The Linder Gallery at Keystone College announces a call for entries to its first-ever alumni art exhibit, to be held October 16 through November 24, 2009. The juried exhibit is open to all two-year and four-year graduates of Keystone College, and original artwork in any media is eligible for consideration. The deadline for entries is April 30, 2009. An entry form is available on the Keystone College website, www.keystone.edu.
The juror for this exhibition is New York artist Jeff, whose paintings, prints, and photographs have been shown in exhibitions worldwide. Jeff’s artwork is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C., and the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, among other U.S. museums, and in collections ranging from Europe and South America to Asia and the Middle East. Jeff’s work has also been featured in Art in America, Artforum, Arts Magazine, and The New York Times, among other notable publications.
Cash prizes will be awarded to selected pieces in the alumni exhibition, including a $1,000 Best of Show award. A reception and awards ceremony for the artists and the public is also planned to open the exhibit, which will be held in conjunction with Homecoming Weekend festivities at Keystone College.
For further information, please contact Stacey Donahue-Semenza at (570) 945-8461.
Archive for March, 2009
La Plume – Graduating students from Keystone College’s four year art programs will host a gallery exhibit featuring their work at Lizza Studios in Factoryville. The exhibit is the first of two highlighting graduating students’ work. A wide array of diverse media will be represented in the exhibit, including sculpture, painting, photography, ceramics, and printmaking and bookwork by nine Keystone seniors.
Opening Reception: Sunday - March 29th / 2:00 to 5:00 pm - Music, food and refreshments.
Show Dates: March 29th through April 18th, 2009
Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri - 9am to 5pm / Saturday 10am to 5pm
A graduation requirement for visual art and art education students, the exhibit will include sculptures by James Gallagher, Patrick McGowan, Matthew Mroz, and Marian Wezmar; paintings by Russ Noto and Jennifer Tewksbury; ceramics by Tara Backlund; photography by Sara Zigon; and printmaking and bookwork by Rachelle Pollina.
The Portal Institute’s Gallery of Fine Art in Susquehanna, PA, is celebrating its Grand Opening on April 18th, from 10 A.M. until 6 P.M. Admission is free and light refreshments will be served. The Gallery offers affordable, original art by award-winning artists. Featuring the art of Joseph DeOrio, with Rodrica Tilley, Susan Nicholas Gephart, Thomas C. Nicholas, Jennifer Kane, Margaret Karmazin, Jeffery Mathison, and Walter Ball, the Gallery offers a wide variety of Pennsylvania subjects and themes. The Portal Institute is open Wednesday through Friday 10-5, Saturday 10- 6 and Sunday 11-4. Closed on Monday and Tuesday. The Portal Institute’s Gallery of Fine Art is located at 163 Melrose Road (off 171 at Bethel Hill Rd.) in Susquehanna. For further information and directions, please call (570)-727-3614.
‘Next Generation 2009’, an exhibition of the works of emerging artists in northeastern Pennsylvania, will be held at the AFA Gallery from Thursday, April 30, through Saturday, May 30. There will be an Opening Reception on Friday, May 1st, from 6 to 8 PM. There will be an Artists’ Talk at 5:30 PM on Friday, May 1st, at which time the artists who are a part of the exhibit will discuss their works.
The exhibit will consist of works by emerging artists of Northeastern Pennsylvania, curated by Elizabeth Hughes. In addition to obtaining degrees from University of Scranton and Case Western Reserve University in secondary education, English, and philosophy, Elizabeth earned an Associate Degree in Fine Arts from Keystone College. She is the former Director of Education at the Everhart Museum (2002 - 2007) and was
awarded NEIU 19’s Arts in Education Community Leader of the Year in 2006. She is currently finishing coursework for her doctorate in education from Binghamton University, where her studies have focused on nonprofit organizations; the educational value of community, home, and school connections; and informal learning, particularly through the visual arts.
The AFA Gallery has hosted the NEXT GENERATION exhibition for a number of years. Its purpose is to expose the region to the artwork of the next, emerging generation of visual artists. It is expected that 5-10 artists will be selected to have their work featured in the exhibition. Curator Elizabeth Hughes will select one work for purchase by the AFA Gallery, which will be raffled off.
