Art event at Lafayette College is part of a monthlong textile-related exhibit.
About 60 attended the opening of “Sticks, Hooks and the Mobius: Knit and Crochet Go Cerebral,” a science-themed textile art exhibit that began on Sunday, Jan. 8 in the gallery at the Williams Center for the Arts. Curated by local knitter and textile artist Susan Huxley, the show kicked off with a yarn bombing on the staircase that joins N. Third Street with the Lafayette College campus. Lending a bit of color to the January landscape are about 50 afghans collected over a six-month period. Easton artist D. Polly Kendrick dressed as Madame Defarge, the character in Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities, who knitted the names of doomed aristocrats into a shroud during the French Revolution. Gallery guests were invited to write the emotions, …
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Just because icy weather is here doesn't mean there aren't things to do.
Hello everyone. I'm writing this on a day when the thermometer barely got above 15 degrees, and thus feel grateful that most of what's happening this weekend in Easton will keep you indoors. (Update, Friday morning: It will, of course, be warmer this weekend, thus rendeing the previous sentence moot.) 1. The Brian Molnar Band performs Friday night at 10 p.m. at Porter's Pub. 2. Jack Wright and Guests, an improv jazz ensemble, performs Saturday night at ConneXions Gallery, from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. 3. More jazz: Floyd King Presents, also Saturday at 9 p.m. at the Lafayette Bar on Fourth Street. 4. Learn about the art of William Gothard Sunday at 12:30 p.m. at the Gallery at St. John's, next to St. John's Lutheran Church on Ferry St. 5. …
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Lafayette College will use the $800,000 grant for its Global Arts Infusion and Visiting Artists Initiative.
Lafayette College has received a $800,000 grant from the Andrew Mellon Foundation to support the school's curriculum. Lafayette says the money will be used for its Global Arts Infusion and Visiting Artists Initiative. It will allow the college to add new arts programs and strengthen existing ones. "We believe our students' involvement in the artistic process — in the classroom, studio, rehearsal room, concert hall, media laboratory, and many other settings — is fundamental to the goals of a liberal arts education," college President Daniel Weiss said in a news release. The release said the grant comes at a time when Lafayette is setting new film/media and theater programs at the Williams Center on Third Street. The school is also creating …
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Oli Landwijt
8:52 am on Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Love the show and the photos! more ›