CV
Career
2022 - present: High School Art Teacher at State College Area High School
2014 - 2022: Middle Level Art and Music Teacher State College Area School District.
2022: Featured in Marquis' Who's Who in America Education.
2022: Featured in Marquis' Who's Who top educators.
2023: Jurer for the International Young Fine Arts Art Open Competition
2023: Honorarium Recipient from the Bellefonte Museum of Art for their 2023 Summer Color Show.
Solo Exhibitions:
2023: Artworks featured at Elk Creek Cafe + Aleworks.
2023: “Prismatic” @ Bellefonte Art Museum.
2021/2022: "Elemental" @ CurioCool Gallery, Zelienople, PA. https://www.curiocool.com/austinvanallen
2022: Artworks featured at Otto's Pub and Brewery, State College, Pa.
2021: "An Evening of Art" @ Rhoneymeade, State College, PA (July & August).
Exhibitor:
2023: Borderless Exhibition in Singapore, Oslo, and 3D Gallery Space
2023: Artworks featured at the Bellefonte Art Museum’s 24/7 Gallery
2023: Select work available at 3 Dots Downtown, State College.
2022: Virtual Artists Gallery.
2022: "NFT: New Freedom Think" @ M.A.D.S. art gallery, Milan, Italy. https://www.madsgallery.art/item/27dc41f6-cf7b-4066-b3a8-f5e7965489e1/artist/austin-van-allen
2022: "Royal Flames" Series at the Luxembourg International Arts Festival
2022: Monaco International Arts Festival, partner with Van Gogh Artist Gallery.
2022: Select works appeared in a Special Teacher Gallery Exhibit at the Bellefonte Art Museum (September/October)
2022: Featured Artist at the State College Framing Company.
2021: "D.E.M.O." @ M.A.D.S art gallery, Milan, Italy. https://www.madsgallery.art/item/27dc41f6-cf7b-4066-b3a8-f5e7965489e1/artist/austin-van-allen.
2021: Bellefonte Holiday Show @ Bellefonte Art Museum Bellefonte, PA.
2021/2022: "Royal Flames" Series featured at MONAT Gallery, Madrid, Spain. https://www.monatgallery.com/artists/austin-van-allen/.
Upcoming Exhibits:
November 2023: Collaboration with Peace UMC Brass Quintet in Columbus Ohio
December/January 2023: Bellefonte Holiday Show
February 2023: Solo exhibit at the Schlow Library in State College, Pa.
August 2026: Artifact Gallery in New York, New York.
Publications:
2023: Artist Close Up Contemporary Art Music #6, p. 37.
2023: Beautiful Bizarre’s Art Prize
2022/23: Bellefonte Bold Winter Edition p. 49.
2022: Artery Magazine for Artifact Gallery NYC.
2022: Power of Positivity documentary.
2022: Featured in Marquis' Who's Who in America Education.
2022: Featured in Marquis' Who's Who top educators.
2022: Guto Ajayu International Art Anthology V, p. 154
2021: Centre Arts Magazine November/December Issue, Volume 5, no. 6. p. 10.
Commissioned Works:
"Roll for Hope". 24in. x 14in. Watercolor and Ink. Commissioned by FluffyWolf2, Twitch streamer, for Extra Life Gaming Event. Design printed on playmats offered at the event. Benefits went to the Children's Miracle Hospital Network.
"Cascade". 48in. x 36in. Watercolor and Ink. Commissioned by the Erickson Family for Rodney Erickson, the 17th President of Penn State University.
“Spread Sunshine”. 10in. x 24in. Watercolor and Ink. Commissioned by the Gazda Family for Molly Gazda, 8th grade art teacher at Park Forest Middle School.
“Empress”. 18in. x 24in. Watercolor and Ink. Commissioned by the Stout Family for Maria Stout, 8th grade English Teacher at Park Forest Middle School.
“Penny the Parrot”. 18in. x 24in. Watercolor and Ink. Commissioned by Brian Sugrue.
“Aurora Phoenixes”. 50in. x 36in. Watercolor and Ink. Commissioned by Douglas Wolf.