Stop. Look. Listen.

It’s time to Celebrate Lancaster! There will be activities all day Friday downtown, including a Lancaster Symphony Orchestra concert at 8:30 p.m. and fireworks at 10. Also happening Friday: Hip-hop dance and Christian faith unite Flo’ Ethikz, who will be performing 6-9 p.m. at Building Character, 342 N. Queen St., Warehouse B. See the crew in action here. Gospel graffiti […]

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One of the pleasures of chamber music, what sets it apart, is its air of conversation among equals. Two recent concerts, at Millersville and the Pennsylvania Academy of Music, brought some memorable conversations to the area.  
The Miami String Quartet – Benny Kim and Cathy Meng Robinson, violins; Yu Jin, viola and Keith Robinson, cello – gave the String Quartet […]

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This is your last chance to catch co+lab at the Infantree Gallery; it ends its run Saturday, June 21. The show, being presented by Harriet Hacker of Where Exhibitions and Timothy Hoover of the Infantree, features five teams of two artists each who created collaborative projects, exploring “a shared artistic process that leaves behind the […]

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Encaustic painting — combining pigment with beeswax — is an ancient medium undergoing a modern-day resurgence, thanks to portable electric heating implements. Patricia K. Mortenson, whose encaustic works are now on display at the Living Light Gallery, 150 N. Prince St., provided a demonstration of encaustic techniques at the gallery last Saturday, June 7, and […]

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All suited up for the American Spirit Parade Saturday? Actually, this dog was at the American Whippet Club show in Eugene, Ore. April 22. (Associated Press Photo). More information on the parade and the YWCA’s Race Against Racism here.

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These striking white-on-white wall sculptures by Marion Tippetts were on display at Tippetts/Weaver Architects, 137 N. Duke St., along with black-and-white photographs by Toby Richards in a show called “Interplay of Light and Shadow, Line and Form” during the Spring ArtWalk.
Tippetts, a graduate of Penn and the Rhode Island School of design, worked for many years […]

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The Lancaster Museum of Art’s “Show Up and Show Show,” held in conjunction with ArtWalk at the museum’s 215 N. Queen St. site, always draws a wide range of participants and there’s always something surprising, something a little offbeat, creations from young and old, amateur and professional in all kinds of media: encaustic, watercolor, screenprint, woodburning and old-fashioned “3D” […]

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Independent music dealers across the country are celebrating Record Store Day Saturday, April 19, and Lancaster’s record stores are joining in. Downtown Lancaster’s Mr. Suit (118 W. Chestnut St.), Angry Young and Poor (356 W. Orange St.)and CI Records (226 N. Prince St.)will have 10 percent discounts with receipts from any of the stores. Three bands, […]

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The spring ArtWalk is Saturday and Sunday, but with several exhibits holding opening receptions Friday and with The Space – Windows Exhibition, which opened Monday, you might as well tie up your sneakers and get going.
The Windows exhibit, in storefronts and unoccupied properties in and around downtown Lancaster, is now in its fifth year. It involves 10 spaces and […]

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Travel is one of Ned Wert’s inspirations, and his small acrylic-on-paper paintings, now on display at the Lancaster Arts Hotel Gallery, constantly draw the eye to an event-filled horizon. Brushwork explosions radiate from a strong horizontal created by different color regions in the upper and lower halves of the paintings.
Sometimes the color difference is subtle […]

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