Thirteen teams (each containing one person from each organization) will be chosen at random from a self-selected pool to participate in ‘Bakers Dozen’. Each team, also drawn at random, will devise its own project. There are no rules, except that the process should produce new work generated specifically as part of the collaboration and be of a scale compatible with a show/reading.
Members of AFA who are interested in being in the pool for this collaborative project should email their intention to Nicole at artistsforart@verizon.net before September 30. Mulberry Poets and Writers members who wish to be in the pool, should email their intention to lefloog@aol.com by that date as well.
To be eligible writers must belong to MPWA and artists must belong to AFA. Writers who wish to join Mulberry Poets and Writers can send the $10.00 a year dues to MPWA P O Box 468, Scranton, PA 18501. The culminating event will take place in the summer of 2010 with a reading/exhibit at AFA.
Ages 16 & Up
Thursdays, August 6, 13, 20, & 27, 2009; 12:30-2:30pm; $110/series (lunch included)
Here is an opportunity to try something new, or advance your current artistic knowledge in a studio setting. This lunchtime workshop series will provide excellent personalized instruction in all media for beginning and advanced students. Bring the references or genre you most want to concentrate on, as well as your personal art supplies to the first series. Instruction by award-winning artist, Virginia Sosik, will also focus on composition, value, rendering techniques, and color harmony. Pre-registration is required. Call 570.346.7186 for more information or to register.
Ages 16 & Up
Saturday, August 8, 2009; 10:00am-3:00pm; $55 (supplies & lunch included)
Meant for the beginner or intermediate, give pastels a try! This one-day pastel workshop will concentrate on composition, value, rendering techniques, and color harmony, while also making pastels and landscape less intimidating to those who may be new to it. Taught by award-winning artist, Virginia Sosik, and inspired by the Everhart’s permanent collection of landscape paintings, special emphasis will be placed on skies, looking at light, time, and weather to capture the atmosphere of the out-of-doors.
Pre-registration is required. Call 570.346.7186 for more information or to register.
Cheryl Korb will be having an exhibit entitled ‘Four Season Serenade’, an exhibit of American primitive country farm landscapes done in oil on canvas and board. the exhibit also includes painted chests, animal paintings, and weavings. The show will run from July 25, 2009 through Aug. 22, 2009, with a
reception: Saturday July 25, 2009 6-9PM.
River Gallery-The Art of Living
8 Main Street
Narrowsburg, N.Y. 12764
845.252.3238
www.rivergalleryny.com
The STAR Gallery at the Steamtown Mall will have a show on the First Friday in August titled “1960’s Retrospective: Celebrating Art of the Flower Children”. On August 7, 2009, the show will feature the work of Artist Felipe Campos, and other STAR members: Alyssa Amori, Bob Slachta, and Julie Loftus.
The Musical Cafe will continue this time with 60’s Music.
Brian will be having an exhibit of his paintings from August 7 to August 31, 2009, at Atomic Tom’s Galleryat 196 State St., Binghamton, NY. Please join us for the opening night First Friday, August 7, from 6 to 9 p.m. where a selection of new figurative paintings, interiors, townscapes and landscapes will be presented. For more information about the show or the artist, contact him at 570-746- 1187
or bkeeler@epix.net or www.briankeeler.com. Open by appointment- Call Gallery Director, Tom Haines at 607-722-4337.
2010 Yellow Springs Art Show in Chester Springs, PA, will take place Saturday, April 24 through Sunday May 9, 2010. Jurying for the 2010 show has been tentatively set for OCTOBER 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, 2009.
Please note that we jury in person, with four pieces of your original work, not by slides. This application must be accompanied by a non-refundable jurying fee of $20.00.
APPLICATIONS MUST BE RECEIVED BY AUGUST 14, 2009. The jury process takes place the first weekend in October. Applications for interested artists can be found by going to our website, http://yellowsprings.org/artshow.html They can also call the Yellow Springs office at 610-827-7414 ext. 10 and Sara Van De Carr will assist them. Applications are due back to Yellow Springs by mid-August. Please keep in mind that we are seeking sculptors, as well.
“Breathing Space” an exhibition of recent collages by artist Zoja Forsberg will take place at the AFA Gallery from August 6th to August 29th. There will be an opening reception on First Friday, August 7, from 6 to 9 PM. Zoja was awarded a one-person exhibition at the AFA Gallery by the Juror for 2008 NEPA Regional Art Exhibition.
The exhibition features mixed media collages which are made with paint, fiber, found objects and some screen prints. Zoja says about her current work, “I approach the happy accident, the found object and the juxtaposition of colors and textures with an open mind. My curiosity to see what can happen when rules are broken often leads to new techniques. The finished mixed media collages often surprise me because they reveal consciousness than I was unaware of during the creation process.”
Zoja graduated with a BA in 1966 in Sweden. She has also attended Lackawanna Jr. College, and studied fine art and interior design at Marywood University from 1985-1995. She worked as interior designer for Leung Hemmler Camayd Architects from 1988-1992, and from 1993 to the present has been an interior designer for her own firm, Zoja Forsberg Interior Design.
The 13th Annual Regional Art Exhibit 2009 will open at the EMCA Center and the Wyoming County Courthouse Gallery in Tunkhannock, PA, on July 31st and will run until September 27th. There will be opening receptions on July 31st at the Courthouse Gallery from 4 - 6 PM and at the EMCA Center from 6 - 8 PM. Hours at the EMCA Center are Fri, Sat & Sun from 1 - 5 PM.
World-renowned glassmaker Christopher Ries will be having an exhibit at the premier opening of Misericordia University’s Pauly Friedman Art Gallery in Dallas, Pa, from August 22 until October 25. The exhibit will include some of Ries’s works from 1998 to the present, and will feature a color catalog.
