{"id":236336,"date":"2026-07-06T00:33:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T00:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/236336\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T00:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T00:33:11","slug":"lehigh-valley-art-collection-joins-college-of-arts-and-architectures-digital-archives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/236336\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh Valley art collection joins College of Arts and Architecture’s digital archives"},"content":{"rendered":"

CENTER VALLEY, Pa. \u2014 Penn State Lehigh Valley\u2019s historic art collection is the newest addition to the Penn State College of Arts and Architecture’s<\/a> digital archives, a platform designed to preserve and provide access to collections from visual centers across Penn State. <\/p>\n

The archives, titled \u201cDigital Exhibitions At Penn State: A Selection<\/a>,\u201d feature work from units including the Palmer Museum of Art<\/a>, Center for Virtual\/Material Studies<\/a>, the Steidle Collection of American Industrial Art<\/a>, and most recently, the Penn State Lehigh Valley Art Collection<\/a>, among others. <\/p>\n

\u201cOur collection is impressive,\u201d said Ann Lalik<\/a>, gallery director for the Ronald K. De Long Gallery<\/a> and arts coordinator at Penn State Lehigh Valley. \u201cThe art on display in the hallways, in faculty and staff offices, and in the gallery has gained us the reputation as the \u2018art campus\u2019 among the Commonwealth Campuses.\u201d <\/p>\n

When Lalik was hired in 2009, one of her earliest responsibilities was to organize and catalog the art on campus. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I joined the team, Lehigh Valley had close to 100 works of art and now we\u2019ve acquired over 200,” Lalik said.<\/p>\n

In 2013, Lalik created a database to house information about each artwork, including the donor or purchase information and its location on campus. With a special interest in pieces that depict diversity, Lehigh Valley\u2019s most recent art additions include a Bart Cooper print from a series celebrating Black women and three \u201cledger paintings\u201d completed by Native American artists. <\/p>\n

As Lehigh Valley\u2019s campus collection grew, so did Lalik\u2019s interest in sharing the pieces with an audience beyond the campus walls.<\/p>\n

\u201cI started researching options,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

In 2025, Jen Jarson<\/a>, head librarian at the Lehigh Valley campus library, connected Lalik with Catherine Adams<\/a>, research assistant, and Carolyn Lucarelli<\/a>, research project manager, from the Art History Department in the Penn State College of Arts and Architecture. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey had exactly what I was looking for,\u201d said Lalik. \u201c’Digital Exhibitions: A Selection’ is a webpage that houses art collections from units across the University. After a few meetings with Catherine Adams to determine our needs, she created a template for our Lehigh Valley campus collection. Over the last year, I organized the list of artwork and prepared to make it public.\u201d <\/p>\n

Lalik notes a large portion of the project was photographing the art that would be featured online \u2014 a task she credits to Theresa Bongiorno<\/a>, videographer\/editor for the Lehigh Valley Multimedia Innovation Center<\/a>, for completing. <\/p>\n

\u201cTheresa spent many hours locating the art on campus and photographing it for the project,\u201d Lalik said. \u201cOnce the list and photographs were complete, I entered them and created our Penn State Lehigh Valley digital exhibition.\u201d <\/p>\n

Lalik notes the role the archives will play in providing accessible, niche information to users conducting research. <\/p>\n

\u201cIf someone is researching the work of an artist in our collection, they will be able to see it on our digital exhibit, and there is a good chance they will find a piece of art that they won\u2019t be able to find anywhere else,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

The archives currently feature more than 140 pieces of art from the Lehigh Valley campus collection, providing access to a range of art from across the University to users online.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis digital, public platform helps our campus have the opportunity for a global presence,\u201d Lalik said. <\/p>\n

The exhibit “From the Archives” is on display in the Ronald K. De Long Gallery for the summer and features some of the art that is in the Lehigh Valley Art Collection<\/a>. The entire art collection can be viewed in the College of Arts and Architecture’s digital archives<\/a>. For more information on the arts at Penn State Lehigh Valley, visit lehighvalley.psu.edu\/gallery<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CENTER VALLEY, Pa. \u2014 Penn State Lehigh Valley\u2019s historic art collection is the newest addition to the Penn…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-236336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}