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Sound of Creativity with Kenneth-Michael Ebert
2024-09-16 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-04-09 19:00 - 21:00 (Europe/London) | CURIO. GALLERY & CREATIVE SUPPLY, 106 W Chestnut St, Lancaster, PA, 17601, United States
Join us for an evening of meditation, reflection, and creation as curio. welcomes our dear friend and sound practitioner Kenneth-Michael Ebert to our space for a special collaborative event. We invite you to experience the incredible soundscapes created by Kenneth-Michael and create works of art inspired by your audio journey.
Beginning with a 30 minute sound meditation, participants will have the opportunity to give themselves over to the sound and disconnect from the world around them. Using a multitude of instruments, vocal toning, and silences, Kenneth-Michael builds on his sounds intuitively. Allowing the energy and flow of the atmosphere to guide each action until reaching a conclusion making each session as unique as the individuals participating.
Following the meditation, there will be a creative session where we encourage you to explore visual responses and representations of your experience. You may use whatever materials you like as we ask that you bring these items with you. We will have tables set up, chairs, easels, drawing boards, and drawing horses available for use. Coming together, making time for yourself, and creating with others are the goals of this event. Bringing together the restorative properties of sound meditation with the soul enriching qualities of making visual art.

Pocket Art Swap #10: Myth Opening Reception
2024-09-06 17:00 - 20:00 | CURIO. GALLERY & CREATIVE SUPPLY, 106 W Chestnut St, Lancaster, PA, 17601, United States
Join us for the opening of Pocket Art Swap Number 10: Memories
Memories are powerful. They hold valuable threads of who we were, and who we are. By nature, they only exist in the past and though their clarity can sometimes feel like crystal, they are malleable as soft clay in our hands.
With the ability to travel across time, a memory can be recalled over and over. Sometimes as a source of comfort, others as a remembrance of pain or loss. They can strike without warning as they are often attached to other senses such as smell, taste, or touch. Memories can also exist in the collective. Families, communities, and generations passing their histories on to their youth. Popular culture disseminated across the airwaves of the radio, television, or streaming service- beamed to our screens and stored in our minds’ visual vocabulary vault, only to be resurfaced when someone says “…remember when?”.
It’s in these moments of recollection that we’ve asked the artists to examine and explore. To mine their mind, see what they come back with, and let the ideas overflow into their artworks.
Curio. Owners Nicole Duquette and Matt Chapman first developed the pocket art swap in 2019. Both wanted to create a way to connect artists together and celebrate the individuality each of us hold in a unique and meaningful way. Utilizing a mini pad of paper measuring only 2.5 inches by 3.75 inches, each artist could fill their pages any way they saw fit. Culminating in a “pop up” style exhibition, the artists were asked to come together and share their creations. Each participant would then receive a collection of each other’s mini works to keep for themselves.

Pocket Art Swap #9: Myth Opening Reception
2024-08-02 17:00 - 20:00 | CURIO. GALLERY & CREATIVE SUPPLY, 106 W Chestnut St, Lancaster, PA, 17601, United States
Join us for Pocket Art Swap: Myth featuring 16 local artists and 240 miniature works!
Myths have captured our collective imagination for centuries… told around a fire, over meals, within communities and passed on to new generations. Some tell of heroes, gods and goddesses, mysteries that confound and try to explain the unknown, while others explain the creation of the world and its inhabitants. You can find a myth around every corner and under every stone.
Much like the square and the rectangle, myths are stories, though not all stories are myths. At times hard to define or pin down, there is a deeper essence of the profound inside a myth. An ancient quality that has matured with the ages as it’s been told and retold. The works in this exhibition add new iterations to timeless symbols. Each artist landed on a departure point that has spoken to them in some way. The resulting collections are visual testaments to the importance and relevance of myth in its many forms.
Pocket Art Swap was formed by Nicole Duquette and Matt Chapman in 2019 as a way to connect artists together and celebrate the individuality each of us hold in a unique and meaningful way. Inspired by a pad of Stonehenge Legion paper measuring only 2.5 inches by 3.75 inches, they envisioned an exhibition showcasing collections of artist trading cards that would be swapped among the participating artists after the pop-up show, creating an instant collection of personal artist trading cards.

