art collection to our upstairs galleries while our Kress Gallery was being renovated is a good example. In addition to hanging contemporary artworks alongside classics by masters like Rembrandt and Canaletto, to […]