Elizabethtown College News Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
10/7/05
Contact: Mary Dolheimer, director of marketing and media relations, 717-361-1587, dolheimerm@etown.edu

ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. – An Elizabethtown College art professor and Lancaster native is featured in the October issue of Art&Antiques, the most widely read national art and antiques magazine.

Michael Allen of Palmyra, an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Fine and Performing Arts, is profiled in the magazine’s "Emerging Artist" column, which is designed to bring recognition to an undiscovered artist.

Allen has taught at Elizabethtown and at Harrisburg Area Community College since 2004. He earned a bachelor of fine art degree from Kutztown University and a master of fine art degree from the University of Delaware. His most recent group exhibitions include "Picturing Pennsylvania: Architecture in the State Landscape" at the Governor’s residence in Harrisburg, "State of The Art: A Mid-Atlantic Overview" at the Arlington Arts Center in Virginia, and "Rooftops and Steeples" at The Demuth Museum in Lancaster. His work has also been exhibited at Elizabethtown’s Lynden Gallery and the Artists’ House Gallery in Philadelphia.

More information on Allen is available at http://mysite.verizon.net/vzepz75a/.

At Elizabethtown College -- central Pennsylvania’s premier small, comprehensive college -- 1800 men and women enjoy personal attention, breadth of curriculum, experiential learning and a commitment to serving others. Elizabethtown has been ranked for 12 consecutive years by "U.S. News and World Report" as one of the top comprehensive colleges in the North.

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