South Side Artist Spotlight: Keith Garubba
Printmaker Keith Garubba is one of the Banana Factory’s newest resident artists. Garubba currently teaches at the Baum School of Art, in the Allentown School District, and at Lehigh Carbon Community College. In addition, Garubba works for Durham Press as a printer. The Bethlehem artist completed his undergraduate degree at Keystone College and received a…
A World of Difference: Judy Woodruff on Navigating the American Divide
I’ll always have a vivid memory of the day after the 2016 presidential election. I was still a senior in high…
Hope & Healing Inspires Community Through the Arts
From February 23rd to April 14th, the Banana Factory’s 9th Annual Hope & Healing Juried Art Show is on display in…
Dana Gioia Captures Life in a Poem
Reading a poem can be an individualistic experience. The imagined pitch of the narrator’s tone, the length of the pause at…
Allentown’s Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center Offers Memoir Reading Group
Every month, five to ten people gather at the Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center to talk about books. More specifically, we meet…
Artist Katie Hovencamp Talks Art & Politics, Solo Exhibition at Bradbury-Sullivan Center
Katie Hovencamp, a resident artist at the Banana Factory Arts Center and Artist Collective member, currently has a solo exhibition at…
Artists Challenge Perspective in Scale Shift Exhibit
Scale Shift: Large and Small Works is the current exhibit available in the Siegal Gallery at Iacocca Hall. This exhibit was…
Glass Studio Heats Things up with Valentine’s Day Demonstration
The air was hot and heavy, and I was greeted with the strong smell of burning wood as I walked into…
A Tribute to the Carpenters: Valentine’s Day at SteelStacks
For Valentine’s Day, Musikfest Café presented Top of the World: A Carpenters Tribute featuring Debbie Taylor. Despite the chill in the…
“Anita” Documentary and Talkback Brings Important Discussion to South Bethlehem
The Frank Banko Alehouse Cinema is part of the massive ArtsQuest complex which was once the Bethlehem Steel company. The steel…