The Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts (Charter Arts) Dance Department will present its Dance Soup Concert on November 22 & 23, 2024. This dynamic concert is an annual tradition at the school, showcasing student-choreographed works. Directed by Rebecca Moyer and Jennifer Weaver, the concert promises a vibrant mix of senior solos and group performances across various genres, including modern, jazz, contemporary, and ballet. “The audience can expect a diverse array of music and themes that will keep them fully engaged,” Weaver explains. “Students have dedicated considerable time to developing their concepts and exploring the creative process behind their dances.”
Dance Soup offers students a chance to apply the skills they’ve gained in Improvisation and Dance Composition classes. Many start developing their ideas during the summer before the school year begins in September. This process involves submitting proposals for faculty approval, auditioning peers, and participating in rehearsals and mentoring sessions with faculty, all of which help students enhance their leadership and choreographic abilities. “Students also experience the critique process during this journey,” notes Weaver. “We provide them with the freedom to explore the entire realm of dance, allowing them to express their unique voices and specialties.”
When asked about the name Dance Soup, Weaver explains, “Much like soup is crafted from a variety of ingredients, this concert brings together diverse elements that blend beautifully to create an engaging performance that is sure to warm the audience’s hearts.”
Evening performances November 22 & 23 at 7 PM. Matinee performance November 23 at 2 PM. Tickets are $7-$12. Purchase online in advance at CharterArts.org.
The Charter Arts Dance Department provides students with a comprehensive and quality dance education in an environment that nurtures the talent of each individual. Students engage in an array of technique classes, improvisation, composition and dance history classes. Dance majors also have numerous performing opportunities throughout the year, both in school and in the community.
Prospective students and families who are interested in learning more about the dance department and the school are encouraged to attend a FALL OPEN HOUSE event on November 16th or an upcoming Virtual Information Session. More information at CharterArts. org
The Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts (Charter Arts) Dance Department will present its Dance Soup Concert on November 22 & 23, 2024. This dynamic concert is an annual tradition at the school, showcasing student-choreographed works. Directed by Rebecca Moyer and Jennifer Weaver, the concert promises a vibrant mix of senior solos and group performances across various genres, including modern, jazz, contemporary, and ballet. “The audience can expect a diverse array of music and themes that will keep them fully engaged,” Weaver explains. “Students have dedicated considerable time to developing their concepts and exploring the creative process behind their dances.”
Dance Soup offers students a chance to apply the skills they’ve gained in Improvisation and Dance Composition classes. Many start developing their ideas during the summer before the school year begins in September. This process involves submitting proposals for faculty approval, auditioning peers, and participating in rehearsals and mentoring sessions with faculty, all of which help students enhance their leadership and choreographic abilities. “Students also experience the critique process during this journey,” notes Weaver. “We provide them with the freedom to explore the entire realm of dance, allowing them to express their unique voices and specialties.”
When asked about the name Dance Soup, Weaver explains, “Much like soup is crafted from a variety of ingredients, this concert brings together diverse elements that blend beautifully to create an engaging performance that is sure to warm the audience’s hearts.”
Evening performances November 22 & 23 at 7 PM. Matinee performance November 23 at 2 PM. Tickets are $7-$12. Purchase online in advance at CharterArts.org.
The Charter Arts Dance Department provides students with a comprehensive and quality dance education in an environment that nurtures the talent of each individual. Students engage in an array of technique classes, improvisation, composition and dance history classes. Dance majors also have numerous performing opportunities throughout the year, both in school and in the community.
Prospective students and families who are interested in learning more about the dance department and the school are encouraged to attend a FALL OPEN HOUSE event on November 16th or an upcoming Virtual Information Session. More information at CharterArts. org
The Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts (Charter Arts) Dance Department will present its Dance Soup Concert on November 22 & 23, 2024. This dynamic concert is an annual tradition at the school, showcasing student-choreographed works. Directed by Rebecca Moyer and Jennifer Weaver, the concert promises a vibrant mix of senior solos and group performances across various genres, including modern, jazz, contemporary, and ballet. “The audience can expect a diverse array of music and themes that will keep them fully engaged,” Weaver explains. “Students have dedicated considerable time to developing their concepts and exploring the creative process behind their dances.”
Dance Soup offers students a chance to apply the skills they’ve gained in Improvisation and Dance Composition classes. Many start developing their ideas during the summer before the school year begins in September. This process involves submitting proposals for faculty approval, auditioning peers, and participating in rehearsals and mentoring sessions with faculty, all of which help students enhance their leadership and choreographic abilities. “Students also experience the critique process during this journey,” notes Weaver. “We provide them with the freedom to explore the entire realm of dance, allowing them to express their unique voices and specialties.”
