Abington Art Center

Abington Art Center Just Imagine. Prior to that, the estate, originally owned by Joshua Francis Fisher, was purchased by Lessing J. Grunsfeld.

Abington Art Center, located in Jenkintown, 20 minutes by rail from the heart of Philadelphia was established in 1939 as the Old York Road Art Guild. In 1965, the Guild's separate elements were brought together as the non-profit entity Abington Art Center, which has resided in Alverthorpe Manor since it was donated to Abington Township in 1969. Rosenwald, son of Julius Rosenwald, the part-owner an

d CEO of Sears, Roebuck and Company. In 1939, he razed the old house to build the current art-deco-inspired, 52-room mansion designed by Ernest A. The Art Center’s Studio School wing of this unique building once housed Rosenwald's enormous collection of over 2,600 rare books and 24,000 prints, drawings, and manuscripts, which was donated to the Library of Congress and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Our rich history provides inspiration for AAC's mission to further arts and culture.

📍 We're Hiring a Studio School Front Desk Associate! 📍The Abington Art Center seeks a charismatic person to assist at th...
04/24/2025

📍 We're Hiring a Studio School Front Desk Associate! 📍

The Abington Art Center seeks a charismatic person to assist at the Studio School Front Desk. The person will need to be adaptable and good at problem solving. An artistic background is required. Candidate must be an ambassador for Abington Art Center who is able to become familiar with our organizational offerings.

📌 To learn more and apply for the position head over to abingtonartcenter.org/aac-jobs/

A Joy-Filled Day of Puppets, Performances, Workshops & Wonder Awaits Families and Puppetry Fans of All Ages!The Greater ...
04/23/2025

A Joy-Filled Day of Puppets, Performances, Workshops & Wonder Awaits Families and Puppetry Fans of All Ages!

The Greater Philadelphia Area Puppetry Guild invites you to the National Day of Puppetry Celebration on Saturday, April 26, 2025 at Abington Art Center.

The event includes a vibrant lineup of puppet shows, hands-on workshops, puppet-building, a puppet film festival, and more. From morning until night, the art center will be alive with puppets in every corner — onstage, on film, in motion, and even on parade.

EVENT DETAILS: We have 2 events for you!

Event 1: Our Day Festival from 9:30 am - 5 pm, which is a family friendly event.

Event 2: A 1-Hour Social from 6-7 PM & the Just * Do It Puppet Slam from 7 - 8:30 PM for adults only! This is where puppets can say whatever is on their minds!

To take part in any or all of the National Day of Puppetry Celebration, you must register on their website. Sign up at greaterphillypuppetryguild.org.

FLASH Sale – 20% OFF til April 24th.
Use PROMO Code: NDP20%OFF at checkout.

We get up to a lot of fun here at Abington's Studio School... Look at these beautiful papier-mâché balloons from this Wi...
04/21/2025

We get up to a lot of fun here at Abington's Studio School... Look at these beautiful papier-mâché balloons from this Winter's "Little Bit of Everything" class!

Spring classes are jiving, summer camp is open to register, and Adult Summer Classes are on their way. Stay tuned!

Learn more at https://canvas.abingtonartcenter.org/classes

📸 Melissa Hassey Photography

⌛ Open Call Closing Soon... ⌛Our Summer Juried Show "The Real" celebrates artists’ technical abilities in rendering real...
04/19/2025

⌛ Open Call Closing Soon... ⌛

Our Summer Juried Show "The Real" celebrates artists’ technical abilities in rendering real life within art, from realism to hyperrealism!

Our open call is only open through Sunday, May 4th... so almost two weeks away. Get your applications in today!

📌 More information can be found at abingtonartcenter.org/calls-for-artists

Spring is here, and that means our Summer Concert Series is right around the corner!We’re putting the finishing touches ...
04/18/2025

Spring is here, and that means our Summer Concert Series is right around the corner!

We’re putting the finishing touches on our lineup and getting the space ready for another beautiful summer under the stars.

Thanks to the generous support of local businesses and individuals, we’re able to offer these performances completely free to the public. If you’d like to help keep the music going, consider making a donation—or better yet, become a 2025 Summer Concert Series sponsor!

It’s not too late to get involved, and we’d love to have you as part of the team that makes it all happen.

Get involved today at abingtonartcenter.org/concert-series!

