Art Alliance extends lease

The Art Alliance of Central Pennsylvania has extended its lease on its downtown gallery in State College for one more year.

“We are pleased with the reception we have received and with the location,” said Marie Doll, the Alliance’s executive director, in a press release. 
The gallery at 123 S. Fraser St. looks out onto the Martin Luther King Jr. Plaza and sits across from the Fraser Street Parking Garage.

“The plaza is an attraction in and of itself,” Doll said, “and that helps bring traffic to the gallery.”

In addition to monthly shows featuring local artists, the gallery also sells cards created by members and is considering adding bin sales.

The gallery is open Wednesdays, noon to 6 p.m.; Thursdays and Fridays, noon to 8 p.m.; Saturdays, noon to 9 p.m.; and Sundays, noon to 4 p.m.

The Art Alliance grew out of an idea from the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts and is now 49 years old. It has a classroom in Lemont, which doubles as a short-term gallery seven times a year.