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Lehigh University Art Galleries - LUAG LUAG is Lehigh’s public art museum for all! From hands-on workshops to vibrant exhibitions, you’re invited to explore, reflect, and connect with art.

LUAG is always free, for everyone. Hours, exhibitions, programs, and more at LUAG.org.

Ghoulish Greetings from LUAG!👻We’ve dug up some of our collection to create some spooky-season greeting cards for you. S...
10/28/2026

Ghoulish Greetings from LUAG!👻

We’ve dug up some of our collection to create some spooky-season greeting cards for you. Swipe through to find your favorite and share with a friend!🎃

🖼️:
1. Gargoyles, Paris at Night, Benny Andrews
2. Venus Fly Trap Flasher (detail), Katie Hovencamp
3. A Woman in a Bird Mask (detail), New York, Diane Arbus
4. Disparate de Miedo (Fearful Folly), No. 2 from the series Los Disparates (detail), Francisco de Goya
5. Birth of a Wild Child (detail), C. Bailey
6. June Red #3, from Ghost Portraits, Lydia Panas

Thanks to Getty for the inspiration🎃

Thank you to the first-year students who spent the afternoon with LUAG and Lehigh University Libraries / Lehigh Special ...
10/26/2026

Thank you to the first-year students who spent the afternoon with LUAG and Lehigh University Libraries / Lehigh Special Collections last week at our 5x10 event, “From Archive to Art: A Journey through Libraries and Museums”!

After exploring the “Unfinished Chapter: The First 250 Years of American Liberty” exhibition in Linderman Library, we walked past part of LUAG’s Outdoor Sculpture Collection to the Main Gallery, where we viewed “This Land: Reimagining the United States of America on its 250th Anniversary”, guided by LUAG student educators.

We hope that viewing the exhibitions together highlighted how libraries, archives, and museums serve as vital spaces for preserving and exploring history and new ideas. Thank you for bringing your curiosity and interest to our spaces — come back and visit anytime!

🚪Doors at 5:30pm🎶Performance at 6:00pmOn Thursday, November 12, LUAG stays open late for the third session in our Listen...
10/23/2026

🚪Doors at 5:30pm
🎶Performance at 6:00pm

On Thursday, November 12, LUAG stays open late for the third session in our Listening Room Series — this time, with william h. travis ✨

•What to expect
The performance will last approximately 45 minutes. Both floor cushions and chairs will be available. The performance will be audible throughout the galleries; you are welcome to explore the galleries while you listen, coming and going as you please!

Free and open to all. More info and RSVP at LUAG.org/events.

•What is the LUAG Listening Room Series?
Experience the voice of local performers this fall in conjunction with LUAG’s “This Land: Reimagining the United States of America on its 250th Anniversary” exhibition.

Set in its own 394-square-foot space inside the Main Gallery, the LUAG Listening Room provides a multisensory learning environment within the exhibition — with a listening station with vintage vinyl and a record player, a digital playlist that invites community input, interactive screens, creative lyric-writing and art-making stations, and an instrument corner featuring real loaner guitars from C. F. Martin Guitar & Co., the space invites visitors of all ages and abilities to participate.

•About william h. travis
there is a person and sometimes a group of friends who, when in the rains of performance, go by the name william h. travis. whether the person or the people, the place is bethlehem, pa, where dwell(s) the singular or plural personage(s). how the music sounds is how this prose reads. heads or tails? tails is heads for tails and heads is heads for heads. and nothing else much matters except everything except this. “meow,” my cat reminds me i am stupid. - william h. travis

Learn more at: https://williamhtravis.bandcamp.com/album/ruby

In partnership with Lehigh Valley 250, This Land exhibition programming has been supported by funding from the Pennsylvania Tourism Office.

📣CALLING ALL PA-BASED CREATIVE ENTREPRENEURS!Grant Information Session at LUAGWednesday, Nov. 11, 2026Doors open at 5:30...
10/22/2026

📣CALLING ALL PA-BASED CREATIVE ENTREPRENEURS!

Grant Information Session at LUAG
Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2026
Doors open at 5:30 PM
Presentation starts at 6:00 PM
LUAG Main Galleries, inside Zoellner Arts Center
Presented by and

PA Creative Industries offers the Creative Entrepreneur Accelerator Program to creative entrepreneurs who aspire to grow their for-profit creative businesses in ways that positively impact their communities.

Through December 31, PA-based creative entrepreneurs can apply for up to $4,000 (Growth Grant) or up to $17,000 (Impact Grant) — plus access to a hashtag network, trainings, and resources. Impact Grant recipients also receive one-on-one business coaching. Applications are now available on the newly-launched Keystone Creatives website (keystonecreatives[dot]org).

Want to learn more about this impactful funding opportunity? Join us at LUAG on WEDNESDAY, NOV. 11 from 5:30 - 7:30 PM for an information session hosted by PA Creative Industries and the program's statewide administrator, Bridgeway Capital.

The session is free; attendance is limited to 50 participants. Reserve your spot today! RSVP link and more information at keystonecreatives.org/cea/.

For questions or requests regarding accessibility needs, please contact Elise at [email protected] or call 610.758.6882.

Object No. 99 from LUAG's centennial catalog, "Creativity & Connection: Lehigh University Art Galleries at 100" (Hirmer/...
10/20/2026

Object No. 99 from LUAG's centennial catalog, "Creativity & Connection: Lehigh University Art Galleries at 100" (Hirmer/University of Chicago Press):

Pablo Picasso
Spanish, 1881-1973
Portrait of Artist's Sister, 1898-1899
Oil on canvas
Gift of Mrs. Jean Dreyfus
LUP 61 5010

"One of the most striking portraits in LUAG's collection, this is the only painting by Pablo Picasso that the university has ever owned. The size of a sheet of letter paper, it radiates a presence greater than its dimensions."

