Pick Up from Abstraction Show

Art Alliance Art Center in Lemont 818 Pike Street, Lemont, PA, United States

Artists participating in the Abstraction Show must retrieve their work between 5-6pm on Sunday, November 24. We have no additional storage space so please make arrangements for someone to pick up your piece if you are unable.

Wreath PickUp

Art Alliance Art Center in Lemont 818 Pike Street, Lemont, PA, United States

For those who pre-ordered a wreath they will be available for pickup in Lemont at the art center on Wednesday, December 4 between 12-3pm

Pastel Landscapes & Beyond

Art Alliance Art Center in Lemont 818 Pike Street, Lemont, PA, United States

Instructor: Susan Nicholas Gephart 814-360-2116, [email protected] 9am-noon Wednesdays 8 weeks Discover how to see beyond the obvious within the landscape and use your photos, sketches, and plein air studies for inspiration to create a finished studio painting. This class welcomes the beginner and will also enrich and challenge the experienced painter. Susan is a product […]

$170.00
Event Series Gelliplate Printmaking Workshop

Gelliplate Printmaking Workshop

For the first time ever we are hosting single-lesson, 3-hour gelliplate printmaking workshops with Art Alliance printmaking instructor Ingrid Booz Morejohn at the Art Alliance Gallery Downtown Annex on Fraser Street – just in time to fix all your last minute holiday needs for card making, gift tags, small art and holiday stress relief!!! If […]

$35
Event Series Holiday Gelliprint Workshops!

Holiday Gelliprint Workshops!

with instructor: Ingrid Booz Morejohn For the first time ever we are hosting single-lesson, 3-hour gelliplate printmaking workshops with Art Alliance printmaking instructor Ingrid Booz Morejohn at the Art Alliance Gallery Downtown Annex on Fraser Street (next to the gallery) — just in time to fix all your last minute holiday needs for card making, […]

$35.00
Event Series Holiday Gift Gallery Special Hours!

Holiday Gift Gallery Special Hours!

Art Alliance Art Center in Lemont 818 Pike Street, Lemont, PA, United States

The Holiday Gift Gallery will be open special hours, Monday, December 23, 12–6pm and Tuesday, December 24, 10am–2pm, for all your last minute gift shopping needs! Great gifts made right here in central PA, items like candle holders, ornaments, wall art, photographs, cards, plates, bowls and mugs, stickers, napkins, throw pillows, arm and hand warmers, […]

Painting Abstract: Expressing Your Powerful Intention

Art Alliance Art Center in Lemont 818 Pike Street, Lemont, PA, United States

(10am – 1pm both Friday, January 3 and Saturday, January 4) We will create an abstract painting using symbols with an intention in mind (in this case words and symbols). This process will strengthen your composition and gestural drawing and keep your focus on shapes rather than color. Through this process you can create all […]

$85 – $100

Winter 2020 Classes Begin the Week of January 6!

Art Alliance Art Center in Lemont 818 Pike Street, Lemont, PA, United States

Art Alliance Winter 2020 Classes are up now online! Check them out here (find Adult Classes under the Session Search section and hit “Search”) Here is a PDF file of the classes for you to print out.

Inservice Day Program

Art Alliance Children’s Studio 824 Pike Street, Lemont, PA, United States

January 20 Inservice Day: Join Adam for a combination of creating stories, characters, drawings, and games.

$35

Movement with Model: Mixed Media

Art Alliance Art Center in Lemont 818 Pike Street, Lemont, PA, United States

When you draw the same object (in this case a figure life model) over and over again you are visually communicating movement. The goal with this process is for you to be able to disconnect the left side of your brain which is the part that judges and analyses. You will be moving out of […]

$50 – $60

Making Comics Pop-Up Class — Frid, Jan 31, 7–9pm

Art Alliance Art Center in Lemont 818 Pike Street, Lemont, PA, United States

This playful class will ask your inner critic to take a hike. Thus unweighted, we will embark together into an imaginative evening. Expect drawing and writing activities, some collaborative, inspired by the lessons of Lynda Barry, cartoonist, writer, and teacher. Through these activities, we’ll create characters and discover their stories. Lynda Barry believes that there’s […]

$20

Discover the Art of Intuitive Drawing — Two Day Workshop, Feb 7–8, 10am–1pm

Art Alliance Art Center in Lemont 818 Pike Street, Lemont, PA, United States

Discover the Art of Intuitive Drawing with Isabel Kumerz Friday & Saturday, Feb. 7–8;  10am–1pm each day $85 Members / $100 Non-members In this 2 day workshop, you will create a black and white drawing following your intuition. Starting with marks and scribbles you will create a powerful three-dimensional artwork working only with charcoal and an […]

