Dalton artist Marylou Chibirka will have an exhibition of her paintings at the Linder Gallery in the Miller Library at Keystone College in La Plume, PA, from March 28 until April 30. There will be an Opening Reception on March 28 from 4-7 PM, followed by a Jazz & Java concert featuring singers/songwriters Laura Gould and Mark Murphy at 7 PM in Evans Hall.
The exhbition is a dual show entitled ‘Images of Laura: A Retrospective’ and ‘Art & Soul: Portraits of Regional Musicians’. In the first collection are images of Marylou’s daughter Laura from her age as a toddler to her teen years. The second collection are portraits of regional musical artists, exploring the relationships between the music and visual arts.

The Moscow Clayworks’ Inaugural Exhibit will take place from March 20 – May 8. Clayworks featured by Jean Adams, Nannette Burti, Mark Chuck, Pamela Earnshaw Kelly, Andy Gardner, Frank Goryl, Ruth Janiszeski, Mike McGoff, Matt Povse, Skip Sensbach, Jordan Taylor and Bill Tersteeg.
The will be an opening reception on March 20th from 1-5pm. Performance Art following the reception by “Pictures Moved by String” and “The Crank Ensemble”. There will be a soup benefit prepared by Jimmy’s Global Kitchen.
For more information contact: MOSCOW CLAYWORKS, 223 N. Main St., Moscow. PA. 18444; mosocwclayworks@gmail.com; (570) 357-1627
www.moscowclayworks.com

The Main Street Gallery housed in the historic Carbondale Chamber of Commerce, Main Street, Carbondale, will host its First Anniversary Juried Art Exhibit and Reception on Friday, March 26, 2010 from 5:30-7:30 pm.
The gallery will celebrate by showcasing regional artists’ works of varied mediums and genre. Entertainment will be provided by The Jazz Assassins. This event is free and the public is welcome. For additional information, please contact Melissa Petrini at the Carbondale Chamber of Commerce at 570-282-1690.

‘Time & Again: Anthracite Scenes from the Past in the Present’, an exhibition of photographs by Tim Butler, will take place at the ArtWorks Gallery in Scranton from March 5th to April 16th. There will be an opening reception on First Friday, March 5th, from 6-9 PM. For further information, go to www.ArtWorksNEPA.com

‘Snap it on 6′, a photography show, will be exhibited at the EMCA Gallery in Tunkhannock from March 7 to 28. There will be an opening reception on March 7 from 2-5 PM.

The Susquehanna County Historical Society and The Butternut Gallery in Montrose will be hosting a joint exhibition at the Butternut Gallery from February 20 through April 3. There will be an opening reception on February 20 from 4 to 6 PM. On exhibit will be significant historical artifacts from the collection of the Historical Society, as well as a display of books written and illustrated by county residents, past and present. Also on view will be a selection of works in the Historical Society collection created by artists and craftsmen who worked in the county since 1950, including works by John Anthoney, Don DeMauro, Hope Horn, Pamela Earnsaw Kelly, Earl Lehman, Graydon Mayer, James Penedos, Michael Poster, Ben Stone, Joe Welden and others.

‘horror vacui’, a exhibition of new works by Karl Neuroth will take place at the Laura Craig Galleries from February 19 through April 19th. There will be an Opening Reception on Friday, February 19th from 5 9 PM. The Laura Craig Galleries is located at 307 Linden Street in Scranton. For further information call 963-7995.

‘Mattering’, an exhibition of the sculptures, collages and photo-transfer frescoes of Cary Loving, will take place at the Linder Gallery in tthe Miller Library of Keystone College from February 14 until March 19. There will be an Opening Reception on February 21 from 4-6 PM, and an Artist’s Presentation on February 22 at 9:45 AM in the Hibbard Center.
Loving’s work divides into two groups: poetic elegies to the fragility of nature, and works that evoke a more mythic quality, through the adhering of plant or animal parts to human forms. Her treatment of the cycles of nature is about the cycles of our own nature and of the human condition. This is most evident in those works that combine human forms with plant or animal parts.

There will be an exhibition of recent paintings by Mark Webber at the Mahady Galley at Marywood from February 20 through march 28. There will be an Artist’s Reception on February 20 from 6 - 8 PM, and a Gallery Talk on March 10 at 2 PM.