The Pauly Friendman Art Gallery is a new addition to the local art scene.
Bob Smith and Nan Burti will be celebrating an exhibition of their works at the Butternut Gallery & Second Story Books in Montrose from August 1 until September 13. There will be an opening reception for the artists on Saturday, August 1, from 6 - 8 PM.
Bob is a painter, and is a Montrose resident and owner of Bob Smith Antiques. He taught fine art at Montrose High School for 34 years before retiring in 2000. The work in this show bridges a 2 1/2 decade gap. It reflects the painterly concerns that have occupied the artist during this time.
Nan Burti lives in Dalton and owns a working pottery studio available to numerous clay artists. Her work is primaily hand-built and functional with a sculptural, organic sensibility.
The Buternut Gallery is located at 42 Church St in Montrose and is open Wed - Sat 11-5 PM and Sunday 12 -4 PM.
Saturday, Aug. 1. Mark Ciocca will present step-by-step instruction on designing and printing your ideas along with other forms of printmaking. Easy cut blocks will be used and water soluble inks. Open to everyone! EMCA Gallery,Tunkhannock (570)836-3622
PASTEL PAINTING IN PLEIN AIR, a workshop at Windsor Whip Works Art Center in Windsor, NY (near Binghamton). Instructor Jane McGraw-Teubner. Date: August 29-30, 9:30am-4:30pm with lunch break.
This workshop is ideal for anyone who has ever wanted to go on location and paint, and for the experienced plein air painter wanting to pick up some tips and techniques! We will explore methods to capture mood, color, atmosphere and light in pastels on location. There will be a short introduction about pastels and materials in the studio and a demo on location. Individual instruction at your easel and end of day critique. All levels are welcome.
$175 per person for 2 days. Lunch is included. 10% discount for members of Windsor Whip Works Art Center . Call 607-655-2370 or 655-1561 for more information. Registration closes on August 21, 2009. Limited to 8 students.
Fascinated by the art of fossils or the beauty of these ancient creatures? Check out the works on paper created by Howard Gardner School students inspired by the Everhart Museum’s newest exhibition Ancient Microworlds. During the 2008-2009 school year, HGS students incorporated the natural surroundings of Nay Aug Park and the galleries of the Everhart Museum into the multidisciplinary educational framework of their school curriculum. The artwork included in Ornamental Impressions features the techniques of paper marbling and mono print rubbings combined to reflect the diverse and complex patterning often found in fossils. Through collaborative efforts with schools other community groups, the Everhart Museum nurtures creativity and showcases artistic excellence in the region. For more information on the exhibit, contact the Everhart Museum at 570-346-7186 or email: general.information@everhart-museum.org.
Artist/Art Educator, Virginia P. Sosik will host her annual student art show and reception at the AFA Gallery, Lackawanna Ave. Scranton, PA. on Saturday, August 1, 2009 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. The show will feature original works of varied genre and media and is free and open to the public.
Featured artists included Elizabeth Andrzejwski, Patricia Babicz, Lisa Breckenridge, Jerry Clum, Danielle DePew, Jeried DeMeck, Judy Donovan, Regina Donovan, Lucille Gudz,Stephanie Griffin, Matthew Lawless, Mia Lowe, Rachel Mall, Nathan Mall, Abigail Mall, Annmarie Margotta, Karen Misura, Matthew Nealon, Danielle Oliver, Joan Scarpino, Dorothy Slaier, Isabella Snyder, Deborah Waldron, Matthew Walsh, Dorothy Warrick.
Camerawork, a gallery dedicated to photography in Scranton, PA, is pleased to announce: “On the Surface”, an exhibition of photographs by Bernd Reinhardt and Giancarlo Mori from July 3, 2009 - September 1, 2009. The Opening reception: July 3, 6:00pm - 8:30pm.
This exhibition presents the work of two European photographers living in Los Angeles. Their photography is keenly concerned with place and time and offers an opportunity to reflect on how the modern world can be seen through the lens of a camera. Whether in color or black & white, in the streets of Los Angeles or in a domestic setting, their photographs show a world that on the surface looks familiar and conventional. Viewing the work of these two photographers side by side in one exhibition however, reveals how individual sensibilities and artistic point of view create two very different personal interpretations of contemporary reality.
Bernd was born in Germany, studied English and Biology at the University of Heidelberg, and later graduated from the University of North Carolina with an MFA in Film and Video Production. Bernd has been living in LA since 2000, working as cinematographer for television.
Born in Italy, Giancarlo has been pursuing art photography since the early 1980s with a particular focus on black and white photography. He holds an MSc from the University of Florence. Giancarlo currently lives and works in LA.
For more information about Camerawork gallery and the “On the Surface” exhibit visit:
http://www.cameraworkgallery.org/
Please join us for the opening reception of ‘Pennsylvania Hands’, a photographic exhibit by Sally Wiener Grotta at The Electric City Trolley Museum, Steamtown National Historic Site in Scranton, PA.
The opening reception will be Thursday, July 30, 2009, from 5:30PM - 8:00PM.
‘Pennsylvania Hands’ is part of ‘American Hands’, Sally Wiener Grotta’s ongoing photographic project of narrative portraits of artisans who are keeping alive the traditional functional skills, such as a glassblower, spinner, potter, weaver, blacksmith, quilting quild and so forth. To learn more about ‘American Hands’, please go to www.AmHands.com.
The Electric City Trolley Museum is on the grounds of the Steamtown National Historic Site, at 300 Cliff Street, Scranton, PA. (570) 963-6590.
This ‘Pennsylvania Hands’ exhibit will run through August 30, 2009
