The Ronald K. De Long Gallery PENN STATE LEHIGH VALLEY

GREG WEAVE R Greg Weaver, a native of Allentown, pa., Was born October 18, After graduating from Penn state university with a B.A. In political science in 1967, he attended Duquesne University School of Law in Pittsburgh, Pa. From 1967 to In 1969, Weaver won first prize in painting at the amateur artists of Pittsburgh. The following year he enrolled at Carnegie Mellon University, where he received his BFA in painting in Exhibit: September 2-December 12, 2014 Urban American Folk Artist

Self Portrait II Oil pastel on paper. 18” x 24”. Blue Cow II Acrylic on canvas. 9’ x 6’.

Ascension in Red Mixed media on paper. 15” x 22”. Blue and Green Rectangles Oil, aluminum foil on canvas. 72” x 45”.

Chicken, Cow and Tree Oil on canvas. 4’ x 7’. “Greg Weaver was a visionary artist in the Lehigh Valley…. His commitment and enduring efforts were simply extraordinary, making him a true humanist.” Ricardo Viera

SACRED SISTERS: a collaboration of artist and poet Holly Trostle Brigham & Marilyn Nelson Holly Trostle Brigham of Philadelphia is a figurative painter who creates mythical allegories of historical subjects. Her paintings have won awards at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and she has taught at the Baum School. Marilyn Nelson is a poet and the daughter of a member of the Tuskegee Airmen. Marilyn's latest collection of poems is Faster Than Light (2012), winner of the 2013 Milton Kessler Poetry Award. Gallery Exhibit, poetry readings and workshops across disciplines focused on seven historic nuns who were also artists: painters, ceramicists, musicians and writers. Exhibit: February 2- May 31, 2016

Dead Hildegard Live Hildegard Holly Trostle Brigham Mixed Media Box: 12 th Century Mystic Hildegard of Bingen

Catherine of Bologna ca At fourteen I was sent to serve at court. I pray I'd be freed from that privilege into the privilege of poverty: to embrace penance and constant fasting, invited with my sisters to the dance of chaste devotion. Thus I prayed at court, listening over my embroidery. My maiden heart beat with a constant plea: Show me thy face, Lord; Lord, show me thy face…. …then silence, then doubt, and finally, revelation. An ambassador for poetry in America, Marilyn Nelson has been awarded the Poetry Society of America's Frost Medal for distinguished lifetime achievement in poetry (2012). She is a National Book Award finalist and a Los Angeles Times Book Award finalist, and has earned two creative writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Fulbright Teaching Fellowship, and a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation. Nelson is a former Poet Laureate of the State of Connecticut and a professor emerita of English at the University of Connecticut.