The painting's full catalog essay was written by Nicholas Sawicki, PhD, Professor of Art History and Chair of the Department of Art, Architecture and Design, and can be found on page 232 of the catalog.

ABOUT "Creativity & Connection":
Illuminating the depth and evolving narrative of LUAG’s permanent collection – now spanning over 20,000 objects – this coffee table-style book brings to life 100 iconic paintings, prints, photographs, and sculptures collected by LUAG over the past century. Available for purchase at press.uchigago.edu.

10/20/2026

👻Hey, Lehigh students! You're invited to LUAG on FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30 for a mid-day Halloween Hang hosted by LUAG Student Educators!🎃

Join us in the LUAG Lower Gallery for a frightening afternoon of Halloween crafts, candy, and a spooky movie!

Wear a costume* and get some candy!

FREE and open to all Lehigh students. We hope to see you there!

More info at LUAG.org/events.

☠️*We'll be hanging out near the artwork, so no costumes with fake blood or any other wet substances! And no weapons or inappropriate messages, please.*

Do photographs capture reality?  Or do they create a new reality?  Students in the First-Year Big Questions Seminar, “Wh...
10/16/2026

Do photographs capture reality? Or do they create a new reality?

Students in the First-Year Big Questions Seminar, “What is Reality?” created instant print photographs this week to explore how the medium can document but also distort our experiences. Using the mantra from the Surrealists of “making the familiar strange,” students worked in pairs in the galleries of LUAG to explore these topics.

“What is Reality?” is co-taught by Dr. Almut Hupbach (Psychology) and Dr. William Crow (Art, Architecture and Design), and invites students to examine this timeless question through a variety of disciplines.

Monday, 10/19 @ 1pm (Via Zoom)SPECIAL TOPIC: Access at Work! Open Q&A About Accessibility in the WorkplaceJoin Lehigh Ac...
10/16/2026

Monday, 10/19 @ 1pm (Via Zoom)
SPECIAL TOPIC: Access at Work! Open Q&A About Accessibility in the Workplace

Join Lehigh Accommodations Specialist Kelly Woodbridge for an open Q&A session about accomodations and accessibility in the workplace. Open to all!

In collaboration with Lehigh University’s HR Department (Work/Life Lehigh) and National Disability Employment Awareness Month.

Monday, October 19
1:00-3:00pm

As part of our Access Culture Initiative at Lehigh University Art Galleries, LUAG hosts a monthly accessibility discussion group for arts and cultural administrators, artists, students, educators, etc., to meet, discuss, and share resources.

Please contact Elise at [email protected] to receive the Zoom link and for accessibility needs or accommodations in advance.

This group is free and open to all who are interested; this group will always meet virtually.

*A LUAG All-Ages Workshop on 10/17*This Land: Wildlife Light Box DioramasSaturday, October 171:00 - 2:30PMLUAG Lower Gal...
10/09/2026

*A LUAG All-Ages Workshop on 10/17*
This Land: Wildlife Light Box Dioramas

Saturday, October 17
1:00 - 2:30PM
LUAG Lower Gallery (inside Zoellner Arts Center)
Free and all are welcome

Imagine a place where you’d like to spend some time. Who, or what, would live there?

Inspired by “This Land: Reimagining the United States of America on its 250th Anniversary”, artist Rosa E. Camacho Ramos invites artists of all ages to think about land, place, and the natural world as they create their own mini wildlife diorama light box.

Using simple materials, participants will layer paper, shapes, and light to build a small habitat inspired by an animal, landscape, or place that matters to them.

Come explore the exhibition, get creative, and build a little world of your own!

This workshop is free of charge. No experience necessary; all ages and abilities are welcome. Space is limited; please register in advance at LUAG.org/events. Can’t wait to see you!

Calling all Lehigh First-Years!THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22 @ 4:30pm Meet at Linderman’s Bayer Galleria*A 5x10 EVENT*From Archiv...
10/08/2026

Calling all Lehigh First-Years!
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22 @ 4:30pm
Meet at Linderman’s Bayer Galleria

*A 5x10 EVENT*
From Archive to Art: A Journey through Libraries and Museums

What can archives, libraries, and museums teach us about the past? How might they help us imagine the future?

Lehigh Libraries Special Collections and Lehigh University Art Galleries take you on a journey across campus exploring how libraries and museums preserve history, make knowledge accessible, and provide space for new ideas and creative responses.

The tour begins in Linderman Library’s Bayer Galleria with “Unfinished Chapter: The First 250 Years of American Liberty”, exploring how historical documents and archival materials help us understand the stories that have shaped the United States. From there, we’ll visit LUAG’s “This Land: Reimagining the United States of America on its 250th Anniversary”, where artists respond to history, place, identity, and ideas about America through visual and creative forms.

Along the way, we’ll consider how archives become more than records of the past: they can be starting points for storytelling, questioning, making, and imagining what comes next.

Open to Lehigh First-Year students ONLY.

Register in advance through LINC — RSVP link is at LUAG.org/events.

Address

420 East Packer Avenue
Bethlehem, PA
18015

Opening Hours

Tuesday 11am - 7pm
Wednesday 11am - 5pm
Thursday 11am - 5pm
Friday 11am - 5pm
Saturday 11am - 4pm

Telephone

+16107583615

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