Allens Lane Art Center welcomes the community to the opening reception for KEEPING HER NAME ALIVE this Friday, September 29 from 5-7pm, a group exhibition that will inaugurate the RMMB Emerging Curatorial Fellowship. KEEPING HER NAME ALIVE launches the RMMB Emerging Curatorial Fellowship, which celebrates the life and memory of Rebeccah Milena Maia Blum, a passionate fine arts curator, gallerist, writer and publicist in the international art scene. Even though the location of her life and work was Berlin, Germany, her family is based in the United States. As a child, Rebeccah spent the years o ..read more

The Allens Lane Art Center, celebrating its 70th Anniversary this year, is one such community treasure. Founded by a group of educators and activists committed to social and racial justice, the Center began offering arts classes to children from the Germantown and Mt. Airy neighborhoods in 1953. That same year, it also opened the city’s first integrated summer camp. In archival documents recently discovered at Allens Lane, a report on the 1965 Summer Camp stands out for its exuberant enthusiasm.   “Although each of the previous reports spoke in glowing terms of the achievements attained ..read more

We celebrate a milestone in Allens Lane Art Center’s history this year, our 70th anniversary! In honor of this landmark year, we will be looking back for inspiration from our past, sharing our values of racial justice and inclusivity in the present, and creating more opportunities to reach out to our diverse communities in the future. Our Founding: Rooted in Social Justice The Center was founded on June 23rd, 1953, by a group of Mt. Airy residents, as part of a larger grassroots movement in the 1950s. Through community organizing, Mt. Airy residents sought to fight for racial and economic jus ..read more