Stop. Look. Listen.

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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From kinked spines to the Twisted System: For the past year, First Fridays have seen the Jemison Chiropractic office at 148 N. Prince St. transformed into a small gallery showing some very diverse works. I recently checked in with Evan Kitson of Twisted System to find out a little about the gallery.
Kitson, a Pennsylvania College […]

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