Professor Ed Kerns and Janice Truskowski '03 examine paintings.	The 23,500-square-foot Williams Visual Arts Building is one of the leading high-tech facilities for art education and exhibitions in the nation. It includes sculpture and painting studios, a community-based teaching studio, Grossman Gallery, a flexible studio area with movable walls for honors and independent study students, seminar room, conference room, and faculty studios and offices.
The building is home to the studio art program. The classrooms are adjacent to professors' personal studios, which encourages the free exchange of ideas between students and faculty. Faculty, honors students, and visiting professional artists work together with area high school and adult art students through the Community-Based Teaching Program.
Jim Toia (second from left) works with high school students in the Community-Based Teaching Program.

Located on North Third Street, at the main gateway to the campus, the building underscores Lafayette's commitment to the revitalization of downtown Easton.

Williams Visual Arts Building in Sunday Arts & Entertainment section. "In this small Pennsylvania city, art is the new industry...a college art building planted downtown unites town, gown, and artist's smock."

Williams Visual Arts Building
243 North Third St.
Easton, PA 18042
(610) 330-5831
Fax (610) 330-5830

Edward J. Kerns Jr.
Director of Williams Visual Arts Building
Eugene H. Clapp II ’36 Professor of Art
kernse@lafayette.edu

James Toia
Director of Community-Based Teaching and Richard A. and Rissa W. Grossman Gallery
toiaj@lafayette.edu