Ann Lalik is an art administrator, art educator and artist.
As Gallery Director and Arts Coordinator at Penn State Lehigh Valley, Lalik instituted the art gallery and art studio facilities on PSULV’s campus in 2010 and continues to work with the faculty and administration to infuse the arts into the campus life.
Lalik teaches jewelry and metalsmithing Penn State Lehigh Valley. Her teaching career spans more than three decades.
Her studio is located in Allentown. As an artist, she focuses on designing and creating wearable art objects that chronicle her life as a woman in modern society, using precious and non-precious metals, plastics and found objects.
Education: M.F.A. and B.F.A, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Photograph by DAL Designs
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Engaging Perceptions: A Collaboration Of Scholars And Artists, Freyberger Gallery, PSU Berks, Reading PA, 2020
Fifth Biennial Self-Portrait Exhibition: The Last Picture Show, The Rotunda, Bethlehem, PA, 2019
Contemporary Renaissance Women 2018, Banana Factory, Bethlehem PA, 2018
Mixing Media, Jewelry by Ann Lalik/ Photographs by Tom Shillea, The Gallery at the JCC, Allentown, PA, 2017
Related Impressions: Rudy Ackerman and Ann Lalik Gallery 514, Civic Theater, Allentown PA, 2016
Mayfair Invitational 2013, Mayfair Festival of the Arts, Allentown, PA 2013
Turning the Tables: The Art of Curators and Directors, Santa Bannon/ Fine Art, Bethlehem, PA, 2013
Art and Science, Freyberger Gallery, Penn State Berks, Reading PA, 2013
The Art Behind the Instruction, Artists Who Teach, The Gallery at PSU Lehigh Valley, Center Valley, PA, 2011
Tyler School or Art, MFA Alumni Exhibition, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia PA 2009
PA Society of Goldsmiths Member Exhibition, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA 2009
PA Society of Goldsmiths, Artfully Elegant, Monsoon Gallery, Bethlehem PA, 2008
Baum School Selected Faculty Exhibition, Monsoon Gallery, Bethlehem PA, 2007
The Lehigh Valley Artists Invitational, Cedar Crest College, Allentown, PA, 2006
Hurricane Brooch Exhibition, Traveling Exhibit beginning at The PA State Art Museum, Harrisburg PA, 2006-2009
PA Society of Goldsmiths, The Fine Art of Fine Jewelry Monsoon Gallery, Bethlehem PA, 2006
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Gallery Director and Arts Coordinator Penn State Lehigh Valley, Center Valley PA September 2010- Present
Metalsmithing Instructor Penn State Lehigh Valley, Center Valley PA September 2010- Present
Executive Director, The Baum School of Art, Allentown, PA 2006- 2009
Director of Educational Programs & Gallery Exhibitions The Baum School of Art, Allentown, PA 1988-2005
Metalsmithing Instructor:
-Penn State Lehigh Valley, The Arts Project, Center Valley PA 2011- present
-The Baum School of Art, Allentown, PA 1984- 2010
-Lehigh Carbon Community College, Allentown, PA 1990- 2003
-Cedar Crest College, Allentown, PA 1988
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COMMUNITY PROJECTS
Truth For Women Project: Designed and created a silver charm, reproduced and sold to support Truth For Women and their mission to help women who have been abused in sex trafficking, 2019
Allentown Symphony Ball: Designed and created “Sphere of Influence” award to recognize leadership in the organization. 2005-2013
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Spectacular Benefit Show, Jewelry Arts Magazine, Helen I. Driggs, March 2008; Volume 61, Number 12
500 Rings, Putnam Press, Work selected by Robert Ebendorff, 2004