Destination ARTS! Performances and Events for November 19 – 22, 2015

November 16, 2015Leave a comment

Destination ARTS! activities continue in Waynesboro, PA with art exhibits, special events, and live music scheduled at Gallery 50, 42 West ARTS Co-Op, the Ceramic Arts Center of Waynesboro, and the Contemporary School of the Arts & Gallery. All performances and events are free unless otherwise indicated.

Thursday, November 19

Gallery 50 and 42 West ARTS Co-op are open from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Friday, November 20

Wine Down Friday activities and receptions are planned at Gallery 50 (50 W. Main St.), 42 West ARTS Co-Op (42 W. Main St.), and the Ceramic Arts Center of Waynesboro (13 S. Church St.) between 5:00 and 8:00 pm.

There will be a special Opening Reception in Gallery 50 from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm to celebrate the launch of three new shows celebrating the Holiday/Winter season. Over 80 new pieces of art are being featured. The west window gallery theme is “Winter White”, and the east window gallery will present “It’s a Wonderful Still Life”. The main gallery will showcase “Fins, Feathers and Fur,” featuring artist, Carol Wilks and her animal paintings rendered in pastel. Several artists will be in the gallery and available to discuss their work.

From 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm, Sharon Rost will play piano, performing standards, showtunes, and well known popular music.

Patric Schlee will be creating original improvisational music on guitar, didgeridoo, flute and drums at 42 West ARTS Co-Op. The public is invited to join in.

Saturday, November 21

Laura Shindle will demonstrating the structured patterns of Zentangle art from 1:00 to – 3pm at 42 West ARTS Co-Op. Laura Lewis Shindle was born and raised in Hagerstown, MD. She studied art at the Ringling School of Art in Sarasota, FL. Her work consists of watercolors, oils, pen and ink, printmaking and more. Laura’s studio is in the Greencastle area where she teaches and does commission work.

Donna Bingaman will be demonstrating painting a portrait in oil at 42 West ARTS from 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm. A native of Waynesboro, PA, she is an impressionist, realist, and a blender of originality and tradition, winning many best of shows and numerous other awards for her portraits and other subjects from flowers to genre, including sculptures in bronze. As a child Donna was fascinated by faces and started sketching from life at an early age. At the age of 16 she started to paint pastel portraits of her neighbors and family. For many years she painted pastel portraits by commissions. She discovered oil paint and it has been her favorite medium for portraits & commissions ever since. Donna is a graduate of the Washington School of Art and has studied with several regionally and nationally artists. She enjoys painting people and strives to capture the unique personality of each. Donna’s portraits have been exhibited at the Cumberland Valley and the Valley Art Show held at the Hagerstown Fine Art Museum, and she has been selected to have a one-woman show of her portraits at the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts.

Souls Fire, a Christian contemporary rock band, will perform at the Contemporary School of the Arts and Gallery from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm.

Sunday, November 22

Galleries open 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Ongoing Shows

The members of the 42 West Arts Co-Op is continuing to spotlight a new show called “Forever Flowers” from 12:00 to 6:00. This show includes Donna Bingaman oil painting, Lori Linthicum creative pottery, Tom McFarland painting, Denny Bingaman photography, Rod & Karri Benedict pottery, Ed Beard wood burning, Hollis Mentzer nature printing, Andy Smetzer photographer, and Jennifer Caldwell silver jewelry.

The Ceramic Arts Center of Waynesboro hosts pottery classes and workshops including an introduction to Pottery Class, a Teen Wheel Throwing Class, a monthly Children’s Class, and two hour Corks and Clay Workshops specializing in creating hand built projects. The Ceramic Arts Center brings together area potters of all skill levels and ages with classes, pottery sales, and members have 24/7 access to the wheels and kiln.

At the Contemporary School of the Arts and Gallery stained glass artist George V. Grillo is having his first solo exhibit. The Contemporary School of the Arts and Gallery is located at 10 East Main Street.

Musical performances at Destination ARTS! are supported in part by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

Destination ARTS! currently includes:

Gallery 50 (50 West Main Street)
42 West ARTS (42 West Main Street)
Gallery 20 East (20 East Main Street)
The Contemporary School of the Arts & Gallery (10 East Main Street)
The Ceramic Arts Center of Waynesboro (13 South Church Street).

The galleries feature oil paintings, watercolors, pottery, sculptures, jewelry, photographs, furniture, and more. Most art is available for sale and there is no charge for admission to the galleries. This weekend, they will be open on:

Thursday from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m (Gallery 50 and 42 West Arts Co-Op)
Friday from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m.
Saturday from 12:00 to 6:00 p.m.
Sunday from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.

For more information visit www.artsalliancegw.org or call 717-655-2915.