An exhibition entitled “But Will It Match My Couch” will run at The EMCA Galley in Tunkhannock from Feb 7-28. There will be an opening reception on Sunday, Feb 7, from 2-5 PM. The exhibit is curated by Michelle Thomas and Mike Trovato

Have you ever wondered what you could build with thousands of LEGO® bricks? Visit the Everhart Museum beginning February 5, 2010 to find out when it opens its new temporary exhibit, The Art of the Brick®. This traveling exhibition, on loan from artist Nathan Sawaya, will be on display at the Everhart through May 2, 2010.
The Art of the Brick® is the first major museum exhibition in the United States to focus exclusively on the use of the popular LEGO building block as an art medium and New York-based lawyer turned artist Nathan Sawaya takes it to new heights. The exhibit features 29 works created solely from standard LEGO bricks over the period 2002-2007 with several new ones created specifically for this exhibit. Nearly one million colorful LEGO pieces which have been transformed into whimsical and awe-inspiring images will be on display.
Sawaya’s ability to transform this common toy into something meaningful, his devotion to spatial perfection and the way he conceptualizes action, enables him to elevate what almost every child has played with into the status of art.
For more information on Sawaya and his exhibition, visit www.brickartist.com.
The Art of the Brick marks the opening of the Everhart Museum’s 2010 exhibit calendar and while on view, will be thematically complemented by the Gallery One exhibition, Brick Creations: Student Art at the Everhart, and Isaiah’s Corner: Build It!, in the Interactive Children’s Gallery. Brick Creations highlights the work of area students who were invited to create artworks inspired by real or imaginary LEGO creations.
Closed during the month of January, the Everhart Museum will reopen on February 1, 2010 For more information, contact the museum at 570-346-7186 or email general.information@everhart-museum.org.

The Sordoni Art Gallery opens the exhibition, Brian Wood, on Monday, January 18, with a reception for the artist on Friday, January 29, from 5-7 p.m. The exhibition will be on view through Sunday, March 14, 2010.
Brian Wood is an artist working with multiple media in New York City. His paintings, drawings, prints, and photographs are exhibited internationally and are held in numerous private and public collections. Wood is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC and many others. Wood uses multiple media to foreground differing awareness in his ongoing exploration of consciousness. He uses different media to both stimulate and respond to various states of mind and multiple levels of thought. The literal is dissolved through metaphor and illusion. Just as trauma can imagine itself into ecstasy, these works transform matter, body, and mind through imagination. Rooted in our biological ground, Wood’s pieces are markers on the shifting borders of self and world.
The Sordoni Art Gallery exhibition, featuring 28 works ranging in date from 2000 to 2008, and borrowed from several private collections around the country, including the artist’s own, will be accompanied by a full-color catalogue with an essay by New York poet, Christian Hawkey. “We are absolutely thrilled to have Brian Wood exhibit here at the Sordoni,” said Brittany Kramer DeBalko, Interim Director of the Sordoni Art Gallery.
The Sordoni Art Gallery is open to the public and is located at 150 South River Street in the Stark Learning Center on the Wilkes University campus. The Gallery is open daily, from 12 noon to 4:30 p.m. Admission is free. For more information, call 570-408-4325.

Ashcan Humanists: John Sloan and Jerome Myers

February 5 through March 12, 2010

During the first decades of the twentieth century, artists John Sloan (1871-1951) and Jerome Myers (1867-1940) lived and painted in New York City. Turning their attention to subjects such as immigrants shopping from push carts on the Lower East Side and families asleep on city rooftops, they were among the first to challenge what had been considered the proper subjects for art at the time. Soon recognized as painters of the Ashcan School, the artists developed a lasting friendship, grounded in their shared human-ist ideals and their love of the city.
The Hope Horn Gallery at the University of Scranton will be hosting an exhibition entitled ‘Ashcan Humanists: John Sloan and Jerome Myers” from February 5 through March 12, 2010. Co-sponsored by the Judaic Studies Program at the University of Scranton, this exhibition features paintings, drawings, and prints on loan from the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Kraushaar Galleries, LLC, New York, NY; Ken Ratner, and Barry Downes, New York, NY; the Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE; the Madron Gallery, LLC, Chicago, IL; and Stevens Fine Art, Phoenix, AZ. It is accompanied by a full-color catalogue featuring essays by Ken Ratner, guest curator and collector; and Dr. Bennard Perlman, noted author and scholar of the Ashcan School.
Special events: Friday, February 5, 2010
Gallery Lecture: “Ashcan Humanists: John Sloan and Jerome Myers”
Ken Ratner, Guest Curator, New York, NY
Brennan Hall, Room 228, 5:00 to 6:00 p.m.
Public Reception: The Hope Horn Gallery
Hyland Hall, 4th Floor, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.

The Butternut Gallery in Montrose is hosting ‘Art You Can Read’, an exhibition of handmade book arts, from Nov 27 -Dec 31. The opening reception will be on Friday, Nov 27 from 5-8 PM. The exhibit was curated by Melissa Whalen Haertsch and Michael Poster. Contributing artists include Dan Graber, Jennifer Hill, Peter Hoffer and Ivana Pavelka.