Photo by Lombardo Media

🌟 Less than a week of our American Color Print Society Members Spring Exhibition and less than a week to take these beau...
04/17/2025

🌟 Less than a week of our American Color Print Society Members Spring Exhibition and less than a week to take these beautiful works home with you! 🌟

🖼️ Artist Work Featured:

🦌“Roadside US Route 30”
by Alyse C. Bernstein
Etching and Drypoint
$315

🌱 “Romaine on Black”
by Kathleen Chapman
Monotype
$200

For inquiries about work in our exhibition, please contact [email protected].

✨ View these beautiful works during our gallery hours through the Monday, April 21st

Summer plans? We've got you covered 😎 Art, friends, and good times await at our kid + teen Summer Camps. Registration is...
04/16/2025

Summer plans? We've got you covered 😎

Art, friends, and good times await at our kid + teen Summer Camps. Registration is open now with morning AND afternoon classes available.

📅 Weekly Sessions from June 23 - August 29

🔗 canvas.abingtonartcenter.org/classes?category=Summer+Camps

📸 Melissa Hassey Photography

Have you seen exhibition up in our galleries? You’ve got less than 1 week to come on out! Stop by gallery hours through...
04/15/2025

Have you seen exhibition up in our galleries? You’ve got less than 1 week to come on out!

Stop by gallery hours through the 21st ✨

Puppets are taking over Jenkintown!Join our friends the Greater Philadelphia Area Puppetry Guild for the National Day of...
04/13/2025

Puppets are taking over Jenkintown!

Join our friends the Greater Philadelphia Area Puppetry Guild for the National Day of Puppetry with on Saturday, April 26th at the Abington Art Center – a full day of puppet shows, hands-on workshops, puppet films, and more!

🕒 9:30 AM–8:30 PM

🎉 Join for our upcoming Artist Talk with Neila Kun & Jessica Barber TODAY at 10am 🎉🌟ACPS Artist Talk Feature: Jessica Ba...
04/12/2025

🎉 Join for our upcoming Artist Talk with Neila Kun & Jessica Barber TODAY at 10am 🎉

🌟ACPS Artist Talk Feature: Jessica Barber🌟

🖼️ “Tree Swallow Nestling”
Lithograph, Monotype, and Watercolor
$850.

Jessica E. Barber is a mixed media artist and printmaker originally from South Central, PA. Her intuitive approach to the creative process includes the use of monotype and lithograph printmaking, pastels, and mixed media painting. Most recently, she has expanded her studio practice to include cyanotype photography. For the last ten years, Barber has had a heightened interest in the natural world, fueled by hiking throughout the Mid-Atlantic, South Florida, and American West. This interest was further enhanced through volunteering and work-related activities spent at local preserves, presenting her with more opportunities to gain awareness of the natural history and preservation of their diverse ecosystems. The exposure to and enjoyment of the pristine beauty of open space and its inherent contrast to gritty, ephemerally abandoned areas being reclaimed by the elements has fueled her most recent works.

Jessica E. Barber earned her B.S. at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and her M.Ed from Cabrini University. She is a co-founder/vice president of Art 504 Creative Collective in Delaware County, PA and a secondary Social Studies educator in Philadelphia. In addition to solo and group exhibitions in Greater Philadelphia, her work has been shown in New York, Miami, Toronto, and Kansas City.

⭐ Join for our upcoming Artist Talk with Neila Kun & Jessica Barber

📍Saturday, April 12 2025 | 10:00a.m. – 12:00p.m.
✨ FREE | In-Person Event

☕ Our Coffee Breaks are sponsored in part by the Jenkintown Lyceum. Bagels are generously provided by in Jenkintown.

If you’d like to inquire artwork in the Small Works exhibition, please contact our gallery manager Amy Cook at [email protected].

🌇 Save the Date… for our Summer Concert Series! And we’re excited to share… We’re expanding from 5 to 6 nights — more mu...
04/12/2025

🌇 Save the Date… for our Summer Concert Series!

And we’re excited to share… We’re expanding from 5 to 6 nights — more music than ever, more sunsets to savor, and more dancing under the stars.

📍6/26 �
📍7/10
📍7/17 �
📍7/24
📍7/31
📍8/7

And our lineup? It’s coming soon — stay tuned at the end of April!

