2012-02-05 00:08:00
JOHN JASCOLL
If you flip through a copy of The New Yorker at a newsstand, you might look at the cartoons first to see if any of them are winners. The magazine's editors realize this and have made sure over the years to include the best cartoonists around. One of these was William Steig (19......
2012-02-05 00:06:00
DAINA SAVAGE
Artists Carol Galligan and Milt Friedly are the ultimate recyclers. They see only opportunity in what has been discarded, elevating what has been deemed ugly or no longer useful into works that are at once arresting and astonishing. Their new show at Keystone Art & Culture Center, 4......
2012-02-03 17:13:00
ROCHELLE A. SHENK
A city skyline, the design of a parking garage, vintage aircraft, cuddly youngsters and snapshots of wildlife are all images currently on display at the latest Manheim Township Public Library exhibit. The photography show features a wide range of photography from nearly a dozen local and re......
2012-01-29 00:10:00
MARY ELLEN WRIGHT
When Haitian artist Benson Myrtil moved here 10 years ago, he had to restart his creative career from scratch. He had made his living as a painter in Haiti. He had a studio in which to work, art students to teach and galleries in which to exhibit and sell his creations. A......
2012-01-15 00:06:00
JOHN JASCOLL
Lancaster will have a unique opportunity to hear about Andrew Wyeth and the stories behind his paintings when his granddaughter, Victoria Wyeth, delivers a presentation titled "Lessons I Learned at My Grandfather's Knee" on Friday, Jan. 20, at the Ware Center, Millersville Universi......
2011-11-25 22:28:00
Correspondent
ART SHOW
• "A Thrill of Hope, the Weary World Rejoices," the second annual Advent art exhibit at the Parish Resource Center, 633 Community Way, will open with a reception to meet the artists at 6 p.m. Monday, Dec. 5. The exhibit, which features works by professional and amateur ......
2011-11-25 22:28:00
Correspondent
ART SHOW
• "A Thrill of Hope, the Weary World Rejoices," the second annual Advent art exhibit at the Parish Resource Center, 633 Community Way, will open with a reception to meet the artists at 6 p.m. Monday, Dec. 5. The exhibit, which features works by professional and amateur ......
2011-11-18 23:04:00
BERNARD HARRIS
When the Lancaster Quilt & Textile Museum opened in 2004, organizers expected between 35,000 and 55,000 people to come through the doors to see the famous Esprit Collection of Amish quilts.
That never happened.
This year, only 8,500 have paid admission to the 37 N. Market St. ......
2011-11-10 23:07:00
TOM KNAPP
Few artists skip on their way to an interview about their first professional exhibit.
But Gracie Rose Adams skipped happily, and she didn't feel the least bit self-conscious about it. After all, this talented young photographer from Schaefferstown is only 7 years old.
Being 7, the......
2011-11-03 23:33:00
JANE HOLAHAN
In post-World War II Germany, African-American soldiers discovered a kind of freedom they had never experienced in their own country.
They could eat in any restaurant they chose. Sit anywhere on a bus. Hire a white person as a servant or date a white woman.
At home, this would hav......
2011-10-16 00:14:00
STEPHEN KOPFINGER
Two artists. One roof. A multitude of perspectives. Twenty works by artist and illustrator Raul Colon and seven portraits by painter Amy Sherald currently share space in the main gallery of Pennsylvania College of Art & Design on North Prince Street. The exhibit is pa......
2011-10-09 00:08:00
MARY ELLEN WRIGHT
Although modern artists William and Marguerite Zorach died back in the 1960s, some Franklin & Marshall College students have come to feel very close to them. Those students are members of a curatorial practices class taught by F&M art history professor Linda Aleci. The......
2011-10-02 00:12:00
MARY ELLEN WRIGHT
Lancaster ArtWalk is usually all about the galleries. This month, it will also be about the garage. The West Walnut Street car-storage warehouse space in question, a cavernous garage filled with chunky old wooden beams and exposed brick walls, will be lit up, decorated and tra......
