2009-11-01 00:12:00
MICHAEL LONG, Entertainment Editor
Fred Rodger strikes you as the kind of guy you'd like to have a beer with — or maybe a glass of wine. It's hard to tell which suits him better. At 61, Rodger retains the stature of the wrestler he once was. In jeans and a sweatshirt, dug into a comfortable green couch in t......
2009-10-11 00:10:00
STEPHEN KOPFINGER
Twelve years after her death, her story remains one of contradictions. An ordinary childhood — spent in grand estates. A fairytale wedding — that ended in tears. A time spent among royalty and celebrities — and the poor and forgotten. Such was the life of Diana Spen......
2009-10-01 17:14:00
JENNIFER TODD
With a broad grin, David Nolt proudly displays the result of more than a decade of oil painting. Worn into the front of his pearly whites is a hole just smaller than an M&M. "It's a little challenging trying to eat a sandwich but ... I can live with it. It's not that bi......
2009-09-27 00:02:00
STAFF
Worth a drive
Canadian folk rockers Great Lake Swimmers will perform at 9 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 29, at Johnny Brenda's, 1201 N. Frankford Ave., Philadelphia. Led by singer-songwriter Tony Dekker, Great Lake Swimmers was shortlisted for the Polaris Music Prize (Canada's......
2009-09-20 00:10:00
JOHN JASCOLL
If truth be told, who among us hasn't committed several, if not all, of the Seven Deadly Sins at some time in our lives? Hence their fascination. Anger, envy, gluttony, greed, lust, pride and sloth — we can identify with them all. They are part of the human condition. The latest ......
2009-08-30 00:12:00
MICHAEL C. UPTON
Theirs is a tale of allegiance. Over comic books and coffee, three college friends make a pact: Whoever "makes it big" first promises to carry the others to stardom. This is the story of underground artists David Choe, Rob Sato and Joseph To as embellished by fans and friends.......
2009-08-30 00:02:00
STAFF
Fair Kelly
Pop phenom Kelly Clarkson is hitting the fair circuit this fall with tunes from her new album, "All I Ever Wanted." She'll be at Allentown Fair on Thursday, Sept. 3, and York Fair on Friday, Sept. 11. Her hit "My Life Would Suck Without You"......
2009-08-23 00:12:00
JAMES BUESCHER
A lucky few need travel only minutes. But most of the 200 artists and craftspeople showing their wares at the annual Long's Park Art & Craft Festival will have to travel hundreds of miles to set up their booths in the park's dappled shade. Some, like California fabric artist......
2009-08-08 00:16:00
LORI VAN INGEN
"My bed." "Love." "Family."These are just some of the answers that nine homeless children who spent time at Water Street Mission thought of when asked to create drawings about what a home is.The children and their drawings were then photographed and the......
2009-05-17 00:08:00
JAMES BUESCHER
Some found objects become art; others inspire art. Lancaster artist Gail Gray didn't so much find the object that inspired her most recent series of paintings as rediscover it. Gray's sister had been cleaning out their mother's house upon her death when she came across a pur......
2009-05-07 19:58:00
LAURA KNOWLES
At this weekend's Spring Membership Show of the Lancaster County Art Association, professional artists exhibit their work hand in hand with non-professionals, while realistic work is paired with abstract art.In fact, the featured exhibit is titled "HAHANDND," a play on the el......
2009-05-01 02:09:00
JENNIFER TODD
Macajah Brown Jr. has put his own spin on First Friday.In the past year, Brown, of Lancaster, has used the monthly downtown arts event as a springboard for local artisans and business people as well as a forum to promote education and self-esteem.Tonight, he will give members of the......
2009-04-26 16:01:00
CLAUDIA W. ESBENSHADE
There is beauty in nature all around us.And there are people who create beauty from nature — the fibers of nature, to be exact.Kachina Martin of Adamstown is one such artist. She transforms merino wool roving — essentially, unspun wool — into wearable felted w......
2009-04-23 13:28:00
DIANE BITTING
When painter Ned Wert shows up at an art gallery exhibiting his work, he prefers to be incognito. A short, bearded man with graying hair, Wert will linger near one of his richly colored abstract paintings, but he won't tell those studying the painting that he created it. That way, h......
2009-04-23 01:32:00
MADELYN PENNINO
Francois Guay traveled from Montreal to preview an exhibit at the National Watch & Clock Museum, where some of his own vintage pieces were on display Wednesday.He was one of dozens of visitors touring the exhibit "Time & Exploration: Earth, Sea and Space" at the museum in......
2009-04-05 00:06:00
MICHAEL C. UPTON
When Kaitlin Dunn discovered a pair of 6-foot canvases hidden away in an off-campus storage area, the Franklin & Marshall College art student was wowed by more than their size. The painting, a diptych titled "The Procession" by Eleanore Lockspeiser (1900-1986), spoke to Dunn and h......
2009-04-05 00:04:00
JEANNETTE SCOTT
A few taps on the keyboard and Google or MapQuest can provide instant directions. Or, you can mount a GPS device to your dash and it will direct you from door to door. But early explorers used more primitive methods to find their way. All navigation is based on time measurements, said Noel......
2009-04-02 05:00:00
SUSAN JURGELSKI
Through his camera lens, Ray Manlove has chronicled devastation, confrontation, celebration — even ascension. Manlove, his trusty Sony digital camera in hand, was there for then-candidate Barack Obama's three visits to Lancaster along the campaign trail — a journey that led t......
2009-03-29 00:02:00
STAFF
Trio twilight
Downtown Lancaster's First Friday will be accompanied by a classical soundtrack, thanks to the acclaimed Newstead Trio, which will appear at 8 p.m. Friday, April 3, at the Pennsylvania Academy of Music, 42 N. Prince St. Pianist Xun Pan, cellist Sara Male an......
2009-03-22 00:02:00
STAFF
Demuth show
The annual invitational exhibit of the Demuth Museum, 120 E. King St., showcases the work of contemporary artists from Lancaster (Paula Egolf's "Gertrude Stein as the Queen of Hearts") based on a theme inspired by Charles Demuth. This year's exh......
2009-03-20 20:15:00
AMANDA KENNEDY, 18, Freestyle
Area middle school and high school students from four counties received a healthy dose of history at Penn Manor High School on Saturday, March 14. The high school hosted the regional National History Day competition, a venue for students to flaunt their historical knowledge through term papers,......
2009-03-15 00:06:00
PAULA WOLF
It's been a long time since Metzler Home Builders participated in the Spring Home Show. In fact, its last appearance was when the annual event was held at Park City Center, back in the early 1990s. But with Metzler doing more remodeling-type projects as the demand for new housing co......
2009-03-15 00:05:00
CHIP SMEDLEY
Late Thursday and early Friday, hundreds of thousands of marauding hordes and disciplined armies descended on Lancaster. Wondering how you missed it? Because most of the soldiers were either 15 or 25 millimeters high. They were brought here to compete in the Eastern Chapter of the His......
2009-03-15 00:02:00
STAFF
Disney live
"Playhouse Disney Live!" featuring favorite characters from the Disney Channel's popular Playhouse Disney program block for preschoolers, comes to Reading Eagle Theater on Sunday, March 22, with shows at 1:30 and 4:30 p.m. Mickey, Minnie, Pooh, Tigg......
2009-03-12 11:36:00
JACK ROBERTS and ALEJANDRO RIOS
OK, here's what's happening on the local music scene. —In a little over a month, downtown Lancaster will be teeming with bands from all over the U.S. — and overseas. From April 16-19, the Chameleon, the Village and at least 10 other local venues will feature several ban......
