Changing Exhibits
Current Changing Exhibits
Ocean
Fraktur Gallery
June ?- August 3, 2025
The exhibit is caught in transit and delayed. We will update the website once we have a date.
The Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center again is thrilled to be chosen again to display an international traveling quilt exhibit from Carrefour, the European Quilt Show. The thirty quilts on views this year explore the theme of “Ocean.” With oceans covering 70% of the planet, the chosen quilts explore ocean as a favorite seaside holiday or the sanctuary of animal and plant diversity. Colorful and diverse in their technique, the quilts share “light and secrets that takes us to the depths of a yet little-explored underworld!”
The Pottstown Area Artists Guild Annual 2025 Juried Fine Art Show
Putera Meeting Room
June 12–July 11, 2025
You are welcome to attend the Reception on Sunday, June 22, from 2 to 5pm with great art, artist talks, an award ceremony, cash raffle, and harpist Betsy Chapman.
A Good 5-Cent Cigar: Cigar Making in the Upper Perkiomen Valley
Dolloff Local History Gallery
July 18, 2024–Spring 2026
These days we usually associate cigar manufacturing with sunnier and more exotic locations than the Upper Perkiomen Valley. One hundred and twenty years ago, however, the industry was booming here and employed hundreds of men and women in several factories throughout boroughs. Cigar making was so prevalent in this region that it was called the “cigarmakers’ belt.”
This exhibit will trace the development of the industry here, the labor force, and the good and bad of the people who owned the factories. Do you have any information to share? Contact Candace Perry at candace@schwenkfelder.org or 215-679-3103.
Lehigh Art Alliance’s Sculpture Exhibit
Fraktur Gallery
August 24–October 10, 2025
Celebrating the Alliance’s 90th year, the Heritage Center is helping them celebrate by hosting their sculptors for a late summer show. Five sculptors, including Jonas Arguello-Delgado, Milan J. Kralik Jr., Justin Long, John Mathews, and John Rodgers Jr. will be participating.
Changing Exhibit Spaces
Fraktur Gallery on Ground Floor
Often showcasing our large Schwenkfelder fraktur collection, this gallery also is used for other small exhibits. During the Penn Dry Goods Market, the Fraktur Gallery is often home to special textile exhibits.
Art Gallery on First Floor
The Art Gallery is home to smaller exhibits of local artists and a variety of short-term exhibits featuring the permanent collection. Occasionally the Art Gallery also serves as overflow space for exhibits in the adjacent Dolloff Local History Gallery.
Dolloff Local History Gallery on the First Floor
The Dolloff Local History Gallery is specifically dedicated to exhibits with a non-Schwenkfelder focus. In the past, exhibits on community history, both broadly, such as on local and regional historic architecture and Native American presence, and more specifically, including historical overviews of our local municipalities and organizations, have been held in the gallery.
Putera Meeting Room on the First Floor
The walls of the Putera Meeting Room are often lined with artwork by local artists, both as individual and group shows. When not being used as an art space, quilts are often exhibited in this room, and it also has hosted student art exhibits from our local schools.
Artists who are interested in exhibiting in the Putera Meeting Room or the Art Gallery should contact Candace Perry, Curator of Collections, at 215-679-3103 or candace@schwenkfelder.org for more details.