May 6, 2025
LEER EN ESPAÑOL Engage with Ana Mendieta’s film Fundamendo de Palo Monte: Silueta Series (Gunpowder Works) in a deeper way during “Gallery Flow,” a free workshop where you are invited to explore the idea of home and belonging, and your relationship to the earth. You will view the film with others and then be led through […]
May 5, 2025
Dear friends of the Allentown Art Museum: The Allentown Art Museum (AAM) was founded in 1934 with a mission to preserve our artistic and cultural heritage and to ensure public access to it. For more than ninety years the Museum has kept that promise, and today we see that mission embodied anew in the magnificent […]
April 29, 2025
What an incredible celebration! We are still feeling the energy generated during the unforgettable opening weekend of our “Summer of Tiffany”—and it’s all thanks to you! From the elegance and excitement of our exclusive Preview on Thursday evening, where members enjoyed a first look at the breathtaking Tiffany windows and Tiffany’s Gardens in Glass exhibition, […]
April 23, 2025
We are elated to announce a plan to relocate to a new, purpose-built building in the heart of downtown Allentown, marking a historic milestone in our mission to expand access to the arts and serve as a cultural anchor for the Lehigh Valley. This transformative project will create a free, world-class cultural destination, and enable […]
April 15, 2025
¡La Paleta de la Naturaleza regresa en el verano de 2025! Esta serie de talleres de recolección de alimentos busca inspirar en los participantes una conexión más profunda con el arte y la naturaleza. El programa consta de tres proyectos diferentes que se ofrecen en seis sesiones. Cada taller comenzará con una excursión de recolección […]
March 30, 2025
LEER EN ESPAÑOL “Nature’s Palette” is back for summer 2025! This foraging workshop series is intended to inspire in participants of all ages a deeper connection to art and nature. The program consists of three different projects offered over six sessions. Each workshop will begin with a foraging excursion led by an expert forager and […]
March 20, 2025
The Museum is again hosting a free-to-the-public day of the Allentown Film Festival, this year on Saturday, April 12, beginning at 12:30 p.m. with two screenings. The first series of shorts explores that timeless question “What Is Art?” The second block includes short films in Spanish with English subtitles. The screenings will be in the Museum’s […]
March 10, 2025
We are always looking for ways to become more accessible for all. Our latest initiative, introduced by the Museum’s manager of Museum accessibility, Margie Makowski, includes bringing translations to the hard of hearing community. CART stands for Communication Access Realtime Translation, a form of live captioning that provides real-time transcription of spoken words during lecture-based events, […]
March 7, 2025
At the Allentown Art Museum we are celebrating a “Summer of Tiffany” in 2025! We have a full schedule of programs planned from spring through fall related to the unveiling of our two Tiffany windows and a special summer exhibition of Tiffany lamps. Please join us for one or all of the following programs and […]
February 28, 2025
As part of the closing-weekend activities for a community exhibition at the Allentown Art Museum, a former Allentown elementary school student returned to the Lehigh Valley to be reunited with artwork he created more than three decades ago as part of a nationwide school art program by Crayola. James Nangeroni was a third-grade student at […]