2009-03-08 00:08:00
JOHN JASCOLL
Renowned art historian Sister Wendy Beckett has said Paul Cézanne is as great an artist as has ever lived. Judging from the "Cézanne and Beyond" exhibition now on display at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, she'......
2009-03-05 11:37:00
JOSEPH MALDONADO
Besides a love for each other, Don and Candace Cothard share a deep love of art. So much so that they decided to advance beyond sideline appreciation of others' art and work together to create their own. "When you create that one-of-a-kind piece, there is a feeling of joy and excitemen......
2009-02-27 07:00:00
JANE HOLAHAN
Back in 1996, the Philadelphia Museum of Art hosted a Cezanne exhibit that redefined the word "blockbuster." More than 550,000 visitors visited the fabled museum — and pumped $86.5 million into Philadelphia's economy. Is it any wonder Paul Cezanne is back in the City of......
2009-02-23 00:03:00
TOM KNAPP
For the most part, the art is new but the subjects are old.The Lancaster County Art Association opened its latest membership show Sunday with "antiquities" as its theme.Carol Herr, gallery director for the LCAA, said 33 of the group's 240-some members submitted entries......
2009-02-08 00:06:00
JAMES BUESCHER
The value of a masterwork by, say, Cezanne or Van Gogh lies in the brilliant stroke of a practiced hand — the mastery of a technique and the unique expression of an artistic ideal. Folk art, on the other hand, draws its value from the personal passion and social tradition of its practitio......
2009-02-07 01:48:00
MICHAEL YODER
H. Dean Fox wields a high-powered chain saw with an artist's eye for detail, much like a marble sculptor with a hammer and a chisel.He snatches a custom-geared Stihl from the four different chain saws sitting in the bed of his turquoise Ford F150 pickup truck and moves it gently over a......
2009-02-05 12:59:00
JANE HOLAHAN
Art is all about reflection, but visitors to CityFolk can reflect on their reflections as well as the art work when "Here's Lookin' at You, Lancaster" opens on Friday. The exhibit features 33 mirrors, created by 20 different artists. "There were no rules," says ......
2009-02-05 10:08:00
JOSEPH MALDONADO
President Barack Obama's recent inauguration gives this Black History Month a special significance. The Lancaster County Library system sees this February — especially First Friday — as an even more extraordinary opportunity to experience black culture through art. "We......
2009-02-03 00:47:00
LORI VAN INGEN
Six more weeks of winter was Octorara Orphie's forecast Monday, but at the North Museum of Natural History & Science, winter is going to last another four months.A polar bear arrived by truck Monday and will be at the museum until May 15.It took six "polar bearers"......
2009-01-11 00:12:00
PAULA WOLF
Standing next to his friend Carol Hickey, Louis Spanier eyed the K'NEX model at the Lancaster Science Factory with curiosity. A replica of an Octopus amusement-park ride, the electric-powered display composed entirely of K'NEX parts spun in a continuous circle as Hickey and Spanier watched....
2009-01-11 00:02:00
STAFF
A cut above
Merritt David Janes stars as the Demon Barber of Fleet Street in the national tour of John Doyle's Broadway revival of "Sweeney Todd," which opens at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 13, at Hershey Theatre and runs through Sunday, Jan. 18. This sleek little ......
2008-12-26 07:00:00
JOSEPH MALDONADO
For some art lovers, there is a calling to go beyond the admiration of static sculpture or the extra-sensory pleasures of kinetic multimedia displays. There is an urge to become the art — a flowing, breathing object of desire. For those people, Ricky Calderon has an answer: dancing t......
2008-12-05 07:00:00
SUSAN JURGELSKI
When people pass Alicia Holland on the street, she isn't surprised when they identify her by her art. "They say, 'You're the 'greeting-card lady,' " says Holland, who has crafted handmade cards since she was 4 and features them at several area stores under the b......
2008-12-05 02:06:00
MICHAEL YODER
Theresa Kereakes has always had a knack for being in the right place at the right time, and usually with a camera ready to capture the moment.She was in the center of the rising punk movement during the late 1970s as a student in Los Angeles, taking pictures of some of the seminal musician......
2008-12-05 00:04:00
TOM KNAPP
A sudden rain and wind storm might ruin the experience of a Venice flea market for your average tourist.But not for K.K. DePaul and her crew of intrepid photographers. While other people fumbled for their raincoats and umbrellas or ran for shelter, DePaul's group grabbed their cameras ......
2008-12-05 00:02:00
MICHAEL YODER
Christian Herr has a story to tell — in fact, he has a history to put down in pen, ink and paint.The Lancaster resident has started to blend his fine art background with elements of folk art and historical symbols in his first solo exhibit, "New Strings," at the Parlor gall......
2008-12-04 10:38:00
JOSEPH MALDONADO
For as long as she can remember, Lancaster artist Kathleen Abel has been moved by the beauty and wonder of the universe. Earlier this year, the universe moved for her and opened up an opportunity to expose her art to a new group of people. "When I was younger, I was always fascinat......
2008-11-14 02:47:00
CARLA DI FONZO
Artist Sherri Trial said she's been obsessed with calligraphy since she was a child."I taught myself calligraphy when I was 13," she said Thursday. "After that, everything started to evolve, and I realized I wanted to turn calligraphy into a fine art."The tex......
2008-11-14 02:43:00
CARLA DI FONZO
Artist Freiman Stoltzfus said he likes the extremes of rural and city life."For me, living in the country and living in a city represents the two sides of man," he said. "The need to be surrounded by nature, and the need to submerge yourself in culture and music. I love both......
2008-11-07 08:30:00
LAURA KNOWLES
Artist David Brumbach was known for his photo-realistic paintings of downtown Lancaster, his images of the countryside and the Star Barn outside Harrisburg, his gorgeous sunflowers and florals, his playfully whimsical series of cats, dogs, bicycles and unicycles and his strikingly colorful abstra......
2008-11-07 02:04:00
CARLA DI FONZO
As a roving photographer, Matthew Lester has done his share of globe-trotting, from the mountains of Afghanistan to rural Haiti."I use photography to tell stories of people's work and lives," he said Tuesday. "I like showing people what these other worlds look like."......
2008-11-07 01:57:00
CARLA DI FONZO
If Lancaster has any street cred in the world of pop art, then thanks should go to Metropolis.Seriously, who else could arrange an exhibit that centers on the artwork of Sons of Nero, one of the most awesome graphic design studios in the music business?The exhibit, which opens today......
2008-11-06 11:05:00
JOSEPH MALDONADO
It goes without saying that music from bands such as The Beatles, Nirvana and Pink Floyd has inspired countless people to become musicians. And while artist Matthew "Portland" Hay is a fan of all the groups' musical hooks and trendsetting melodies, he's a greater fan of som......
2008-11-06 11:04:00
ELIZABETH PATTON
Jason Ward, who won the Best in Show award at the York Art Association's 38th Annual Open Juried Exhibit last month, will be the November featured artist at the Kalargyros Gallery, 112 W. Orange St. "Field," the 30-by-40-inch acrylic-on-canvas painting that won the prize, will be ......
2008-11-02 00:02:00
STAFF
It's here!
The last of the Halloween candy has yet to be eaten, but that won't stop the Christmas season from arriving full force this week. Scrooge and company usher in the holiday fare in the Dutch Apple Dinner Theatre production of Charles Dickens' "A Chr......