LA VOCE directed by Dolores Dominick-Noll presents Johann Strauss’ DIE FLEDERMAUS
at The Afa Gallery, Saturday, March 28th, 7:00 PM
Admission - $10 Students - $5
‘Jean-Michel Basquiat: An Intimate Portrait’ will take place at the Sordoni Gallery at Wilkes University from March 29 through May 16, 2009. There will be an Opening Reception on Saturday, April 4, 5-7 PM. The Gallery is located at 150 South River Street in Wilkes-Barre.
UPCOMING PERFORMANCES AT DRAWING SOCIALS:
—April 5, Sunday, 6-9pm—
* Captain John *
—April 12, Sunday, 6-9pm—
* Deirdre White & When I Float Backwards’ Cute Show *
—April 26, Sunday, 6-9pm—
* Dealer in Wares *
THE DRAWING SOCIALS RUN EVERY SUNDAY 6-9PM, unless otherwise noted.
The admission fee is $5 general, $2 with valid student ID.
The Drawing Socials take place at AfA Gallery, 514 Lackawanna Avenue, Scranton, PA.
All ages and skill levels are welcome. The non-drawing and non-musical are
also very welcome to enjoy the show.
The Drawing Socials combine a drawing group with a live musical performance: the performers being the subject as well as the entertainment. Every week presents a different ensemble of progressive and experimental musicians in a venue allowing them to perform uncompromised to an all-ages Strathmore-toting crowd with expectations extending beyond the current top-40. The music ranges from and merges rock, classical, jazz, hip-hop, gypsy, folk, country, blues, electronic, and the experimental and avant-garde. This venue fosters the interchange of art forms, valuing the development of culture within community over commodity.
The Phillips Museum of Art at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, PA, calls for entries for ‘Salvage: Reclaiming Recycling’, September 10–October 30, 2009. The exhibition is open to all U.S. artists 18 and older. Submitted works must completely consist of used, recycled, and found materials. Work must have been created within the last 2 years. Interested artists must submit up to 3 works with an entry form, CV, artist statement, a $20 entry fee, and jpg-format images. The application deadline is May 1, 2009. To request a complete prospectus and entry form, e-mail Christine.batta@fandm.edu.
On April 20 at 7:30 pm, don’t miss ‘The Pursuit of Happiness’, a Monday Night on Broadway benefit performance for Electric Theatre Company featuring a dozen or more performers from the Broadway casts of ‘Aida’, ‘Chicago’, ‘White Christmas’, ‘Grease’, ‘Young Frankenstein’, ‘The Lion King’, and more. These incredibly talented singers and actors are taking their night off in Scranton to present a dazzling evening of songs from the American musical, and all in support of professional theatre in the heart of Scranton! The show will be hosted by Richard Kline of television’s ‘Three’s Company’, and ‘Broadway’s November’. The grand ballroom of the Old Hotel Jermyn, which was many years ago host to the greats of Broadway, comes alive again with some of the finest musical theatre talent New York has to offer; The Electric Theatre, 326 Spruce Street, second floor in downtown Scranton. Tickets start at twenty five dollars, with a post-show party with the performers for an additional ten dollars. For tickets and details, visit electrictheatre.org, or call 558-1515.
STAR Gallery at the Steamtown Mall will exhibit Bob Slachta’s Photography and Julie Loftus’s Paintings for the First Friday on April 3rd, 2009. The Exhibition will be titled “All A-Bloom: Exuberant Colors seen on Photos and Canvas”.
Come Join us for the First Friday in April.
There’s a gathering at the Stegmaier Mansion on Sunday afternoon from 2 to 5pm, April 19th, and YOU”RE INVITED!
Organized by Jennifer Morris of Siegel Artist Management on our behalf, $20 of each ticket price of $60 will be a tax-deductible contribution to the Cultural Council! An Afternoon Affair featuring hand-made truffles trifle by Mary Hepner of Ah! Some Chocolates along with music, mingling and more in support the Cultural Council of Luzerne County.
Take a step back in time to the Victorian Era and have your breath taken away at the Frederick Stegmaier Mansion painstakingly brought back to life by owner/proprietor Joseph Mateo. If you haven’t seen this jewel of downtown Wilkes-Barre, that alone is a good reason to come.
But if all this isn’t enough, perhaps you will join us to greet and thank Shelley Pearce for her many years of volunteer service to the Council. Shelley is turning over the reins as board chair, and we need to express our appreciation for her dedicated leadership. We hope to see you there!
