First Friday
Friday, March 7 · view days & times
Venue: ArtsQuest Center
FREE
Join us for First Friday on Friday, March 7 from 6–9 p.m. at the ArtsQuest Center.
Live Music and Bar
Free Music by Pat Foran from 5:45-7:30 p.m. and Ginger Coyle from 8-11 p.m. on the Williams Brew Stage.
Exhibition
Claire Marcus: Industrial Strength - Located in the Alvin H Butz Gallery and ArtsQuest Center First Floor
Free Art-Making – Embroidered Collages with Teach Artist Emma Ryan
Join us in the Blast Furnace Room Loft for free art-making inspired by Claire Marcus’s exhibition “Industrial Strength.” Craft your collage using magazines and decorative papers, then use needle and thread to embroider on top of your images.
Paint Like Bob Ross : Silent Forest (Wine'd Down Workshop)
Ticket Required, class located on the second floor of the ArtsQuest Center in the Fowler Blast Furnace Room.
Unlock your inner artist and learn to Paint like Bob Ross. Chris Severn is a certified Bob Ross instructor and will guide you through the wet-on-wet technique to create stunning landscape paintings. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced painter, Chris's classes provide a fun and supportive environment to explore your creativity and improve your painting skills. Join us today and discover the joy of painting! all materials are provided.
First Friday Pop Up Art Market
ArtsQuest will host local artists to our First Friday Pop Up Art Markets in connection with Southside Arts District’s First Friday events throughout the year. This is an opportunity for local artists to showcase to new audiences and sell their work during these community events. Different artists will be featured each month the market is hosted, stop by each month to check out something new!
March Vendors:
Robin Gow
Robin Gow is an award-winning poet and community educator. It grew up in Kutztown, Pennsylvania and lives with his partner Rain and their menagerie of animals on unceded Lenape land also called Allentown Pennsylvania. Fae is also the author of poetry collections as well as young-adult and middle-grade novels including Dear Mothman and A Million Quiet Revolutions, earning starred reviews from Publisher’s Weekly, Kirkus, School Library Journal, and more.
Claire Marcus
CLAIRE MARCUS has been an exhibiting Lehigh Valley artist for nearly thirty years. One of the original Banana Factory resident artists, she has lived in Bethlehem since 2002. Born and raised in New York City, Claire holds a BA in architecture and an MFA in painting from the University of Pennsylvania, where she studied with MacArthur Fellow Rackstraw Downes, sculptor Robert Engman, and photographer Rudy Burckhardt. Claire has exhibited with ACE: Arts Community of Easton; Cincinnati Book Arts Society; Frontline Arts; Limited Supply Bangor; Moravian University; Nurture Nature Center; Philadelphia Center for the Book; and Printmakers Society of the Lehigh Valley. She has been a teaching artist for the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts since 1998.
See more of Claire’s work at @clairebmarcusart.
Jason Miller
I grew up in Allentown and have always lived in the valley. I started painting in 2021 for no other reason than wanting to try painting just for fun. I was a part of the Arts Community of Easton. I’ve attending Art in the Park in Allentown for the past 3 years. I’ve had my pieces down at the Easton public market twice and was a part of winter art shows in Easton along with my works hanging in a few other places. I paint to release energy. I don’t know where that energy will go and this makes abstract art satisfying for me. Layers and texture are where I live.
Taylor Hilt
Taylor curates custom fit clasp-less jewelry that will last years. With 925 sterling silver and 14k gold metals you never have to worry about tarnishing! Permanent jewelry is a passion of Taylor’s and I can’t wait to bring our custom pieces to Arts Quest again!
@tayloredestheticsllc
Mia Kline
Hi! My name is Mia. My brands name is Eclectic Collective because I make a mix of different things! My main products are jewelry and embroidery artwork. I also make artwork incorporating dried flowers and little trinkets such as stickers, keychains, hair clips and beaded rings.
Eclecticcollective.shop
CALL FOR VENDORS!
First Friday Pop Up Art Markets at the ArtsQuest Center at SteelStacks
Deadline to apply for Winter/Spring 2025: February 23, 2025.
ArtsQuest invites local artists to First Friday Pop Up Markets in connection with Southside Arts District’s First Friday events. These pop-ups will take place at the ArtsQuest Center, and will give artists an opportunity to showcase and sell their artwork to a new audience.
Schedule
- Friday, March 7, 2025 @ 6:00 PM 03/07/2025 06:00 PM 03/07/2025 09:00 PM 15 First Friday https://www.steelstacks.org/event/16975/first-friday/ ArtsQuest Center false MM/DD/YYYY
Venue Information
ArtsQuest Center101 Founders Way
Bethlehem, PA 18015
610-332-1300
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