$85 – $100

Opening Reception: All This and More — Fri, Feb 7, 5–8pm — exhibition at the Art Alliance Gallery Downtown

“All This and More” A solo exhibition by Rebecca Poarch As a senior Drawing and Painting BFA, my work has strongly developed and realized the blurred line between abstraction and figuration, in conjunction with these developing ideas in the contemporary art world. I seek to share with my audience the alternative world created in my works, as they […]

Three PSU Student Shows at the AAGD in February

Art Alliance Art Center in Lemont 818 Pike Street, Lemont, PA, United States

Students enrolled in the Drawing and Painting BFA program at Penn State are required to have a solo exhibition of their work before they graduate The Art Alliance is proud to present three of these exhibitions in our Gallery Downtown on Fraser St.  Rebecca Poarch show “All This and More” will be in the gallery […]

Summer Camp Registration Opens Feb 15 at 9am!!

Art Alliance Art Center in Lemont 818 Pike Street, Lemont, PA, United States

Online registration for our 2020 Summer Camps opens at 9am on Saturday, February 15th. We will be at the Youth Fair at Mount Nittany Middle School that day from 10am-2pm to hand out copies of our schedule and talk with families — come say hello! You can print your own copy of the schedule here: […]

Youth Fair

Join us for this annual gathering of area summer camp providers! More than 50 organizations are represented at this one-stop-shop event. We will have our camp brochure schedule on hand for you to take home.

Watercolor Workshop — Two Day Workshop — Feb 21 & 22, 10am–3pm

Art Alliance Art Center in Lemont 818 Pike Street, Lemont, PA, United States

(10am – 3pm both Friday, February 21 and Saturday, February 22) Welcome to this two day watercolor workshop where we will paint what surrounds us. It could be the beauty of the winter landscape, maybe you have pictures from your garden that you would like to paint. You are free to choose your own subject. […]

$170 – $200

Pastel Landscapes Pop-Up Class — Friday, Feb 21, 7-9pm

Art Alliance Art Center in Lemont 818 Pike Street, Lemont, PA, United States

Have you ever wanted to learn more about chalk pastel? Join artist Nicole Packard for a short workshop on making chalk pastel landscapes. You will learn a few helpful tips and tricks while creating a beautiful pastel landscape of your own. All supplies provided.

$20

Oil Painting Landscapes & More (Mondays, 9am–12pm, Jan 6–Feb 24 – 8 weeks, )

Art Alliance Art Center in Lemont 818 Pike Street, Lemont, PA, United States

Instructor: Susan Nicholas Gephart 814-360-2116, [email protected] 9am–noon Mondays, 8 weeks Discover how to see beyond the obvious within the landscape or subject of your choice, and use your photos, sketches, and studies for inspiration to create a finished studio painting. This class welcomes the beginner and will also enrich and challenge the experienced painter. Susan is a product […]

$140 – $170
Event Series Drawings With Depth

Drawings With Depth

Art Alliance Art Center in Lemont 818 Pike Street, Lemont, PA, United States

Instructor : Jennifer Kane [email protected] 1–4pm Mondays, 8 weeks Learn how to identify and draw the structure of plants, animals, objects and people so that they look more three dimensional on the page.  Apply the principles of linear and atmospheric perspective in order to create the illusion of spatial depth. Materials: Technical pen (micro pen, […]

$140 – $170
Event Series Make a Splash with India Ink

Make a Splash with India Ink

Art Alliance Art Center in Lemont 818 Pike Street, Lemont, PA, United States

Instructor: Jennifer Kane [email protected] 1-4pm Tuesdays, 8 weeks Ink is a dynamic art medium that provides high contrast, happy accidents and plenty of opportunity for playful experimentation. During each session a different set of fun techniques will be demonstrated along with step by step guidelines for trying them out in class. Fee: $140 members; $170 non-members Materials […]

$140 – $170
Event Series Pastel Landscapes & Beyond

Pastel Landscapes & Beyond

Art Alliance Art Center in Lemont 818 Pike Street, Lemont, PA, United States

Instructor: Susan Nicholas Gephart Wednesdays 9am–12pm, 8 weeks starts January 8   Discover how to see beyond the obvious within the landscape and use your photos, sketches, and plein air studies for inspiration to create a finished studio painting. This class welcomes the beginner and will also enrich and challenge the experienced painter. Susan is […]