Collage - Hooked on Curiosity with Mimi Shapiro at curio.
2024-07-20 10:30 - 12:30 | CURIO. GALLERY & CREATIVE SUPPLY, 106 W Chestnut St, Lancaster, PA, 17601, United States
This two hour workshop with local artist Mimi Shapiro is all about using collage as a medium for creative play!
Explore color and texture, cut or torn edges and lots of layering as Mimi guides with suggestions and shares some of her own work. You don’t have to be an artist, you can borrow images, paste them down and see what happens. Together we will experiment and you can work towards finding your own creative voice.
Supplies for this workshop will be provided, however if you have materials with particular subject matter that you would like to collage with from magazines, newspapers, books etc you are welcome to bring them along.
Space is limited, pre-registration is required through our website or in the shop.

ARTIST. WOMAN. MOTHER. Artist Talk with Sherry Bowman & Nichole Madonna
2024-07-10 19:00 - 20:00 | CURIO. GALLERY & CREATIVE SUPPLY, 106 W Chestnut St, Lancaster, PA, 17601, United States
Join us in celebrating Sherry Bowman and Nichole Madonna in their exhibition ARTIST. WOMAN. MOTHER. as we host an Artist Talk in the gallery on Wednesday July 10th 7:00-8:00pm.
We will discuss their individual works and collaborative pieces, the repetition of symbols and their significance, the mixed media explorations, and their shared identity as artists, women and mothers.
Conversation and questions are welcome! Light refreshments will be served. We look forward to you joining us.
ABOUT THE SHOW:
We are given a name when we are born, a sort of “absolute word” that serves as an identifier, a sound that when vocalized or read helps us individualize from others. We are all called something, and as we move through life we acquire and collect skills, characteristics, and experiences that also have names. They attach to us and become part of our identity. Sometimes we seek them out and accept them willingly, sometimes they are placed on us. For Sherry Bowman and Nicole Madonna, their names exist alongside three others specifically, “Artist”, “Woman”, and “Mother”.
An incredible trait Sherry & Nichole share is the ability to assume these many identities simultaneously. Being able to give their attention to these competing facets with patience, thoughtfulness, and creativity. Navigating the landscape of their lives as individuals who are connected to others and looked to for their professionalism, authority, and humanity.
Knowing where one of these names ends and the other begins is often difficult. As the Ouroboros consumes its tail and connects its end with its beginning, similar is the relationship of these three elements. Each influencing the others in all aspects of their being. Essential in their role and though one may expand and command a higher visibility for a time, the balance will shift again, providing opportunity for another to occupy the space.
This exhibition calls attention to this balance. Through individual and collaborative works, both artists are able to share their unique perspective and visual language while accentuating their parallels and commonalities. Utilizing the gallery walls as a place to show artworks that were made of only themselves, their own conceptualization, and executed by their hands. Together this collection brings many new names, storyteller, educator, creator are only a few. And it’s in their connection that brings yet another name, “friend”.
View these pieces as manifestations of their voice made visual. Observations of an artist’s mind always at work, a woman’s depth, and a mothers paradigm.

ARTIST. WOMAN. MOTHER. work by Sherry Bowman & Nichole Madonna Opening Reception
2024-06-07 17:00 - 20:00 | CURIO. GALLERY & CREATIVE SUPPLY, 106 W Chestnut St, Lancaster, PA, 17601, United States
Join us for the opening of ARTIST. WOMAN. MOTHER. featuring work by local artists Sherry Bowman & Nichole Madonna
On view June 1st-July 27th the opening reception is First Friday June 7th 5:00-8:00pm
ABOUT THE SHOW:
We are given a name when we are born, a sort of “absolute word” that serves as an identifier, a sound that when vocalized or read helps us individualize from others. We are all called something, and as we move through life we acquire and collect skills, characteristics, and experiences that also have names. They attach to us and become part of our identity. Sometimes we seek them out and accept them willingly, sometimes they are placed on us. For Sherry Bowman and Nicole Madonna, their names exist alongside three others specifically, “Artist”, “Woman”, and “Mother”.
An incredible trait Sherry & Nichole share is the ability to assume these many identities simultaneously. Being able to give their attention to these competing facets with patience, thoughtfulness, and creativity. Navigating the landscape of their lives as individuals who are connected to others and looked to for their professionalism, authority, and humanity.
Knowing where one of these names ends and the other begins is often difficult. As the Ouroboros consumes its tail and connects its end with its beginning, similar is the relationship of these three elements. Each influencing the others in all aspects of their being. Essential in their role and though one may expand and command a higher visibility for a time, the balance will shift again, providing opportunity for another to occupy the space.
This exhibition calls attention to this balance. Through individual and collaborative works, both artists are able to share their unique perspective and visual language while accentuating their parallels and commonalities. Utilizing the gallery walls as a place to show artworks that were made of only themselves, their own conceptualization, and executed by their hands. Together this collection brings many new names, storyteller, educator, creator are only a few. And it’s in their connection that brings yet another name, “friend”.
View these pieces as manifestations of their voice made visual. Observations of an artist’s mind always at work, a woman’s depth, and a mothers paradigm.

