Sarah Jacobs 
This time of year, we enjoy big blockbusters on screen, beach reads, and summer jams. The Majestic Theater gallery and Waldo’s and Company’s gallery have brought two refreshingly fun, yet challenging, painting exhibitions to our town known for a very different kind of summer tourism. (Have you noticed, by the way, that Gettysburg has been
Already low arts funding in PA is being threatened by new initiatives proposed by the PCA (Pennsylvania Council for the Arts.) These changes will most negatively affect arts communities in small towns and rural areas like ours. I attended Arts Advocacy Day at the State Capital in Harrisburg on Tuesday to get the scoop and
I’ve been sick, out of town for my solo shows (my Erie Museum of Art show is up through Feb 2027), and then catching up from said illness and travel. As a result, I have done you an unintentional disservice by not writing about Ethan Hartranft’s solo exhibition at Waldo’s earlier. Please move quickly and
Dear readers, you are nearly out of time to see Gan Yu’s Footprints Across The Ocean: From Social Realism to Visual Realism at the Schmucker Gallery at Gettysburg College. The exhibit closes on Dec. 6, so don’t dawdle. It is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 am to 4 pm. Although every building on campus is
It’s the time of year in Adams County when giant brown crickets invade our old homes to find audiences for their theatrical deaths. Late November is also the time of year when the Foothill Artists’ Studio Tour returns. This year, fourteen artists exhibited last weekend across eight locations in and around Cashtown, Orrtanna, Fairfield, and
Wendy Halperin’s solo exhibition at the Adams County Arts Council (ACAC), “Women in Menopause: Portraits in Natural Light,” offers black and white photographs of women. Each carries an emotional resonance. Smitha, for example, depicts physician Smitha Nair reclining on a boulder, having an absolute blast. This piece is particularly poignant to me because boulders are
Hello friends, Your local artist, former art professor, and occasional house painter is here to review four newly opened visual art exhibitions in Gettysburg. September, the official start of gallery season in New York, has also graced Gettysburg with some fantastic shows. The Adams County Arts Council is hosting three solo exhibitions. In the Reception