Published November 01. 2021 04:28PM
The Banana Factory Arts Center and Lehigh University Art Galleries celebrated an eventful First Friday Oct. 1.
Service Dog provided live music as celebrants viewed the “2021 Residential Artist Annual Exhibition” in the Crayola Gallery. There were demonstrations in glass blowing, printmaking, jewelry and drawing. Artists held open studios on the second and third floors where they offered artwork for purchase.
Receptions for “Thinking Through Drawing: Works on Paper, Drawings, and Sketchbooks from the Collection and Community” were held simutaneously at the Lehigh University Art Galleries Main Gallery in the Zoellner Arts Center and at the South Bethlehem Greenway. Selections from the exhibit are displayed there along the trail from S. New to Trone streets.
PRESS PHOTO BY ED COURRIER Christina Giacoletti and Leo Motolese from Service Dog serenade a Crayola Gallery audience Oct. 1. The Bethlehem-based duo provided live music during the First Friday event at the Banana Factory.
Artist and printmaker Keith Garubba outside his Banana Factory studio during Southside Bethlehem's First Friday Oct. 1.
Bethlehem-based fine artist Tony Sienzant and Lehigh University Class of 2023 student Hallie Wilson at the LUAG Oct. 1 gallery reception for “Thinking Through Drawing.” Sienzant brought along the original ink drawing that was included in the community digital exhibit. Titled “Chess on the Moon,” Sienzant drew it while a senior at Dieruff High in 1976. As an art history major, Wilson volunteered to serve as a docent.
“You'll Be Needing These,” by Lehigh Valley Press cartoonist Ed Courrier was one of 225 works selected for the LUAG “Thinking Through Drawing” online exhibit. This editorial cartoon ran in the Bethlehem Press in December 2020.
