Public Lectures & Related Programming
Join us this spring for artist talks and lectures including a fiber art workshop with Mallory Zondag and a lecture about auctioneering careers from Sebastian Clarke.
Join us at the Martin Art Gallery this spring for the following exhibitions, artist talks and lectures, alumni art shows, and highlights from our permanent collection of artwork.
All of our exhibitions and programming are free and open to the public from Monday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
On View in Spring 2025
Discover the art exhibitions on display this spring at the Martin Art Gallery, Baker Center for the Arts Galleria and the Outer Wall Gallery.
Martin Art Gallery
VARIOUS ARTISTS
New Arts Program: Made in Kutztown
Martin Art Gallery
January 13 - February 15
Opening reception and walk-through: 5-7 p.m. Thursday, January 23
The archive of artworks from the New Arts Program (NAP) of Kutztown, PA, was donated to the Martin Art Gallery at Muhlenberg College in the summer of 2024. From 1974 to 2024, NAP offered artist residencies to many prominent and lesser-known visual artists, musicians, performers, and writers. They included Keith Haring, Richard Serra, Sam Gilliam, Joan Jonas, Phillip Glass, and Meredith Monk.
The New Arts Program closed its doors in June 2024 after 50 years in operation. While Muhlenberg is home to NAP’s artistic output, the Archives of American Art received documentary materials related to the programming, operations, and creative processes of NAP. Encompassing around 300 works — from paintings, sculptures, and prints to works on paper and artist books — this collection significantly expands and enhances the College’s permanent collection of art.
MITCH MYERS
Quiet Corners
Martin Art Gallery
March 3 - April 18
Virtual artist talk (Zoom): 5-6 p.m. Wednesday, March 5
Quiet Corners by Mitch Myers invites you on a profound journey through the empty spaces behind us—the sleepless territories where shadows reflect passing wanderers. This exhibition delves into the universe's fundamental dualities: good versus evil, freedom versus oppression, and the eternal dance of creation and destruction. Each artwork serves as a mirror, capturing the multifaceted nature of existence and the resilience of the human spirit, intricately tethered to the vast cosmos.
DANIEL PAASHAUS & ALEX LUQUET
The Forest Primeval
Martin Art Gallery
February 19 - February 26
Performance 1: 7 p.m. Wednesday, February 19
Performance 2: 7 p.m. Friday, February 21
The Forest Primeval is the product of an ongoing collaboration between musician and composer Alex Luquet (aka Sailcloth) and filmmaker Daniel Paashaus (aka paas-haus). These original live performances and gallery installations showcase the duo’s short films, soundscapes, photography, spoken word, sculptural work, and live music, including live film scoring. All of these elements come together to form a thought-provoking and intimate study on humanity’s relationship with nature and a meditation on human impact and legacy. More information is available on www.paas-haus.com.
MUHLENBERG ART DEPARTMENT
Senior Thesis Show
Martin Art Gallery
April 28 - May 9
Opening reception: 5-7 p.m. Monday, April 28
Join us for a celebration of the 2025 Art Department graduates. The Senior Thesis Show is a culminating undergraduate experience (CUE) for art majors that provides students with an opportunity to demonstrate their mastery of the subject and reflect on accumulated content and experiences while looking ahead at new paths for the future.
Baker Center for the Arts Galleria & Outer Wall Gallery
Mallory Zondag
Connective Fibers
Baker Center for the Arts Galleria
January 13 - May 18
Workshops: January 31, February 6 and February 10
Connective Fibers explores how to dissolve those perceived boundaries through sculpture. Fiber art and specifically wet felting, has a history as long as human civilization but it is often perceived as craft, hobbyist art or women’s work when really it is an integral form of storytelling that is fundamental to understanding history and culture. Using fiber art as a vehicle to tell uncomfortable and painful stories, as Zondag does in Connective Fibers, creates a dissonance that pushes the observer to wrestle with the themes presented; healing emotional trauma, the search for identity and the dissolution of borders between the body and our environment.
RAIN BLACK
Kommichi: A Continuous Ache
Outer Wall Gallery
January 13 - August 8
Artist Talk: 5-6 p.m. Monday, January 27
Rain explores reconnecting to Indigenous community, queerness, and survival through figurative watercolor painting and beading. Am I native enough? Queer enough? Was it bad enough? These themes are explored through expressive color and fine detail that help people see themselves and their experiences in the pieces.
Students Make It Possible
The exhibitions, programming, and permanent collection care at the Martin Art Gallery would not be possible without the contributions of student gallery assistants and independent study students. The students assist with all aspects of the gallery, from exhibition planning to cataloging and marketing. MAG is so grateful to work with such talented and dedicated Mules!
Sidney Caruth '23: Connection Through Art Curation at the Martin Art Gallery
Lizard Foley '24: Empowering Storytelling at the Martin Art Gallery
The Martin Art Gallery is open during the fall and spring semesters from Monday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and is closed during College holidays.
MODIFIED SUMMER HOURS: May 20-August 15, Monday-Thursday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
All of our exhibitions and programming are free and open to the public. For further information, please call us at 484-664-3467
Artists may submit an exhibition packet or proposal for consideration to the gallery. Packets should include contact information and web portfolio link. Our gallery mailing address is: Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College, 2400 Chew St., Allentown, PA 18104. Proposals will be accepted on an ongoing/rolling basis, and prospective artists will be contacted by the gallery. Please do not submit original art work as the gallery cannot be responsible for caring for or returning unsolicited submissions. Promotional materials submitted for consideration will not be returned.
All art images are the property of Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania. Any reproduction or distribution of this material without the expressed, written consent of the Martin Art Gallery is prohibited and a violation of federal law. All rights reserved.