All are welcome, and if you haven’t seen this AMAZING place at 304 South Franklin Street in Wilkes-Barre, this is your chance! Good company, good comestibles, a good cause, and a place that is just NOT to be missed. (Click HERE if you don’t believe me!) Maybe we can get Joe to play a few riffs of Rachmaninov in the parlor!
We hope you will join us! Openings are limited and if you want to come, you MUST call Jennifer at 824-2266 by FRIDAY, APRIL 10th!
‘From the Inside’, an exhibit of inmate art from the Lackawanna County Prison, will take place at the Suraci Gallery at Marywood University from March 28 until April 26. There will be an Opening Reception on March 28th from 5-7 PM, featuring a short performance.
Incarcerated men and women in the Lackawanna County Prison use personal history to create narrative works of art, working NEIU 19 rostered artists Nancy Hasty and Afa Board Member Elizabeth Parry-Feist.
As refreshing as a spring bouquet, ‘In Concert’, the Scranton Civic Ballet Company’s spring ballet production will be held on Sunday, April 5th at 2pm at the Scranton Cultural Center Weinberger Theater. The Civic Ballet Company, under the artistic direction of Miss Helen Gaus, will interpret the images of art from AFA Gallery artists, and dance to the live music of Doug Smith Dixieland All-Star Band and th Ed Wardo-Jay Steveskey Flute and Classical Guitar Duo.
Three works of art from the AFA Gallery artists will be interpreted by company dancers “Paintings at an Exhibition”. The Cultural Center’s lobby and ballroom will be filled with AFA Gallery’s works for the April 5th performance. Ticket holders are welcome to enjoy light refreshments and a wide variety of artwork including watercolor, oils, acrylic, sculpture and photography of the AFA Gallery artists before the performance! Judy Youshock , AFA Gallery and Civic Ballet Advisory board member commented on the unique opportunity to bring multiple art-forms together. “We are always happy to participate in collaborative experiences with other area artists. It is a unique opportunity to support each other as well.” Other local artists involved with the production are Helen Kasarda, who has made all costumes and the Civic Ballet’s lighting designer Rich Larsen.
Tickets for ‘In Concert’, Scranton Civic Ballet’s fresh and exciting ballet production on April 5th are now available from the Scranton Cultural Center, 344-1111, and are $14. For more information, please contact the Civic Ballet Company at 343-0115.
For more information: feel free to contact
Artistic Director Helen Gaus – 842-1692
Board President Kathy Emanuelson – 575-2636
Or the Studio of the Civic Ballet Company – 343-0115
The Red Shoes Dance Co.
Please display your art at our “Put on Your Red Shoes” fundraiser on March 28th! We would like to exhibit artwork inspired by music, movement and/or dance. However, we welcome you to exhibit any pieces you like. In addition to this art exhibit, there will be music, food, drink, games, and chances to win prizes (including a chance to win a gift certificate from Marquis Art and Frame!) from 5-7pm followed by a dance party. This will take place at the Renaissance Center 705 Pittston Ave. Provide your own method of displaying your work, an easel would be best, as we cannot hang anything on the walls of the studio. You may drop off your work on March 26th and 27th between 6:30 and 8:30, or on March 28th between 1:30 & 3:00, or by appointment.
The second art exhibit of your work will be at our show at the Scranton Cultural Center outside of Shopland Hall June 20th. At that show we will have easels provided.
Please email us for details:
redshoesco@hotmail.com
Or call Rachel Dare 570-677-7067
The second art exhibit of your work will be at our show at the Scranton Cultural Center outside of Shopland Hall June 20th. At that show we will have easels provided.
Please email us for details:
redshoesco@hotmail.comOr call Rachel Dare 570-677-7067
September Italian Sojourn -September 17, 2009 - September 30, 2009
A wonderful cultural tour of Italy led by Brian Keeler in September of 2009. A few days in Rome at the beginning will bring participants face to face with the glory that is and was Rome-such as the ancient, medieval and especially Renaissance and Baroque art, sculpture and architecture. Then on north to Umbria where we will spend some relaxing time at the Gioffre family’s “Aquaviva Agritourismo” near the town of Todi. While there we will be taking day trips to nearby art treasurers in the towns of Orvieto, Spoleto, Urbino and Perugia. Then motoring up to Florence with stops on the way to see Piero Della Francesca masterpieces in Borgo San Sepolcro and Cortona. Next there will be three days in Florence to indulge in some of the greatest art ever created. Finally finishing in Venice to view the Academia gallery with those beautiful Bellini’s, Carpaccio’s and Giorgoni’s, plus the Ca Rezonico and so much more. Great food, wine and landscapes to enjoy all the way. This excursion already has 10 former art students of York Academy of Arts joining but there is still room for a few more. For more information, contact Brian Keeler at bkeeler@epix.net or 746-1187.
