Allentown International Contemporary Art Center

AICAC is excited to announce our upcoming show CON_ACT, a performance with documentation presented at AICAC by way of a time based work [with sound #exciting!], keep posted for more details!

AICAC is pleased to announce the extension of our current exhibition Alone Together through April 22, 2020, and to highlight our updated website: allentowncontemporary.com, today's highlight, a wonderful work from our current show by Richard Begbie

Highlighting a wonderful works by Ed Courrier and Lucy Gans in the current exhibition, open through this weekend!

With the streets practically empty, it’s always a great (&safe) time to check out great work at AICAC! Today’s highlighted work by Greta Bergstresser.

AICAC isn't the only fully functional site exhibiting art in the Lehigh Valley, and we would like to acknowledge Paul M Nicholson's ongoing installation "The Crown" at the gardeHouse at Lafayette College. This work is safely viewable 24/7 on Campus, near the Sullivan Parking Deck.

AICAC's first show is up and available for public consumption. We acknowledge the complexities of this particular time where our community is under a shelter in place advisory from the State of Pennsylvania. We believe this is a "safe" way to get out and view art, and that walking and physical engagement with the community is important to health and mental wellbeing. However, please keep in mind the CDC Guidelines for physical distancing, which encourage us to Stay at lea...st six feet away from other people outside immediate family, to lessen the chances of catching or spreading the COVID-19 virus The CDC also encourages the use of masks when in the proximity of individuals from outside your family, or when nearby those who might be infected or who have been exposed to the Coronavirus.. Finally, please help the AICAC show due respect to our neighbors who may need to come and go from their places of residence, business or worship, and so we would ask that you allow others to pass when viewing the current exhibition.

Alone Together April 4 18th, 2020 IMG c/o Leslie Fletcher An uncurated exhibition of digital works by creative practitioners from across the Lehigh Valley.... Alone Together is a special inaugural exhibition of the Allentown International Contemporary Art Center [AICAC]. We are all social animals and yet at this time we are all experiencing an unnatural state of isolation. These conditions of reduced interpersonal engagement and dialog have proven to be trying for all of us, including visual artists, who are compelled to communicate through painting, sculpture, and digital media of all kinds. We are all neighbors living in different parts of the Lehigh Valley together, however, during this period of social distancing, we might as well be across the world from one another. This show exemplifies the strangeness of the moment that we are all in as a community, where we cannot get together in person to share in the bounty of creativity happening here in the Lehigh Valley, despite that it is occurring all around us. With that in mind, Alone Together is designed as a way for members of the creative community to maintain some kind of collective engagement, using digital means to transmit, share, and [safely] present our ideas together in physical space. To implement this project, the AICAC reached out to area artists willing to share a digital artwork for public display in the AICAC main gallery. Artists were invited to share: some digital images from your home or in the park... or work created completely in photoshop, or by manipulating found digital images. Unique screenshots, your own memes Pretty much any format is fine, so long as AICAC can print it, we can show it. Participants include: Raymond Barnes, Richard Begbie, Greta Bergstresser, Beth Buechler, Ed Courrier, William B. Crow, James A. DePietro, Leslie Fletcher, Jacqueline Meyerson, Paul M. Nicholson, Lydia Panas, Lucy Gans, Jett Ulaner Saracheck, Norman Sarachek, Emily Strong, Matthew Williams, and Frederick Wright Jones. Thank you for enjoying the works on display in the AICAC responsibly. We believe this is a safe manner to view art, but please be aware of the CDC Guidelines for physical distancing, which encourage us to Stay at least six feet away from other people outside immediate family, to lessen the chances of catching or spreading the COVID-19 virus The CDC also encourages the use of masks when in the proximity of individuals from outside your family, or when nearby those who might be infected or who have been exposed to the Coronavirus. Additionally, frequent hand washing is advised.