The Berks Art Alliance in headquartered at the Institute of the Arts in Wyomissing .

About the Berks Art Alliance

" The Berks Art Alliance is a fellowship of artists, both professional and amateur, interested in creating and fostering an atmosphere of stimulation and encouragement to support the visual arts within the Alliance and extending out into the community at large."

This statement of purpose describes the aims of this organization that is 60 years old.

The Alliance came into being November 1941 under its original name of the Art Haven Guild of Berks County and evolved into the Alliance in 1947. Artists had banded together in Berks well before 1941, but it was not until this organization was created that a group of its kind succeeded in operating continuously to the present time.

Aside from activities aimed at their personal improvement, Alliance members have reached out into the community from time to time to encourage school children through special art projects and to foster art consciousness with exhibits, demonstrations and participation in community events.