When asked about the name Dance Soup, Weaver explains, “Much like soup is crafted from a variety of ingredients, this concert brings together diverse elements that blend beautifully to create an engaging performance that is sure to warm the audience’s hearts.”
Evening performances November 22 & 23 at 7 PM. Matinee performance November 23 at 2 PM. Tickets are $7-$12. Purchase online in advance at CharterArts.org.
The Charter Arts Dance Department provides students with a comprehensive and quality dance education in an environment that nurtures the talent of each individual. Students engage in an array of technique classes, improvisation, composition and dance history classes. Dance majors also have numerous performing opportunities throughout the year, both in school and in the community.
Prospective students and families who are interested in learning more about the dance department and the school are encouraged to attend a FALL OPEN HOUSE event on November 16th or an upcoming Virtual Information Session. More information at CharterArts. org
This workshop invites participants to de-stress by creating experimental drawings inspired by the work of artist Nellie Mae Rowe in the exhibition Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe. The session will begin with some gentle seated movement, followed by a short guided meditation. With a cultivated sense of heightened awareness, we will move through several drawing exercises based on the evening’s theme of automatic drawing from dreams.
The resulting drawing will be experimental, fluid, foundational, gestural, and incredibly fun. Here, the emphasis is on mark-making, gesture, and connecting the practice of drawing with the practice of meditation. No prior drawing or meditation experience is required, as the practice is really based on the individual’s response to the experience in the moment.
Open to the public.
Please register in advance to save your space. Registration is limited.
All supplies will be provided and participants will take home their own drawing kit.
Participants will be invited to use yoga mats to sit / lay on the floor throughout the workshop. You might bring your own mat, a pillow or bolster to make yourself more comfortable. This is entirely optional, chairs and some mats will also be provided.
Susan Morelock is an artist, researcher, and educator whose engagement with photography, video and writing begins with what the world presents, then uses beauty and theory to coax the mundane toward metaphor. Her work has been widely exhibited in venues across the United States as well internationally, including locations in China, England, Japan, and Italy. Among her awarded grants and residencies are Artist in Residence at Baer Art Center, Iceland; Artist in Residence at ChaNorth, Pine Plains, NY; Teaching Artist in Residence at the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY; and Artist in Residence at Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, Ithaca, NY. She received her BFA in photography from Rochester Institute of Technology, her MA in visual and critical studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and her MFA from Columbia University. For more information view Susan’s website.
Connect & Create workshops offer a brief exploration and creative conversation around a work of art from the LUAG collection, followed by a hands-on activity and/or creative response led by a local teaching artist or student educator.
Image Credit: Nellie Mae Rowe (American, 1900–1982), Untitled (At Night Things Come to Me), 1980, crayon and pencil on paper, 18 x 24 inches, High Museum of Art, gift of Judith Alexander, 2003.226. © 2023 Estate of Nellie Mae Rowe/High Museum of Art, Atlanta.
Assistant Professor of Art History Florencia San Martín in conversation with Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures and Latin American and Latino Studies Matthew Bush about two recent publications edited by Prof. San Martín about contemporary art in Chile.
The book Dismantling the Nation: Contemporary Art in Chile is the first academic volume to theorize and historicize contemporary artistic practices and culture from Chile in the English language. Critiquing the links between the nation-state of Chile and its colonial, capitalist, heteronormative, and extractivist rule, the book proposes otherwise forms of inhabiting, creating, and relating in more fluid and caring worlds, attending to artistic practices and discourses from Arica and the Atacama Desert to Wallmapu and Tierra del Fuego, and from the Central Valley, the Pacific coast, and the Andes to territories beyond the nation’s modern geographical borders. Analyzing how these practices refer to issues such as the environmental and cultural impact of extractivism, as well as memory, trauma, collectivity, and resistance towards neoliberal totality, this volume furthermore envisions art history and visual culture from a transnational and transdisciplinary perspective. For more information visit: https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/9k41zh29x
The exhibition catalog Todavía somos el Tiempo: arte y resistencia a 50 años del golpe was published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name shown from November 2023 through March 2024 at the National Center of Contemporary Art in Chile. Commissioned by the Chilean Ministry of Cultures, Arts, and Heritage to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the U.S.-backed military coup in Chile, the exhibition included more than one hundred works created by artists and collectives from different generations, as well as hundreds of publications and archives from documentation centers in Chile and the United States. Divided into five sections, this exhibition shows the role of imperialism and global capitalism in the events and ideologies that designed the dictatorship and gave the green light to its conceptual continuity in the present, presenting art and time together as community projects of liberation, justice, and reparation. The accompanying exhibition catalog is available on paper and as open access. To access the open-access version visit: https://www.cultura.gob.cl/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/tset-catalogo-.pdf
For more information about the exhibition visit: https://www.cultura.gob.cl/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/tset-catalogo-.pdf
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This event is co-sponsored by the Latin American and Latino Studies Department and is part of International Education Week 2024. For the full calendar of events, please click here.”
