The gallery at Dogstar Books is well worth a visit this Friday for the mid-month opening of Bodies of Art - a rare exhibition of figurative drawing and painting generated by the Bodies of Art life drawing group based at Franklin and Marshall College. Lancaster artist and curator of the college’s Phillips Gallery, Claire Giblin, has lent...
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Lancaster Galleries has been a prominent player on the Lancaster arts scene for nearly 30 years. Indeed, there have been times when it was one of just a few galleries in town and it has been supporting and promoting some of the area’s finest artists long before they knew they were part of a...
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The Altered Book Project will celebrate a year of artistic collaboration with a First Friday opening at the Parrot Gallery at Community Mennonite Church of Lancaster, 328 W. Orange Street. The project had 12 artists “alter” a book of their choosing last Spring and for the following 12 months these books made the rounds...
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Saturday and Sunday may be ArtWalk (hear our Podcast with organizer Nick Mohler here), but the weekend d’art gets rolling with Lancaster’s monthly city-wide extravaganza, First Friday. Our four picks this month are Friday-only events and represent a wonderful mix. Senior Show and Celebration - Pennsylvania College of Art & Design, 204 N Prince Street,...
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With the addition of Melissa Malvar-Keylock as Music Director and a recent partnership with Millersville University’s Winter Center, the Children’s Choir of Lancaster is looking to increase its visibility in the region as it continues to bring quality choral instruction and performance opportunities to young singers in and around Lancaster. They are also looking to...
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When the Lancaster Chamber Singers line up to perform their spring program, Living and Eternal Voices, on April 19 and 21, they will be delivering some of the highest quality choral music one can find. This dedicated and talented group has been performing in and around Lancaster for 35 years and has especially thrived...
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Since staging its first show three years ago, the community-minded promoters and music enthusiasts at Series 42 have placed bands in a variety of local venues. In the process they have not only helped support the work of local artists, but they have also played a part in helping solidify Lancaster’s reputation among touring acts...
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There is no telling what the weather will do to us this First Friday, but it’s certain that there will be goodness all over town for Lancaster City’s monthly arts extravaganza. While LancasterArts has done much of the heavy lifting for you (links to their guide and map can be found here), we are...
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Lancaster ceramic artist Shalya Marsh creates works that not only explore language as an imperfect human construct, but her sculptural and highly conceptual pieces stretch the boundaries of what can be considered functional in the world of clay. Marsh’s work is literary in nature and much of it expresses text through code. Substitution, Morse...
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Gallery openings! Bronze firings! House concerts! Guitars! Voices! Bands! It’s another action-packed weekend in and around Lancaster. While I wholeheartedly encourage you to go sample what is on offer, I’m going to make a suggestion that doesn’t really have anything to do with going to a show, buying a ticket or checking the community calendar....
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