2008-09 calendar · permanent collection · exhibition program

EXHIBITION PROGRAM

The exhibition program of Payne Gallery is an integral part of Moravian College and its academic mission. The full program rotates on a four-year cycle, in concert with the undergraduates course of study leading to the Bachelor of Arts Degree. 

The Program is student-centered and consists of a core set of exhibitions that supports the studio and art history offerings of the Art Department. Collateral exhibitions reach out to other departments in the college, to our alums and to other cultural and academic institutions. 

Because the audiences for Payne Gallery are multiple, exhibitions are aimed at benefiting the local and regional communities, no less than the worlds of scholarship and connoisseurship.

The mandate of the gallery, given it by its benefactor, Priscilla Payne Hurd, is that "at least one exhibition of prominence, on a national or international level, be displayed yearly."

GALLERY PRESS RELEASES:

• Photographs by Gertrude Kasebier at Moravian College (3/03)
• Payne Gallery Presents "Eastern European Prints and Posters" (1/03)
• STRUCTURES about abstract painting opening in Payne Gallery (11/01)
• Lecture series part of Smithsonian exhibit in Payne Gallery (9/01)
• Payne Gallery reception to highlight Smithsonian Exhibit (9/01)
• The World Imagined Paintings and Drawings by Miriam Brumer (2/01)
• At Hand: New Methods, New Materials (12/00)
• The Square Piano in Rural Pennsylvania: Next Exhibition 1760-1830 (11/00)
• The Arts as a Strategy for Survival: Theresienstadt 1941-45 (1/00)
• Czech Avant-Garde Book Design, 1922-40 Reflections on European Art and Photography (12/99)
• Payne Gallery presents Frances Barth paintings: "Geological Time" (10/99)
• Eleventh Biennial National Print Show (3/99)
• Payne Gallery Present Ira Greenberg Landscape Paintings (2/99)
• Perception and Deception: The Works of Istvan Orosz (12/98)
• Payne Gallery Present Dark Odyssey: Philip Jones Griffiths (12/98)

For more information contact the Payne Gallery at 610-861-1491.
Priscilla Payne Hurd Center for music and art, 1200 Main Street, Bethlehem PA 18018