Warm weather means hot local music scene

Busy music schedule at The Flash, Longwood other local venues By Denny Dyroff, Correspondent, The Times Rob Dickenson will appear at The Flash in Kennett Square this weekend, as the local live performance calendar heats up with the warmer weather. When warm weather arrives in this area, stink bugs seem to magically appear out of nowhere and make their presence known everywhere. A similar situation...

Art Watch: Jennifer Domal

Pysanky – the lost art of Ukranian Easter eggs is reborn in West Chester. By Lele Galer, Columnist, The Times Artist  Jennifer Domal has a passion for  eggs.  Jennifer utilizes the ages old traditional Ukranian egg carving technique known as “pysanky.”  Etching  her exquisitely detailed patterns onto the surface of an egg, Jennifer creates miniature works of wonder.  Each...

Art Watch: Diane Micklin

A passion for color and texture leads to abstraction plus what’s going on this week in art By Lele Galer, Columnist, The Times Abstract painter Diane Micklin will be exhibiting this Thursday April 3 at Galer Estate Winery in Kennett Square for a Pop up show from 4-8pm.  Diane combines her love of Chester County landscape with a passion for color and texture. Her acrylic painted images range...

Art Watch: Kimberly Knorr

Inspired to Abstraction by the colors and energy of the Brandywine Valley By Lele Galer, Columnist, The Times This week’s featured artist is Kimberly Knorr who is an acrylic abstract painter who uses the beauty of Chester County’s Brandywine Valley as her artistic inspiration.  She earned her BFA, with a minor in Art History at West Chester University and spent a year of independent...

Gala to offer diverse array of auction items

Proceeds from April 11 benefit will help fund Planned Parenthood programs Craig Kandravi (from left), club steward of Radnor Hunt; event co-chair Renny Wood of Chadds Ford; and decorations chair Jane Taylor of Berwyn show off the signed Frolic Weymouth print that will be auctioned at the gala. Gourmet food and drink will combine with one-of-a-kind offerings  – ranging from a signed Frolic...

Art Watch: Painting on collage combines old and new

Plus: what’s going on this week in art By Lele Galer, Columnist, The Times Painter Jasmine Alleger will be exhibiting this Thursday March 20th  at Galer Estate Winery for a Pop up show from 5-9pm.  Alleger combines found materials and photographs with painted objects of everyday subject matter. She writes that “the juxtaposition of collaged material with painted objects is a way to...

CCAA collecting unused or under-appreciated art

Works, including former board member’s collection, will anchor Renovation Sale Works from the art collection of the late Madeline Lamb, a lawyer and former board member of the Chester County Art Association, will be sold during CCAA’s Renovation Sale from March 21-27. If you have artwork that isn’t being seeing the light of day for whatever reason – it’s not your taste or you don’t...

Insider look at Chester County Art Association

Faculty Meet and Greet aims to answer questions, provide overview of classes Visitors to the Meet and Greet will have a chance to envision themselves in classes such as Annette Alessi’s Paint Along Workshop at CCAA. The Chester County Art Association (CCAA) is hosting a Faculty Meet and Greet for those considering enrolling in some of CCAA’s spring or summer adult classes. The evening sessions,...

19th-century civil-rights pioneer in spotlight

Authors of Octavius Catto book to speak at Chester County Historical Society Daniel R. Biddle and Murray Dubin, authors of the acclaimed biography of 19th-century Philadelphia civil rights pioneer Octavius Catto – Tasting Freedom: Octavius Catto and the Battle for Equality in Civil War America – will discuss Catto’s life, legacy, and milieu on Friday, March 7, at 7 p.m. at the Chester...

Art Watch: Shake off winter by taking in some art

Although Spring may be slow in coming, the Spring art scene is blooming By Lele Galer, Columnist, The Times With all the snow and ice of the past weeks, it will be nice to start visiting the local galleries again, going to events and warming up to great food, wine and local art. The end of winter is a perfect time to get inspired to be creative, and it is always great when art combines to raise...