Life Center Gallery Exhibits
Upcoming Exhibits
No Greater Love: Church of the Brethren Mission in China
August 24-November 2, 2010
Open House: Sunday, September 19 -- 2:00-5:00 pm
Presentation at 2:00 pm -- "Brethren China Experience" by Dr. Jeffrey Bach of the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, Elizabethtown College
The exhibit "No Greater Love" was developed by guest curator Dr. Gene Wampler, who spent his early childhood years in China as the son of Brethren missionaries. American Brethren workers came to China during a tumultuous period in Chinese history. Politics, economics, disease and war changed China and its people. Brethren workers shared some of these hardships as they expressed their love for the Chinese people. Sickness was common and death was not unexpected for those living in China during the early twentieth century.
Please join us on Sunday afternoon, September 19 at 2:00pm when Dr. Jeffrey Bach, Director of the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College, will present a program on the Brethren experience in China followed by informal discussion in the exhibit with Dr. Bach and Dr. Wampler. Light refreshments will be served. Exhibits will remain open until 5:00pm.
Past Exhibits
The Photography of Anna Guntz: A Mennonite Farm Woman's Life
January 13-February 20, 2010
Open House: Sunday, January 24, 2-5 pm
Special Open Hours: Sunday, February 21, 2-4 pm
This exhibit features the photographic vision of an area Mennonite woman as she photographed her life in the 1950s through the 1970s. With an eye for composition and clarity, Anna Guntz recorded everyday home and farm scenes from her rural home in Montgomery County. Today, her photographs are an outstanding visual history of the time period. The exhibit features 35 images selected from over two thousand slides. The exhibit opens on January 13 and runs through February 20, 2010.
Membership Exhibition of the Perkiomen Valley Art Center
March 2-26, 2010
Reception: Sunday, March 7, 2-5 pm
Penn View Christian School Intergenerational Art Show
May 4-28, 2010
Reception: Tuesday, May 4, 3:30-5 pm
Hours: Tuesday through Friday, 10 am to 5 pm; Saturday 10 am to 2 pm
$5.00 Admission Donation. Handicap access to exhibits.