curio. Urban Sketching: May
2024-05-16 18:00 - 20:00 | CURIO. GALLERY & CREATIVE SUPPLY, 106 W Chestnut St, Lancaster, PA, 17601, United States
Urban Sketching is a wonderful way to explore your surroundings and capture the energy and excitement of what you see. A trusty sketchbook, your favorite travel materials, and your keen eye is all you need to make visually interesting drawings from observation. Architecture, the hustle and bustle of cars and people, powerlines and the movement of the clouds are all possible inspirations in this laid back, exploratory workshop series. Over these 2, two hour sessions, participants can discover how to translate what they see into their sketchbook as instructor Matt Allyn Chapman provides demonstrations and one on one interactions as we visit specific locations.
This two week workshop will be meeting on location Thursday May 16th & 23rd 6:00-8:00pm
This workshop is a Bring Your Own Supplies meetup! Bring your favorite items or try something new.
Suggested materials include easily portable items such as:
-Sketchbook
-Fineliner Pens
-Markers
-Travel Watercolor Set
-Graphite Pencils
-Colored Pencils
A few other considerations may be to dress in a comfortable fashion for the forecasted weather and bring along a camp chair should you require a seat for this two hour workshop.

curio. Sketchbook Club
2024-05-07 19:00 - 21:00 | CURIO. GALLERY & CREATIVE SUPPLY, 106 W Chestnut St, Lancaster, PA, 17601, United States
Sketchbook club is a local drawing meet up where participants draw from a still life each session. Be inspired by the set up, draw the entire still life or focus on one or two objects, find inspiration in color, shape or pattern or draw something else entirely! Use any media you’d like, create one piece or work on several- there are no rules in this relaxed atmosphere.
Free to join, no registration needed. All ages and skill levels are welcome.

First Friday Artist Reception and Spring Artwalk including Artist Demonstration Painting
2024-05-05 11:00 - 2024-05-08 16:00, 2024-05-04 10:00 - 2024-05-05 17:00, 2024-05-03 17:00 - 20:00 | Red Raven Art Company, 138 North Prince St, Lancaster, PA, 17603, United States
Join us for First Friday’s Artist Reception May 3rd, 5 – 8 pm and Spring Artwalk Weekend May 4th 10 – 5 pm and 5th 11 – 4 pm. Our artist demonstration painting will happen Saturday, May 4th from 11 – 3 pm. You won’t want to miss this, as our three featured artists will all be painting and talking about their latest work!

"Creativity Is..." panel creation event
2024-05-05 | CURIO. GALLERY & CREATIVE SUPPLY, 106 W Chestnut St, Lancaster, PA, 17601, United States
Curio. is excited to be a partner of “Creativity is….A Community Art Exhibition” with Pennsylvania College of Art & Design’s Exhibitions Department and Center for Creative Exploration! Along with support from the City of Lancaster Office of Public Art they are hosting an opportunity for the Lancaster community to showcase their visual response to the prompt, “Creativity is…” in an exhibition that will be installed at the Lancaster Amtrak station in two of the public art cases from August 9 – November 14, 2024.
With this special exhibition in mind, we are hosting a free creating event on Sunday May 5th during ArtWalk! The 6″x6″ panels + materials to make with are supplied however registration for a time slot is required to ensure we have enough space to create comfortably. If you don’t finish your panel during the event, that is OK! Please note your panel must be returned by July 29th for inclusion in the station case exhibition.
Registration is required *If the time slots are filled, we are hopeful to have a panel for you to take home and work on at your leisure.

