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Linda Doell
If you want to start or add to a clay, fiber, pressed flowers, glass,
collection, there are a number of jewelry, metal, paper, photography
shows throughout the fall where you and wood. Traditional holiday show
can browse and pick up new items. favorites are stained glass, hooked
rugs, pressed and dried flower art,
Making a return for a 10th year furniture, woodworking, ceramics,
is the Allentown Art Museum’s wearables and folk art paintings and
Cocktails & Collecting show holiday collectibles, including Santas.
from 6 to 9 p.m., Nov. 7 at the
museum, 31 N. Fifth St. Held in partnership with
Pennsylvania German Scholarship
“We feel really fortunate Studies, the Pennsylvania German
with all the support we have for Cultural Heritage Center and
this event,” said the museum’s Kutztown University, the show
development officer Tara Craig. “We offers museum quality examples
really hope that everyone will get of contemporary and traditional
a chance to see something that Pennsylvania folk artwork produced
intrigues and inspires them.” by members of the Reading-
Berks Guild and other juried
The event hopes to feature 32 craftsmen who are members of the
artists in a wide variety of mediums Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen.
including paintings, ceramics,
sculpture and jewelry. The artists will Parking is free and food also will
be on hand to talk about their works be available. An admission donation
and some will even be creating art live. of $6 for adults and children age
13 and older is suggested. For more
The event is a fundraiser for the information, visit www. rbcrafts.org.
museum and also helps it meet its
mission to connect people to art If model trains are more your
and artists, Craig said. Tickets are speed, head to the First Frost
$100 each for museum members Train Meet on Nov. 14 and 15 at
and $125 for nonmembers before Agricultural Hall at the Allentown
the event. Ticket cost at the door Fairgrounds, 302 N. 17th St.,
is $125 and $150, respectively. Allentown. The meet is hosted by
To buy tickets, call the museum Allentown Train Meet Associates.
at (610) 432-4333, ext. 110.
The meet will feature 625 dealer
If you want to get in touch with tables and admission costs $7 each
Pennsylvania’s German roots, The day, with children age 12 and under
Reading-Berks Guild of Craftsmen getting in free with a paying adult.
will be hosting its annual, juried Pre-registered tickets get you into the
Holiday Fine Arts and Crafts Festival show an hour early. For more info,
on Oct. 31 and Nov. 1. About 100 visit www.allentowntrainmeet.com.
artisans and student artists will
showcase their work at Kutztown Or if toys are more to your liking,
University’s O’Pake Fieldhouse, 312 there will be a one-day antique toy
Trexler Ave., Kutztown. Show hours show from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Nov.
are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 31 and 7 at the Allentown Fairgrounds,
10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Nov. 1. Seventeenth Street between Liberty
and Chew streets. The show will
Show Chairman Terry Boyer said be in Harris Hall. For more info,
visitors can expect to find many visit www.allentownfairpa.org.
genres of crafts including basketry,
If you want to start or add to a clay, fiber, pressed flowers, glass,
collection, there are a number of jewelry, metal, paper, photography
shows throughout the fall where you and wood. Traditional holiday show
can browse and pick up new items. favorites are stained glass, hooked
rugs, pressed and dried flower art,
Making a return for a 10th year furniture, woodworking, ceramics,
is the Allentown Art Museum’s wearables and folk art paintings and
Cocktails & Collecting show holiday collectibles, including Santas.
from 6 to 9 p.m., Nov. 7 at the
museum, 31 N. Fifth St. Held in partnership with
Pennsylvania German Scholarship
“We feel really fortunate Studies, the Pennsylvania German
with all the support we have for Cultural Heritage Center and
this event,” said the museum’s Kutztown University, the show
development officer Tara Craig. “We offers museum quality examples
really hope that everyone will get of contemporary and traditional
a chance to see something that Pennsylvania folk artwork produced
intrigues and inspires them.” by members of the Reading-
Berks Guild and other juried
The event hopes to feature 32 craftsmen who are members of the
artists in a wide variety of mediums Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen.
including paintings, ceramics,
sculpture and jewelry. The artists will Parking is free and food also will
be on hand to talk about their works be available. An admission donation
and some will even be creating art live. of $6 for adults and children age
13 and older is suggested. For more
The event is a fundraiser for the information, visit www. rbcrafts.org.
museum and also helps it meet its
mission to connect people to art If model trains are more your
and artists, Craig said. Tickets are speed, head to the First Frost
$100 each for museum members Train Meet on Nov. 14 and 15 at
and $125 for nonmembers before Agricultural Hall at the Allentown
the event. Ticket cost at the door Fairgrounds, 302 N. 17th St.,
is $125 and $150, respectively. Allentown. The meet is hosted by
To buy tickets, call the museum Allentown Train Meet Associates.
at (610) 432-4333, ext. 110.
The meet will feature 625 dealer
If you want to get in touch with tables and admission costs $7 each
Pennsylvania’s German roots, The day, with children age 12 and under
Reading-Berks Guild of Craftsmen getting in free with a paying adult.
will be hosting its annual, juried Pre-registered tickets get you into the
Holiday Fine Arts and Crafts Festival show an hour early. For more info,
on Oct. 31 and Nov. 1. About 100 visit www.allentowntrainmeet.com.
artisans and student artists will
showcase their work at Kutztown Or if toys are more to your liking,
University’s O’Pake Fieldhouse, 312 there will be a one-day antique toy
Trexler Ave., Kutztown. Show hours show from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Nov.
are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 31 and 7 at the Allentown Fairgrounds,
10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Nov. 1. Seventeenth Street between Liberty
and Chew streets. The show will
Show Chairman Terry Boyer said be in Harris Hall. For more info,
visitors can expect to find many visit www.allentownfairpa.org.
genres of crafts including basketry,