2008-10-17 02:44:00
CARLA DI FONZO
No one can claim Mulberry Art Studios doesn't have something to offer everyone this month.On the second floor is Ken Hill's exhibit, "Symbolism: Old to New," a collection of abstract drawings and paintings that reveal the interior world of the artist."Primaril......
2008-10-12 00:16:00
DAINA SAVAGE
Artist Milt Friedly makes what can't be said. In metal and clay, on paper and canvas, he shapes emotions that have no words, creating layers of meaning to carry his heart's voice. An ardent fan of poetry, Friedly has long delighted in the abstract qualities of verse, the emotions t......
2008-10-11 01:25:00
CARLA DI FONZO
When Liz Hess found out her work would be celebrated this weekend in honor of National Arts & Humanity month, she said her reaction could best be described as "dumbfounded.""I thought they were going to feature a group of us," the local artist said. "So when th......
2008-10-05 00:12:00
KRISTY BULLER
Images of war-torn Europe remained etched in the mind of a 20-something Cleve Gray after his service in World War II. Having studied art since childhood, Gray had an aptitude for landscape painting and transferred those images to the canvas. His exposure to the post-war European art scene would......
2008-10-03 01:39:00
CARLA DI FONZO
Art Harrington always works alone, but the artist admits he had a little help for his new "Texture" series, featured this month at Red Raven Art Company.That help, he said, came from Lowe's — as in the retail home improvement and appliance store.A list of items H......
2008-10-03 01:30:00
CARLA DI FONZO
Pennsylvania College of Art & Design's "fauxREAL" isn't a typical portrait show, mostly because artist Matthew Ivan Cherry relies on more than surface appearance to tell him what a person really looks like. ...
2008-10-02 11:04:00
JOSEPH MALDONADO
Sometimes art sits in front of the wall. Sometimes it hangs on the wall. And sometimes it is the wall. Such is the case with Lancaster artist Amber Amato. It isn't that the 30-year-old Shamokin native doesn't enjoy working on canvas. "There's just something about......
2008-09-07 00:10:00
KRISTY BULLER
The engine of Bill Milbrodt's 1982 Honda Accord had long lost its hum, but with 200,000 miles behind it and a junkyard retirement looming, the car still held a tune. "Nobody was going to buy it," Milbrodt said. "It got to the point where I could junk it, or I could junk it.&q......
2008-09-05 02:46:00
CARLA DI FONZO
If you haven't been to England, viewing a John David Wissler painting may be the next best thing.Two years ago, the nationally recognized artist fulfilled a dream of visiting the country to get a glimpse of what inspired the great English landscape painters John Constable and William T......
2008-09-04 10:49:00
KATHLEEN DAMINGER
For years, thousands of people attended the the Pa. Guild of Craftsmen's annual summer show at F&M. But in 2007 visitors had to go to Delaware if they wanted to buy that coveted piece of collectible pottery or a one-of-a-kind necklace.Ongoing construction and growth at the college ca......
2008-09-04 10:04:00
JOSEPH MALDONADO
It happened one day in sixth grade. Lancaster artist Kevin Lehman stayed after school to accept a teacher's offer to try out a potter's wheel. "Once I felt the clay shaping in my hands, I knew that was it," Lehman says. "I was a potter for life." The 33-......
2008-09-02 00:30:00
CARLA DI FONZO
According to Metropolis Gallery owner Angelo Madrigale, a special event planned for Wednesday won't just be another show, but an opportunity for Lancaster's art scene to receive "validation on a national level."On Wednesday, beginning at 6 p.m., Metropolis will host a deb......
2008-08-31 00:04:00
KRISTY BULLER
Now that the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen has hung up its shingle on Prince Street in downtown Lancaster, it's time to throw open the shutters and let in some light — and the public. "The Guilded ......
2008-08-29 02:57:00
CARLA DI FONZO
Nearly three years ago, Grant Taylor was a stranger in a strange land, an Australian native adjusting to his new surroundings in rural Pennsylvania.At the time, he had just taken on a teaching position in both the art and art history departments at Lebanon Valley College. Taylor said he wa......
2008-08-02 01:25:00
CARLA DI FONZO
It's nice to know that today's depressed economy can't keep down a good art lover — especially if you happen to be a part of Gallery Row in downtown Lancaster."First Fridays are as crowded as ever," Lee Lovett, Red Raven Art Co.'s gallery manager, said. &quo......
2008-08-01 02:19:00
CARLA DI FONZO
This month, Pennsylvania College of Art & Design will feature an exhibit of World War II posters that reveal how artists were enlisted to keep morale high and production steady on the home front."I think this show will appeal to the students as well as the people in the community ......
2008-07-31 11:24:00
JOSEPH MALDONADO
The Paulson brothers may set an unofficial record for family artists on First Friday. Doug and Tim will be a combined 4,300 miles from downtown Lancaster when their exhibits open. Both brothers are currently traveling for different reasons — Doug in Copenhagen, Denmark, and Tim in......
2008-07-18 01:42:00
SUSAN E. LINDT
There's nothing like getting a good look under the hood, and the exhibit "Our Body: The Universe Within," makes that easy.It ain't all pretty, though.The exhibit features "approximately" 12 human bodies preserved in polymer and another 80 organs and parti......
2008-07-11 02:18:00
CARLA DI FONZO
Joe Knedlhans said he's not worried about a robot uprising — though maybe he should be.As the curator of The Toy Robot Museum in Adamstown, he lives with more than 2,100 types of droids, bots and other mechanized marvels."Nope, I don't worry about the robots takin......
2008-07-04 00:01:00
STEPHANIE WEAVER
Since 2006, several groups of Elizabethtown Area School District fifth-graders put their creativity to work fashioning their own unique "sitting machines."But just what is a sitting machine?"It is unique," 12-year-old Kathlyn Allison said. "It can be complic......
2008-07-03 02:18:00
CARLA DI FONZO
Yoko Sekino-Bové's ceramic art is fully functional, though some might say the artist's intricate teacups, plates and jars are simply too beautiful to use."My ambition in art is to create something meaningful," Sekino-Bové said. "To remind people that th......
2008-07-03 02:13:00
LAURA FREEMAN
Fireworks aren't the only sights and sounds in Lancaster this Fourth of July.The sixth annual Freedom Fest will provide a myriad of things to see and hear at Marion Court Room and the surrounding area on Friday.This year's festival boasts a diverse musical lineup thanks to i......
2008-06-28 01:55:00
JOHN WALK
For 10-year-old Craig McKee, operating robots at the North Museum was more difficult than playing with his toys at home."I like the cranes," Craig said Wednesday while visiting the museum. "I play with LEGOs® at home but the cranes are hard (to operate)."The ......
2008-06-22 00:18:00
MICHAEL LONG
When it comes to gross human anatomy, a lot of folks would rather preserve a degree of mystery than witness the unadorned truth of the matter. Medical school has its place, but not everyone wants to peel back the skin to get a firsthand look at the mortal machinery. Yet some would like not......
2008-06-20 02:23:00
CARLA DI FONZO
Got art? If so, it's likely you know every nook and cranny of Gallery Row on Prince Street in downtown Lancaster.But sometimes it pays to wander off the beaten path — in this case to West Chestnut Street, the location of DogStar Books & Gallery.Beginning today, the use......
