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Featured Image: White Bell, 2020, Bradley Hendershot, Watercolor, 17 1/2 x 29 1/4
Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts presents
“Gathering Elements” Exhibit featuring artists,
Katharine Krieg & Bradley Hendershot
BETHLEHEM, PA—The Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts (Charter Arts) Visual Arts Department is proud to present the work of professional artists, Katharine Krieg and Bradley Hendershot, in an exhibition titled “Gathering Elements” with a free Opening Reception on September 2, 2022, from 6-8 PM as part of the Bethlehem Southside Arts District’s First Friday celebration. This impressive exhibition features close to 50 works including original paintings, studies, and reproductions.
The school’s Corpora Art Gallery is host to a full schedule of both professional and student exhibitions each school year. In addition to attracting the community for public events, the professional artists and exhibits also act as a great learning tool for students.
Charter Arts’ Director of Visual Arts, Lorie Reinhard, says: “We are so proud to host the “Gathering Elements” exhibit as part of our professional series. Katharine Krieg was a visual arts faculty member from 2015 to 2020 and we are so happy to have her back as a visiting artist along with Bradley Hendershot. Both artists will present workshops to visual arts students in October with a focus on combining resources.”
The “Gathering Elements” exhibition will be on display in the gallery through October 15, 2022. In addition to the September First Friday reception, there will be another free public reception during the Southside’s October First Friday celebration. Appointments to view the exhibit during school hours can also be arranged through Lorie Reinhard, lreinhard@
ABOUT THE CHARTER ARTS VISUAL ARTS DEPARTMENT:The Charter Arts Visual Arts Department provides a structured and classical art education. Students are rigorously trained in drawing, painting, sculpture, design, and educated in art history. The goal is to promote a return to excellence in the visual arts through intensive training and the implementation of high standards.
Presented as an academic as well as an artistic pursuit, the courses inspire students to perceive connections between art and other subject areas. Students build upon learned concepts with the intention of gaining mastery, concentration, a strong work ethic, and self-discipline. Through practice, study, analysis, reading, and research, they learn to apply their intelligence and discernment to the art they create.
ABOUT THE LEHIGH VALLEY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS (Charter Arts):
Charter Arts is an audition-based public charter school that provides a comprehensive curriculum for high school students, grades 9-12, who have a passion for the arts. Students major in one of seven artistic areas: dance, instrumental music, literary arts, production arts, theatre, visual arts, or vocal music.
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.
Charter Arts is proud to celebrate its nineteenth year as one of the most respected high schools for the arts in the nation. Charter Arts was one of only 349 schools in the nation to be named a 2018 National Blue Ribbon School of Excellence by the U.S. Department of Education. The school also earned the Title I Distinguished School designation for four years, which placed it in the top 5 % of all Title I high schools in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Recently, Charter Arts was ranked as #1 Best Public High School Teachers in PA (out of 675) and #1 Best Charter High School in Pennsylvania on Niche’s 2022 Best Schools in America Rankings.
Charter Arts is located at 321 East 3rd Street, Bethlehem PA 18015. For more information, visit www.CharterArts.org.
Information & Image Provided By:
Ann Gillette
Manager of Public Relations and Media
Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts
321 East 3rd Street, Bethlehem, PA 18015
www.CharterArts.org