2011-10-02 00:04:00
DAINA SAVAGE
Jerome Hershey wants your mantras, epigrams and even clichés. The Lancaster abstract artist delights in translating a turn of phrase into a many-layered dance of color and form in his paintings. Just as delightful is the process of collecting those sayings: from fortune cookies t......
2011-10-02 00:01:00
DAINA SAVAGE
Promoting peace through both sounds and silence, the Lancaster Coalition for Peace and Social Justice will host a two-day literary and musical arts event open to the community. Poetry readings, writing workshops and silent vigils mark the weekend event, which aims to heighten awareness of......
2011-09-25 00:12:00
KELLY SMEDLEY
Regina Martin is caught between pining for the white-picket-fence days of her youth and harboring resentment for the overtly deceptive marketing that tempted mothers to place junk food at the center of their children's diets. "When I am around my girlfriends, we always end up ......
2011-09-22 14:18:00
KATHLEEN DAMINGER
Art -- and the passion to create and share it -- has always been a part of the human experience. Even in conservative Lancaster County.
Long before the abundance of galleries downtown, before the art colleges and First Fridays, there were artists in Lancaster who craved community.
...
2011-09-18 00:10:00
DAINA SAVAGE
When a historic tree falls, it makes the sound of opportunity for Martin Stolpe. The woodsman has made it his mission to keep local significant trees away from the woodpile and mulcher, instead elevating them to works of art. "What we're trying to do is keep historical trees a......
2011-09-18 00:08:00
JACK BRUBAKER
"I am here to kill myself some damn rebels," John Burns told Union soldiers at Gettysburg in 1863. And so the Army of the Potomac, which needed every man it could find to defeat the invading Army of Northern Virginia, let Burns, the only civilian to fight at Gettysburg, do his thing. "I......
2011-09-11 00:08:00
STEPHEN KOPFINGER
If you were to liken Lancaster County Art Association to a lady, she'd be a generous soul who has nurtured generations of creative minds. She would be a patron who has aged gracefully. This year, the lady turns 75. So, of course, a grand birthday party is in order. The LC......
2011-09-09 16:08:00
ROXANNE TODD
An art exhibit, "Our Treasures," is being held at Quarryville Library.
The show, which is open during library business hours, features five artists from southern Lancaster County and a variety of works. The exhibit will run through the month of October. Many of the paintings are for sale ......
2011-09-04 00:10:00
PAULA HOLZMAN
Millersville University is mounting an exhibit on Pennsylvania folk art, but it's not the type of art you might expect. Instead of Fraktur and redware, the exhibit will feature work by more than 30 state residents ranging from taxidermy to Bosnian ballads to Vietnamese funerar......
2011-08-31 17:28:00
JANE HOLAHAN
By the time the 2011-2012 academic year is over, more than 160 events will have been held at Millersville University Lancaster at 42 N. Prince St.
Beginning Sept. 2 and continuing through June, the place will be packed with concerts of all kinds, dance performances, cabarets, lectures, th......
2011-08-28 00:10:00
KELLY SMEDLEY
Every one of the 200 exhibitors at this year's Long's Park Art & Craft Festival has a unique story to tell. Each can recount a personal journey and inspiration that led to the creation of a signature piece. In advance of the festival — which opens Friday, Sept. 2, an......
2011-08-28 00:08:00
MARY ELLEN WRIGHT
"She was effervescent. She was a pioneer. … She was incredibly open and smart. And she was brilliant." That's how Ron Ettelman describes his friend, Florence Starr Taylor, the free-spirited and prolific Lancaster artist whose body of work serves as a visual document of ......
2011-08-21 00:08:00
JOHN JASCOLL
How do you portray the face of Jesus, a man whose life and religious teachings have dominated Western civilization for 2,000 years? It's been a challenge for artists through the ages, who for most of that time were restricted to reproducing images from sacred icons. A brillian......
2011-07-31 00:08:00
MARY ELLEN WRIGHT
New York illustrator Seymour Chwast has spent decades communicating political and cultural ideas through his artwork — by turns humorous, surreal and searing — and has, in the process, helped change the face of contemporary graphic design. Chwast's influential arti......