2008-06-16 19:00:00
LIZ WELCH, 17
It's First Friday in Lancaster city, where can you be found? Gallery Row on North Prince Street, maybe, checking out all the high-end art galleries? Or maybe you're wandering around North Queen Street visiting all the funky hangouts like Zap & Co., Art & Glassworks or, of course, ......
2008-06-16 18:49:00
LIZ WELCH, 17
At BUiLDiNG CHARACTER, 342 N. Queen St., you can find almost anything that has jumped onto the art bandwagon, including art by teens.In May, Tony Nies and Marty Hulse, the owners of BUiLDiNG CHARACTER, opened their doors to the First Friday crowd with a display of teen artwork by McCaskey&......
2008-06-12 13:11:00
KATHLEEN DAMINGER
A penny a post bought an awful lot of Lancaster County history. In their heyday, beginning around 1907, postcards cost about a cent to send. Who would've dreamed then that so many "wish you were here" messages to loved ones would someday become part of a window into the past?...
2008-06-06 06:59:00
LAURA KNOWLES
Now, more than ever, the lines between art and photography have been blurred. The 25th Annual Photographic Visions Exhibition at Pennsylvania College of Art & Design should prove that when the show opens Friday. "Since this is our 25th year, it is the perfect opportunity to sho......
2008-06-06 03:21:00
CARLA DI FONZO
The Heritage Center Museum's latest exhibit is timely, especially if one finds the various twists and turns of the 2008 presidential election campaign intriguing."Patchwork Politics: From George to George W." is a collection of quilts and other rare memorabilia that commemora......
2008-06-06 03:13:00
KIM O’BRIEN
Lancaster artist Matt Chambers didn't have to look too far for his inspiration — in fact, he found his muse in the barns and scenic views that he grew up with."In my 20s, I worked for a feed mill. I saw thousands of different farms, probably 50 or 100 of them every week,&quo......
2008-05-29 01:25:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
The age of steam locomotives is just a memory to older Americans, while their children don't recall it at all.But now, visitors to Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Strasburg can see the golden years of railroading through the eyes of a well-known railroad artist."Railroad......
2008-05-15 13:30:00
By KATHLEEN DAMINGER
In life and in death, artist Ted Rose was rather a private man. Although his passion was painting specific landscapes — mainly the industrial landscape of depots, trains and grain elevators, but also the Southwestern desert beauty that he called home — Rose was never pigeon-hole......
2008-05-09 02:58:00
CARLA DI FONZO
Because Jerome Hershey's studio on Queen Street doubles as his personal gallery, the artist has to tidy up for shows.Mostly, this arrangement benefits visitors, who not only get to see where Hershey works but also what amuses him.On one wall is a collection of pencils that have ......
2008-05-04 00:08:00
MARTY CRISP
Denny Bond is a storyteller. "Paintings should say something," the East Petersburg-based watercolorist said in a recent interview. "Like Andrew Wyeth's work: Every painting tells a story." Bond's story continues to unfold this month in a one-man show at D&J ......
2008-05-02 02:58:00
CARLA DI FONZO
In the Lancaster art scene, Ann DeLaurentis and Fred Rodger could be considered rock stars.That is to say, they have fans — and lots of them. In fact, their work is so in demand, that before their joint exhibit at the Red Raven Art Company had a chance to kick off with today's Fi......
2008-05-02 01:31:00
JENNIFER TODD
Dana Herr calls Macajah Lee Brown Jr. a connector."He loves to bring people together — loves to introduce this person to that person in the hope that they can somehow benefit one another," Herr, program director at ASSETS Lancaster, said. "He's good at it, and it g......
2008-05-01 08:07:00
CATHY MOLITORIS
For Ruth Pham, a senior at McCaskey High School, photography provides an outlet to express herself. "I love that when you have the camera and the lens in front of you, you can show things that you want to reveal about yourself," says the International Baccalaureate student, 18. &qu......
2008-05-01 01:14:00
CARLA DI FONZO
With the help of photography, a local mental-health organization is hoping to show the public what recovery looks like, as seen through the eyes of its clients.Lancaster County Community Support Program is presenting "Face It … The Journey of Recovery" at Mulberry Art Stud......
2008-04-19 00:31:00
CINDY STAUFFER
The cuckoo clock ticks as the afternoon light sweeps in on paintings of a fox hunter, a cowboy and a fairy.There is a tea set on an antique table and, across the room, a miniature carousel. There is amber jewelry and London lotion and, upstairs, still more: Santa Clauses, posters of the Do......
2008-04-18 20:45:00
JOHN JASCOLL
"The moving finger writes; and, having writ, moves on" is one of those lines of poetry we all recognize but are not sure where it's from.The verse continues, "Nor all thy piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line, nor all thy tears wash out a word of it.&quo......
2008-04-18 02:57:00
SUSAN E. LINDT
Tim Nies has got to be the only artist in Lancaster discussing quantum physics with zeal.So when he comes out with something like this gem: "I'm really fascinated by cement," you kind of wonder if he's one of those stupid geniuses who could find the cure for cancer if he ......
2008-04-18 02:43:00
MICHAEL YODER
When Richard Keltner gets burned-out working with a pastel stick in his hand, he doesn't hesitate to pick up a paintbrush or a wood-carving tool to make block prints.The San Francisco artist and part-time Lancaster resident will put his multiple mediums on display for Lancaster's A......
2008-04-17 13:31:00
JANE HOLAHAN
Through the years, the Strictly Functional Pottery Show has been exhibited at the Southern Market Center, the Artworks at Doneckers and the Lancaster Museum of Art. But maybe its new home is the perfect fit. It's certainly a functional location. This year's Strictly Functio......
2008-04-06 00:06:00
MICHAEL LONG
Though not considered an official artistic movement, the golden age of illustration began shortly after the Civil War and ended just before World War II. Flip through popular illustrated magazines and books printed between, say, 1880 and 1930, and you'd be hard-pressed not to notice their c......
2008-04-04 08:18:00
SUSAN E. LINDT
Arguably, they are the world's most recognized Wild Things.Maurice Sendak's famous monsters are out from under the bed and into Lancaster Museum of Art for what promises to be the most crowd-pleasing exhibit since last year's LEGO® extravaganza, which drew record crowds....
2008-04-04 08:17:00
SUSAN E. LINDT
Never mind the pounding the Euro is giving the American dollar.Thankfully, France has come to us.Parisian photographer Jérôme Gorin's "April in Paris," just mounted at Gallery dePaul, is not only what we expect of France, but a whole lot more.From t......
2008-04-04 08:16:00
SUSAN E. LINDT
Artist Ron Ettelman says his art springs from experimentation and progresses in stages.So maybe it's fitting that he's exhibiting at Frank Fico's hair salon at 213 W. Orange St., a place where a desire for change often drives another kind of art.Ettelman's offerings ......
2008-03-30 00:04:00
JAMES BUESCHER
Artist Wil Lindsay sees a crisis in the steady and sure loss of tangible, historical artifacts. "As people switch from writing letters to writing e-mails, as they stop taking pictures using a camera and film and start taking all their images of vacations and birthday parties using digital ......
2008-03-30 00:02:00
CRIS FOEHLINGER
Grab your scissors and a piece of paper, because the Guild of American Papercutters is celebrating its 20th anniversary. Established in Hershey in 1988 with less than two dozen members, the guild is now a registered Pennsylvania nonprofit with about 400 members worldwide. Some of those mem......
