Stop. Look. Listen.

August’s First Friday is crowded with interesting art shows. Here are just a few highlights:
Photography is the focus at Mulberry Art Studios, 21 N. Mulberry St.: Matthew Murray, “abandonedamerica.org: the collapsing world around us,” and Janelle Paules, “Between the Streets.” Reception hours: 5-8 p.m. Read more here.
A theme seems to be emerging. Photographer Tom Bejgrowicz explores abandoned Lancaster […]

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Will Pierce’s large, dramatic oil paintings were among the most striking works on view at this spring’s Scholastic Art Awards show, and, for July’s First Friday, more of his works were on display at MasterPlan Design, 44 West King St. Pierce, whose stepfather is in the medical field, takes as his subject close-up views of […]

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The Parlor Gallery just sent me a reminder that there will be a second reception for the exhibit of Harrisburg artist Tara Chickey’s paintings Friday, July 4, 5-10 p.m. This weekend, gallery hours will be Friday, 12-10 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. and Sunday, 12-4 p.m. The Parlor Gallery is located at 320 Laurel St.

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Darren Jordan’s love of drawing the figure led, paradoxically, to a series of charcoal and ink abstractions. Jordan, a printmaker and teacher of digital arts and animation at the Art Institute of York, found himself moving from that process-oriented art form to a more fluid, “immediate” style, using charcoal and India ink to create his […]

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Art in the Alley will mark its second First Friday (June 6) with a show of chairs from the Sitting Machine Project.
The “sitting machines” were created by Debbie Smith’s fifth-grade class at Fairview Elementary School in the Elizabethtown School District. (For a story on the project, click the link above.) Jerry Greiner, who designed the […]

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A festival within a festival: Two scenes from “The State of the Art” expo at ASSETS Lancaster, 237 N. Prince St. Friday evening.

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Music for Everyone’s grant presentation at the Art Park on the corner of Prince and Chestnut streets drew a big crowd for May’s First Friday. The organization, which supports music education in schools, handed out over 21,000 in grants, and plenty of musicians were on hand to celebrate. Among them, with a bank of drums, xylophones and […]

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I stopped by the Isadore Gallery, 228 N. Prince St., during Artists’ Saturday March 29 to check out the Echo Valley Art Group show. It’s a gallery walk in itself. I had a chance to talk to two of the artists in the show, Carol Toner Shane and Reed Dixon. In the photo here, you […]

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… Great for bad writing contests, not so much for March’s First Friday. The Scholastic Art Awards exhibit at 215 N. Queen St. — honorable mentions and portfolios — drew quite a few people, and contains a lot of very accomplished work. (And I didn’t even get to the museum’s show of Gold and Silver Key winners, at […]

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The space at 24 W. Walnut St. (formerly Art is Negotiable) has new tenants – and one of them was the creator of two of the colorful collages that decorate the exterior of the building (shown at left and right). Ken and Vanessa Reisig opened the Annex 24 Gallery a week ago, and it will be […]

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