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HISTORICAL SOCIETY EXHIBIT: ART BY 5 MORAVIAN PASTORS

Morning Call - Allentown, Pa.

Copyright Morning Call Feb 20, 1997

Art by five Moravian pastors is featured in "5 Alive," a new exhibit by the Moravian Historical Society at the Whitefield House, 214 E. Center St., Nazareth, through April 6.

The featured artists are Lyn Bechtel, associate professor of Old Testament at Moravian Theological Seminary, Bishop Arthur Freeman, Moravian Theological Seminary professor emeritus of New Testament; retired pastors John Morman of Coopersburg and Kenneth Nowack of Westchester, and David Sommers, chaplain and instructor of religion at Moravian Academy's upper school in Bethlehem.

The exhibit includes works in watercolor, sculpture, wood carving, oil on canvas, photography and mixed media and is displayed in the first floor gallery of the Whitefield House. Museum hours are 1-4 p.m. daily. There is an admission charge.

The society will hold a reception in honor of the artists 2-4 p.m. Sunday at the Whitefield House. The public is invited to meet the artists and see a new permanent display of Henry firearms and the recently restored Tannenberg organ.

There is a long tradition of prominent artists who were Moravian or who were associated with the Moravians. Such well-known artists as John Valentine Haidt, Gustavus Grunewald and Benjamin West are included. There is a long tradition of Moravian pastors who were routinely trained in art as part of their education, much of it received at Nazareth Hall, the Moravian school for boys that operated on West Center Street in Nazareth from 1759 to 1929, and at Moravian Female Seminary on Church Street in Bethlehem. Both institutions continue today as Moravian Academy.

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