2008-03-28 01:37:00
SUSAN E. LINDT
Lancaster's popular First Fridays have now morphed into the more intimate Artists' Saturday.The event is billed as a chance for art lovers to get a more personal experience with artists than offered on First Fridays."On First Fridays, artists don't always have the c......
2008-03-28 01:32:00
CARLA DI FONZO
When Scott Sweigert goes to work these days, he feels like he's being watched.That's because of all the self-portraits on display inside the Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery at Lebanon Valley College."Some of the eyes in the portraits follow you," the gallery director......
2008-03-14 02:20:00
CARLA DI FONZO
Not all attics are created equal.While most us of us would consider ourselves lucky to find a Holly Hobbie oven in our dusty piles of keepsakes, people like Isadore Lichstein kept a vast collection of print art that grew in value over the years.The collection was left to his family ......
2008-03-10 00:50:00
PATRICK BURNS
This weekend, Lancaster Museum of Art's Scholastic Art Awards exhibit provided — as it does every year — a rich array of sketches, paintings, ceramics, sculptures and other modern art forms.Now in its 45th year, the event added a new wrinkle, one greatly appreciated by Will......
2008-03-09 00:16:00
MARYALICE BITTS
On a winter night in 1975, an art student named Frank Bender visited the Philadelphia city morgue for an impromptu figure-drawing lesson. It was an experience that changed his life. A lifelong artist and struggling young photographer, Bender was fresh out of the Navy and using his military bene......
2008-03-07 02:44:00
STAFF REPORT
Today is First Friday, which means there's plenty of new art to see in downtown Lancaster. Among the shows opening this week is Lancaster Museum of Art's Scholastic Art Awards show, which features the best work from the 18-and-under crowd.There's a lot to see at the exhibit, wi......
2008-03-02 00:14:00
GAIL GRAY
The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City last week unveiled "Chimneys and Towers: Charles Demuth's Late Paintings of Lancaster." I attended the exhibit early on its opening day, finding the whole exhibit, held in two adjoining galleries, before attendance became heavy. ......
2008-03-02 00:14:00
MARTY CRISP
"It's like something out of Dr. Seuss," said Martin Fischer, an employee of the National Watch and Clock Museum in Columbia. He was examining a whimsical, 24-foot-long walking clock, part of a new exhibit that opened in the museum's "Special Exhibits Room" Saturday....
2008-02-24 00:16:00
MELISSA JULIUS
Eleven-year-old Melissa Checo thought she knew her colors. The Lancaster Science Factory's "Colored Shadows" exhibit showed the sixth-grader she could still learn more. "Blue, red and green make white," Melissa said after using the exhibit to blend colors and guess the r......
2008-02-24 00:08:00
JOHN JASCOLL
Frida Kahlo is one of the most famous female artists of all time. Over the next few months, we're going to become very familiar with one of her paintings, "Self-portrait With Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird," because it's the signature piece heralding a major exhibit of her work at ...
2008-02-21 11:27:00
LAURA KNOWLES
They are called "them" — those who have darker skin, practice a different religion, come from another country, have a different sexual orientation, live in a different culture or simply look different. According to Dr. David Pilgrim, Chief Diversity Officer at Ferris State Un......
2008-02-15 02:45:00
SUSAN E. LINDT
There's something so sweet about the new show at Elizabethtown's Lynden Gallery.Never mind the chocolates, champagne and jazz that will fill the gallery at tonight's opening of "Figures, Circa 1950, from the journals and sketchbooks of Fran and Flo."The sweetne......
2008-02-14 21:05:00
LORI VAN INGEN
Many older people enjoy painting as a pastime.However, art was always much more than that for Masonic Village resident Fran Williams Wagner. Now in her 90s, Wagner spent her life building a successful artistic career that spanned decades and encompassed drawing, painting, sculpture, mixed ......
2008-02-14 01:49:00
CARLA DI FONZO
For Jean Zaun, chocolate isn't just a Valentine's Day gift, it's an art supply."I sculpt and like working with oil paint and pastels," Zaun, an award-winning artist formerly known to fans as Jean Wertz, said. "But working with culinary products is a real challeng......
2008-02-08 02:21:00
SUSAN E. LINDT
Cuba is a world away from Javier Machado.The tiny island a mere 90 miles off the tip of Florida might as well be on the other side of Earth.Machado grew up in Cuba and left not for political reasons, but for love. His plan to marry his girlfriend and live between the two countries w......
2008-02-02 01:42:00
CARLA DI FONZO
Some people think drinking a beer is a good way to pass the time.Vince and Rick Stanley, on the other hand, use beer to keep time.The innovative clockmakers from Millville used Yuengling Lager beer bottles to create a 21-foot-long clock with workable parts.Vince and his fathe......
2008-02-01 02:41:00
CARLA DI FONZO
Sarah Morton's original plan was to go to West Virginia and drum up some inspiration from the local coal miners.But the artist said she slowly changed her mind the longer she stayed at her secluded studio with only her paint supplies, books and her dog Fletcher to keep her company.......
2008-01-27 00:08:00
MARYALICE BITTS
It took Jake Mahaffy five years to finish his hourlong black-and-white film "War," and it's a wonder it didn't take longer. Not only did Mahaffy create the film entirely on his own — producing, writing, shooting, directing, editing and completing sound production with on......
2008-01-17 10:00:00
JANE HOLAHAN
Junior high science teacher Sylvia Branzei was cutting her toe nails one day back in 1992 when it hit her, "I literally thought, whoa, I like gross stuff. And it's really a great way to teach kids," she remembers. We'll never know the state of Branzei's feet, but ......
2008-01-11 00:32:00
CARLA DI FONZO
The Lancaster Museum of Art is now presenting four separate exhibits by four local artists who are worlds apart.The show will run through March 2, and is the first since the recent departure of Cindi Morrison, the museum's well-respected executive director, who resigned her position to......
2008-01-10 12:16:00
RYAN ROBINSON
For the fourth year in a row, the number of exhibits at the Pennsylvania Farm Show has jumped. About 17,200 entries of animals, farm products and crops, fruits, vegetables, Christmas trees, various "family living" items, dance groups and ag education exhibits were set to be on display......
2008-01-08 00:01:00
CARLA DI FONZO
It all started with a single painting."Shallow Creek," by Thomas Hart Benton (1888-1975), is the image of a country boy enjoying a barefoot stroll along a blue creek, invoking a time when America's rural landscapes didn't have to compete with suburban sprawl."......
2008-01-04 00:12:00
CARLA DI FONZO
Celebrated artist Constantine Kermes has some people he'd like you to meet.These nameless souls inhabit his latest collection of paintings, now showing at Lancaster Arts Hotel through Jan. 31. The exhibit, aptly named "People/Places: A Reflection of the Human Condition," repr......
2007-12-23 00:10:00
MARYALICE BITTS
A Robert A. Nelson exhibit is no place for the unimaginative. Representing the artist's rather gleeful disregard of the laws of time, natural order and reason, his exhibits present a sometimes playful and sometimes vaguely unnerving imagined world where allegory, mythology, classical and hi......
2007-12-23 00:08:00
JAMES BUESCHER
What is beauty? Among the Kayan tribe of Thailand, for example, women often use brass neck coils to achieve the more "beautiful"-and extremely elongated-feminine neck; among the Mursi tribe of Ethiopia, beauty is best achieved by removing the lower front four teeth and inserting a rou......
2007-12-21 00:56:00
CARLA DI FONZO
Getting around during Lancaster's First Fridays in the winter season doesn't have to be a chilly affair, now that you can hop the trolley.On Thursday, LancasterARTS announced that a First Friday Trolley will be available starting Jan. 4. Passage on the trolley is free."......
