Martin Art Gallery
Baker Center for the Arts
Muhlenberg College
Allentown, PA 18104

Phone: (484) 664-3467
Fax: (484) 664-3633
Email:
kburke@muhlenberg.edu

Gallery Hours
Tuesdays - Saturdays
Noon - 9:00 pm


All programs and events are
free and open to the public.

Exhibition Schedule Spring 2008
Martin Art Gallery/Baker Center for the Arts

Facing East/Facing West: Asia without Boundaries January 16 – March 1 Reception: Wednesday, January 23, 4:30 – 6:00 p.m. Guest Curators:  Zoë Charlton and Amze Emmons This group exhibition is presented in conjunction with the 2008 Center for Ethics theme of  globalization and features paintings, prints, mixed media and sculpture created by women artists currently working in the U.S. and Asia.
Wings of Fire: The Illuminated Books of William Blake March 19 – April 19 Reception: Wednesday, March 19, 4:30 – 6:00 Illuminated books by William Blake (English, 1757 – 1827) painter, engraver, religious visionary, and poet are the focus of this exhibition curated by Dr. Grant Scott and his Senior Seminar students.  Included are works from the College’s Florence Foerderer Tonner Print Collection and private collectors.  Blake scholar Joseph Viscomi, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will give a lecture in conjunction with this exhibition, Wednesday, March 19, 7:00 p.m. in Recital Hall, Baker Center for the Arts. Additional programming in the Martin Art Gallery: Alumni dance performances: Tyger Burning   April 10 & 11, 7 and 8:30 p.m April 12, 1:30 and 3:00 p.m. Alumni music performances:  April 17 & 18, 7:00 p.m.   April 19, 2 & 8:00 p.m.
Senior Exhibition: Class of 2008 April 30 – May 18 Reception: Wednesday, April 30, 4:30 – 6:00 p.m. This annual exhibition features the work of senior art majors. Their work in painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, and photography is the result of their year-long participation in the Senior Art Seminar.
Gerald Rowan: Houses of the Spirit June 6 – August 2 Reception: Wednesday, June 11, 4:30 – 6:30 p.m. During a rich and productive career, Gerald Rowan has acquired both breadth and depth as an artist and arts educator.  Beyond frequently exhibiting his work in solo and group shows, he has written numerous articles on ceramics for Ceramic Monthly, conducted glaze workshops throughout the region, and performed consulting for organizations as varied as Binney & Smith/Crayola in Easton, PA and the Small Business Administration in Kingston, Jamaica.  He has also participated in a wide variety of artist-in-residence programs and been seated on many area arts advisory boards. The body of Rowan’s current work—drawings, adobe vessels, and sculpture/spirit houses— is framed within the vocabulary of geometric abstraction.  He chooses to avoid narrative content to instead explore and express in intuitive and reflective ways the internal, rather than the external, world.  Beyond using the language of geometric abstraction, he is intensely concerned with the visual elements of space and color.
Exhibition Schedule Spring 2008 Galleria/Baker Center for the Arts [Hours: Daily, 9 a.m. – 10 p.m. Closed during breaks and holidays.]
The Jews of Luthertown This traveling exhibit of photos and artifacts from Jewish life in the city of Wittenberg, Germany in the 1930s and ‘40s is sponsored by the Institute for Jewish and Christian Understanding.   February 3 – March 1 Reception February 3, 1:30 – 3:30 Art Student Exhibitions March – May Recent Acquisitions to the Permanent Collection June – August

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