His folklife research blends language, traditions, and vernacular architecture. Patrick Donmoyer is a fluent speaker of Pennsylvania Dutch and an advocate for regional folk culture. The Pennsylvania German Cultural Heritage Center at Kutztown University is a folklife museum and research center on the Kutztown campus.
Donmoyer is the author of the exhibition catalogue and also of the 2013 book, Hex Signs: Myth and Meaning in Pennsylvania Dutch Barn Stars. The guest curator is Patrick Donmoyer, director of the Pennsylvania German Cultural Heritage Center at Kutztown University.
The exhibition explores themes of sacred and celestial imagery in the traditional arts of the Pennsylvania Dutch, with special emphasis on the decorated barns of Southeastern Pennsylvania. In this issue of Glencairn Museum News we explore our current exhibition, Hex Signs: Sacred and Celestial Symbolism in Pennsylvania Dutch Barn Stars (open through November 3, 2019).