Destination ARTS! Performances and Events for November 12 – 15, 2015

November 9, 2015Leave a comment

Thursday, November 12

Gallery 50 is planning a preview of three new shows celebrating the Holiday/Winter season, starting Thursday, November 12, 1:00 -4:00 pm. Over 80 new pieces of art are being featured. The west window gallery theme is “Winter White”, and the east window gallery will present “It’s a Wonderful Still Life”. The main gallery will showcase “Fins, Feathers and Fur,” featuring artist, Carol Wilks and her animal paintings rendered in pastel.

Friday, November 13

Dearest Home will perform from 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm in Gallery 50. This will also mark the official U.S. CD release of “Back to Laurel Hill“, Pennsylvania and West Virginia Folk Songs from the Bayard Collection:Volume 1. The album was released in Great Britain when Dearest Home performed at festivals there in July and August. Expressive vocals with rich, next-of-kin harmonies interweave with sprightly dance tunes, as Dearest Home recreates traditional American–Appalachian music, especially from the Samuel Bayard Folk Song Collection (PA and WV), and from the US Civil War era. They also love to sing songs from Jean Ritchie and the Carter Family, as well as related pieces from Scotland, Ireland or England. Passion for all these traditions shines in every note! Based in Gettysburg, PA, the band includes Beth Folkemer (vocals, guitar, and mountain dulcimer), Margaret Folkemer (vocals and pennywhistle), Stephen Folkemer (vocals, concertina, and keyboards), Chuck Krepley (vocals, fiddle, and banjo), and Chris Barnabei, acoustic bass.

Patric Schlee will be creating original improvisational music on guitar, didgeridoo, flute and drums at 42 West ARTS Co-Op. The public is invited to join in.

Saturday, November 14

Bob North will be demonstrating tin piercing of his own designs and animals at 42 West ARTS Co-Op from 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm. J. Robert (Bob) North started tinsmithing as an economical Christmas gift in 1974 – he used salvaged tin from turpentine cans to make his wife an electrified lantern which is still in use. The project was a success and so interesting that he read all the library books he could find and began acquiring the necessary tools. Finally in 1989 he found a class to take in Lancaster, and later studied privately for four years with a master tinsmith in Eden, PA. As his expertise increased Bob taught the class in Lancaster and at several other craft schools, which is a natural progression as he taught elementary school for 32 years! He also holds classes at his shop along Country Club Road in Waynesboro. Not only does he cut and form the tin into modern lighting, but he really enjoys piercing the tin with small holes to allow the light to shine through. He currently has a selection of pierced tin nightlights at 42 West ARTS.

Donna Bingaman will be demonstrating painting a portrait in oil at 42 West ARTS from 12:00 pm to 2pm. A native of Waynesboro, PA, she is an impressionist, realist, and a blender of originality and tradition, winning many best of shows and numerous other awards for her portraits and other subjects from flowers to genre, including sculptures in bronze. As a child Donna was fascinated by faces and started sketching from life at an early age. At the age of 16 she started to paint pastel portraits of her neighbors and family. For many years she painted pastel portraits by commissions. She discovered oil paint and it has been her favorite medium for portraits & commissions ever since. Donna is a graduate of the Washington School of Art and has studied with several regionally and nationally artists. She enjoys painting people and strives to capture the unique personality of each. Donna’s portraits have been exhibited at the Cumberland Valley and the Valley Art Show held at the Hagerstown Fine Art Museum, and she has been selected to have a one-woman show of her portraits at the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts.

Sunday, November 15

Galleries open 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Ongoing Shows

Musical performances at Destination ARTS! are supported in part by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

Destination ARTS! currently includes:

Thursday from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m (Gallery 50 and 42 West Arts Co-Op)
Friday from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m.
Saturday from 12:00 to 6:00 p.m.
Sunday from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.

For more information visit www.artsalliancegw.org or call 717-655-2915.

Dearest Home Launches Northern Appalachian Album with Local Flavor at Waynesboro’s Gallery 50 on November 13

November 7, 2015Leave a comment

Back to Laurel Hill,
Pennsylvania and West Virginia Folk Songs from the Bayard Collection:
Volume 1

Lightning flashed as rain descended. Electric power failed, and the batteries in the CD player were dead. So Beth Folkemer followed her friend Carl Rahkonen, Indiana University music librarian, to his car to listen to a 1948 field recording from rural Pennsylvania. Beth quickly identified Northern Appalachian versions of ballads from Scotland, Ireland and England. Back to Laurel Hill, Pennsylvania and West Virginia Folk Songs from the Bayard Collection: Volume 1, was born! The album’s official US release is slated for Nov. 13, 5:30-8:00 pm, at Gallery 50, 50 West Main Street, Waynesboro, PA, during Destination ARTS! The album was released in Great Britain when Dearest Home performed at festivals there in July and August.