The new ArtWorks Gallery in Scranton will be hosting ‘Serge Hollerbach: A Witness to My Time’ from December 4 through Dec 27. There will be an opening reception on Friday, December 4 from 6-9 PM. Serge is a well-know watercolorist and teacher originally from Russia. He will give a gallery talk at 7:30 PM at the opening reception. The ArtWorks Gallery is located at 503 Lackawanna Ave and will be open Tuesday-Saturday, 11-5 PM.

‘When Life is Still’, a survey of contemporary still life painting in the Northeast, is on exhibit at the Blue Heron Gallery in Wyalusing from December 2, 2009, until April 2, 2010. There is an opening reception on Wednesday, Dec 2, from 5 to 8 PM with a poetry reading at 6:30 and dancing to follow. A full color catalog is available for $15. Participating artists include Mary Lou Chibirka, Georgiana Cray-Bart, Susan Scranton Dawson, Karl Neuroth, and Abby Warman.

The Main Street Gallery in Carbondale will be holding its inaugural exhibit beginning on Friday, December 11. The Gallery is located in the Chamber of Commerce on Main Street in Carbondale. The exhibit will feature the work of a number of local artists. There will be an artists reception on Friday, December 11, from 5:30 to 7:30 PM.

The second part of “In the Light of Italy” exhibit, which explores various
themes of our Greco-Roman heritage opens on First Friday, November 6, from 5
to 8 p.m., at the Laura Craig Gallery in Scranton. This show originated at
the Blue Heron Gallery in Wyalusing, PA earlier this year. There is a
beautiful catalog that accompanies the show with images and poems by
regional poets. The exhibit runs November 6 to 30, 2009.
AFA artists include John Bromberg, Brian Keeler, Karl Nueroth, Bill Tersteeg, and Judy Youshock and former local resident.Shelley Robzen

‘Side by Side’, an exhibition of original artwork and photography by Philip A Dente & Nina Davidowitz, will take place at the Something Special Bakery & Cafe, 23 W. Walnut Street, Kingston (behind Abe’s Hot Dogs). The Exhibition runs until December 3rd. For further information, call 288-8286.

ROBERT KAREKA: PHOTOGRAPHER is featured in a Photo Show opening on First Friday, 11/6/09 at Creedon’s Gallery and Flower Shop at 323 North Washington Ave. Scranton
The Reception will go from 6-9 PM. The exhibit will run for 2 months.
Kareka was born and raised in Scranton. He left for 30 years and returned about 15 years ago. He worked in NYC theatre for 7 years while shooting street scenes. Then he lived and photographed in Japan, Germany, NYC, Chicago, Cape Cod, Boston and Key West. For the past years Scranton is my home again and the natural environment of NEPA is my subject. Photographic style depends upon where I am at the time. This show is mostly recent work from the nature of NEPA.

STAR Gallery at the Steamtown Mall invites you to our First Friday Event on November 6, 2009. The title of the Opening is “Last Blaze of Color”. During this event, we will feature our newest member of STAR Gallery, Kevin Vogrin, He will exhibit his abstract colorful photography. Also, we will feature a few guest artists from the Pocono Mountain Art Council. Those artists included will be Mildred Williams, Mariana Russo, Tecu’Mish Munha’Ke, Christine Farling, and Joanne Bridgman.

‘Forgotten Farms’, and exhibit of watercolors and oil paintings of our fleeting
American farm heritage by our local renowned artist,James McGinley, will take place Oct. 24, 2009 through Nov. 28, 2009, at the River Gallery in Narrowsburg. Reception: Saturday, Oct. 24, 2009 6-8PM. For further info, contact 845.252.3238 or go to
www.rivergalleryny.com

The Endless Mountains Council of the Arts (EMCA) is partnering with ArtWorks to exhibit the work of renowned watercolorist Serge Hollerbach. His work will be shown the the EMCA Gallery in Tunkhannock from November 1 through November 22. There will be an opening reception on Sunday, Nov 1, from 2-5, with a talk by the artist at 3 PM. His works will also be exhibited at ArtWorks in Moscow from Dec 4 through Dec 26.

‘Water’ is a collaborative exhibition between writers and visual artists at the Butternut Gallery & Second Story Books in Montrose. There is an opening reception on Friday, October 23rd, from 5 - 8 PM. The exhibit will run until November 22. The exhibit is curated by Melissa Whalen Haertsch, and links 16 pairs of writers and visual artists.

There will be a Wilkes Faculty Exhibition 2009 at the Sordoni Art Gallery from October 19 through December 13. There is an opening on Sunday, October 25 from 3-5 PM. Featured in the exhibit are the works of Jean Adams, stoneware; Bruce Lanning, painting; Mary Lou Steinberg, collage;Darlene Miller-Lanning, painting; Nicole DePolo, digital collage; Richard Fuller, mixed media (shibor & batik); Sharon Bowar, painting; Herbert Simon, sculpture; and Beverly Glennon, painting.