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Florencia San Martín is an Assistant Professor of Art History at Lehigh University, where she teaches and writes about contemporary art, Latin American art, history of photography, and decolonial methodologies. She is co-editor of the volume The Routledge Companion to Decolonizing Art History (Routledge, 2023) and is currently completing a monograph based on her PhD dissertation titled Alfredo Jaar: Decolonial Time and the Aesthetics of the Unfinished.
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Matthew Bush‘s research and teaching examine contemporary Latin American narrative and culture, focusing primarily on Mexico, Peru, and Argentina. His most recent book Other Americans: The Art of Latin America in the US Imaginary (Pittsburgh 2022) examines the representation of Latin America across a host of mediums including Hollywood films, Netflix series, and contemporary novels, to probe the role of negative affect in hemispheric relations. His current monographic project examines the politics of neo-avant-garde authorship in Latin America.
Art in Dialogue is a series of interdisciplinary conversations between members of the university and the wider community – reflecting the ways in which their work is dynamically engaged with other fields of inquiry.
Assistant Professor of Art History Florencia San Martín in conversation with Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures and Latin American and Latino Studies Matthew Bush about two recent publications edited by Prof. San Martín about contemporary art in Chile.
The book Dismantling the Nation: Contemporary Art in Chile is the first academic volume to theorize and historicize contemporary artistic practices and culture from Chile in the English language. Critiquing the links between the nation-state of Chile and its colonial, capitalist, heteronormative, and extractivist rule, the book proposes otherwise forms of inhabiting, creating, and relating in more fluid and caring worlds, attending to artistic practices and discourses from Arica and the Atacama Desert to Wallmapu and Tierra del Fuego, and from the Central Valley, the Pacific coast, and the Andes to territories beyond the nation’s modern geographical borders. Analyzing how these practices refer to issues such as the environmental and cultural impact of extractivism, as well as memory, trauma, collectivity, and resistance towards neoliberal totality, this volume furthermore envisions art history and visual culture from a transnational and transdisciplinary perspective. For more information visit: https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/9k41zh29x
The exhibition catalog Todavía somos el Tiempo: arte y resistencia a 50 años del golpe was published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name shown from November 2023 through March 2024 at the National Center of Contemporary Art in Chile. Commissioned by the Chilean Ministry of Cultures, Arts, and Heritage to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the U.S.-backed military coup in Chile, the exhibition included more than one hundred works created by artists and collectives from different generations, as well as hundreds of publications and archives from documentation centers in Chile and the United States. Divided into five sections, this exhibition shows the role of imperialism and global capitalism in the events and ideologies that designed the dictatorship and gave the green light to its conceptual continuity in the present, presenting art and time together as community projects of liberation, justice, and reparation. The accompanying exhibition catalog is available on paper and as open access. To access the open-access version visit: https://www.cultura.gob.cl/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/tset-catalogo-.pdf
For more information about the exhibition visit: https://www.cultura.gob.cl/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/tset-catalogo-.pdf
Images provided by Florencia San Martín_Todavía somos el Tiempo: arte y resistencia a 50 años del golpe_published by the Chilean Ministry of Cultures, Arts, and Heritage
This event is co-sponsored by the Latin American and Latino Studies Department and is part of International Education Week 2024. For the full calendar of events, please click here.”
Florencia San Martín is an Assistant Professor of Art History at Lehigh University, where she teaches and writes about contemporary art, Latin American art, history of photography, and decolonial methodologies. She is co-editor of the volume The Routledge Companion to Decolonizing Art History (Routledge, 2023) and is currently completing a monograph based on her PhD dissertation titled Alfredo Jaar: Decolonial Time and the Aesthetics of the Unfinished.
Matthew Bush‘s research and teaching examine contemporary Latin American narrative and culture, focusing primarily on Mexico, Peru, and Argentina. His most recent book Other Americans: The Art of Latin America in the US Imaginary (Pittsburgh 2022) examines the representation of Latin America across a host of mediums including Hollywood films, Netflix series, and contemporary novels, to probe the role of negative affect in hemispheric relations. His current monographic project examines the politics of neo-avant-garde authorship in Latin America.
