December 7, 2021
This holiday season, we encourage you to support your local nonprofit art museum by purchasing a gift membership and by shopping in the Museum Store–filled with locally made wares. This is the Allentown Art Museum’s 2021 gift guide!
December 1, 2021
Founded in 1989, Visual AIDS Day With(out) Art was created, coinciding with World AIDS Day on December 1st, as a call for “mourning and action in response to the AIDS crisis.”
November 24, 2021
Fiber artist Mallory Zondag ends her yearlong-plus residency at the Art Museum on November 28, 2021, with the closing of her installation Cocooned in Art Ways Interactive Family Gallery.
November 16, 2021
Rembrandt’s Return: A Complement of Prints opens at the Allentown Art Museum on November 19, 2021, as the counterpoint to the Museum’s spring 2021 Rembrandt Revealed exhibition, which celebrated the reattribution of the AAM’s painting Portrait of a Young Woman (1632) to the seventeenth-century Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn.
November 11, 2021
In honor of Veterans Day, the Allentown Art Museum is highlighting staff members who have served and continue to serve our country.
November 5, 2021
Explore the Japanese art on view in the Lehigh Valley during fall 2021 with Allentown Art Museum Associate Curator, Claire McRee, and founding member and chair of Lehigh Valley JAJAJA, Miki Sankary.
November 2, 2021
Meet Lauren Bradley, the Chair of the Allentown Art Museum’s Cocktails & Collecting 2021 fall fundraiser.
October 22, 2021
It’s alive! Create your own felted monster while learning about the scientific properties of fiber art. Learn wet felting and needle felting techniques with teaching artist Mallory Zondag. Supplies Needed: Wool Foam roller Felting block Plastic sheet Foam sheet Bubble wrap Tulle mesh Felting needles Fiber fill stuffing Steps to Make a Monster:
October 1, 2021
In the exhibition Washi Transformed, contemporary artists use washi, traditional Japanese paper, to create innovative and creative artworks. Something as simple as paper can be used to sculpt, paint, print, and much more. Today, use paper to create a lantern.
September 27, 2021
Inspired by the Museum’s exhibition Intuition & Reflection: The Ceramics of Toshiko Takaezu, virtually step inside the studio and creative mind of ceramics artist Deborah Slahta as she works through her creative process.