2007-12-17 00:59:00
CARLA DI FONZO
Disco may have died in the 1970s, but memorabilia from that era is still around and much admired by retro-loving collectors.Peter Seibert, executive director of Heritage Center of Lancaster County, suggested the decade that spawned pet rocks, bean bags and shag carpeting is worthy of serio......
2007-12-16 00:06:00
MARTY CRISP
Christmas and model trains go together like mistletoe and smooches. This year, the Whitaker Center in Harrisburg is kissing up to yuletide train enthusiasts big-time, showing "The Polar Express" at its IMAX theater and offering a collection of eight new model-train gardens in its Hars......
2007-12-16 00:06:00
STEPHEN KOPFINGER
Gathered around a glass display case, the Madison sisters — Heather, 8; Emma, 6; and Olivia, 4 — gazed at the museum treasures inside. Treasures of porcelain, of ornately carved wood, brass, velvet ... and Kitty Litter®. For although the setting was highbrow — Delawar......
2007-12-07 03:18:00
CARLA DI FONZO
Brian Frailey had been selling books online for years, then one day, he had a realization."I looked around my home, and noticed I was running out of space," he said. "Most of my business is still done through Amazon and Alibris.com, but suddenly the idea of opening the store......
2007-12-07 01:44:00
BRIAN WALLACE
More than $2 million in state grants is headed to Lancaster County to help pay for two new nature preserves, four township parks, a recreational trail and an expansion of Tucquan Glen Preserve.The funding also will support the Lancaster-York Heritage Region.The grants are among the ......
2007-12-04 00:01:00
CARLA DI FONZO
Kim Klein said describing Italy is easy."All you have to know is one thing: In Italy, the good times are contagious," she said.The dePaul Gallery director, who started organizing photography workshops in foreign locales about two years ago, said her latest venture to Tusca......
2007-11-22 00:01:00
SUSAN E. LINDT
Thirty-one years of "Trees Galore!" is a lot of trees.Originally, the Lancaster Museum of Art fundraiser consisted of artists sending in their own spins on the image of a Christmas tree. When that became a little redundant, artists began submitting their takes on trees throughout......
2007-11-16 02:08:00
SUSAN E. LINDT
Remember bashing out your brother's brains with your lunch box? Relive a fond memory — or at least part of it — at Lancaster Museum of Art, where an ubercool exhibit of lunch boxes will make you feel 10 again. Once the ultimate (and pretty much only) vehicle of self-express......
2007-11-05 00:06:00
TOM KNAPP
The history of warfare is linked indelibly to transportation.From aircraft and naval vessels to jeeps and motorbikes, the military always has had to find better ways to get where it needs to go. That's where the histories of trains and troops overlap."Railroads really were ......
2007-11-02 04:01:00
CARLA DI FONZO
When artist Christiane David opened up her own gallery three years ago, she was excited to meet her neighbor — Freiman Stoltzfus of Gallery 2 on North Prince Street."I moved in here, and heard music and laughing next door," David said in the distinct accent that reveals her......
2007-11-02 03:56:00
SUSAN E. LINDT
Clara Tice was it. At least for a moment. Then she was forgotten.Dubbed the "Queen of Greenwich Village," this tiny woman ruled Manhattan's downtown bohemia like she owned it in the 1910s and 1920s.She was said to be the first woman in the Village to bob her h......
2007-11-02 03:50:00
SUSAN E. LINDT
As downtown Lancaster becomes a small arts mecca, the outlying areas sometimes get forgotten.Southern Lancaster County is trying to change that.This weekend, for something completely different, try a driving tour of several artists' studios in the scenic southern end.&quo......
2007-10-31 00:59:00
MADELYN PENNINO
Millersville University freshman James Glazier will never look at a can of Red Bull the same way again.Glazier drank more than 200 cans of the energy drink for a project in which he and former classmate Jenn Quach made a chess set out of Red Bull cans called "Check It Out."...
2007-10-25 00:01:00
LINDA ESPENSHADE
"Do you see the rhythm?" asked Pat Drennen, as she looked at her arrangement of fruits and vegetables.The bok choy pulls the eye to the right, lifting it over the large grapes, glancing off the Bartlett pear at the top and cascading through the champagne grapes to the top of the ......
2007-10-13 01:22:00
SUSAN E. LINDT
Lancaster Museum of Art Executive Director Cindi Morrison has announced her resignation from the position she has held since 1997.Morrison told the museum's board of trustees of her resignation about three weeks ago. She said she expects to continue in her position at least through the......
2007-10-12 01:49:00
CARLA DI FONZO
The last time artist Pietro Mantia was in Lancaster, he was planning a trip to Sicily and thinking of taking up permanent residency.But after filling last year with extensive traveling, networking and creating, Mantia began to realize there's no place like home.The 28-year-old n......
2007-10-11 11:24:00
JANE HOLAHAN
After overseeing a decade of growth, innovative exhibits, an explosion of art classes and the purchase of a new building on North Queen Street, Cindi Morrison is leaving the Lancaster Museum of Art. Morrison, the museum's executive director, cited the "elongated, protracted issues w......
2007-10-07 00:12:00
JON RUTTER
William E. Griscom started out as a farm boy in Salem, N.J., working with his hands. "That was my preferred learning style," he said. It also became his preferred teaching style. The approach served him well as president of the Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology for the last ......
2007-10-05 02:38:00
SUSAN E. LINDT
Demuth had a hand in it. The wild beasts played a part. But in Judith M. "Yahudith" Kirchoff's art, it's Yeshua she most credits."What is core to me whenever anybody asks about this is it's all about Yeshua," Kirchoff said. "I could not do what I am doi......
2007-09-28 01:37:00
JOHN JASCOLL
It's not often that a museum guide's style of presentation makes it worth visiting the collection she's talking about. But that's definitely the case with Victoria Wyeth, whose enthusiastic and informative tours of her grandfather Andrew Wyeth's paintings at the Brandywine Riv......
2007-09-23 00:13:00
MARTY CRISP
Why do coconuts float? Because they can't swim. OK, that's just a little "Beakman's World on Tour" humor. (Coconuts actually float so they can spread their seeds.) The whole why/because, question-and-answer format is the focus of North Museum's new interactiv......
2007-09-22 12:12:00
ANYA LITVAK
Your name is Mathabo. You are sitting on a white bench in a one-room clinic in "the mountain kingdom" of Lesotho, Africa. Your father has died of AIDS. Your mother left to find work in South Africa. "She does not return." You sleep on a 3-inch-thick egg crate. Your blan......
2007-09-13 08:43:00
JANE HOLAHAN
The paintings in the 28th Pennsylvania Watercolor Society International Exhibit may be confined to one medium, but the most striking aspect of this show, being hosted by the Lancaster Museum of Art, is its expansive quality. Anyone who's ever tried to paint a watercolor will be amazed by......
2007-09-09 00:02:00
MARYALICE BITTS
Think back to a single moment in your life. Is it a weighty, important moment, or an everyday event? Do you remember all of the details in crisp, photographic detail, or is it more of an impression that you recall, a soft-edged suggestion that's shaded by the way that moment felt? All point......
2007-09-07 02:26:00
SUSAN E. LINDT
Eric Fowler could make an outhouse seem like the Taj Mahal.The artist has this way of putting the most average building — or the downright ugliest — on a pedestal as if no other building exists in the world.Fowler's paintings are often compared to Edward Hopper's......