curio. Urban Sketching: April
2024-04-20 10:00 - 12:00 | CURIO. GALLERY & CREATIVE SUPPLY, 106 W Chestnut St, Lancaster, PA, 17601, United States
Urban Sketching is a wonderful way to explore your surroundings and capture the energy and excitement of what you see. A trusty sketchbook, your favorite travel materials, and your keen eye is all you need to make visually interesting drawings from observation. Architecture, the hustle and bustle of cars and people, powerlines and the movement of the clouds are all possible inspirations in this laid back, exploratory workshop series. Over these 2, two hour sessions, participants can discover how to translate what they see into their sketchbook as instructor Matt Allyn Chapman provides demonstrations and one on one interactions as we visit specific locations.
This two week workshop will be meeting on location Saturday April 20th & 27th 10:00-12:00pm
This workshop is a Bring Your Own Supplies meetup! Bring your favorite items or try something new.
Suggested materials include easily portable items such as:
-Sketchbook
-Fineliner Pens
-Markers
-Travel Watercolor Set
-Graphite Pencils
-Colored Pencils
A few other considerations may be to dress in a comfortable fashion for the forecasted weather and bring along a camp chair should you require a seat for this two hour workshop.

curio. Workshop Series: Chalk Pastel
2024-04-15 19:00 - 21:00 | CURIO. GALLERY & CREATIVE SUPPLY, 106 W Chestnut St, Lancaster, PA, 17601, United States
Chalk Pastel is an excellent way to take your drawings in an exciting new direction. Their blend-ability, vibrancy, and cooperation with other dry mediums makes them a favorite of those who prefer to work on paper. This three week series will be led by curio. co-owner Matt Allyn Chapman and will explore mark making & blending techniques, monochromatic along with expanded color palette use, as well as best practices for material application and image composition. Drawing from life and supplied printed reference, participants will engage with the material at their own pace in a stress free environment.
Chalk Pastel with Matt Allyn Chapman is a three session workshop meeting on Monday April 15th, 22nd, 29th 7:00-9:00pm. All necessary materials will be supplied!
Space is limited to 10 participants and is suitable for ages 13 to adult.
Please note access to curio. is down a flight of steps, slightly below street level.

Listening at the Edges: Marianne Calenda on view at curio. Gallery & Creative Supply
2024-04-05 17:00 - 20:00 | CURIO. GALLERY & CREATIVE SUPPLY, 106 W Chestnut St, Lancaster, PA, 17601, United States
Join curio. Gallery & Creative Supply in the opening of Listening at the Edges featuring work by local artist Marianne Calenda.
“I am here in the landscape. My imagination is punctuated by the musk of damp leaves and the trill of the red-winged blackbird swaying in the cattails–
by cedar waxwing jostling in the bramble,
by a gnarled sycamore praising winter’s blue,
by ferns dancing under beech towers,
by field mustard crowning the hilltop and wheat fringe hemming the lane,
And billows, upon billows of clouds heralding change.”
-Marianne Calenda
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In these words you can find yourself standing next to Marianne as she works. The landscapes she conjures feel real. They reach into our minds with long fingers like sunlight through tears in the trees, highlighting the path to deep seeded memories. Observation & gesture so finely tuned it convinces us that we know these places. Painterly actions paired with masterful drawing make artworks that reside in the brush between fields of abstraction and the forest of realism.
Marianne describes her process and work with monotypes:
“A monotype is a singular, original work created by applying pigment to a non-absorbent surface. In this case the images were developed with acrylic paint on a gelatin plate and hand printed on various types of paper. Following Degas’ technique, soft pastel was added to the printed image to enrich, enliven, or subdue.
The monotypes are glimpses of a fragile landscape designed to evocate rather than describe. The viewer is invited to fill in the details with personal remembrances of its textures, colors, and vibrations.”