2011-07-28 11:23:00
STAFF
A traveling exhibit that features facsimiles of everything from the 1455 Gutenberg Bible to a rough draft of the Declaration of Independence is coming here. The Manheim Township Public Library and Lancaster Public Library will host the "Gateway to Knowledge" exhibit from the Library of Congr......
2011-06-26 00:08:00
JOHN JASCOLL
When you have a local artist like Jamie Wyeth who's famous the world over, it's natural to wonder what stimulated his creativity. This is revealed in his "Farm Work" exhibition, on display through Sept. 11 at Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Ford. The exhibit gives you a tour......
2011-06-26 00:06:00
STEPHEN KOPFINGER
For Paula Egolf and Marion Stephenson, art and friendship go hand in hand. A double exhibit of the two painters' works kicks off Friday, July 1, at Artisans Gallery Fine Art & Craft, 114 N. Prince St., during First Friday, the city's monthly celebration of the arts. A......
2011-06-24 08:11:00
Rochelle A. Shenk
The Manheim Historical Society's restored railway station at 210 S. Charlotte St. will be open for tours 1-4 p.m. on Sundays through Labor Day.
Visitors may view an exhibit of pen & ink illustrations by Manheim artist Dan. F. Barthold, and visit the society's transportation museum and......
2011-06-19 00:08:00
DAINA SAVAGE
For artist Kevin Lehman, the woods offer a wealth of sensory delights that inspire his work: the texture of bark, the scent of green and decay, the heft of stone and temporality of leaf. Eager to share his passion for nature, Lehman proposed an installation exhibition at Millersville Univers......
2011-06-11 14:12:00
Rochelle A. Shenk
The Manheim Historical Society's restored railway station at 210 S. Charlotte St. will be open for tours 1-4 p.m. on Sundays through Labor Day.
Visitors may view an exhibit of pen & ink illustrations by Manheim artist Dan. F. Barthold, and visit the society's transportation museum and......
2011-06-09 16:10:00
LAURA KNOWLES
In a multimedia art show, you might expect a variety of media. You might not expect dirt, coffee filters, newspaper clippings, magazine scraps and bits of lace.
The National Juried Exhibit opens Sunday at the Lancaster County Art Association's gallery in Strasburg. The art association is ......
2011-06-02 08:29:00
ROCHELLE A. SHENK
The Manheim Historical Society is hosting a summer-long exhibit of Manheim-area artist Dan F. Barthold's pen & ink illustrations. The art exhibit will be held at the restored Manheim railroad station, 210 S. Charlotte St. It runs from June 5 though September 4. The railroad statio......
2011-06-01 17:42:13
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....
2011-05-29 00:16:00
STEPHEN KOPFINGER
For First Friday, the Lancaster Museum of Art is going to hit one out of the park. Literally. In a town that serves as home to a minor league baseball team — not to mention legions of Philadelphia Phillies fans — the museum is hosting "Play Ball!," a mixed-med......
2011-05-24 07:45:00
ROCHELLE A. SHENK
The Manheim Central Art Department will host its annual Senior Art Exhibition 6-8:30 p.m., Thursday, May 26 in the High School Lobby and Auditorium, 400 Adele Ave., Manheim.
A variety of work will showcased including drawings, paintings, sculptures, ceramics, and computer art.
Spo......
2011-05-05 21:12:00
JANE HOLAHAN
The Marietta ArtHouse, a stately Victorian-era home at 316 E. Market St. in Marietta, harkens back to a quieter time.
Except once you are inside, the energy starts flowing and the art jumps off the walls.
You are very much in the present day.
The house, which opened six mo......
2011-05-01 00:14:00
MARY ELLEN WRIGHT
There will be a touch of the ephemeral in the air at next weekend's Lancaster ArtWalk. Around the corner from long-running exhibits in established local art spaces, two galleries will appear and disappear in the course of three days. Nick Mohler, program director for Pennsylva......
2011-05-01 00:10:00
JON RUTTER
In a classic scene from the 1964 Anthony Quinn movie "Zorba the Greek," two dudes in neckties dance on a beach. Lancaster's new Greek arts festival Friday, May 6, will bring back the famous Zorba dance –– and much, much more. "It's Greek to Me, Part III" also ......
