Bethlehem Press

Lehigh Valley families dealing with pediatric cancer were shown some lovin’ by the folks at Warner Art Glass Feb 11-12 in Whitehall Township. Children who are battling cancer and their siblings assembled glass Valentine’s Day mosaics and created paperweights from molten glass in the center’s “Hot Room.”

Three separate exhibitions are on view in Baker Center for the Arts, Muhlenberg College, Allentown. These are diverse views and diverse artists, each with a distinct perspective.

AM DeBrincat’s “Speculative Fiction” is on display in the Galleria Lobby.

Patricia Satterlee’s “Already Gone” is also in the Galleria.

George Afedzi Hughes’ “Urban Allusions” is in Martin Art Gallery.

In “Speculative Fiction,” continuing through March 27, DeBrincat assembles mixed media paintings with images taken from analog and digital archives and blends them together.

Minsi Trails Council, Boy Scouts of America, presented Silver Beaver Awards to Michael Caffrey, Charlie Chase, Rev. Gary Marsh, and seven others at the Council Recognition Dinner Jan. 27 at the East Hills Moravian Church in Bethlehem The Silver Beaver is a distinguished service award for registered adult “Scouters” who have made a positive impact on the next generation through their years of service. Presenting the medals were Dr. Arnold Traupman and Glenn Higbie.

Bethlehem Historic Conservation Commission re-elected Philip Roeder to serve as chair at their first meeting for 2017 held Jan. 23 at the Banana Factory. Gary Lader was elected to serve as vice chair. Christine Ussler handles secretarial duties as historic officer.

Bethlehem’s Historical and Architectural Review Board, with chairman Fred Bonsall, vice chair Philip Roeder, and freshman member Derrick Clark, approved two similar projects at the Feb. 1 hearing in the Rotunda.

Julian Sghiatti, owner of Clusters Handcrafted Popcorn at 530 Main St., was granted a certificate of appropriateness to install a dark blue awning using fire-retardant material and repaint the existing trim to match. The building, owned by Steve Holloman, was the former home of Shuze.

“Studying Artists: Portraits of Baum School of Art Students by Marco Calderon” is a series of large format digital photographic prints mounted on foam board on view through Feb. 8, David E. Rodale and Rodale Family Galleries, The Balm School of Art, Fifth and Linden streets, Allentown.

“People are my passion. I love faces. But more than [that] I love faces, I love ideas. I love that we are so different from each other …,” Calderon says of his work and the Baum exhibit.

Bethlehem’s Historical and Architectural Review Board re-elected Fred Bonsall to serve as chair and Philip Roeder as vice chair at their first meeting for 2017 on Jan. 4 in the Rotunda. George Donovan serves as historic officer and handles secretarial duties in a paid position.

Paul Harryn’s “Time We Spend” (2016, ink and acrylic paint on stretched canvas) is a performance painting trilogy of three separate 36 in. by 48 in. canvases.

“That is part of the ‘epic’ series I am working on, and that is an ‘element’ of that series,” says Harryn.

“Paul Harryn: Elements - Recent Work,” an exhibition featuring several of the artist’s abstract canvases created in 2016, continues through Jan. 29, Santa Bannon-Fine Art, Banana Factory, 25 W. Third St., Bethlehem.

Moravian College project manager Ade Adenekan, accompanied by Tracy Strickland of Derck & Edson, were granted a certificate of appropriateness by Bethlehem’s Historical and Architectural Review Board to add a new portion of public walkway constructed of modular paving bricks to the Brethren’s House at 89-91 W. Church St.

Moravian College project manager Ade Adenekan, accompanied by Tracy Strickland of Derck & Edson, were granted a certificate of appropriateness by Bethlehem’s Historical and Architectural Review Board to add a new portion of public walkway constructed of modular paving bricks to the Brethren’s House at 89-91 W. Church St.