An exhibition of paintings by Sharon Bowar entitled ‘time and memory’ will take place at the Linder Gallery in the Miller Library at Keystone College, La Pume, PA, from March 22-April 26. There will be an Opening Reception on Sunday, March 22, 4-6 PM. There will be an Artist’s Presentation on Monday, March 23, at 10:45 Am at the Hibbard Campus Center.
Sharon is Associate Professor of Art at Wilkes University, where she received the Non-Traditional and Innovative Teaching Award in 2005. She earned her MFA and MA from the University of New Mexico, and her BA from Shepherd University in West Virginia. She is represented by the Rosenfeld Gallery in Philadelphia.
The Butternut Gallery in Montrose, PA, has issued a Call for Entries for an exhibit entitled ‘Focus’, a juried exhibition which explores our regional sense of place and celebrates the artists’ unique perspective of the place they live. Jurors are Betsy Green (who grew up in Montrose and is now Gallery Coordinator at Lizza Studios in Tunkhannock); Kathleen Harwood (a resident of Montrose and a regular on PBS’s ‘Antique Roadshow); and Orazio Salati (an artist in Binghamton). Prizes include $1000 for Best of Show.
Deadline for delivery of work to the Gallery is April 23, 24 and 25. The exhibit will run from May 15 to May 31, 2009. The exhibition is held in conjunction with the Chocolate and Wine Festival May 16, 2009, on Chestnut St. in Montrose.
For further information and a prospectus, call 570-278-4011.
‘Ut Pictura Poesis’, an exhibit of paintings by Louis N. Pontone will take place at the AFA Gallery from April 2 through April 25. There will be an opening reception on First Friday, April 3, from 6 PM until 8 PM.
Lou Pontone is a founding member of Artists For Art, the parent organization of the AFA Gallery. He was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, and lived in northeastern Pennsylvania for many years. He now resides in Jeffersonville, NY.
A painter for more than forty years, Lou has taught at Keystone College, Misericordia, the Everhart Museum School and the Lucan Center for the Arts in Scranton. His work is represented in many public, private and corporate collections.
For more than forty years, he has made the American landscape and the natural world among the principal subject matter of his paintings. The strict representation of the seen work was never his goal; interpretation and self-expression point the direction the work takes. Working over the whole surface, Louis’ technique involves altering and weaving the shapes, readjusting the colors and building up the textures. This pushing and pulling of the picture plane achieves a rich and highly developed work of art.
About his work, Pontone says: “While I aspire that these landscape paintings be lyrical and decorative, subliminally they often carry over an indescribably ‘edge’ which is an extension of my human nature. Each painting becomes a record and reflection of my personal vision.”
The annual National Juried show at the Cooperstown Art Association in Cooperstown, NY, is open to artists working in all mediums residing in the United States, members and non members. You can easily download and print the prospectus as a pdf at www.cooperstownart.com or send a self addressed stamped envelope to The Cooperstown Art Association: 22 Main St. Cooperstown, NY 13326.
The Cooperstown Art Association was formed in 1928 by a group of six professional artists to serve and maintain interest in the applied and fine arts as well as provide the means to increase the community’s awareness and participation. The CAA is now entering its 81st year.
The CAA now accepts CD entries as well as traditional slides.
The Juror is Albert Handell, who was born in Brooklyn in 1937. At an early age a favorite activity of his was drawing with chalks on the city streets. He enrolled at the Art Students League of NY City to study drawing and anatomy with the late Louis Priscilla and Robert Ward Johnson, and later studied painting with Frank Mason. Handell now exhibits with the Ventana Gallery in Santa Fe, NM, where he has annual solo shows. His paintings are in numerous private and public collections
and museums.
May 15 Deadline for slide submission.