2011-05-01 00:08:00
STEPHEN KOPFINGER
What connection do tranquil watercolor landscapes share with beloved Lancaster landmarks — and the Empire State Building? They intersect in the life, art and architecture of one Francis Howse Cruess. His name is not well-known, but a new exhibit at Red Raven Art Co.......
2011-04-28 23:10:00
JANE HOLAHAN
Barry Root tells stories in his paintings.
Adventures, mysteries, minor tragedies and major comedies.
Sometimes, those stories have words. Other times, they don't.
But there are always places to go and things to explore in his work.
You can get lost in them at the ......
2011-03-24 16:02:00
JANE HOLAHAN
When Cle Berntheizel, the owner of Garth Gallery in Columbia, was much younger, he didn't care all that much for abstract art.
"I used to say, 'I could do that,' when I saw abstract art," Berntheizel says.
He is older and wiser now.
"I've come to appreciate it now since ow......
2011-03-20 00:14:00
JOHN JASCOLL
What an extraordinary experience it must have been for an up-and-coming artist to live in Paris at the turn of the 19th century. The city was a haven for an exceptionally talented group of painters, poets and sculptors contributing to each other's creative genius — a gen......
2011-03-13 00:06:00
STEPHEN KOPFINGER
There's a place in Harrisburg where it's possible to fly without leaving the ground. Or race a car without breaking the law. Or even go back in time. All under one roof. The Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts has a new permanent exhibit, "Move It!," that serves as a......
2011-03-06 00:06:00
DAINA SAVAGE
Linda Mylin Ross has the cure for spring fever. Curator of the first invitational show in the newly opened Marietta Arthouse gallery, Ross is offering a bonanza of blooms in a big way. Her "Flowers!" exhibit deserves the exclamation point. "We wanted to overwhelm peo......
2011-03-06 00:05:00
AD CRABLE
Born in a refugee camp in Cameroon. Nearly killed by malnutrition and malaria as a toddler. His family forced to flee their home in Chad when a relative was ousted as the African country's oppressive dictator. That's why history "is engraved into my mind-state and heart forever" says Ahmed A......
2011-03-06 00:04:00
DAINA SAVAGE
Lou Schellenberg found her latest muse in the darkness and strange lights of winter nights. Driving home from work to her forested Mount Gretna home, the play of shadows on the snow at dusk became her inspiration. "I love the limited palate of the night," she said. "I've ......
2011-02-24 15:42:00
Staff
A Life in the 'Tempest' ... starts Thursday
Fanny Kemble, a famous British actress of her day, was also a woman of conscience. And in the mid-19th century, that wasn't easy. When Kemble married American Pierce Butler, he was not a slave owner, but later he inherited a plantation and slave......
2011-01-30 00:06:00
STEPHEN KOPFINGER
There's a connection to the familiar in the paintings of Sarah McRae Morton, as well as a call to the faraway. Which is appropriate, considering the Strasburg native is starting a new life across the sea. Morton, long associated with downtown Lancaster's Red Raven Art Com......
2011-01-05 17:26:00
ROCHELLE A. SHENK
Knitting and crocheting are not only fun and relaxing crafts, but they also may be functional or veer into the artistic realm.
A group of 20 knitters from Lancaster Yarn Shop's Thursday Night Knitting Group challenged themselves to learn a new crochet technique from a local fabric artist,......
2011-01-02 00:08:00
STEPHEN KOPFINGER
Liz Hess' trademark red umbrella meets the verdant terrain of the Emerald Isle in a new exhibit of Ireland-inspired works at her Prince Street gallery this month. Hess has become known for her pet portraits, lush landscapes and scenic depictions of life here and abroad, many m......
2010-12-19 00:04:00
STEPHEN KOPFINGER
There are many expressions of travel: "The journey of 1,000 miles begins with a single step," "It's not the destination, but the trip" or, for that matter, "Wherever you go, there you are." All somewhat apply to "Here, There and the In-Between," a new exhibition at Millersvill......