2007-08-31 02:48:00
SUSAN E. LINDT
You'll like James V. Freeman.He's the rarest of conversationalists: interesting and interested, engaging and engaged.That he is a Professional Artist (the title indicating he not only survives on his art but thrives, as opposed to a "professional artist") makes him......
2007-08-27 20:41:00
CARLA DI FONZO
The Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery at Lebanon Valley College is about to prove that bookworms are beautiful."The Art of Reading: The Oresman Collection" is a unique selection of more than 40 works on paper that share a common theme."All the subjects in the images have ......
2007-08-24 01:33:00
CARLA DI FONZO
A few years ago, illustrator Murray Tinkleman uncovered a childhood scrapbook that chronicled his love of baseball.Dating back to the '30s and '40s, the scrapbook honored Ebbets Field and the Brooklyn Dodgers and renewed his fascination with the game and its superstars.This ......
2007-08-16 00:25:00
SUSAN E. LINDT
A sizable grant announced Wednesday promises to put Charles Demuth's work right where it belongs: on his walls.The Demuth Museum, devoted to the Precisionist artist's life and work, is appropriately situated — in his childhood home at 120 E. King St.But the museum never had en......
2007-08-10 01:19:00
SUSAN E. LINDT
Afternoon tea is taken to stylish new heights in a monthlong exhibit at Lancaster Museum of Art.Don't be fooled. "The Artful Teapot" shows just how cool a spot of tea can be.Manor Township resident Amy Thorn collects high-end teapots that are as clever as they are func......
2007-08-10 01:12:00
CARLA DI FONZO
Local artist Claire Giblin said it's easy to have a revelation — once you stop trying to have one.When she began her most recent body of work, "In Search of Harmony: Journey of the Line," Giblin looked for inspiration in many different places — poetry, ancient phi......
2007-08-03 00:03:00
SUSAN E. LINDT
If your tastes fall into the new, the untested, the a-little-bit-out-there art of emerging artists, finding it in Lancaster can be tough.It's even harder for those artists to find you.A new show at Cabbage Hill gallery Parlor is about the freshest thing to hit the city art scene......
2007-07-22 00:11:00
JON RUTTER
When Jim Bunting strolled through the doors of the future Lancaster Science Factory last week, he beheld 11,000 square feet of mostly wide open space. But all that room is rapidly yielding to an ambitious vision as workers hammer and drill. If all goes according to plan, little paper parac......
2007-07-06 00:24:00
KIM O'BRIEN
When Michelangelo set out to sculpt his famous "David," the artist used a discarded marble block — considered worthless — for the sculpture.Local artist David Zimmerman may not have realized it, but his approach to wooden sculpture is remarkably similar."B......
2007-07-06 00:20:00
SUSAN E. LINDT
It's sort of like an ink blot test for many of us.But for the abstract expressionists who carved out their new style starting in the 1940s, it was nothing short of a release of their innermost selves.Melville Price is largely forgotten in the ranks of better-known abstract expre......
2007-06-17 00:04:00
KELLY L. WATSON
Some people think of aliens as intergalactic monsters with razor fangs. Others know them as little green men with space helmets and laser guns. But life on other planets is probably far different than movies would lead us to believe. That's the premise behind "The Science of Aliens,&qu......
2007-06-14 16:26:00
JANE HOLAHAN
With the billions and billions of stars out there, you've got to wonder: Are we alone? Or is there life throughout the universe? Cue the scary music ... aliens are invading! It's time for Sci Fi Theater! Well, no. Actually, it's time for a visit to the Harsco Science Cente......
2007-06-14 16:11:00
LAURA KNOWLES
Can you spell I-N-T-E-R-C-O-U-R-S-E, P-A? If so, you won't want to miss the big spelling bee at the 4th annual Intercourse Heritage Days this weekend at the Community Park. Actually, the old-fashioned spelling bee is mostly for kids, but there will be plenty of other things for grownups at ......
2007-06-08 02:05:00
RACHEL FETROW
Downtown Lititz merchants have banded together to prove, in the words of one store owner, that Lititz is more than just a "daytime town." "Lovin' Lititz Every 2nd" kicks off tonight with chocolate tastings, a poetry reading and other sales, special events and p......
2007-06-05 02:00:00
ERIC HUGHES
Gail Hillard sees Lancaster Summer Arts Festival as "an evolution."The festival, in its 44th year, has consistently transformed itself since its its 1960s birth, from a small art show in Quarryville to today's two-month celebration of cultural activities and entertainment in ......
2007-06-01 02:48:00
SUSAN E. LINDT
Asian paper folding reigns at this year's Open Art Award.Out of 191 artists' entries, one only was origami and it's this year's first place winner.Artist Lou Ziegler's "Good Night Grace," a large, boxy origami mixed media piece, caught the eye of Kutzto......
2007-06-01 02:24:00
SUSAN E. LINDT
It was 45 whirlwind days for the record books.If you enjoyed Nathan Sawaya's LEGO® sculpture exhibit at Lancaster Museum of Art, you were part of the biggest crowd-pleaser in the museum's 42-year history."We're still in recovery mode," museum director Cindi......
2007-04-13 01:37:00
Susan E. Lindt
The LEGO® artist featured on the first floor of Lancaster Museum of Art is garnering so much attention, the other three might have slipped by without much notice.But the trio in the upstairs galleries hold their own, covering the gamut from whimsy to earthy, painting to poured glass, t......
2007-04-13 01:32:00
Carla Di Fonzo
Shane Green paints Lancaster's rural landscapes, but his work is anything but familiar territory.His exhibit, "A Sense of Place," at Mulberry Art Studios through April 28, redefines the local scenery, allowing viewers to see Lancaster with a pair of fresh eyes."Mu......
2007-04-06 01:04:00
Susan E. Lindt
Nathan Sawaya was a corporate attorney in New York City. Now he makes stuff out of LEGOs® for a living.Don't knock it. The way he sees it, that lawyer thing was just a detour anyway."I'm not really an attorney-turned-LEGO® artist," he said. "I was a LE......
2007-04-06 00:40:00
Carla Di Fonzo
This year's Echo Valley Art Group exhibit is all about thinking outside the box."EV2" or "Echo Valley Squared," now on display at Lancaster Galleries, is a broad selection of work from 24 of the area's most talented artists, proving without a doubt that great mi......
2007-04-06 00:04:00
Susan E. Lindt
She was a Philadelphia debutante who kept exotic birds. She was a proper Victorian wife and mother. And on the other end of the spectrum, she dared to be a diehard Modernist when Impressionism was the flavor of the day.Mary G.L. Hood isn't your average anything, although taken in piece......
2007-04-06 00:03:00
Susan E. Lindt
It's not often the eye is lured from the art to the frame — but there's something special about these frames.Those eye-catching frames around so many of Mary G.L. Hood's paintings are from the hand of Bernard Badura — one of America's most renowned framemakers....
2007-04-04 14:27:00
Jane Holahan
Five points. Eight points. No points at all. Stars of all shapes, sizes and purposes will be on display in Lancaster's Penn Square beginning Friday when the Heritage Center Museum opens "Stars Over Pennsylvania." The exhibit, which will run through the end of the year, features quilts and ......
2007-03-31 01:04:00
Susan E. Lindt
Heart disease kills many men, but it's even more lethal for women, experts say.Lancaster General Hospital's Women & Babies Hospital wants to spread the word that heart disease is the leading cause of death in women, killing more than the next 16 causes combined.Women'......
