Local artists made an impressive showing at the annual Art of the State Exhibit, now on display at the State Museum of Pennsylvania. Mary Stoudt of Reinholds won a first prize in crafts for her quilt, “Rio Marianion.” Dorothy Frey of Willow Street won a second prize in painting for oil-on-canvas “Pivot (shown at right)” and Georgette Veeder of Adamstown won a third prize in sculpture for her cast-paper “Delphi.” Works by Richard Kent, Scott McMahon, Ellen Slupe, all of Lancaster, and Terry L. Way of Elizabethtown are also among the 166 works on display, selected from a record 2,442 entries. The show runs through Sept. 21 at the museum, 300 North St., Harrisburg, 787-4960. Hours are Tuesday-Saturday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., and Sunday, 12-5 p.m. Admission is free.
Another local artist, Heidi Leitzke of Lancaster, will be featured in an exhibit at the Gross McCleaf Gallery in Philadelphia. The show, “Inquiry: Five Painting Practices,” focuses on five painters — Leitzke; Rachel Wren, Susan Ziegler and Chris Bunside, all of Brooklyn, N.Y., and Jenny Haver of Los Angeles — who, in the view of curator Mark Brosseau, “take forms and energies from the observed world and distill this visual information into a vocabulary with which they create new worlds and visual experiences.” (Read more here.) The show opens Tuesday, July 8, with a reception 4-8 p.m. Saturday, July 12, and runs until Aug. 1. The gallery is located at 127 S. 16th St., Philadelphia.