2010-12-03 22:35:00
CINDY STAUFFER
Oh, the memories.
Silver strands of icicle tinsel that your mom carefully draped, one by one, on the Christmas tree in a process that took hours.
Bubble lights.
Those shiny satin balls decorated with bejeweled pushpins.
Grandpa Cutler's trains.
The pink fea......
2010-11-28 16:29:00
CLAUDIA W. ESBENSHADE
Within the walls of the Lancaster Quilt & Textile Museum, a new exhibit is being researched, designed and planned by a group of six college students who are learning more than they ever thought they would about quilts and fashion.
The collaboration between the museum and the Franklin ......
2010-11-21 00:06:00
DAINA SAVAGE
Jerome Hershey likes to play with his words. The Lancaster artist, known for his bold, brilliant abstracts, is weaving a literary energy into the language of his paintings. For the past year, in his 34 1/2 N. Queen St. studio, Hershey has been creating work that takes ins......
2010-11-04 20:56:00
JANE HOLAHAN
For the past 10 years, Mark Workman has been showing his paintings at a gallery in New York.
New York is a noisy place. Workman's paintings tend to be quiet.
"It's hard to get noticed," he says, sitting in his Lititz studio, a former garage behind the house he shares with his wife......
2010-10-31 00:06:00
STEPHEN KOPFINGER
Halloween has come and will soon be gone, but something haunting will remain at the Kalargyros Gallery & Glass Studio in downtown Lancaster. It's a painting — of a very big fish — titled "The Haunting." The work is one of several by Matt Doyle that will be......
2010-10-21 16:29:00
LAURA KNOWLES
Two years ago, Mary Ann Frontz started An Evening of Art at Moravian Manor in Lititz.
Back then, the idea was to preview the artists who would be showing their work during the upcoming year. It's an event that has become very popular with the retirement community's residents -- some 300 o......
2010-10-14 17:05:00
LAURA KNOWLES
For artist Dean Radinovsky, having an exhibition at Millersville University is something of a homecoming.
Although his work has been nationally and even internationally acclaimed, the Lancaster native and Millersville graduate -- who now lives in Queens, N.Y. -- is very pleased to be havi......
2010-10-10 00:16:00
STEPHEN KOPFINGER
Bronze is weighty; the works of bronze sculptor Peter Calaboyias are not. One piece suggests a window with shutters thrown open to a brilliant Aegean Sea; another recalls the breastplate of a legendary king, lost to myth. "The sculpture should speak to the viewer," Calabo......
2010-10-07 17:01:00
KATHLEEN DAMINGER
Maytown resident Gary Butson thinks of himself as just a "regular guy."
He plays catch in the backyard with his 5-year-old son. He deals with the daily grind of the workaday world. He's pretty handy in the kitchen and he and his wife love to entertain guests.
But at night -- late ......
2010-10-07 16:39:00
LAURA KNOWLES
There is something almost chameleon-like about the work of artist Seymour Remenick.
Just when you start to think of him as an artist who painted impressionistic scenes of rivers, mountains and seaside lobster shacks, he seemed to switch gears and transform himself into an abstract artist ......
2010-10-03 00:14:00
JOHN JASCOLL
If you've ever had the urge to touch something in an exhibition, then be warned: A collection of 45 paintings on display at Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Ford will present you with temptations that are hard to resist. The objects they portray appear to be so real that you'll be......
2010-09-26 00:14:00
STEPHEN KOPFINGER
Next weekend at Page 4 Art Boutique in downtown Lancaster, central Pennsylvania meets Spain in the works of artists Patricia Kline and Mary Carmen. Tucked into an alley at 240 N. Arch St. and comprising just three rooms, Page 4 opened in April under the guidance of Derrick Stephenson. The ga......
2010-09-23 16:03:00
LAURA KNOWLES
This weekend the Echo Valley Art Group will be holding not just one, but two events.
That seems only natural with a name like Echo Valley, as it holds its annual benefit art auction Sunday at 1 p.m. at Rader Park. (The group's annual show also opens Friday at Elizabethtown College; see re......
