March 15, 2022
No, the Museum Store hasn’t expanded out to a satellite space on Hamilton Street (just yet). The street-level window displays of photos showing select Store items and key works from the Museum’s collection are part of a new program coordinated by the Downtown Allentown Business Alliance. DABA’s Storefronts Alive initiative highlights cultural organizations and outlets […]
February 4, 2022
The Allentown Art Museum’s 2022 Gala Dinner & Auction will be held Saturday, April 9, in the galleries. This year’s esteemed honoree is Dolores A. Laputka, Esq., a leading attorney with Norris McLaughlin, P.A., who has been a member of the Museum’s Board of Trustees, Chair of the Board, and now an active Honorary Trustee. We […]
January 17, 2022
On this day we honor the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. and African American art, history, and culture by revisiting influential speakers, meaningful discussions, inspiring entertainers, and art-making projects from recent years at the Museum. Please browse and engage with the content below in the spirit of empathy, activism, and community building.
December 24, 2021
Longtime AAM Museum Store manager Sharon Yurkanin is always looking for fresh ways to share the wonders of the Museum’s collection.
December 22, 2021
January 3 through 6, 2022, the Allentown Art Museum invites you to participate in a bracket-style online vote to select an object you want to see in the upcoming exhibition Eclectic Collecting: Curiosities from the Vault.
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.