3+ hour, 9+ min ago   (399+ words) Whenever we go to a museum or an art exhibit, we see a lot. But there’s also a lot we don’t see or even think about. This month, guided by Leah Graup from Auburn, Pennsylvania, museum preparator at the Pennsylvania…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (334+ words) BRANCHDALE — Marty Heffron started designing a wine label, but ended with a painting that expresses his feelings about America on its 250th anniversary. “What makes America great is the diversity of the people who built it,” said Heffron, an artist and…...

4+ week, 3+ hour ago   (306+ words) When we explore nature through art, it makes a lasting imprint on our minds. It also awakens our imaginations to nature’s lifesaving wonders. Through observing, learning, and creating, we come to better understand our environment. More aware, we can make…...

1+ mon, 9+ hour ago   (162+ words) POTTSVILLE — An army of young artists, armed with chalk and imagination, transformed the Alvernia University Pottsville CollegeTowne parking lot into a canvas beaming in a rainbow of color. On Wednesday evening, orbs, clouds and even the blue waters of the…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (497+ words) A young girl sits in her bedroom. She is looking out the window across an airspace at the house next door, a wooden rowhouse like her own on the west side of Shenandoah, PA. The house is abandoned, the window…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (819+ words) When Kim Woodward, an art teacher at Tamaqua Area Middle School, was a kid, a gas station existed where the fountain by Tamaqua’s train station now stands. Years ago, Schuylkill Haven’s Walk In Art Center used to be a shoe…...

2+ mon, 2+ day ago   (927+ words) Lorraine Felker and her daughter, Lori Remmel, are both artists — like mother, like daughter, as they say. But their chosen media and creative styles couldn’t be more different. Remmel’s work features glitter, pony beads, wood planks — even a rubber duck…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (389+ words) POTTSVILLE — They haven’t hit home runs or scored touchdowns, but 17 Schuylkill County artists headed for college were treated as superstars Monday at a Signing Day ceremony in the Schuylkill County Council for the Arts center. In a drawing room of…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (234+ words) The “BAAAhd” weavers at Walk In Art Center have decided to do something good with their winnings from Sheep-to-Shawl competitions. The BAAAhd Girls and The BAAAhd Company teams will donate a portion of winnings from competitions to worthy nonprofits through…...

3+ mon, 4+ hour ago   (523+ words) POTTSVILLE — It was unseasonably chilly outside, but spring was blossoming in the Pottsville Senior Center on Saturday during the downtown’s 18th annual Block of Art festival. Lined up at large canvases, about 10 seniors painted tulips in celebration of the city’s spring…...