2010-09-12 00:08:00
JOHN JASCOLL
If the fabulous Barnes Foundation art museum in Merion is something you've always meant to visit but never got around to, now's the time to do it. Next year it will close its doors in preparation for a move to the Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia, and if you don't go now you'l......
2010-08-29 00:04:00
STEPHEN KOPFINGER
One doesn't think of Charles Demuth and Georgia O'Keeffe crossing paths. Demuth was Lancaster's own master of watercolor and oil, who lived with his mother on East King Street. Yet he was a man who quietly forged his own way in the explosive art world of post-World War I America.......
2010-08-29 00:02:00
STAFF
Mean fiddle
The older folks know Charlie Daniels for his classic country hit "The Devil Went Down to Georgia"; the younger folks know him for his Geico commercial, in which he convincingly demonstrates his "mean fiddle" skills. Daniels' bow work......
2010-08-22 00:16:00
STEPHEN KOPFINGER
The images are as iconic as the natural wonders they depict: stark, yet shimmering; bold, yet subtle in their detail; magnificent, yet humbling. They are the works of master photographer Ansel Adams, and 50 of those images will be unveiled Friday, Aug. 27, at Lebanon Valley College's Suz......
2010-08-15 00:12:00
STEPHEN KOPFINGER
In the hands of Jennifer Avery, the humble gourd becomes a flight of fancy: A whale cavorts in the ocean depths; Celtic images evoke a mystical world; medieval huntsmen gallop through a forest. Avery can transform a product of the vine into anything from a hat to a purse to a festive holiday......
2010-07-04 00:08:00
STEPHEN KOPFINGER
Three-story lizards will soon be stalking downtown Reading. No, it's not the next "Godzilla" sequel, and the reptiles in question won't be emerging from the Schuylkill River. Even if Reading does have a Japanese pagoda. "Walking With Dinosaurs" will stomp its......
2010-06-27 00:16:00
JOHN JASCOLL
At the age of 72, Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) said, "I am beginning to know how to paint. It has taken me over 50 years of work to achieve this result, which is far from complete." Enthusiasts can judge the accuracy of his claim by exploring the "Late Renoir" exhibition ......
2010-06-27 00:12:00
STEPHEN KOPFINGER
Adversity can deal creativity a setback, but seldom stifles it. The art of Jonathan Whitlock is a declaration of that. The 29-year-old Lancaster artist will mark his 30th birthday July 2, when his works take a bow at Red Raven Art Company, hallmarking Whitlock as the gallery's Emerging A......
2010-06-13 00:12:00
STEPHEN KOPFINGER
She's one of the most famous women in history, yet her true story remains an enigma. She has long been hailed as an icon of beauty, yet nobody really knows what she looked like. Such is the riddle of Cleopatra, ancient Egypt's — and possibly the world's — most le......
2010-06-03 16:24:00
TOM KNAPP
There is expressiveness in the hue and texture of a broad wooden bowl.There is both order and discord in an arrangement of cut and fractured marble.There is comfort and familiarity in a river scene.There is chaos in the splatter of a flyswatter on paint.The Open Art Aw......
2010-05-02 00:12:00
STEPHEN KOPFINGER
It might seem cliché to invoke that old saying about a picture being worth a thousand words, but the works of Jerome Hershey give a whole new meaning to the expression. Hershey's abstract word-inspired artwork will take its place among dozens of exhibits adorning downtown Lancaste......
2010-05-02 00:02:00
STAFF
Worth a drive
For better or worse, the members of the Los Angeles rock band OK Go will forever be known for their hokey, homemade music videos, which have earned them YouTube fame and millions of fans worldwide. The band is touring in support of its third studio album ......
2010-04-25 00:08:00
JON RUTTER
Frightening. For a lot of school kids — and adults — that about sums up the idea of math. Now, though, the Math Midway, a traveling mathematics exhibition that opened last week at the Lancaster Science Factory, 454 New Holland Ave., is part of the equation. And that cha......
