Join Us...Support the Arts in Media

Keep the Arts Alive in Media!  Donate Now.  Join us in supporting the arts for the entire community of Media, by contributing to our Holiday Campaign

We've appreciated your participation this year in the monthly 2nd Saturday Arts Stroll, Bastille Day, The Media Film Festival, the Media ICONS photography exhibit, This Space 4 Rent, and more.  With your help, Media Arts Council events have brought the arts to our hometown for all to enjoy, and have provided valuable exposure for the many creative talents in our area. What would Media be like without the arts? Let's not find out.  Please donate to M.A.C. and support ongoing arts opportunities in Media. M.A.C. is a volunteer-based non-profit organization that works with the businesses and artists in Media and the larger community to coordinate events, advocate for the arts, promote local artists and more. Donations from people like you enable M.A.C. to offer FREE opportunities to the community.  A donation of any amount is welcome. Your gift will support these opportunities among others:  $50 helps sponsor artists to our Artist Registry $100 supports the M.A.C. Window Gallery for one month $250 supports the Main Event at the 2nd Saturday Arts Stroll $500 sponsors the workshops at the Media Film Festival $1,000 helps sponsor the creation of a public art policy for the Borough of Media Brent Monahan of "The Jollies" Donate by December 15 to support our Holiday Campaign.   Give a M.A.C. donation as a holiday gift If you would like to contribute in honor of someone else, please make your donation via PayPal, then send us an email info[at!]mediaartscouncil[dot]org with your name, the date you made the donation, the person's name who will be receiving the gift, and the address to which you would like the donation card sent. The gift card will feature this painting, "Winterwoods" by M.A.C. Registry Artist Dorothy Flanagan. Minimum suggested donation to recieve the gift card is $20. If paying by check, please include this information in your envelope.

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Pre-Season Merriment at Media's 2nd Saturday - November 13, 2010

Music, Marine Art, and Merriment! Join us in downtown Media for this month's 2nd Saturday Arts Stroll, where you'll have opportunities to experience the arts in a free, family-friendly setting, while enjoying unique restaurants and shopping. Main Event Philadelphia Mandolin Orchestra Delaware County Institute of Science 7:00pm Enjoy the music of mandolins, mandolas, mandocellos, and guitars with this delighful ensemble. They will perform selections from their repertoire of classical and folk music. This is a concert for all ages. Featured Artist Crystal Benoit Oil Paintings at Kimono Sushi Bar "My work is my personal expression as to how I view the world around me," says the artist. "Some works may seem simple, others more complex. Currently, my focus is on marine life." Get Warmed Up For the Holidays with a Preview Concert! Local musicians perform holiday selections from their CD titled "Peace On Your Way" at the Coffee Beanery at 8pm. This CD has become a hometown favorite. All proceeds from CD sales benefit the PA Breast Cancer Coalition. And Enjoy "20 On the Town!" A new tradition has begun...The Media Business Authority is sponsoring "20 On the Town," a special all-day shopping event in which businesses throughout Media offer discounts and specials centered on the number 20. Look for this logo and ask about discounts. And Even More... Enjoy blues, folk, piano, paintings, drawings, photography, student artwork, jewelry, hand blown glass, hand woven tapestries, paper creations, tango and special cakes. Artwork by the Hometown Collective will also be on view in the M.A.C. Window Gallery at Bryn Mawr Trust. Get the Map! Look for our map at many Media businesses. 2nd Saturday businesses open 6-9 pm Free unless noted otherwise.

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Bryn Mawr Trust Window Gallery - November 2010

Hometown Collective in the Bryn Mawr Trust Window Gallery

The Hometown Collective is a group of artists who have been working together for 15 years. Their major show and sale is at Providence Monthly Meeting on December 4^th.

Seeking to illustrate her own artist book, Sara Forster discovered that cutting and pasting colored paper pieces gave her the materials to create collage images that were splashy and spontaneous.

Lesley Nelson’s art quilt designs incorporate strong structure and luscious color choices obviously influenced from her exposure to high fashion fabrics and furniture by her architect-father.

Nature is a profound source of inspiration for Sandra Webberking and her metal sculpture. The woods have been a treasure trove for her imaginative whimsical creatures that she re-incarnates from waste metal found in Amish farm equipment yards.

Book artist, Sarah Bourne, writes, illustrates and creates charming story books, and crafts beautiful hand-bound journals. Using her inspired imagination she has re-introduced the “flip book” with genuine humor.

Award-winning Dorothy Flanagan’s paintings are inspired by color and light grounded in reality. She works in watercolor and collage, influenced by her journeys to Italy, Kenya, Greece and the American southwest.

Heidi Hammel uses her creative imagination to produce one-of-a-kind wearable fiber from reclaimed wool, silk, cotton and polar-fleece. Along with warm and comfortable mittens, hats and handbags, come see her new “tie bags”.

Inspired by the color in nature, basket maker Bette McCarron hand dyes reed to produce her own color palette and paints with the dyes to create unusual color blends on the same reed. With the many variables of reed size, color, pattern design and shape, every basket is a unique creation.

Lorri Primavera’s jewelry designs combine precious and semi-precious stones with sterling silver. Continually adding new creations, she believes in “less is more” and her juxtaposition of color and forms give her work a quirky beauty and diversity.

Chris Starry uses her hand-dyed yarns of tencel, silk, and bamboo and recently learned techniques has woven exciting, elegant scarves and shawls. She also creates Temari balls, an ancient Japanese craft with designs woven and stitched onto a ball.

Doug Starry uses traditional Shaker’s technique of no glue and using only four nails for rocking chairs. The combination of the woods he harvests from his own property and his high level of craftsmanship transforms each piece into a cherished functional object of furniture.

Elaine White has been making classically shaped wheel-thrown pottery for over 20 years. Textured and recessed designs invite and encourage the viewer to reach out and touch these beautiful and useful items.

Exciting! Creative! Fun! The Hometown Collective’s 15^th Annual Show will be on Saturday, December 4 from 10:00 am - 5:00 pm at the historic Providence Friends Meetinghouse at 105 North Providence Road, Media, PA.