The songs Beth heard on that wet afternoon were only a few drops from the wellspring of traditional music that late Penn State professor, Samuel Bayard, collected in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. The recordings that Carl had recently digitized contained only pieces from the late 1940s through the early 1960s. Bayard had collected most of his songs, ballads and spirituals over the 18 years before this period, patiently taking them down by ear. Only about a dozen folk songs had been published—the rest lay dormant in library archive boxes at State College.

It wasn’t long until Beth began regular trips to State College, where she dived into boxes of notebooks, transcriptions, index cards, articles and lecture notes. The raw materials were there, but tunes, their lyrics, and information about their singers were separated. She unearthed a table of contents for the book Sam Bayard was preparing, but the numerous notebooks were not indexed. Only slowly was she was able to reunite musical notes and words. At the same time, she perused every ballad and folk song collection she could find, comparing and contrasting Bayard’s versions with others’.

Dearest Home A year later, research was sufficiently underway that the Folkemer Family Band, which included Beth, her husband Stephen and their three young-adult children, Joel, Margaret and Nathan, began to perform and teach material from the Samuel Bayard Folk Song Collection. But as the work progressed, the Folkemer sons moved on to other responsibilities. By then the project had become Beth’s passion. So, in 2011, the band Dearest Home came together to perform Appalachian music, especially from North and North Central Appalachia, as well as to present authentic Civil War era music, another keen interest. Today Chuck Krepley, vocals, fiddle, and banjo, and Chris Barnabei, acoustic bass, round out the roster that still includes Margaret, vocals and pennywhistle, Stephen, vocals, concertina, and keyboards, and Beth, vocals, guitar, and mountain dulcimer.

The traditional folk songs that Sam Bayard found represent a musically rich, but oft-neglected region. This is especially true for Pennsylvania, which few people think of as an Appalachian state. Among the source singers he visited, Bayard heard the interplay of northern and southern American traditions, as well as obvious kinship with songs across the ocean, some narratives taking place in Ireland, Scotland and England. Now, despite the march of time, farmers, loggers, soldiers, sailors, parents, children, lovers, and believers spring to life, their tales leaping out of the box and into the ear as Dearest Home gives voice to the music Bayard preserved.

Dearest Home presents live music from the Bayard Folk Song Collection at concerts, festivals and workshops. This summer they performed for the Warwick Folk Festival in England, and the Marymass Folk Festival, and Edinburgh’s Wee Folk Club at the Royal Oak, in Scotland. Plans are in motion for two more discs drawn from the collection, along with songbooks and dulcimer tablature. An EP album of other favorite American folk songs, including selections from the Carter Family and Jean Ritchie, will be released during the coming months. The band released their self-titled debut album, featuring authentic Civil War era music, in 2013.

For more information visit www.dearesthome.com. Listen to clips and order Back to Laurel Hill at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/dearesthome3. Contact Dearest Home at [email protected] or 717.253.4889. For more information about Destination ARTS! visit the Arts Alliance of Greater Waynesboro at www.artsalliancegw.org.

Destination ARTS! Events for November 4 to November 8, 2015

November 2, 2015Leave a comment

Wednesday, November 4

Writers Forum
For more than a year, one special facet of Destination ARTS! has been the Writers Forum, which meets at Gallery 20 East on Waynesboro’s Main Street the first Wednesday of each month from 5:00 to 7:00 PM. Writers, poets and story-tellers of the region take turns reading something they’ve written to share with others. The Forum has featured members who speak on the many forms of poetry, how to find a publisher, the importance of having your work edited carefully before submitting it, as well as how to go about self-publishing your works. Anyone interested in writing is welcome to join the group to share memoirs, lyrical poetry, travels, anecdotes, children’s stories, fiction or non-fiction as well as “tall tales” and works in progress. Director of the group is Jerry Kowallis, and the public is invited to join the Writers Forum on Wednesday, November 4 at Gallery 20, 20 East Main Street, Waynesboro. For further information email [email protected] or call 352-8059.

Thursday, November 5

Gallery 50 and 42 West ARTS Co-op are open 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Friday, November 6

Singer-songwriter Brad Munn will bring his guitar and fiddle to Gallery 50 from 5:30 to 8:00 pm. A member of the Lowdown Grasskickers and formerly with the Boro Boogie Pickers, Brad will perform a mix of bluegrass, country, classic rock, and original songs.

Patric Schlee will be creating original improvisational music on guitar, didgeridoo, flute and drums at 42 West ARTS Co-Op. The public is invited to join in.