2007-03-30 00:33:00
Carla Di Fonzo
There's only two more weeks to catch a glimpse of the "Carlos Luna: Personal Histories" exhibit at Lebanon Valley College's Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery.However, if you can't make it to the college in time to see the Cuban native's rustic work, a concurrent exhib......
2007-03-10 00:15:00
Rebecca J. Ritzel
On a hill above a lush, flowering field, the smokestacks of Auschwitz pump human ashes into the atmosphere.It's not irony that artist Ita Mond is striving for in this watercolor she calls "Spring 1942," it's optimism."When I tell people I paint Holocaust-theme......
2007-03-02 00:24:00
Carla Di Fonzo
You could say Isadore Gallery's "Lost Boundaries" exhibit is wonderfully fleshed out."I like to think of it as sensual," said gallery co-owner Leslie Halpern. "There's some nudes, a lot of flesh and images of chocolate — and if that's not......
2007-03-01 13:05:00
Kathleen Daminger
The first time local artist Judy Crabtree saw "the twins,'' they were wearing matching lime green outfits. "I became obsessed with them, but you know I couldn't find out what their names were,'' she says. "Everybody knew who they were, but nobody reall......
2007-02-22 13:52:00
Jane Holahan
A taste of tandoori. The wisdom of Gandhi. Hindu deities. Bollywood. Lancaster is immersing itself in the culture of India beginning Sunday and running all next week. "Mela: A Harmony of East and West," is bringing together a wide variety of Lancaster's cultural organizati......
2007-02-15 13:16:00
Jane Holahan
Are you looking at your brown backyard and wishing you could see a pink tulip? A yellow forsythia? A stunning white clematis? Does winter make you long for the garden, the color green and dirt under your fingernails? And does the sight and scent of a bouquet of flowers remind you of spr......
2007-02-09 00:40:00
Carla Di Fonzo
Sarah McRae Morton isn't the typical 22-year-old artist.As a painter, she's developed a meticulous style that's beyond her years."If you looked at her paintings and didn't know who she is, you could easily assume the work was made by a 60-year-old," said Le......
2007-01-28 00:01:00
Jon Rutter
The notion blossomed spontaneously Thursday, in the best tradition of science. Converting an elevated office in a northeast Lancaster factory building to a toy airplane "flight deck" would be a great idea, agreed Jim Bunting and Ray and Lisa Shirk. "I'll be throwing a......
2007-01-17 12:35:00
Compiled by Marilyn Killian
Published Jan. 18, 2007 Lititz and Manheim showed well during last week’s state farm show in Harrisburg, including Lace Acres farm in Lititz and Joelynn Donough from Manheim. The 2007 Pennsylvania Farm Show produced the following local results:...
2007-01-12 00:09:00
SUSAN E. LINDT
Author Douglas Adams thought they were just plain ugly: "It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'as pretty as an airport' appear."
Artist Kris Harzinski disagrees.
"Layover" is Harzinski's ode to the airport — that stopping ground used solely as......
2007-01-09 15:36:02
Ryan Robinson
Between 8,000 and 10,000 farmers from all parts of the state attended the Pennsylvania Corn, Fruit, Dairy Products and Wool Show as it was called back then. This week, 400,000 mostly non-farmers are expected at the show now billed as the country’s largest indoor agricultural exposition. The ex......
2007-01-06 23:40:56
Judy A. Strausbaugh
Less than 15 minutes after giving his opening-day speech at the 91st annual Pennsylvania Farm Show Saturday morning, Gov. Ed Rendell was in the food court chowing down a beef sandwich.
As the governor opened wide, a passerby asked, “Is he really going to eat that in front of all these peo...
2007-01-06 11:42:13
Ryan Robinson And Anya Litvak
“Yes, that’s Ben Franklin reading the Liberty Bell,” Diane Hamill of Lawrence County told her skeptical son. “All butter?” he repeated. “Gee, I could never make a sculpture out of butter.” It’s a conversation you will hear only at the Pennsylvania Farm Show, which kicked off today and continue......
2006-12-18 18:49:54
Jennifer Todd
About 2,000 people took advantage of free admission to visit the 37-year-old museum, which is part of the Dutch Wonderland complex, during Community Days held Saturday and Sunday.
The event offered visitors a chance to experience the attraction before its doors close Dec. 30.
“A lot of...
2006-11-10 10:45:12
Susan Jurgelski
He wasn’t going to betray his carefully guarded secret with a face-splitting grin. So far, he thought, she didn’t suspect a thing. As they walked hand-in-hand around the case filled with precious minerals, all carefully labeled, his heart drummed in his chest. Soon, he thought, excitedly....
2006-11-03 00:31:00
SUSAN E. LINDT
The human condition — mostly without the humans — is at Parlor.
Two friends' photographic view of the little things we often miss (and sometimes try to miss) are on display in "Where Are You?," a new exhibit at the Cabbage Hill gallery.
The title comes from photo......
2006-10-19 10:35:24
10 Years Ago
Thursday’s Record Express October 17, 1996
• Dangerous Intersection - A Lititz teenager was fortunate to avoid serious injury after a Sunday collision at one of Elizabeth Township’s most dangerous intersections. Vehicle accidents seem to be a monthly routine at B......
2006-10-19 01:01:19
Jennifer Todd
Some of the money will pay for restoration of the Thaddeus Stevens house in Lancaster, and another chunk will go toward the Lauxmont Farms property on the Susquehanna River.
Gov. Ed Rendell Wednesday announced $1.5 million in grants meant to preserve Pennsylvania’s heritage and help create to...
2006-09-25 14:06:20
Chad Umble
Animal judging, craft and food contests, rides and unique contests like a pig chase, tug-of-war and baby parade highlight the five-day event, which annually attracts tens of thousands. “All these people that come together for one activity make this a really good community event that 20,000 people......
2006-09-20 14:51:27
Andy Fasnacht
And as of next Monday evening, when the 88th edition of Pennsylvania’s largest street fair rolls into town, that tradition will go the way of five-cent balloons as the Ephrata Farmers Day Association (EFDA) convinced Ephrata Borough to move the long-standing street closing time from 9 to 7:30 p.m....
2006-09-18 14:20:07
Jane Holahan
The Lancaster Quilt & Textile Museum, 37-41 N. Market St., is planning to expand by 4,500 square feet by the end of 2007, enabling bigger and bolder exhibits in its gallery space and about 10 more quilts in its main display area. “We’ll be filling in the courtyard,” says Peter Seibert, the execut......
2006-09-07 09:12:33
Old school contests like smelly sneaker, Jell-o eating and cow chip poker will be brought back for old times’ sake.
•Sept. 12- The crowning of Miss Denver Fair, sponsored by Country Lane Flowers, will be held Sept. 12 at 7 p.m. during the opening ceremonies. This year’s young women are going ...
2006-07-26 13:32:31
For the past eight years, Mary Binder has been involved with the crafts department of the fair. Merv Esh, president of the Ephrata Fair Organization, said, “Mary has been a tremendous support to the Ephrata Fair. She works the entire fair week.”
Mr. Binder assists with the computer center whe...
2006-07-20 12:41:55
Nate Drenner
Delaware American Indians called it “Susquehanna.” But however it’s referred to, the Susquehanna River has shaped life in Lancaster and York Counties for centuries. An exhibit that opened Wednesday night at the Lancaster County Historical Society was the first of more than 40 events in the com......
