Celebrating Bethlehem's Southside Culture
There’s no doubt that art has a sort of transformational quality—an ability to transport us to places we fondly miss and those we’ve always hoped to visit—and Linda Dubin Garfield’s art is certainly no exception. On view right now at ArtsQuest, her Japan series takes us to the other side of the world, capturing the…
From February 23rd to April 14th, the Banana Factory’s 9th Annual Hope & Healing Juried Art Show is on display in the Crayola Gallery. Students in the Lehigh Valley created the artwork for this exhibition, focusing on the themes of healing and comfort. Healing Through the Arts, a non-profit organization in Allentown, sponsored the art…
Reading a poem can be an individualistic experience. The imagined pitch of the narrator’s tone, the length of the pause at a carefully placed comma, the speed with which the lines flow from one into the next are all determined by our own voice as we consider the artful collection of lines on the page…
Every month, five to ten people gather at the Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center to talk about books. More specifically, we meet to discuss LGBT memoirs, as one small part of the organization’s arts and culture initiatives. The Bradbury-Sullivan Center, as the only such LGBT-focused organization in the region, provides crucial support for LGBT members of…
In our current cinematic era in which the technicolor spectacle of CGI dominates the box office, the choice of black and white cinematography in contemporary film suggests directorial deliberation and intentionality. It’s a choice the vast majority of viewers likely notice first when entering into the narrative of a film. And most of us, too,…
Katie Hovencamp, a resident artist at the Banana Factory Arts Center and Artist Collective member, currently has a solo exhibition at the Bradbury-Sullivan Center. Her exhibition, titled “Fracturing Gender: Beauty and the Body Politic,” is eye-catching and subversive, cotton candy that’s not so sweet. Hovencamp’s work speaks to beauty, bodies, gender, and space, and the…
On Sunday, February 17th, Color Me Mine and Seven Sirens Brewing Company hosted a Beer and Brush Night for the South Side’s 2nd Annual Cocktails & Craft Beer Week. The celebration consisted of events centered around the South Side’s assortment of cocktails and craft beer. Various restaurants and bars on the South Side hosted different…
Scale Shift: Large and Small Works is the current exhibit available in the Siegal Gallery at Iacocca Hall. This exhibit was thought-provoking and honed on perspective. Each unique piece highlighted the effects of perception when it comes to the size of objects in the artwork. When creating this exhibit, the curator emphasized complexities of size…
The air was hot and heavy, and I was greeted with the strong smell of burning wood as I walked into the studio. Seldom is this the scene we imagine when we think of conventional forms of art, though this is a typical day in the Banana Factory’s glass studio. While artists rarely have the…
The nonprofit organization Lehigh Valley Girls Rock is part of a worldwide movement that is working toward a future that empowers all women (including trans and nonbinary individuals) through music and art. They started The Band Factory initiative in November. The Band Factory Showcase took place on Saturday, February 16th at National Sokols, a venue…