$140 – $170
Event Series Beginning Collagraph Class

Beginning Collagraph Class

Art Alliance Art Center in Lemont 818 Pike Street, Lemont, PA, United States

Collagraphs are collage-type prints constructed by either assembling and adhering flat objects to a relief surface or by peeling away the plate surface which is then sealed with a medium, inked and printed. The results are highly textured, 3-dimensional prints. This course is designed for the absolute beginner with no printmaking experience as well as […]

$65 – $80
Event Series Stained Glass

Stained Glass

Art Alliance Art Center in Lemont 818 Pike Street, Lemont, PA, United States

Instructor: Ken Plattner 814-360-8571, [email protected] 6:30-9:30pm Wednesdays 8 weeks For beginning & advanced students. Beginners make a small project and learn the basics of copper foil and stained glass work. Call Ken about materials before the first class. Fee: $140 members; $170 non-members Click here to register online

$140 – $170
Event Series An Emotional Connection in Watercolors

An Emotional Connection in Watercolors

Art Alliance Art Center in Lemont 818 Pike Street, Lemont, PA, United States

Instructor: Michele Rivera 814-234-3441 [email protected] 9am-noon Thursdays 8 weeks An emotional connection is a bundle of subjective feelings that come together to create a bond. By use of subject matters and color exploration we will strive to achieve paintings that make an emotional connection with the viewers. Both novice and experienced painters are welcome. Fee: $ 140 […]

$140 – $170
Event Series Open Model Session

Open Model Session

Art Alliance Art Center in Lemont 818 Pike Street, Lemont, PA, United States

Coordinator: Tom Mickle 814-686-1881, [email protected] 7-9:30pm Thursdays 8 weeks An opportunity to work from a nude model. No instruction provided. You may attend as suits your schedule . Contact Tom to get on email list for notification of any cancelations. Fee: $10 on a drop-in basis — no registration online

$10

Watercolor Workshop for Beginners — One Day — Sat, Feb 29, 10am–3pm

Art Alliance Art Center in Lemont 818 Pike Street, Lemont, PA, United States

This is a one-day workshop for watercolor beginners. We will cover the basic techniques and there will be lots of time for you to practice and ask questions. See registration for important information about supplies etc. Sign up today online!

$85 – $100

Drop Off for Members Show, 4–6pm at the AAGD

All members who submitted an entry form for the Members Show should bring their piece to the Art Alliance Gallery Downtown — 123 S. Fraser Street, State College — between 4 and 6pm. 2-D work should be ready to hang. Make sure that you have a temporary label/tag on the front and the back of […]

Inservice Day Program

Art Alliance Children’s Studio 824 Pike Street, Lemont, PA, United States

March 2 Inservice Day: Join Adam for a combination of creating stories, characters, drawings, and games.

$35

Super Simple Gelliplate Printmaking Class at the Annex, Mar 6, 12–4pm

This event is going to be held at the Art Alliance Annex in downtown State College, 121 S. Fraser Street, State College, PA 16801, next to the Art Alliance Gallery Downtown. No previous printmaking experience is necessary with this fun, explorative, versatile and simple technique that doesn’t require a printing press – results are immediate […]

$35 – $45

Super Simple Gelliplate printmaking at the Annex – Mar 6, 5–9pm

This event is going to be held at the Art Alliance Annex in downtown State College, 121 S. Fraser Street, State College, PA 16801, next to the Art Alliance Gallery Downtown. No previous printmaking experience is necessary with this fun, explorative, versatile and simple technique that doesn’t require a printing press – results are immediate […]

$35 – $45

Opening Reception Members Show, Fri, March 6, 5:30–7:30 at the Expect More Store

Kish Bank’s Expect More Store 114 S. Allen St., State College, PA, United States

Join us at Kish Bank’s Expect More Store as John McKaig, our juror, will be present to announce awards and make remarks about the show as a whole. Following this event, an extended reception will take place at our Downtown Gallery at 123 S. Fraser St. ——————————- The Annual Members Show offers the opportunity for […]

Extended Reception for Members Show Fri, Mar 6, 7:30–9pm at the Art Alliance Gallery Downtown

Join us for a continuing reception on Friday, March 6, from 7:30–9pm for the 2020 Members Show as part of the Downtown Improvement District’s monthly First Friday event. The first part of the reception will be held at Kish Bank’s Expect More Store on S. Allen Street from 5:30–7:30pm. —————— Opening Receptions The opening receptions […]