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Thursday, April 13, 2023 - 2:25pm to Wednesday, May 10, 2023 - 5:00pm
We are excited to announce a community call for artwork submissions for our upcoming exhibition titled Bodies of Knowledge.
We are seeking artwork submissions that explore the following themes related to body knowledge and invite artists to reflect on...
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Sunday, March 5, 2023 - 1:00pm
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Dozens of red crates full of carefully packed Buddhist relics landed at Lehigh University Art Galleries last year.
They now have been opened up, and their contents — some of them thousands of years old — are on display.
'Gateway to...
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Friday, January 27, 2023 - 4:34pm
The Global Citizenship Center for Pedagogies of Self, Other and World Well-being has named the first cohort of Global Teaching and Learning Fellows (GTLF). The seven faculty members come from three of Lehigh’s five colleges – arts and sciences, business...
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Wednesday, December 28, 2022 - 1:52pm
Lehigh University Art Galleries (LUAG) has received a gift of 55 prints from collector Dr. Jack Vanderryn of Bethesda, Maryland. Vanderryn became aware of Lehigh University Art Galleries and its collections in 2021 when he read an article in the Tower...
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Tuesday, October 18, 2022 - 4:40pm
As part of Professor Amy Forsyth's furniture design course in the Fall ‘21 and Spring ’22 semesters, students used planks of black walnut and white oak wood to create benches for community use in art galleries. The wood—estimated at 150-to-175 years old—...
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Thursday, May 26, 2022 - 2:55pm
Afiwa Afandalo '24 is a double major in Africana Studies & Women, Gender, and Sexualities Studies with a minor in Studio Art. In the Spring of 2022, Afiwa led a Connect & Create workshop in partnership with Lehigh Artists for Change and...
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Monday, March 21, 2022 - 12:00pm
I recently toured the exhibition Young, Gifted and Black at Lehigh University Art Galleries with Visiting Professor Deirdre Murphy. We took a deep dive into what each painting signified and what the audience could take away from the art. There were...
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Monday, January 3, 2022 - 10:24am
Research consistently shows that the arts have a substantial, positive impact on cities and neighborhoods, both culturally and economically. Cultural benefits include fostering a sense of pride among residents and helping create a shared identity....
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Tuesday, November 30, 2021 - 12:00am
#LaLíneaContraCovid
#DrawTheLineAgainstCovid
¡Kit de dibujo gratuito y membresía al museo!
¡Muestre su prueba de vacunación en las Galerías de Arte de Lehigh University (LUAG), reciba un kit de
dibujo GRATIS y una membresía de un año para LUAG!
Galerías...
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Wednesday, November 3, 2021 - 11:00am
Lehigh Students Become Museum Curators
In Spring 2021, fourteen Lehigh undergraduates in Dr. William Crow's class ART275 Museum Collections and Exhibitions were charged with the task of acquiring new works that would enhance the university's art...
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Friday, June 4, 2021 - 9:34am
Moravian Academy - 4th Grade - English and Spanish Immersion
Fourth Graders from the English and Spanish Immersion programs at Moravian Academy took part in a virtual learning experience that explored a selection of famous Mexican artists in the...
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Friday, April 16, 2021 - 12:00pm
Many would think Shinoda’s art was greatly influenced by western abstract art due to its essence of abstract expressionism. However, though she visited artists like Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko when she traveled to the United States in the early 1950s...
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Friday, March 26, 2021 - 12:00pm
Created in 2010, Faith Ringgold’s “Where Do All the Children Go...?” features faces of young, black boys and girls covering a red and white background. The word ‘Haiti’ is labeled across the faces of the young boys and girls in white bold letters. Around...
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Saturday, March 13, 2021 - 12:00am to Friday, March 26, 2021 - 11:59pm
What does wellness look like to you? Inspired by the exhibition Well, Well, Well: Picturing Wellness in the LUAG Collection, participants are asked to express their own representations of wellness. Utilizing their chosen art form, participants are asked...
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Thursday, February 25, 2021 - 7:00pm
Join Lehigh University Art Galleries this spring for Taste of Art.
Thursday, February 25, 2021 - 7:00pm
Thursday, March 25, 2021 - 7:00pm
Saturday, May 25, 2021 - 11:00am
Taste of Art weaves culture and history together by pairing cuisine...
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Saturday, February 20, 2021 - 10:00am to 11:00am
FREE Family Workshops
Saturday, February 20, 2021: LUAG Family Workshop: Inside Out - Art & Mindfulness with Shanthi Project
Saturday, March 20, 2021: LUAG Family Day: Kinetic Mobile Workshop with Artist Kevin Reese
Saturday, April 17, 2021...
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Monday, February 8, 2021 - 12:00pm
Jordan Kaisman '24 shares her thoughts on Dmitri Baltermants' photograph Castro sledding on an Oriental carpet, Moscow in her essay Castro's Legacy written for the Fall 2020 English 001 course taught by Elena Reiss.
The above photograph,...
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Friday, December 11, 2020 - 9:03am
LUAG & Fundamentals of Engineering (MECH003)
Stacie Brennan, Curator of Education
In the early Spring of 2020, Professor of Practice Christina Viau Haden visited the Lehigh University Art Galleries to explore opportunities to integrate...
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Friday, April 17, 2020 - 11:33am
Ricardo Viera, an artist, curator and scholar who led Lehigh University Art Galleries (LUAG) for 44 years and who grew the university’s holdings to a world-class collection of more than 15,000 works of art, passed away April 1 at his home in Miami Beach....
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Wednesday, August 14, 2019 - 10:15am
Stacie E. Brennan ’03 returns to the Lehigh University community on September 3 as the inaugural Curator of Education at the Lehigh University Art Galleries (LUAG). In the role, Stacie will oversee all educational programming and visitor...
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Monday, April 23, 2018 - 12:00pm
Photo by Jackie Neale
We’re thrilled to announce that Dr. William Crow has been named the next director of the Lehigh University Art Galleries and Professor of Practice in the department of art, architecture, and design. Dr. Crow is the...
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Saturday, February 15, 2020 - 1:00pm to Sunday, May 17, 2020 - 5:00pm
FREE Saturday Family Workshops, 2-3:30 pm
Feb. 15, March 21, April 18, May 16
Drop-in to explore great works of art from the LUAG collection and current exhibitions through conversation, hands-on projects and sketching in the galleries. Geared to childre...