curio. Demo Day: Watercolor
2024-03-23 14:00 - 16:00 | CURIO. GALLERY & CREATIVE SUPPLY, 106 W Chestnut St, Lancaster, PA, 17601, United States
Sign up to join curio. for our first Demo event of 2024 on March 23rd, 2:00-4:00pm! Matt will be working with one of his favorite mediums, watercolor! Over the course of two hours, he will build an artwork from the beginning, explaining his process and answering questions from guests along the way. Watercolor is appreciated by many artists for its immediacy and opportunity for control, while also offering the expressive gestural fluidity and vibrant application it’s known for.
Open discussion, questions, and other conversation is welcome and most definitely encouraged.
Space is limited to 10 people, pre-registration is required.
Please note curio. is located down a flight of stairs.

Lou Schellenberg "Back Yards and Hidden Spaces" Exhibition Opening at Lancaster Galleries
2024-03-07 17:00 - 20:00 | Lancaster Galleries, 34 North Water St, Lancaster, PA, 17603, United States
Join us Thursday, March 7 from 5 – 8 pm for the artist reception and exhibition opening of Lou Schellenberg “Back Yards and Hidden Spaces”. Enjoy light refreshments and the opportunity to speak with the artist about her work! Exhibition runs from March 7 – April 6, 2024. We hope to see you there!

Artist Talk with Joanna Davis
2024-03-05 19:00 - 20:00 | CURIO. GALLERY & CREATIVE SUPPLY, 106 W Chestnut St, Lancaster, PA, 17601, United States
We are excited to host gallery artist Joanna Davis for an Artist Talk focused on her exhibition Pathways & Formations on Tuesday March 5th at 7:00pm! Free to attend, join us for a conversation discussing the range of work in the exhibition, navigate the different sources of inspiration and talk about materials.
Bring your questions, conversation and enjoy light refreshments!
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About the show:
Bringing together multiple bodies of work, spanning very recent and the inevitably lengthening past, artist Joanna Davis shows us how she carries a thread of connection in one hand and a brush in the other.
Natural wonders of the mind rise from landscapes in watercolor while collages act as hand drawn maps and ciphers to emotional destinations. Each piece is a part of a collective sojourn that individually we are familiar with, if we take the time to recognize it in ourselves.
Creating anything with our hands takes time, a variable degree of intention, and focus. When we allow ourselves the time to slow the passing of our days and call back the events that make them, we relive them, for better or worse. When Joanna mines these events she finds pockets of creative crystals. Much like the mineral, they are resilient even if sometimes fragmented, formed in irregular shapes- dictated by the pressure of their surroundings, and endlessly intriguing.
Joanna’s Neural Pathway series resonates like a singing bowl. The pieces speak to the thoughts we keep to ourselves as their sine wave circulates in our head. Thoughts of how we understand the world, and how in turn we are understood. Emotions that challenge us when we are at our most fragile, and our most resolute. Almost “automatic”, they feel unconcerned with their legibility. Instead they revel in their spontaneity
Walls and Formations is a series that exists in the abstract. Floating islands and land masses hang in the negative space, bound only by their surface’s physical boundaries. These landscapes have all the serenity of walking alone in a sunbathed field and amongst the shade of trees, the raw fury and indiscriminate consumption of wildfire, along with the blackened aftermath.
Shifting the lens in which we look through into one that finds metaphor, one could arrive at many. Abundance and drought, the search for ourselves within ourselves, how we connect to the environments around us, and the people who occupy them with us.

Modern Calligraphy: Hand Lettering with Renée Reese
2024-02-10 10:30 - 12:30, 2024-02-10 08:00 - 17:00, 2024-01-12 10:30 - 12:30 | CURIO. GALLERY & CREATIVE SUPPLY, 106 W Chestnut St, Lancaster, PA, 17601, United States
Have you wanted to learn modern calligraphy so you could pen beautiful letters and unlock your creativity? This workshop series of three sessions is the perfect introduction to modern calligraphy taking you step-by-step through the strokes necessary to create upper and lowercase letters using brush pen markers. Participants will be practicing letterforms, connecting letters, and then applying those skills to small projects.
Supplies are included! Participants will receive a complete kit with everything that is needed; brush pens, a workbook, and tracing paper.
Please join us and learn calligraphy tips and techniques with Renée Reese, a local calligrapher and watercolor artist. Renée is a right-handed calligrapher but has tips and techniques for those who are left-handed. This class will be casual and encouraging and lots of fun!
Modern Calligraphy will meet at curio. Gallery & Creative Supply on Saturday February 10th, 17th, and 24th 10:30-12:30pm. Please note access to curio. is down a flight of steps, slightly below street level. Registration is limited to 8 spaces to allow each participant plenty of room and comfort during the workshop. Register online, in person or over the phone!

