The Marlin and Regina Miller Gallery at Kutztown University, in conjunction with KU’s Department of Art and Design, present “Stay Alive Make Art: The Art of Amos Lemon Burkhart” through Dec. 14 in the Sharadin Arts Building.
This exhibition features the restless exploration of techniques, ideas and methods of young prodigy Amos Lemon Burkhart, who worked to understand and express his own turbulent interior life.
The exhibition displays complexities of emotional instability, anxiety and trauma; questions about love, sex and gender identity; and issues around substance use and abuse revealed through complex layered paintings and drawings.
Burkhart died in 2018 at age 20 in a drug and alcohol-related drowning. This exhibition serves as more than a display of his art; it features interactive stations that encourage conversations about creativity, mental illness and addiction to inspire artists to “Stay Alive and Make Art.”
Music
A continuing education service of the Highlands at Wyomissing and the Reading Symphony Orchestra League will present a lecture by Peter Brye on Nov. 12 at the Highlands, 2000 Cambridge Ave., Wyomissing, at 7:30 p.m.
Brye is a cellist with the RSO and a retired professor of music at Millersville University.
The free lecture will highlight the themes that should be listened for at the Nov. 15 concert and provide information about some of the events surrounding the composition of the music and life of the composer.
