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Abington Art Center

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218:"It's different here compared to other art centers I've seen. As well as a studio school, it has the sculpture garden and outreach to the community. Other places are more about teaching than the public." The center has hosted the annual "Touch the Future" juried art show, featuring the work of young artists from the area. In 2005, the center received a $ 500,000 pledge of a matching grant from the state of Pennsylvania, with the objective of assisting the economic development goals of the surrounding municipalities. The first phase of development was completed in 2011. 27: 164:, by a group of women who believed in the "benefit of cultural enrichment for individual and community life to be derived from creative artistic expression", the guild's educational elements were brought under a separate non-profit entity called Abington Art Center. On Christmas Day 1969, a rare book and print collector, 226:
Abington Art Center is a small nonprofit organization with an estimated budget of less than $ 1 million. Its income comes from classes, workshops, and facility rentals for weddings and other affairs (38 percent); foundations (24 percent); membership dues (11 percent); corporate and government support
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in Washington, D.C. This doubled the instruction space as well as the center's student capacity. A sculpture garden was opened in 1990. In 1996, the art center expanded within the building and initiated a 5-year renovation project designed to transform Alverthorpe Manor from a private residence to
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In 2003, Abington Art Center devised a plan for the purposes of developing Alverthorpe Manor property into a 27-acre "cultural campus" within a suburban community. The plan was developed by Wallace Roberts & Todd. Leora Brecher, a sculptor who taught ceramics at the center for 18 years, said,
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and his wife Edith, donated their estate, Alverthorpe Manor, to the Abington community for the purpose of allowing residents to gather for cultural and recreational purposes. Shortly afterwards, the organization appointed its first paid director and the guild formally ended.
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Abington Art Center occupies the gallery wing of Alverthorpe Manor, overlooking the rolling turf of the scenic sculpture garden that has evolved since 1990.
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a public place. Currently, the center contains a gallery, six studios, classrooms, and a sculpture park, and stages outdoor events throughout the year.
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In 1981, the center expanded into the old gallery wing of Alverthorpe Manor when the Rosenwald Collection was moved to the
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The 27 acres (110,000 m) of lawn and woodlands that make up the Sculpture Park has included works by
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and his family. The art center features a studio school, innovation center, exhibition galleries and a
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Jenkintown, PA
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40°05′33″N 75°07′02″W / 40.0924°N 75.1171°W / 40.0924; -75.1171
Art center
www.abingtonartcenter.org
Abington Township
Philadelphia
Lessing J. Rosenwald
sculpture park
elevators
Old York Road Art Guild
Lessing J. Rosenwald
Library of Congress
Joy Episalla
Robert Lawrance Lobe
Steven Siegel
Steve Tobin
Ursula von Rydingsvard
Winifred Lutz
"Abington Art Center celebrates 75 years"
"Sculptures At Art Center Complement The Setting"
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"Abington Art Center"
"The Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Selected Special Collections: Rare Book and Special Collections, Library of Congress)"
Library of Congress

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