Above: Cañibano, Raúl, Untitled, 2001, Gelatin silver print in the exhibition el otro lado del alma. Inspired by an exhibit showcasing the work of Cuban photographer Alfredo Sarabio, Raul Cañibano made a career change at 30 and never looked back. He quit his welding job and picked up a camera. Since then he has devoted himself to portraying an accurate… Read More Raul Cañibano: Capturing Cuban Lifestyle
Above: Álvarez Pupo, Jorge Luis, Untitled, 2000, Gelatin silver print El otro lado del alma: Syncretisms in Contemporary Cuban Photography is the first comprehensive exhibition to showcase the influence of Afro-Cuban religion in photography and video art. This exhibition is being installed in our Main Gallery at this very moment. In anticipation of its opening on January 21, I thought… Read More The Syncretisms of el otro lado del alma
Vasti DeEsch, LUAG’s Collection Manager/Registrar, was kind enough to speak to me about her position and the meticulous work that goes into preserving LUAG’s teaching collection. The main function of a registrar is to document and track the movement of every single object in a collection. LUAG has over 13,000 objects in its collection. As… Read More The Registrar: A Museum's "Risk Management"
Richard Anuszkiewicz’s genius lies in his experimentation with color and geometric forms. Born in Erie, Pennsylvania he attended Cleveland Institute of Art. At Yale University he earned his Master of Fine Arts and began to explore optics and color. While at Yale he trained with Josef Albers whose influence can be seen in his artwork… Read More Wizard of Op Art
Frank Podleiszek calls Bethlehem the gem of the Lehigh Valley. No matter where life brought him he knew he would always return to his home town. He grew up in Northampton Heights, a very wealthy borough on the south side of Bethlehem. The wealth of the neighborhood was mostly due to the residents’ employment at Bethlehem… Read More Frank Podleiszek : A LUAG Volunteer
Above: Il Sogno del Cortile / (The Dream of the Courtyard), 2004 / Gold leaf, serigraph, woodcut, 5/50 / Gift of the Experimental Printmaking Institute, Lafayette College. Now on view in the Main Gallery’s exhibition thi(ink)ing. Kay WalkingStick was born in 1935 to a mother of Scottish heritage and to a father of Cherokee heritage. It would be her father’s… Read More Kay WalkingStick, An Artist of Many Mediums
Posted by Delia Chatlani, Assistant Coordinator of Volunteers As you are reading this, you may want to stop for a moment and feel the touch of your clothes against your skin, enjoy the taste and smell of a nice cup of tea while listening to your choice of music or the sound of birds coming… Read More Art Accessibility Initiative
Egyptian Leadership: From Sacred Pharaohs to Corrupt Politicians An Exhibition Review of Khaled Hafez’s The A77A Project: On Presidents & Superheroes Written for ART 221: Global Contemporary: Recent Art Movements Around the World by Lindsay Alexander Khaled Hafez could have been a doctor. President Nasser of Egypt, with the amount of power he possessed, could have been a… Read More Student's View of The A77A Project
Divide & Conquer is a limited-edition print project that was designed by Maureen Cummings with typographic assistance by Kathleen McMillan. To produce the printed pieces, multiple layers of text and imagery were hand silkscreened onto sheets of Arches Cover, then hand-colored. The images used for the prints are period photographs and engravings collected by the artist. … Read More Colophon of Divide & Conquer
Currently, in our Main Gallery is the exhibition Contradiction & Classicism: The Prints of Arthur B. Davies. This coming Thursday, October 2nd at 5:00 pm we have the pleasure of hosting the show’s curator Christine I. Oaklander, who will give a lecture on Davies’ life and artwork. Below are a few facts about this most curious man. Lithographs Landed… Read More A Few Words on Arthur B. Davies
Outdoor sculpture creates almost a fairy tale like, mythical setting that conjures the idea of physically being in another world, basically in the world of the artist’s mind. And not only is this other-worldliness enchanting, so is the fact that the sculpture so becomes a part of the reality surrounding it. It becomes part of the bigger… Read More Outdoor Sculpture Collection
Not only is our teaching collection a resource for learning, so is our staff. Take Patricia McAndrew. Here at LUAG McAndrew is our Coordinator of Volunteers and Education, but in the greater world she is known as one of the few remaining independent dance historians in America. Her greatest feat – the translation of Bournonville’s nearly 700-page… Read More Patricia McAndrew: LUAG Historian
The lithograph Marie Antoinette and Cleopatra is one of many prints in LUAG’s th(ink)ing exhibition located in our Main Gallery; and it’s creator Grace Hartigan is one of many interesting characters linked to the stories behind these prints. Grace Hartigan’s strong and purposeful brush strokes mimic her bold determination to shine in the Abstract Expressionist “boy’s club” of the… Read More Grace Hartigan, An Artist Determined
Fall 2013 was a busy and memorable semester for LUAG! Here are pictures that show a few of the exciting moments at the gallery. We look forward to seeing our students, volunteers and visitors back in 2014.
A Museum Without Walls welcomes LUAG Coordinator of Collections and Exhibitions, Mark Wonsidler, as the sites’ first guest blogger. If you have not been to The Lower Gallery to view the ‘Is It Art’ exhibit yet, after reading this post you may be compelled to visit, even if it is only to see The Inner… Read More Mark Wonsidler Looks into The Inner Room