Pathways & Formations: work by Joanna Davis
2024-02-02 17:00 - 20:00 | CURIO. GALLERY & CREATIVE SUPPLY, 106 W Chestnut St, Lancaster, PA, 17601, United States
Join curio. in celebrating the opening of local artist Joanna Davis’ exhibition Pathways & Formations with our extended hours 5:00-8:00pm.
Bringing together multiple bodies of work, spanning very recent and the inevitably lengthening past, artist Joanna Davis shows us how she carries a thread of connection in one hand and a brush in the other.
Natural wonders of the mind rise from landscapes in watercolor while collages act as hand drawn maps and ciphers to emotional destinations. Each piece is a part of a collective sojourn that individually we are familiar with, if we take the time to recognize it in ourselves.
Creating anything with our hands takes time, a variable degree of intention, and focus. When we allow ourselves the time to slow the passing of our days and call back the events that make them, we relive them, for better or worse. When Joanna mines these events she finds pockets of creative crystals. Much like the mineral, they are resilient even if sometimes fragmented, formed in irregular shapes- dictated by the pressure of their surroundings, and endlessly intriguing.

Artist Talk with Angie Hohenadel
2024-01-23 19:00 - 21:00 | CURIO. GALLERY & CREATIVE SUPPLY, 106 W Chestnut St, Lancaster, PA, 17601, United States
curio. is excited to host gallery artist Angie Hohenadel for an Artist Talk focused on her exhibition Little Whispered Moments on Tuesday January 23rd at 7:00pm! Free to attend, join us for a delightful evening discussing the creation of the work in Little Whispered Moments, her use of Posca paint markers, and wild imagination. Bring your questions, conversation and enjoy light refreshments!

curio. Sketchbook Club
2023-12-28 19:00 - 21:00, 2023-12-21 19:00 - 21:00, 2023-12-07 19:00 - 21:00 | CURIO. GALLERY & CREATIVE SUPPLY, 106 W Chestnut St, Lancaster, PA, 17601, United States
The curio. Sketchbook Club is a local drawing meet up where participants draw from a new still life each week. Be inspired by the set up, draw the entire still life or focus on one or two objects, find inspiration in color, shape or pattern or draw something else entirely! Use any media you’d like, create one piece or work on several- there are no rules in this relaxed atmosphere.
Free to join, no registration needed. All ages and skill levels are welcome.

Preview of the Scott Spangler Estate
2023-12-14 16:00 - 20:00 | Lancaster Galleries, 34 North Water St, Lancaster, PA, 17603, United States
Join us Thursday, December 14th from 4-7pm for a preview of the Scott Spangler estate. Enjoy a selection of small works on canvas created between 2018 and 2020. For more information please call us at 717-397-5552. No RSVP required, we hope to see you there!

Lancaster Shops Late featuring Eva Bender
2023-12-08 17:00 - 20:00 | Lancaster Galleries, 34 North Water St, Lancaster, PA, 17603, United States
Join us Friday, December 8 from 5 – 8 pm for a one night only evening event featuring the fabulous works of Eva Bender. Enjoy light refreshments and the largest selection of Eva Bender watercolors in Pennsylvania! We hope you can join us!

December First Friday at Lancaster Galleries
2023-12-01 17:00 - 20:00 | Lancaster Galleries, 34 North Water St, Lancaster, PA, 17603, United States
Join us for the First Friday reception of “Prelude 2023: A Group Exhibition”. Explore the fabulous works of over 30 artists while enjoying hot cider and light refreshments. Exhibition runs through January 13, 2024. We hope to see you there!