Saturday, November 7

Ed Beard will be demonstrating Wood Burning Techniques to create feathers and eagles at 42 West Arts Co-Op from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm. Ed Beard is an Educator/Artist and woodworker for 50 years. A graduate of St Johns College and the University of Florida, he has exhibited in art shows and galleries since 1966. He is a member of the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen – Cumberland Valley Chapter, the Lincoln Highway Heritage group and a member of Woodsmith’s advisory board. “I enjoy working with wood species native to Pennsylvania to create functional art showing the natural grain and finish of the wood.” Ed enjoys teaching kids and resides near Greencastle, PA with wife Pat – a handweaver.

Denny Bingaman will be demonstrating the technique of carving, burning and dyeing on a gourd Saturday from 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm.

Sunday, November 8

Galleries open 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Ongoing Shows

In addition to more than 800 pieces of art from some of the finest artists in the Mid-Atlantic states, Gallery 50 is currently featuring artists Katrina Hoopes and Donna Mitchell in a show called “2 Women, 2 Points of View”. Katrina Hoopes, an impressionist oil painter, uses bold strokes in both large and small formats. Donna Mitchell, a traditional realist, works in pastel using brilliant colors and interesting subjects in her compositions.

Musical performances at Destination ARTS! are supported in part by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

Destination ARTS! currently includes:

Thursday from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m (Gallery 50 and 42 West Arts Co-Op)
Friday from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m.
Saturday from 12:00 to 6:00 p.m.
Sunday from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.

For more information visit www.artsalliancegw.org or call 717-655-2915.

Destination ARTS! Events for October 29 to November 1, 2015

October 26, 2015Leave a comment

Friday, October 30

Friday, from 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm in Gallery 50, there will be a unique mixed media event combining improvised music with live painting, allowing attendees to join in the spontaneous creation. Bob Courter (guitar and vocals with “Prophets of the Abstract Truth”) and George Rohrer (guitar, bass, and vocals with the “Blue Comets” and “Compass Creek”) will each perform solo sets combining originals and eclectic covers. This will be followed by free form music joined by local artist Harold Shapiro who will encourage attendees to join him as they interpret what they are hearing visually.

Patric Schlee will be creating original improvisational music on guitar, didgeridoo, flute and drums at 42 West ARTS Co-Op. The public is invited to join in.

Saturday, October 31

Donna Bingaman, Gallery Director and member of 42 West Arts will be demonstrating portraits and landscape oil painting from 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm. Donna is a native of Waynesboro, PA. She specializes in painting oil portraits, still life, genre and sculptures. Donna is a graduate of the Washington School of Art and has studied with several regionally and nationally known portrait and oil painting artists. She enjoys painting people from life or photos and strives to capture the unique personality of each.

Hollis Mentzer will be demonstrating Nature Printing on absorbent paper using dried plant specimens on absorbent paper at 42 West Arts Co-Op from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm. Hollis began his journey into the arts with a workshop in pottery. He maintained a studio for twenty years, doing craft shows throughout the southeast, having two gallery shows. Due to moving for teaching purposes and a back injury he gave up his pottery career and did a workshop in hand paper making, which he pursued twelve years and developed an interest in nature printing, the natural companion to papermaking. In his art, Hollis attempts to convey the simplicity/complexity of natural forms using dried and compressed plant specimens. Composition and color are the challenges in presentation.

After retiring from teaching, Hollis has renewed his interest in pottery through the Ceramic Arts Center and continues working in nature printing and collage. He is a member of the 42 West Arts Co-Op and the Ceramic Arts Center.

Make and play your own didgeridoo in an upcoming workshop with Patric Schlee from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm. Limited to 12 participants. The didgeridoo is a wind instrument developed by Indigenous Australians of northern Australia around 1,500 years ago and still in widespread use today both in Australia and around the world. It is sometimes described as a natural wooden trumpet or drone pipe”. Patric Schlee, a resident of Waynesboro, PA, spent many years fine-tuning his wind chime and metalophone designs. He has appeared at many fine art and craft shows selling and displaying his unique crafts.

Sunday, November 1

Galleries open 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Ongoing Shows

Musical performances at Destination ARTS! are supported in part by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

Destination ARTS! currently includes:

Thursday from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m (select galleries only)
Friday from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m.
Saturday from 12:00 to 6:00 p.m.
Sunday from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.

For more information visit www.artsalliancegw.org or call 717-655-2915.

Destination ARTS! Events for October 22 to October 25, 2015

October 19, 2015Leave a comment

Thursday, October 22

Pat Beard will demonstrate spinning alpaca yarn at 42 West Arts Co-Op from 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm. She began knitting at age 10 and has loved working with yarn and fabrics ever since. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Univ. of Florida and is a juried member of the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen and the Cumberland Valley Craft Guild. By combining interesting colors with textures and a touch of shiny yarn, Pat weaves fabric on old-fashioned looms. Although a number of pieces are woven from the same warp threads, each piece is different. After the weaving, each panel is washed before sewing on old industrial machines. Traditional scarves and shawls are carefully hand finished. Pat does all her own weaving and sewing.

