Selections from the collection, along with creative contributions solicited from Lehigh Valley artists, are presented in “Thinking Through Drawing: Works on Paper, Drawings, and Sketchbooks from the Collection and Community,” through Dec. 4, Lehigh University Art Galleries (LUAG), Main Gallery, Zoellner Arts Center, Bethlehem.

Twenty works by community artists and examples from the LUAG collection are on view through Aug. 21, 2022, South Bethlehem Greenway.

“It features a range of works of art from all kinds of artists of different backgrounds and different abilities to really help people think about how drawing can be a vehicle for creativity and even for thinking,” says LUAG Director Dr. William Crow.

Brought out from the university’s extensive archives for public viewing are works by Natalie Alper, Keith Haring, Jose Clemente Orozco, Cao Yingyi, Maurice Prendergast, George Segal and Anita Weschler.

Lehigh faculty, including Jason Travers, have sketchbooks and works in the exhibit.

Artwork provided digitally from community artists is on video monitors in the Main Gallery and online at the LUAG website.

One of the youngest of the 108 local artists represented in the exhibition is 13-year-old Mackenzie Campbell, an East Penn School District Eyer Middle School student. The eighth grader’s sketch of a curious girl in a skirt looking at a butterfly was one of 225 works submitted for the digital portion. She is a daughter of Deborah and Jason Campbell of Macungie.

“My Mom made me do it,” says the budding young artist as to why she participated. Campbell’s art teacher, Tara M. Santoro, has a piece in the community exhibition.

Other community artists in the digital exhibit include Afiwa Afandalo, Pat Delluva, Paul M. Nicholson, Ed Courrier, Ciara Gallagher and Xiaolong Wang.

Work by 20 area artists whose work is on the LUAG website and displayed along the Greenway include that by Alexia Drey, Alyssa Klinger, Andrea Jones, Davon Providence, Elena Yerrington, Judith Fritchman, Katie Arnold, Larkin Deal, Polette A. Dorman, Lauren Kuhn, Martha Lubow, Matt David Snyder, Monica D. Salazar, Philip Schilling, S. J. Buffington, Sammy Wendland, Thania Inoa De Jesus, Tony Sienzant, Veronica Lawlor and Zena Meighan.

“Songs To Create To,” a playlist created by the featured community artists, is available on Spotify.

The LUAG exhibition and related programming is supported by The Breen Foundation.

The South Bethlehem Greenway exhibit, in partnership with the SouthSide Arts District, is also supported in part by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

Lehigh University Art Galleries, Zoellner Arts Center, 420 E. Packer Avenue, Bethlehem, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m., Tuesday - Friday. Closed Saturday - Monday. https://luag.lehigh.edu; 610-758-3615

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