🌟ACPS Artist Talk Feature: Neila Kun🌟🖼️ “Underfoot / Overhead” Monoprint and Mixed Media$450Neila Kun is a Philadelphia-...
04/10/2025

🌟ACPS Artist Talk Feature: Neila Kun🌟

🖼️ “Underfoot / Overhead”
Monoprint and Mixed Media
$450

Neila Kun is a Philadelphia-based printmaker, who earned her BFA and MFA from Tyler School of Art and Architecture. Kun explores issues relating to personal history, cultural identity and the passage of time within her work, noting “art isn't static, it is a state of mind, a set of feelings, a practiced craft, hard work.” Her prints, made with Akua liquid pigment, act as a visual exploration of change and impermanence, hope and loss, magic and longing.

Neila Kun’s work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally. Her work is held in many public collections, including The Philadelphia Museum of Art in Philadelphia, PA, MOMA in New York, NY, The Saint Louis Art Museum in St. Louis MO, Bryn Mawr College in Bryn Mawr, PA, and Swarthmore College's, McCabe Library in Swarthmore, PA.

⭐ Join for our upcoming Artist Talk with Neila Kun & Jessica Barber

📍Saturday, April 12 2025 | 10:00a.m. – 12:00p.m.
✨ FREE | In-Person Event

☕ Our Coffee Breaks are sponsored in part by the Jenkintown Lyceum. Bagels are generously provided by in Jenkintown.

If you’d like to inquire artwork in the Small Works exhibition, please contact our gallery manager Amy Cook at [email protected].

Wow! We love our community. Thank you to all who came out to our Spring Art and Fine Craft Fair. Thank you to our incred...
04/09/2025

Wow! We love our community. Thank you to all who came out to our Spring Art and Fine Craft Fair. Thank you to our incredibly talented vendors, our performers, our event staff, and our sponsors Renewal by Anderson and Stem Early Learning academy. We couldn't do it without you!!

Did you have a favorite moment?

See you in the Fall for our Holiday Market ✨

📸 Melissa Hassey Photography

🌟 Best in Show Art Winner! 🌟From our current American Color Print Society Members Spring Exhibition.🖼️ “How Many Years S...
04/08/2025

🌟 Best in Show Art Winner! 🌟

From our current American Color Print Society Members Spring Exhibition.

🖼️ “How Many Years Since My Birth”
Screenprint (20 layers), Archival Digital Print
by Bates Mandel
$400

If you want to learn more about current exhibition… come to our upcoming Artist Talk featuring ACPS Members Neila Kun & Jessica Barber!

📍Saturday, April 12 2025 | 10:00a.m. – 12:00p.m.
✨ FREE | In-Person Event

Our Artist Talks are sponsored in part by the Jenkintown Lyceum. Bagels are generously provided by in Jenkintown.

For inquiries about work in our exhibition, please contact [email protected].

💫 Upcoming Abington Art Center Open Calls! 💫🏞️ 2025 Summer Juried Show: The Real📍The Real is an exhibition that highligh...
04/08/2025

💫 Upcoming Abington Art Center Open Calls! 💫

🏞️ 2025 Summer Juried Show: The Real

📍The Real is an exhibition that highlights artists’ technical abilities in rendering real life within art, from realism to hyperrealism.

🖼️ Our 2025/2026 Solo Series

📍Our Solo Series offers artists the opportunity to show a body of work in an individual gallery.

Learn more and apply today at abingtonartcenter.org/calls-for-artists

Thank you to all who came out to our Arts Fair today! Coming up tomorrow... Our Spring Studio School Classes! Nows your ...
04/06/2025

Thank you to all who came out to our Arts Fair today! Coming up tomorrow... Our Spring Studio School Classes!

Nows your last chance to register before they begin. Classes for everyone - kids, teens, and adults! Get involved today.

🔗 canvas.abingtonartcenter.org/classes

Today’s the Big Day! Join us from 10am - 4pm for art, food, music, and community at our Spring Art and Fine Craft Fair.📍...
04/06/2025

Today’s the Big Day! Join us from 10am - 4pm for art, food, music, and community at our Spring Art and Fine Craft Fair.

📍 515 Meetinghouse Rd, Jenkintown, PA

🚗 Parking for this event is limited, but additional parking is conveniently located across the street at the Triangle Parking Lot, courtesy of Abington Friends School, on the corner of Meetinghouse and Jenkintown Rd.

We're excited to see you all! Here's our site map 🥳
04/06/2025

We're excited to see you all! Here's our site map 🥳

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515 Meetinghouse Road
Jenkintown, PA
19046

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Monday 9am - 4pm
Tuesday 9am - 9pm
Wednesday 9am - 6pm
Thursday 9am - 9pm

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