Friday, October 23

AlleZingun (Emily Beaton, fiddle; Katy Clay, guitar and voice; and Barb Eshelman, fiddle) will be performing at Gallery 50 from 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm. The group blends folk music traditions from both sides of the Atlantic, such as Celtic, Appalachian, and Klezmer. Their performances include vocal as well as instrumental numbers, contemporary as well as traditional melodies, swing and ragtime as well as country and oldtime tunes.

Barb is a retired school teacher whose interest in fiddling was rekindled as an adult when she began exploring multiple traditional musical styles. Emily is a retired software systems engineer who was trying to find classical chamber music partners when Barb introduced her (and converted her!) to traditional music, instead. Katy is a professor of Russian and East European history at the University of Shippensburg, PA whose love of folk music goes back to her childhood, when she played guitar and sang with her father. The three have enjoyed playing together for almost ten years.

Patric Schlee will be creating original improvisational music on guitar, didgeridoo, flute and drums at 42 West ARTS Co-Op. The public is invited to join in.

Saturday, October 24

Ed Beard will be demonstrating Wood Burning Techniques to create feathers and eagles at 42 West Arts Co-Op from 12:00 pm to 3:00 pm. Ed Beard is an Educator/Artist and woodworker for 50 years. A graduate of St Johns College and the University of Florida, he has exhibited in art shows and galleries since 1966. He is a member of the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen – Cumberland Valley Chapter, the Lincoln Highway Heritage group and a member of Woodsmith’s advisory board. “I enjoy working with wood species native to Pennsylvania to create functional art showing the natural grain and finish of the wood.” Ed enjoys teaching kids and resides near Greencastle, PA with wife Pat – a handweaver.

Denny Bingaman will be working on a clay African landscape, including an elephant, trees, and mountain at 42 West Arts Co-Op from 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm. Denny is a native of Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, who photographs birds and wildlife in the local area as well as other parts of the country. He started into photographing wildlife about 30 years ago, and has filed some 65,000 images of birds and other wildlife. He also works with clay, making sculptures of wildlife using his photographs as reference. The clay works are used to render rubber molds for casting cold cast bronze, copper, etc. After casting a patina is applied, and finished off with steel wool and waxed.

Sunday, October 25

Galleries open 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Ongoing Shows

The members of the 42 West Arts Co-Op is continuing to spotlight a new show called “Forever Flowers” from 12:00 to 6:00. This show includes Donna Bingaman oil painting, Lori Linthicum creative pottery, Tom McFarland painting, Denny Bingaman photography, Rod & Karri Benedict pottery, Ed Beard wood burning, Hollis Mentzer nature printing, Andy Smetzer photographer, and Jennifer Caldwell silver jewelry.

Musical performances at Destination ARTS! are supported in part by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

Destination ARTS! currently includes:

Thursday from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m (select galleries only)
Friday from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m.
Saturday from 12:00 to 6:00 p.m.
Sunday from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.

For more information visit www.artsalliancegw.org or call 717-655-2915.

MainStreet Downtown Banner Design Competition

October 14, 2015Leave a comment

Mainstreet Waynesboro, Inc. is presenting a banner contest. These banners will be displayed on the light poles in downtown Waynesboro for the next three years. The purpose of the contest is to:

• Illustrate the town’s new brand identity, “Waynesboro of Olde.”
• Promote art and culture and artistic engagement with the community
• Beautify downtown Waynesboro with original artwork and increase visitation and retail traffic
• Garner media attention throughout central Pennsylvania and beyond.

The contest welcomes designs of an original, vibrant, humorous and uplifting nature and
encourages creative representations of the unique attributes of our community. The finished
banners will be displayed beginning in the spring of 2016. The final design of the banner will be
based on the winning entries so as to best compliment the artwork.
Awards:
• High School student ($100), Amateur Artist ($100) and Professional Artist ($100) categories
• The three winning designs will be produced as banners and displayed in downtown Waynesboro. The number of designs will be determined by the jury. The artists’ names will appear on the
banners. Each design may appear on more than one banner in town

Click Here to download the complete announcement and rules with a registration form.

2015 Banner Contest Form

Destination ARTS! Events for October 15 to October 18, 2015, including Award-Winning Science Fair Projects and other Technology

October 13, 2015Leave a comment

Destination ARTS! activities continue in Waynesboro, PA with art exhibits, special events, and live music scheduled at Gallery 50, 42 West ARTS Co-Op, the Ceramic Arts Center of Waynesboro, the Contemporary School of the Arts & Gallery, and outside on Waynesboro’s Center Square. (Gallery 20 East will be closed for this one weekend and will reopen October 16 to 18 with a special Science Fair Project exhibit.) All performances and events are free unless otherwise indicated.

