The Marlin and Regina Miller Gallery at Kutztown University, in conjunction with KU’s Department of Art and Design, present “Stay Alive Make Art: The Art of Amos Lemon Burkhart” through Dec. 14 in the Sharadin Arts Building.

This exhibition features the restless exploration of techniques, ideas and methods of young prodigy Amos Lemon Burkhart, who worked to understand and express his own turbulent interior life.

The exhibition displays complexities of emotional instability, anxiety and trauma; questions about love, sex and gender identity; and issues around substance use and abuse revealed through complex layered paintings and drawings.

Burkhart died in 2018 at age 20 in a drug and alcohol-related drowning. This exhibition serves as more than a display of his art; it features interactiv

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