Author: Will Rothfuss

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Paint the Town

Get Ready for Paint the Town!
A one day En Plein Air Paint Out
Join us this Saturday for a celebration of the Delaware Water Gap as artists take to the streets to Paint the Town!
Date: Saturday, September 14 (Rain date – September 15)
Registration: 9 AM – 10 AM
Painting: 10 AM – 1 PM
Artwork Sale: 1 PM – 5 PM
How It Works:
Register: Sign up for $10 at 9 AM to secure your spot.
Create: Watch as artists capture our town in their unique styles from 10 AM to 1 PM.
Shop: After the painting is done, vote for and purchase your favorite pieces from 1 PM to 5 PM.
Whether you’re an art lover, a curious observer or looking for a one-of-a-kind addition to your collection, this event is perfect for you! Come enjoy a day filled with creativity, community, and colorful expressions.
Don’t miss out on this chance to see art come to life and explore our town! ️✨
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Seeing Solitude

September 6-22, 2024
Seeing Solitude: Joni Oye and Susie Forrester
Opening Reception: Friday, September 6 from 5-7 pm

Please note early reception times because of the jazz festival.

Regular gallery hours are Saturday and Sunday from 1-5. The show runs through Sepyember 22.

Joni will show wall reliefs in clay that reflect on her personal journey. She was the chair of the ESU art department for many years and lives in Stroudsburg.

Susie will show photographs that depict natural forms and the American scene. She has been a printer and archivist for the legendary photographer Larry Fink. Susie lives in Stroudsburg.

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Gallery Talk: Rita Baragona

Join us at 3pm on August 25th in the gallery for a talk by artist Rita Baragona

Rita will talk about her floral and ocean paintings, including her  sketchbook drawings. While viewing individual works, she will discuss her painting process as a moment to moment conversation with nature, as well as her use of color and rhythm to describe form and energy. For her color and rhythm are the main visual elements which describe nature’s deep design.

In her career she has searched for aesthetic order in art which runs parallel to scientific and philosophical ideas. Part of her process is to ask questions like: “What do I really see, when I know all is in flux?” In this show she wonders, “Where does rhythmic order and felt color meet appearance?” She explores them as she paints directly from nature.

In her sketchbook pages she jots down notes which come to her while drawing. For her, beauty is found in repetitive rhythmic, spacial, and color harmonies. She says, “I paint for those personal ‘ah-ha’ moments when the painting comes alive with light and color. Being conscious of impermanence, heightens my awareness of an inner timeless beauty hidden beneath apparent solidity.”

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Moment to Moment: Rita Baragona

Wave Cadences Through Time

August 16- September 1, 2024
Moment to Moment: a solo show of the work of Rita Baragona
Opening Reception: Friday, August 16 from 7-9pm

Regular gallery hours are Saturday and Sunday from 1-5. The show runs through Sepyember 1.

Rita Baragona paints her natural subjects as they change: giving her attention to flowers as they unfold so slowly that time expands, and to water as it moves, like her breath, in ceaseless cadences.  Many works are painted as moment-to-moment conversations with nature. While others combine her observations with accrued memories.

At the heart of her paintings, Baragona strives to express a visual poetry found within nature’s deep design.

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Better in the Poconos: A history talk

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Rescheduled: Wednesday September 4, 7-8PM in the gallery

Dutot board member and retired ESU history professor Larry Squeri will present a talk on the history of the Poconos as a tourist destination, the subject of his book: Better in the Poconos. From the days of DWG as a top tourist destination in the late 1800s, to the heart-shaped tub honeymoon hotels of the 1950s, to the waterpark haven of today, Larry will present how the Poconos was and continues to be a tourist magnet.