Friday, October 16

Gallery 20 East is planning a very special weekend! Waynesboro Area School District Science Students will present award winning Science Fair Projects for three days only, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, open regular gallery hours! The students presenting their projects were all finalists from the 2015 Franklin Science Fair. These students won first place in their category at the county level and are eligible to participate in the Capital Area Science Fair. At the Capital Area Science Fair students are eligible to compete for many more awards. Also, if they are finalists in the Capital Area Science fair they will be able to go to the INTEL International Science fair in Phoenix, Arizona. Students participating include:

Joshua McCleaf – 8th grade Waynesboro Area Middle School
– project on memory versus mnemonics

Samantha Mills- 10th grade James Buchanan High School
– project on germ invasion

Noah Witney- 10th grade Waynesboro Area Senior High School
– project on effect of temperature on fingerprint quality

Ally Cason- 10th grade – Franklin County Career Magnet School
– project on conservative concrete

Thatcher Stevens- 11th grade – James Buchanan Senior High School
– Investigating if the direction in which an object is created on a 3-D printer affects constitution

Rebekeh Cordell- 9th grade Waynesboro Area Senior High School
– What melts ice faster?

Chase Murray– 10th grade Chambersburg Area Senior High School- sloped friction

In addition to the award-winning science fair presentations, the weekend exhibit will include:

A display for the GLOBE citizen science project. (The high school has won national and international recognition for its participation in the GLOBE program)
https://www.globe.gov

A display for the Appalachian Trail phenology program through Nature’s Notebook. (It tracks the changes in plants and animals throughout seasonal changes.)
https://www.usanpn.org/appalachian/home

3D Printing exhibits and displays courtesy of Penn State Mont Alto

Astronomy photographs and displays courtesy of Andy Smetzer and the Tri-State Astronomers

On Friday night, as an added bonus, Mike Cermack will be bringing his Tesla electric car and have it on display outside of the gallery, along with information about this technology.

The Science Fair exhibit at Gallery 20 East, 20 E. Main Street, Waynesboro, PA, is part of Destination ARTS!, an initiave of the Arts Alliance of Greater Waynesboro. It will be open October 16, 17 and 18.

Tresa Paul will be performing at Gallery 50 from 5:30 pm to 8:00 PM. She has performed in multi-genres including classic rock, blues, soul, rhythm and blues, hippie-funk, folk, and sang back-up for an Elvis tribute show for some years! You will hear influences from all these genres in her performances. Her recently released CD called “Old Soul” features a collection of standards and her repertoire of popular songs from the 1930s to the 1970s.

Patric Schlee will be creating original improvisational music on guitar, didgeridoo, flute and drums at 42 West ARTS Co-Op. The public is invited to join in.

Saturday, October 17

Ed Beard will be demonstrating Wood Burning Techniques to create feathers and eagles at 42 West Arts Co-Op from 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM. Ed Beard is an Educator/Artist and woodworker for 50 years. A graduate of St Johns College and the University of Florida, he has exhibited in art shows and galleries since 1966. He is a member of the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen – Cumberland Valley Chapter, the Lincoln Highway Heritage group and a member of Woodsmith’s advisory board. “I enjoy working with wood species native to Pennsylvania to create functional art showing the natural grain and finish of the wood.” Ed enjoys teaching kids and resides near Greencastle, PA with wife Pat – a handweaver.

Sunday, October 18

Ongoing Shows

Award-winning Science Fair Projects will be displayed at Gallery 20 East for this final day. See information above for details.

Musical performances at Destination ARTS! are supported in part by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

Destination ARTS! currently includes:

Thursday from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m (select galleries only)
Friday from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m.
Saturday from 12:00 to 6:00 p.m.
Sunday from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.

For more information visit www.artsalliancegw.org or call 717-655-2915.

Destination ARTS! Performances, Activities, and Events for October 7 to October 11, 2015

October 5, 2015Leave a comment

Wednesday, October 7

For the past year, one special facet of Destination Arts has been the Writers Forum, which meets at Gallery 20 East on Waynesboro’s Main Street the first Wednesday of each month from 5:00 to 7:00 P.M. Writers, poets and story-tellers of the region take turns reading something they’ve written to share with others. The Forum has featured members who speak on the many forms of poetry, how to find a publisher, the importance of having your work edited carefully before submitting it, as well as how to go about self-publishing your works. Anyone interested in writing is welcome to join the group to share memoirs, lyrical poetry, travels, anecdotes, children’s stories, fiction or non-fiction as well as “tall tales” and works in progress. Director of the group is Jerry Kowallis, and the public is invited to join the Writers Forum on Wednesday, October 7th at Gallery 20, 20 East Main Street, Waynesboro. For further information email [email protected] or call 717-352-8059.