Art in Dialogue is a series of interdisciplinary conversations between members of the university and the wider community – reflecting the ways in which their work is dynamically engaged with other fields of inquiry.
Assistant Professor of Art History Florencia San Martín in conversation with Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures and Latin American and Latino Studies Matthew Bush about two recent publications edited by Prof. San Martín about contemporary art in Chile.
The book Dismantling the Nation: Contemporary Art in Chile is the first academic volume to theorize and historicize contemporary artistic practices and culture from Chile in the English language. Critiquing the links between the nation-state of Chile and its colonial, capitalist, heteronormative, and extractivist rule, the book proposes otherwise forms of inhabiting, creating, and relating in more fluid and caring worlds, attending to artistic practices and discourses from Arica and the Atacama Desert to Wallmapu and Tierra del Fuego, and from the Central Valley, the Pacific coast, and the Andes to territories beyond the nation’s modern geographical borders. Analyzing how these practices refer to issues such as the environmental and cultural impact of extractivism, as well as memory, trauma, collectivity, and resistance towards neoliberal totality, this volume furthermore envisions art history and visual culture from a transnational and transdisciplinary perspective. For more information visit: https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/9k41zh29x
The exhibition catalog Todavía somos el Tiempo: arte y resistencia a 50 años del golpe was published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name shown from November 2023 through March 2024 at the National Center of Contemporary Art in Chile. Commissioned by the Chilean Ministry of Cultures, Arts, and Heritage to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the U.S.-backed military coup in Chile, the exhibition included more than one hundred works created by artists and collectives from different generations, as well as hundreds of publications and archives from documentation centers in Chile and the United States. Divided into five sections, this exhibition shows the role of imperialism and global capitalism in the events and ideologies that designed the dictatorship and gave the green light to its conceptual continuity in the present, presenting art and time together as community projects of liberation, justice, and reparation. The accompanying exhibition catalog is available on paper and as open access. To access the open-access version visit: https://www.cultura.gob.cl/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/tset-catalogo-.pdf
For more information about the exhibition visit: https://www.cultura.gob.cl/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/tset-catalogo-.pdf
Images provided by Florencia San Martín_Todavía somos el Tiempo: arte y resistencia a 50 años del golpe_published by the Chilean Ministry of Cultures, Arts, and Heritage
This event is co-sponsored by the Latin American and Latino Studies Department and is part of International Education Week 2024. For the full calendar of events, please click here.”
Florencia San Martín is an Assistant Professor of Art History at Lehigh University, where she teaches and writes about contemporary art, Latin American art, history of photography, and decolonial methodologies. She is co-editor of the volume The Routledge Companion to Decolonizing Art History (Routledge, 2023) and is currently completing a monograph based on her PhD dissertation titled Alfredo Jaar: Decolonial Time and the Aesthetics of the Unfinished.
Matthew Bush‘s research and teaching examine contemporary Latin American narrative and culture, focusing primarily on Mexico, Peru, and Argentina. His most recent book Other Americans: The Art of Latin America in the US Imaginary (Pittsburgh 2022) examines the representation of Latin America across a host of mediums including Hollywood films, Netflix series, and contemporary novels, to probe the role of negative affect in hemispheric relations. His current monographic project examines the politics of neo-avant-garde authorship in Latin America.
Art in Dialogue is a series of interdisciplinary conversations between members of the university and the wider community – reflecting the ways in which their work is dynamically engaged with other fields of inquiry.
This workshop invites participants to de-stress by creating experimental drawings inspired by the work of artist Nellie Mae Rowe in the exhibition Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe. The session will begin with some gentle seated movement, followed by a short guided meditation. With a cultivated sense of heightened awareness, we will move through several drawing exercises based on the evening’s theme of automatic drawing from dreams.
The resulting drawing will be experimental, fluid, foundational, gestural, and incredibly fun. Here, the emphasis is on mark-making, gesture, and connecting the practice of drawing with the practice of meditation. No prior drawing or meditation experience is required, as the practice is really based on the individual’s response to the experience in the moment.
Open to the public.
Please register in advance to save your space. Registration is limited.
All supplies will be provided and participants will take home their own drawing kit.
Participants will be invited to use yoga mats to sit / lay on the floor throughout the workshop. You might bring your own mat, a pillow or bolster to make yourself more comfortable. This is entirely optional, chairs and some mats will also be provided.
