The “Moscow Train Station”, a mural by Mark S. Ciocca, will be presented at the Pennsylvania Anthracite Heritage Museum, McDade Park, on Sunday, July 13, at 2:00 pm. The event and museum admission is free for those attending. The mural is sponsored by the Scranton Area Foundation. For further information, contact the Museum at (570)963-4804.
At Starbucks at the Steamtown Mall on First Friday, June 6, there will be an event called “Arabian First Friday and Visions From the East”. There will be bellydancing from 7-9 PM and and an exhibition of photographs of Afa Artist Rachel Dare from her Rotary trip to India and Nepal.
Earl Lehman joins William Chickillo and Zoja Forsberg at an exhibit entitled ‘Spring 2008′ at the Skylake Gallery in Fleetville. There is an opening Reception and Raffle on Friday, May 30, 6-9 PM. The exhibit continues until June 29. For further information call 945-7000 or www.skylakegallery.com.
Laura Craig Galleries in Scranton presents the photography of Susan Scranton Dawson in an exhibit entitled ‘As It Is’, a pictorial essay of what is real and beautiful, within reach, and in our midst. A reception for the artist will take place on Friday, May 9, 2008 from 5 PM to 8 PM.
‘As It Is’ features a selection of the artist’s most recent landscape, still-life - floral, abstract, and composite images. The exhibit will continue through June 30. For further information, contact the Gallery at 570-963-7995.
The Hrefna Jonsdottir Gallery at 24 Bridge Street, in Lambertville, NJ will
be presenting a one-man-show of the paintings of Brian Keeler during the
month of May. This exhibit will present mostly oils of large, medium and
small scale- many painted on location and other works from the studio. The
show is comprised of landscapes of Pennsylvania, New York State and Italy.
Brian has been represented at this gallery for over 15 years. Please join
us for a reception on Friday, May 9 from 5 to 8 p.m. For information call
609-397-3274 or hrefna.jonsdottir@verizon.net.
AFA Gallery Member Richard Muehleisen will be taking part in the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic Cowboy Jamboree on Friday, April 11th, at the Scranton Cultural Center, Scranton and Saturday, April 12th, at the Kirby Center in Wilkes-Barre. He will be displaying his paintings and pen and ink depicting western scenes as well as displaying some of his western artifacts such as saddles, bridles & so forth. Check it out on www.nepaphil.org. Tickets are on sale now and start at $18.00. For further information, call 570-341-1568.
Regional artist Earl Lehman is featured in an exhibition of acrylic landscape paintings at the John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge in Philadelphia. Last year he painted on location at the Refuge while completing PCA residencies in the Philadelphia area. The exhibition highlights numerous large works from counties throughout the Commonwealth and beyond. It will run from March 15 through June 15, 2008.
The John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge is located at 8601 Lindbergh Blvd, Philadelphia, PA 19153. More information can be found at http://heinz.fws.gov or www.earlwlehman.com.
There will be an exhibit of ‘Paintings & Sketches’ of Anna Ostapiw at Something Special from March 20 to May 9, 2008. There will be an opening reception on Saturday, March 29 from 5 to 7 PM.
Hours of Something Special are Monday thru Friday from 7 AM to 3 PM. It is located at 23 West Walnut Street, Kingston. For further information call (570) 288-8386.
Keystone College will host its 2008 Faculty Exhibition at the Linder Gallery at the Miller Library in La Plume from March 23 to April 25. There will be a reception for the artists on Sunday, April 13 from 4 to 6 PM.
Included in the exhibit are works of many Afa members and friends, including Beth Burkhauser, Drake Gomez, Frank Goryl, Jime Grabowski, Judy Keats, Ted Michalowski, Mikki Moser, Karl Neuroth, Ivana Pavelka, Cliff Prokop, Ward Roe, David Schulte, Terra Steel, Bill Tersteeg and Sally Tosti.
An exhibit of photographs by Michael Poster, “Sweetheart Like You: Roller
Derby Portraits”, opens Sunday, March 30, 2PM-4PM in the
Sordoni Gallery at Wilkes University. The reception is free
and open to everyone. It will be a great opportunity to see the
photographs and meet the Coal City Rollers.
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, Wilkes-Barre, PA.
The Gallery is open daily, from 12 noon to 4:30PM.
Admission is free. For more information, call 570-408-4325.