Thursday, October 8

At 42 West Arts Co-op, Donna Bingaman will be demonstrating oil painting portraits of people and pets from 12:00 to 2:00 pm. Donna is an impressionist, realist, and a blender of originality and tradition, winning many best of shows, and numerous other awards. She is a graduate of the Washington School of Art and has studied with several regionally and nationally known portrait and oil painting artists. Her portraits have been exhibited at the Cumberland Valley and the Valley Art Show held at the Hagerstown Fine Art Museum, as well as at a one-woman show of her portraits at the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts.

Friday, October 9

Scott and Laurie Matlock will be performing at Gallery 50 from 5:30 PM to 8:00 PM. In addition to their work as a duo, Scott (vocals and fiddle) and Laurie (vocals and guitar) are well known throughout the area for their work with Soleil. Scott also performs with the popular bluegrass group Mountain Ride

Patric Schlee will be creating original improvisational music on guitar, didgeridoo, flute and drums at 42 West ARTS Co-Op. The public is invited to join in.

Saturday, October 10

Denny Bingaman will be demonstrating the technique of carving, burning and dyeing on a gourd Saturday Sept. 5 from 12:00 – 2:00 PM at 42 West Arts Co-Op.

Ongoing Shows

The members of the 42 West Arts Co-Op will be hosting an opening reception of their new show “Forever Flowers” from 12:00 to 6:00. This show includes Donna Bingaman oil painting, Lori Linthicum creative pottery, Tom McFarland painting, Denny Bingaman photography, Rod & Karri Benedict pottery, Ed Beard wood burning, Hollis Mentzer nature printing, Andy Smetzer photographer, and Jennifer Caldwell silver jewelry.

At the Contemporary School of the Arts and Gallery stained glass artist George V. Grillo, is having his first solo exhibit. The Contemporary School of the Arts and Gallery is located at 10 East Main Street.

Musical performances at Destination ARTS! are supported in part by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

“Destination ARTS!” currently features five galleries –

Gallery 50 (50 West Main Street)
Gallery 20 East (20 East Main Street)
42 West ARTS (42 West Main Street)
The Ceramic Arts Center of Waynesboro (13 South Church Street)
The Contemporary School of the Arts & Gallery (10 East Main Street)

Together, the galleries display oil paintings, watercolors, pottery, fiber arts, sculpture, photographs, furniture, prints and much more. They are open each week as follows:

Thursdays from 1:00 to 4:00
Fridays from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m.
Saturdays from 12:00 to 6:00 p.m.
Sundays from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.

For more information, visit artsalliancegw.org.

Destination ARTS! Performances, Activities, and Events for October 1 to October 4, 2015

September 29, 2015Leave a comment

Destination ARTS! activities continue in Waynesboro, PA with art exhibits, special events, and live music scheduled at Gallery 50, Gallery 20 East, 42 West ARTS Co-Op, the Ceramic Arts Center of Waynesboro, the Contemporary School of the Arts & Gallery , and outside in Waynesboro’s Center Square. All performances and events are free unless otherwise indicated.

Children are invited to participate in a Destination ARTS! Scavenger Hunt! As “Destination ARTS! Detectives,” they will solve clues relating to the works of art on display. Prizes will be awarded upon completion of the scavenger hunt, which will take them to five galleries clustered within two blocks. Successful detectives will also be eligible to win one of several grand prizes to be drawn on October 4.

Wednesday, September 30

Writers Forum
For the past year, one special facet of Destination Arts has been the Writers Forum, which meets at Gallery 20 East on Waynesboro’s Main Street the first Wednesday of each month from 5:00 to 7:00 PM. Writers, poets and story-tellers of the region take turns reading something they’ve written to share with others. The Forum has featured members who speak on the many forms of poetry, how to find a publisher, the importance of having your work edited carefully before submitting it, as well as how to go about self-publishing your works. Anyone interested in writing is welcome to join the group to share memoirs, lyrical poetry, travels, anecdotes, children’s stories, fiction or non-fiction as well as “tall tales” and works in progress. Director of the group is Jerry Kowallis, and the public is invited to join the Writers Forum on Wednesday, October 7th at Gallery 20, 20 East Main Street, Waynesboro. For further information email [email protected] or call 352-8059.

Thursday, October 1

Marjorie Tressler, Gallery 50 volunteer curator/director, will continue her demonstration of painting a landscape in oil Thursday from 1:00 to 3:00 pm. Marjorie studied eight years with master landscape artist David Buckley Good at the Schuler School of Fine Arts, as well as with Ron Riddick of Tucson AZ, Denise Burns of Catalina Island, CA, and Lester Jay Stone locally.

Friday, October 2

Wine Down Friday activities and receptions are planned at Gallery 50 (50 W. Main St.), 42 West ARTS Co-Op (42 W. Main St.), Gallery 20 East (20 E. Main St.) and the Ceramic Arts Center of Waynesboro (13 S. Church St.) between 5:00 and 8:00 pm.