Brilliant Traces by Cindy Lou Johnson, will begin performances at the Electric Theatre Company with Pay-What-You-Can Previews on March 25th and 26th at 7 p.m., and on March 27th at 8 p.m. Opening Night is Saturday, March 28th, when a party featuring craft beer tastings provided by L.T. Verrastro will follow the show. Party admission is $5 along with a ticket or ticket stub to any performance of the show.
The show features ETC member Heather Stuart who will be joined by New York actor Tony Zazella. Brilliant Traces is directed by ETC member Mary Ethel Schmidt, scenic design is by Andrew Mannion (who also designed The Very Nearly Perfect Comedy of Romeo & Juliet), lighting by ETC member James Langan, costumes by Rachael Miller, and properties by Liz Feller.
With dazzling language, humor and compassion, playwright Cyndy Lou Johnson forces two people, imprisoned by an Alaskan blizzard, to come to terms with past heartaches that threaten to destroy them. If they cannot meet their memories head-on and go forward into life, the consequence will be an isolation and detachment not unlike the brutal whiteout of a snow storm that surrounds them.
Johnson creates character and situation with a boldness that rings true from the play’s first to its last extraordinary moments, and resounds throughout with a reminder of the courage it takes to love. In choosing love we must necessarily choose its possible loss, but without that choice we remain, like the formidable landscape of the Alaskan wild, empty and without horizon.
Brilliant Traces plays Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7, Fridays and Saturdays at 8, and Sundays at 3 through April 11. Wednesday April1st and 8 are Cheaper-Than-a-Movie nights when all tickets are $7.
This production is sponsored by Centris Consulting.
Camerawork gallery is pleased to announce:
“Patrias Obscuras: Peru and Mongolia “.
Photographs by Susana Raab
March 5 - March 30
Opening reception March 6, 6 PM -8:30 PM
Susana Raab is a documentary photographer based in Washington, DC. Her work on fast food culture in the U.S., Consumed, has exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently at the NY PhotoFestival, Museo del Arte Contemporaneo, Madrid; and the Noorderlicht Photofestival, the Netherlands. She began her career as a photojournalist covering politics in Washington, DC, primarily for The New
York Times. Other projects include: A Sense of Place; a look at southern writers William Faulkner’s, Eudora Welty’s and Flannery O’Connor’s homes; Off-Season, exploring America at leisure; and La Mar: coastal Peru.
Her show Patrias Obscuras (Half-Known Homelands), is a survey of work spanning 12 years in which Raab examines two countries: Mongolia, where she served as an English teacher in the Peace Corps in the mid 90’s; and Peru, her country of birth.
Susana is a recipient of a 2009 artist fellowship from the DC Commission on the Arts, among other honors. More information can be found at www.susanaraab.com
For more information about Camerawork gallery and the “Patrias Obscuras: Peru and Mongolia” exhibit visit:
http://www.cameraworkgallery.org/upcoming.htm
You’ll find a map showing the gallery location here:
http://www.cameraworkgallery.org/about.htm
Calling all jazz fans!
What: Concert with Jazz Vocalist Ilona Knopfler & Friends
When: Friday, March 20, 2009, 6:30 PM
Where: Old Brick Theater, 124 West Market Street, Scranton, PA
Tickets: $25 each
Join us for an evening of food, friends and music!
Pre-Concert Reception and Buffet
6:30 PM, Stirna’s, 120 West Market Street, Scranton, PA
Concert featuring French Jazz Vocalist Ilona Knopfler & Friends
8:00 PM - Old Brick Theater, 124 West Market, Scranton, PA (adjacent to Stirna’s)
Post-Concert Meet n’ Greet with the artists to follow at Stirna’s.
Tickets are $25: To reserve your tickets or for more information email pajazz@mac.com
Tickets will also be available the day of the event.
All proceeds go toward the production of this year’s Scranton Jazz Festival, August 7-9, 2009.
The Scranton Jazz Festival will be celebrating it’s 5th year at the historic Lackawanna Station Hotel this summer and we want you to be a part of it. Attracting international and regional jazz, blues and world beat artists, the S.J.F. has proven the true potential to become a long term musical event. With your support the festival can continue to have an enormous impact on the cultural and economic development of our region. Spread the arts throughout the northeast by helping us raise money for a wonderful event!
