Center for the Arts - Martin Art Gallery, 1984 - 2025

File — Box: W-02, Folder: W:020A

Identifier: W:020A

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Series: This series includes materials relating to architectural plans, funding, construction, dedication of buildings/cornerstones.

Includes photos, postcards, newspaper clippings, calendars, brochures, student rules, blueprints, worship bulletins, fliers, and slides with script.

Dates

1984 - 2025

Creator

Muhlenberg College (Organization)

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research, with only a few very limited restrictions; access by appointment.

Extent

From the Collection: 50 Linear Feet (The bulk of the printed material (previously the vertical files) is contained in flip-top document cases. Textiles, memorabilia, and other realia is stored in appropriate lidded boxes.)

Additional Description

Facts about the gallery: named for Trustee Frank Martin; works in the collection; value of collection; gifts and grants; included in "Treasurers of the Greater Lehigh Valley" publication - p. 33

Article in Parkland Press "The art of 'Quarantine' at 'Berg photo of Assistant Professor of /sculpture Frederck Wright Jones with his faculty show entry; Gallery Director Paul M. Nicholson

Morning Call article and photograph of artist: 'Joseph Elliott's photographs "Monumental" at Muhlenberg Martin Gallery, 4/5/2017

Press release 5/01/1984 - special ceremony to be held to dedicate in memory of longtime trustee, Frank Martin.

"Dedication of The Frank Martin Art Gallery" - Center for the Arts - pamphlet 5/11/1984 - Remarks by President John H. Morey and John A. Deitrich, Chairman, BCoard of Directors; Invocation and Act of Dedication by Rev. Roger Timm, Acting Chaplain.

PARKLAND PRESS issue 11/26-27/2025 article and photo "Muhlenberg College Martin Art Gallery NAP Archives repository" details the journey of the New Arts Program (NAP) archives from Kutztown to the Martin Art Gallery, Baker Center for the Arts. Former Martin Gallery Director, Jessica L. Ambler, is pictured with James F.L. Carroll's 'Untitled' 1999 etching.