From 5:30-8:00 PM, Frank ’n’ Bob will be performing in Center Square. This duo of two acoustic guitarists from the Woodstock Era brings a unique spin to classic rock favorites.

Patric Schlee will be creating original improvisational music on guitar, didgeridoo, flute and drums at 42 West ARTS Co-Op. The public is invited to join in.

Saturday, October 3

From 9:00 to 4:00 PM, Main Street Waynesboro will be celebrating Market Day activities, including outdoor entertainment, children’s activities, a Chili-Cook Off, and many craft and food vendors. The art galleries will be open during normal hours during this event. For more information about Market Day, see www.mainstreetwaynesboro.org.

The Contemporary School of the Arts will be hosting an art auction fundraiser with doors opening at 1:00 pm and bidding from 2:00 to 4:00 pm. There is no bidding fee required, and wine, cheese, and light refreshments will be provided. Artists are invited to donate pieces of their art to the auction, and can drop donations off at the Contemporary School at 10 East Main St. in Waynesboro.

Pat Beard will demonstrate spinning alpaca yarn from 1:00 to 3:00 pm at 42 West Arts Co-op. She began kitting at age 10 and has loved working with yarn and fabrics ever since. Pat has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from he University of Florida and is a juried member of the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen and the Cumberland Valley Craft Guild. By combining interesting colors with textures and a touch of shiny yarn, Pat weaves fabric on old-fashioned looms. Although a number of pieces are woven from the same warp threads, each piece is different. After the weaving, each panel is washed before sewing on old industrial machines. Traditional scarves and shawls are carefully hand finished. Pat does all her own weaving and sewing.

Sunday, October 4

Across the Pond, “The most booked Celtic band in Central PA”, will be performing in Center Square from 2:00 to 4:00 PM. The trio features Michael Morrison (guitar, mandolin, flute and vocals); Chuck Krepley (fiddle, guitar and vocals) and Dan Diviney(whistles, bodhrán and vocals). All members of the band are passionate about their traditional roots but say their music is also delivered with a modern edge, with a repertoire ranging from hauntingly slow are to high energy jigs and reels, love ballads and contemporary songs.

Ongoing Shows

Gallery 20 East presents “Myths in Nature: Collage and Mixed Media by Julie Maynard”, 5:00 to 8:00 pm. Julie Maynard is a collage artist who began working with bits of magazines and catalogs on wood. Much of her current work is a form of painting with paper on two- or three-dimensional surfaces, often incorporating objects picked up along the Potomac River and city streets. Her work reflects on the impact our culture has on the environment and the impact that nature still has on us. Maynard is the editor and publisher of The Brunswick Citizen and The Middletown Valley Citizen. She lives near Burkittsville, MD.

At the Contemporary School of the Arts and Gallery stained glass artist George V. Grillo, will have his first solo exhibit from September 1 through October 1. There will be a reception and demonstration on September 12, from 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm. The Contemporary School of the Arts and Gallery is located at 10 East Main Street.

Musical performances at Destination ARTS! are supported in part by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

“Destination ARTS!” currently features five galleries –

Together, the galleries display oil paintings, watercolors, pottery, fiber arts, sculpture, photographs, furniture, prints and much more. They are open each week as follows:

Thursdays from 1:00 to 4:00
Fridays from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m.
Saturdays from 12:00 to 6:00 p.m.
Sundays from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.

For more information, visit artsalliancegw.org.

Arts Alliance of Greater Waynesboro

Connecting our community through the Arts!

Category: Uncategorized

Destination ARTS! Performances and Events for November 19 – 22, 2015

Musical performances at Destination ARTS! are supported in part by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

Destination ARTS! Performances and Events for November 12 – 15, 2015

Musical performances at Destination ARTS! are supported in part by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

Dearest Home Launches Northern Appalachian Album with Local Flavor at Waynesboro’s Gallery 50 on November 13

Destination ARTS! Events for November 4 to November 8, 2015

Musical performances at Destination ARTS! are supported in part by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

Destination ARTS! Events for October 29 to November 1, 2015

Musical performances at Destination ARTS! are supported in part by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

Destination ARTS! Events for October 22 to October 25, 2015

Musical performances at Destination ARTS! are supported in part by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

MainStreet Downtown Banner Design Competition

Destination ARTS! Events for October 15 to October 18, 2015, including Award-Winning Science Fair Projects and other Technology

Musical performances at Destination ARTS! are supported in part by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

Destination ARTS! Performances, Activities, and Events for October 7 to October 11, 2015

Musical performances at Destination ARTS! are supported in part by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

Destination ARTS! Performances, Activities, and Events for October 1 to October 4, 2015

Musical performances at Destination ARTS! are supported in part by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.