Susan Morelock is an artist, researcher, and educator whose engagement with photography, video and writing begins with what the world presents, then uses beauty and theory to coax the mundane toward metaphor. Her work has been widely exhibited in venues across the United States as well internationally, including locations in China, England, Japan, and Italy. Among her awarded grants and residencies are Artist in Residence at Baer Art Center, Iceland; Artist in Residence at ChaNorth, Pine Plains, NY; Teaching Artist in Residence at the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY; and Artist in Residence at Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, Ithaca, NY. She received her BFA in photography from Rochester Institute of Technology, her MA in visual and critical studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and her MFA from Columbia University. For more information view Susan’s website.
Connect & Create workshops offer a brief exploration and creative conversation around a work of art from the LUAG collection, followed by a hands-on activity and/or creative response led by a local teaching artist or student educator.
Image Credit: Nellie Mae Rowe (American, 1900–1982), Untitled (At Night Things Come to Me), 1980, crayon and pencil on paper, 18 x 24 inches, High Museum of Art, gift of Judith Alexander, 2003.226. © 2023 Estate of Nellie Mae Rowe/High Museum of Art, Atlanta.
Join us for an inspiring, hands-on workshop celebrating the creativity of all ages! Drawing inspiration from the vibrant and imaginative artwork of Nellie Mae Rowe, participants will explore the art of transforming personal or family photographs into original works of art. Using a unique wintergreen oil transfer technique, you’ll learn how to transfer copies of photographs onto new surfaces and enhance them by hand with colored pencils, markers, and more.
Whether you’re young or young at heart, this workshop is designed to bring generations together to share stories, memories, and creativity. All materials will be provided, and participants are encouraged to bring printed copies of their favorite personal or family photographs to reimagine through this unique artistic process. You can also be prepared to email image files to luag@lehigh.edu for use during the workshop.
Workshop is designed for all ages, including children ages 4 to 94 and their adult companions.
Register in advance here. Space is limited.
If you require assistance to fill out this form or prefer to share your registration information via email or phone, please email ejs421@lehigh.edu or call 610-758-6882. Questions, concerns, and any accessibility needs can also be directed to Elise at ejs421@lehigh.edu or call 610-758-6882.
Susan Morelock is an artist, researcher, and educator whose engagement with photography, video and writing begins with what the world presents, then uses beauty and theory to coax the mundane toward metaphor. Her work has been widely exhibited in venues across the United States as well internationally, including locations in China, England, Japan, and Italy. Among her awarded grants and residencies are Artist in Residence at Baer Art Center, Iceland; Artist in Residence at ChaNorth, Pine Plains, NY; Teaching Artist in Residence at the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY; and Artist in Residence at Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, Ithaca, NY. She received her BFA in photography from Rochester Institute of Technology, her MA in visual and critical studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and her MFA from Columbia University. For more information view Susan’s website.
Image credit: Nellie Mae Rowe (American, 1900–1982), Untitled (Nellie Mae Rowe on Airplane), 1979–1982, gelatin silver print, marker, and pen on cardboard, 16 x 18 inches, High Museum of Art, gift of Judith Alexander, 2003.224. © 2023 Estate of Nellie Mae Rowe/High Museum of Art, Atlanta.
The Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts (Charter Arts) will hold an Admissions Open House on Saturday, November 16th from 10 AM-1 PM. This event is a great first step for prospective students and families to learn more about the school’s rigorous curriculum, admissions process and more! Attendees will have the opportunity to tour the school facility and attend breakout sessions with directors of the school’s various artistic departments.
RSVP is required. Sign up to attend at: www.CharterArts.org.
Charter Arts is an audition-based public charter school that provides a comprehensive curriculum for high school students, grades 9-12, who have a dedicated passion for the creative or performing arts. Students major in one of seven artistic areas: dance, instrumental music, literary arts, production arts (film & technical theatre), theatre, visual arts, or vocal music.
Auditions for the 2025-2026 school year will be held in late January/early February and are by appointment only. Any student entering 9th, 10th, 11th, or 12th grade who resides in Pennsylvania is eligible to audition. The school’s current student body hails from a ten-county region in eastern Pennsylvania. More information about auditions is available on the admissions page of the school website.
Charter Arts’ rigorous curriculum fosters both academic and artistic excellence for its students. The school’s impressive Future Ready PA Index ranking, Advanced Placement (AP) exam statistics, Keystone Exam statistics, SAT scores, prestigious artistic accolades, and graduation rate, are testaments to the outstanding education that Charter Arts provides.
Recently, Charter Arts was ranked as #1 Best Charter High School in PA & #1 Best Public High School Teachers in PA on Niche’s 2025 Best Schools in America Rankings. Charter Arts was one of only four Lehigh Valley schools to make The Top 100 Public High Schools in PA on U.S. News & World Report’s 2024 Best Schools.
Charter Arts is located at 321 East 3rd Street, Bethlehem PA 18015.