Every semester during Finals Week, LUAG opens its doors for Study Night at the Museum. Study Night provides an alternative study space on the Monday before final exams. This semester, it will be held on Monday December 10, from 6 – 11 PM. Bring a friend and your study materials…… Read More Study Night at the Museum
December 1, 3-5 PM. Join us to celebrate the retirement of LUAG director / chief curator Ricardo Viera. Viera will be retiring at the end of December after dedicating 44 years of service to Lehigh University Art Galleries. Free and open to the public. Refreshments provided.… Read More POSTPONED: Farewell Reception for LUAG Director/Chief Curator Ricardo Viera
October 18, 6PM. Join us for a Gallery Talk about the exhibition, The Future is Female, with professor Lucy Gans in The Gallery at Rauch Business Center. Reception to follow. All LUAG events are free and open to the public. This is a 5X10 event.… Read More Gallery Talk With Professor Lucy Gans
September 20, 6PM. Please join us for a reception celebrating our fall 2018 exhibitions and welcome our new director, Dr. William Crow. Free and open to the public. Refreshments provided. For more information please call 610.758.3615.… Read More Opening Reception: Fall 2018 Exhibitions
The founders of Lehigh University saw art as integral to a well-rounded education. Following in the footsteps of Thomas Jefferson, who made his personal art collection accessible to students and faculty at the University of Virginia, Lehigh University’s first president, Henry Coppée, declared art one of the “elementary branches” of education….… Read More The Teaching Museum: Selections from the Permanent Collection
Nelson Mandela emerges from the shadows after twenty-seven years in captivity; the Berlin Wall crumbles; Kurdish refugees flee from Iraq to southern Turkey – these are the scenes of the human condition. If it happened in the last thirty years, photojournalist Peter Turnley was there, camera in hand… … Read More Peter Turnley: The Compassionate Lens
In printmaking, The Future Is Female, but so is the past. With or without the visibility they deserve, women artists have engaged the art of printmaking from the beginning. Requiring technical mastery, physical strength, and stamina, printmaking—or the art of producing multiple images or impressions from a single plate or matrix—has its origins in 8th century Japan … … Read More The Future is Female: Prints by Women Artists
Peter Berg (1948-1997) was known for his maze-like sculptural installations that moved in and out of existing architecture with discreet presence. Fabricated from standard building materials, Berg’s constructions of wood, sheetrock, spackle and paint often merged with their surroundings, sprouting walls, plinths, winding passageways, and rooms with no obvious entry points… … Read More Peter Berg: Labyrinths
There is something for everyone within Lehigh University Art Galleries (LUAG) Teaching Collection. Professor Dongning Wang (Adjunct Lecturer, Modern Languages and Literatures), took that phrase to heart during the Spring 2018 Semester and actively incorporated pieces from the Chinese Ceramics Collection into her course ASIA, MLL 197-10, also known as Pottery and Porcelain: History, Culture,… Read More Hands-On Learning with Chinese Ceramics
Mexican photographer Pedro Meyer (b. 1935), is a pioneer of the digital revolution in contemporary photography, one of the first photographers to manipulate his images digitally. Because of its mechanical nature, photography has often been misconstrued an unbiased reproduction of a single moment, a snapshot of the exact truth – something that Meyer disputes … … Read More Pedro Meyer: Truth from Fiction
Lehigh University is home to over 50 outdoor sculptures located across three campuses, including the Asa Packer Campus, Mountaintop Campus, and Goodman Campus. The Outdoor Sculpture Collection includes sculptures that range in scale from the modest to the monumental and encompass a variety of styles, approaches, periods, and materials. … Read More Outdoor Sculpture Collection
He is the current Educator in Charge at the Metropolitan Museum of Art since 2016. William B. Crow, the current Educator in Charge of Teaching and Learning at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, has been named the next director of the Lehigh University Art Galleries and Professor of Practice in the department of art, architecture… Read More Lehigh Names William Crow Next LUAG Director
Dear family, friends, and colleagues, I would like to announce that by the end of December 2018, I will be retiring from the position of Professor of Art and Director/Chief Curator of the Lehigh University Art Galleries Teaching Museum. I want to take this opportunity to thank each and every one of you for your… Read More Ricardo Viera: Announcing My Retirement
Join Horger Artist-in-Residence Karyn Olivier for an artist talk in which she will present her work, discuss current projects, as well as the work she is doing with Lehigh University students.… Read More April 12: Karyn Olivier: Artist Talk
Join us February 8 at the LUAG Main Gallery, Zoellner Arts Center for a reception celebrating all of our Spring 2018 Exhibitions. 6-8PM. Refreshments. All LUAG events are free and open to the public.… Read More February 8: Opening Reception for all Spring 2018 Exhibitions