2010-04-18 00:15:00
ENELLY BETACOURT
Lancaster was in full display Saturday as art enthusiasts strolled the downtown streets, wandering from space to space and discovering pottery, paintings, jewelry and clothing during the Lancaster ArtWalk. They came from near and far. Lancaster resident Lindsay Hess came out for a morni......
2010-03-28 00:12:00
DAINA SAVAGE
Wandering through Linda Mylin Ross' extensive gardens in historic Marietta, it's easy to see why she revels in the stirrings of springtime. The first blush of buds, the tentative unfurling of fiddleheads and the exuberant emergence of bulbs all conspire to simultaneously draw her out......
2010-03-28 00:02:00
STAFF
Worth a drive
Norah Jones, showing off more of her songwriter's edge these days than the smooth cabaret styling that won her early accolades, will perform at 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 30 (her birthday), at the Lyric Opera House in Baltimore and at 8 p.m. Saturday, Apri......
2010-03-21 00:14:00
KELLY WATSON
Nora Keene was boarding the Titanic headed to Harrisburg when she accidentally dropped her rosary and prayer book overboard: an omen of the tragedy to come. While Keene survived that ill-fated voyage, others bound for Harrisburg weren't so lucky. Four Balkan immigrants hoping to work in the......
2010-03-21 00:09:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
When one thinks of historic innovations, duct tape seldom leaps to mind. Unless you are Sara Mimnall. The 16-year-old Columbia High School junior so adores the cloth-backed tape developed during World War II to water-proof ammunition cans, that she made it the focus of her project for the re......
2010-03-14 00:02:00
STAFF
Jane Monheit
Steamy chanteuse Jane Monheit will perform at 5:30 and 8 p.m. Saturday, March 20, at Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square. Her latest album, "The Lovers, the Dreamers and Me," features tunes from the likes of Fiona Apple and Paul Simon, as well wo......
2010-03-07 00:10:00
JOHN JASCOLL
Cubism has probably been the most important development in visual art in the past 100 years. At the age of 26, the brilliant young Spanish painter Pablo Picasso rebelled against the whole of Western art since the early Renaissance by inventing a completely new way of looking at the world. "Pica...
2010-02-07 00:10:00
STEPHEN KOPFINGER
In the dreamlike paintings of Sarah McRae Morton, reality and fairy-tale fantasy freely cross paths. Doomed French Queen Marie Antoinette, awaiting her fate, is depicted as Rapunzel locked in her tower. Goldilocks and Red Riding Hood encounter one another, surrounded by a surreal collection ......
2010-02-04 17:33:00
JANE HOLAHAN
Charles Demuth loved to see a good show.Whether it was in a New York jazz club or right here, Lancaster's most famous artist was an avid audience member.He loved painting and drawing the performances he saw at places like the Colonial Theater, the Capitol Theater and the Hippodr......
2010-01-31 00:14:00
MICHAEL LONG, Entertainment Editor
Painter Robert Smith leads the solitary life of a man dedicated to his art, but he's no loner. Seated in Gallery DePaul among the numerous portraits of women in his latest exhibition, "Twenty-Eight," the soon-to-be-70-year-old Smith seems a reluctant sort of charmer: humble, ye......
2010-01-24 00:14:00
MICHAEL C. UPTON
About 12,000 years ago, a hefty 4-plus-ton mastodon took a wrong turn into a bog at what is now Marshalls Creek, near the Delaware Water Gap in northeastern Pennsylvania. The move proved fatal for the animal, but left Ice Age enthusiasts one of the most complete mastodon skeletons in North America....
2010-01-03 00:02:00
STAFF
Branch out
Grammy winner Michelle Branch, whose hits include "Everywhere" and "Breathe," will perform with the Mark DeRose Band at 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 8, at American Music Theatre, 2425 Lincoln Highway East. For ticket information, call 397-7700....
2009-11-29 00:08:00
MICHAEL C. UPTON
When Grant Rissler goes to market, he looks over the food and local wares as any other buyer would. But when he checks the color and texture of a tomato, it's not produce but a perfect picture that interests him. Rissler has spent a lifetime traveling the globe, camera in hand, and he will ......
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. ......