Later that evening the Coal City Rollers and the Heavy
Metal Hookers meet in the first bout of the roller derby
season at the Skateaway on Blackman St. Doors open at 6PM
and the action starts at 7PM.
You can find more information about the exhibit here:
http://www.wilkes.edu/pages/1531.asp
Directions to Wilkes University:
http://www.wilkes.edu/pages/273.asp
There’s a campus map here:
http://www.wilkes.edu/pages/273.asp
And here’s a link to more Coal City Rollers info:
http://www.myspace.com/coalcityrollers
To celebrate St. Patrick’s week, Guy Cali will be displaying photographs from his travels through Ireland. The Exhibition titled, “Roundabout” will be opening at STAR Gallery in the Steamtown Mall starting March 13th.
You’re welcome to come see his work. STAR Gallery is located on the 2nd Floor of the Steamtown Mall next to Steve & Barry’s.
Ivana Pavelka, Afa Board Member, photographer, a founder of Camerawork Gallery at Marquis in Scranton, and adjunct instructor at Keystone College, is involved in a bevy of exhibits coming up. She is current a participant in ‘Shoot’, an exhibit of six photographers at Lizza Studio, Tunkahannock. The exhibit continues through March 22nd, 2008.
Other exhibits she will be involved in coming up are:
Faculty Exhibit
Linder Gallery, Keystone College
March 23rd-April 26, 2008
Still and Silent
Ivana Pavelka, Ted Harrison, Marian Wezmar
Camerawork Gallery, Scranton
May 2nd-June 2nd, 2008
Ivana Pavelka: Islands
Tynska Literarni Kavarna
Prague, Czech republic
June 9th-August 30th, 2008
Laura Craig Galleries in Scranton presents recent works of ceramicist Jordan Taylor from March 7 through April 23. There is a reception for the artist on Friday, March 7, 2008, from 5 to 7 PM. Laura Craig is located at 307 Linden St in downtown Scranton.
Jordan says, “In recent years I have succumbed to an infidelity in my studio life: My love for the material has outstripped the vocabulary of function. Despite all my traditional training I’ve begun pursuing work that is purely sculptural in an effort to create an experience of ceramic material absent the distraction of functional vocabulary. The work on exhibit demonstrates my transition.”
Herbert Simon, longtime Afa member, is having an exhibition of his sculpture and prints at Modern Vintage, 96 South Franklin Street, Wilkes-Barre. The exhibit will run from February 12 until March 15. There will a Meet the Artist reception on “Third Friday”, February 13 from 5-8 PM. The Gallery will be open on that day from noon to 8 PM.
Modern Vintage is a gallery recently opened by Wilkes-Barre artist Nina Davidowitz. For further information, call 822-9900, or go to www.modernvintagegallery.com
Marylou Chibirka, Dalton portrait artist, is the subject of a two-page feature article in the Abington Suburban, out February 7. The extensive article, complete with a number of photos of her portraits, describes her home and studio (both designed by her), located on the farm of her grandfather outside Dalton. Her work can be see at http://chibirkagallery.blogspot.com/ and http://marylouchibirka.blogspot.com/.
Juror Marjorie Weinstein of the Whitney Museum of American Art selected eleven winners for the B J Spoke Gallery’s National Juried Competition called EXPO 27. Five of Marc Schimsky’s recent oil paintings (done during the course of this past year) were selected by Weinstein to be included in EXPO 27!
The exhibition will run from March 1st to the 30th, 2008. Opening reception is Saturday, March 8th, 2008, 6 to 9 PM.
Marc Schimsky, artist and retired teacher who splits his time between Commack, NY, and Montrose, PA.,and who is a member of AFA, will have several oil paintings on display at EXPO 27 at the B J Spoke Gallery, 299 Main Street, Huntington, NY, this coming March. Marc’s paintings deal mainly with the fleeting nature of life and the passage of time. He often captures subjects mid-stream in a familiar activity. Marc likes to work with an abundance of vibrant color and he generally keeps the brushwork in his paintings loose and expressive. Borrowing qualities found in photography, Marc frequently blurs parts of his figures and develops a pattern of overlapping shapes to convey a sense of movement and action in his work. This is the focal point of many of his recent paintings.
The Gallery is open Tuesday - Sunday, 11AM to 5PM. Fridays, 11AM to 9PM.