72 Pageviews Read Stories
- EIN 13-3391212
- 250 Bedford Park Blvd W Bronx NY 10468-1527 USA
- www.lehman.edu/gallery
- Add to Favorites
Promote This Nonprofit
More Nonprofits
Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Art Museums, Arts & Culture, Visual Arts
Mission: Lehman college art gallery is dedicated to serving the interests of the bronx community and the greater new york area by providing a dynamic center for the visual arts as well as an important cultural resource for its diverse audience. The gallery presents works by leading figures in contemporary art, promising emerging artists, and significant theme shows. Education is an integral component of exhibition programming and provides the basis of the gallery's outreach-from young students to senior citizens. To further these goals the gallery pursues new technologies as a means of reaching audiences internationally as well as locally.
Programs: Exhibition program: the gallery has been bringing important contemporary art to our bronx audience since 1984. It presents 5-8 contemporary art exhibitions each year that include major figures in the art world as well as important emerging artists. Gallery exhibition admission, gallery talks, receptions, and exhibition materials are offered free of charge. Web projects: lehman college art gallery has been a pioneer in the use of interactive media. Projects range from the production of the public art in the bronx web site, a teacher's guide to over 100 public art projects in the borough, to interactive works of art and new media artist's residencies. And bronx architecture, a new online education project featuring eighty sites that date from the 17th century to the present. Public art in the bronx, a project of lehman college art gallery / city university of new york, examines the rich collection of public art found in our borough. The projects also include special online artists work and online exhibition catalogues. Education programs lehman college art gallery has been a cultural and educational resource for the bronx community since 1985. Programs are offered to school groups between kindergarten and twelfth grade, teachers, college classes, and the adult gallery audience. They include workshops with tour, artists talks, long-term and short-term workshops that are offered in the schools as well as the gallery, professional development for teachers, and internship programs, and bi-lingual family art workshops. Programs encourage students to develop critical thinking and communication skills while expanding their understanding of art in the gallery. In the studio, students learn to collaborate on installation projects, develop basic arts skills, and make connections between art and their other classes. Our unique location on the lehman college campus allows students the opportunity to visualize college life and imagine a possible career in the arts beyond school. The internship program completes the circle by teaching college students to become educators in the arts.