Williamsport Events: Community Calendar

Anila Quayyum Agha works in a cross-disciplinary fashion with mixed media, creating artwork that explores and comments on global politics, cultural multiplicity, mass media, and social and gender roles. As a result, her artwork is conceptually challenging, producing complicated weaves of thought, artistic action, and social experience. Her installations often incorporate thread as a drawing medium, which connects the multiple layers that result from the interaction of concept and process and bridges the gap between modern materials and the historical and traditional patterns of oppression and domestic servitude.

Anila Quayyum Agha is an assistant professor of drawing at the Herron School of Art and Design at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. She was born and raised in Lahore, Pakistan, where she completed her BFA in textile arts. She earned her MFA in fiber arts from the University of North Texas. Agha exhibits nationally and internationally.

Hours: Tues & Thurs 2 - 8 p.m.
Wed & Fri 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Sun 1 - 4 p.m.

A Snyder County artist, whose murals in museums around the world bring exotic locations to vivid life, will be the focus a major exhibit at the Ned Smith Center for Nature and Art.

Jerome P. Connolly: Master Muralist, which opens August 20, will feature dozens of paintings and drawings by the Shamokin Dam artist, who has created more than 125 diorama murals in 35 museums in the U.S., Canada and Taiwan, including the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, the William Penn Museum in Harrisburg, the Oakes Museum in Grantham, PA, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, the George C. Page Museum in Los Angeles, and the Vanderbilt Museum in New York.

Born and educated in Minnesota, he began his career on the staff of the Illinois State Museum in Springfield and the Natural Science for Youth Foundation in Westport, CT, painting diorama backgrounds. He began a freelance career in 1965, working closely with such renowned artists as Francis Lee Jaques, developing a knack for bringing such locales as an Amazonian jungle or a Pennsylvania woodland into museums.

Connolly is also a productive freelancer, having illustrated 16 books and countless magazine covers and articles over the years.

The exhibit will include murals, field studies and sketches, illustrations and many of Connolly's large easel paintings of landscapes and wildlife. It will also include works by Connolly's late wife, Elma Troutman Connolly, was his artistic partner for decades (and whom he met when they were both hired in 1973 to paint a mural at the William Penn Museum) as well as their children and grandchildren, who collaborated with them on many murals.

Jerome P. Connolly: Master Muralist will be on exhibit in the Olewine Gallery through March 17, 2012. The exhibit is presented in cooperation with the State Museum of Pennsylvania and the Connolly family.

Tons of sparkling ice art will grace downtown Market Street. Watch the award-winning First Night Ice Carvers create a giant sculptures in Hufnagle Park. Beautiful historic homes, tree-lined, lamp lit streets and a distinctive downtown shopping district provide the perfect backdrop to the Heart of Lewisburg Ice Festival. Kids love ice sculptures any day–it’s art they can touch, and in the park, even sit and crawl on. The event starts on Friday with sculpting in the park and late night shopping passes. Saturday is a great day with Ice Festival games in Hufnagle Park, the Polar Bear Plunge and The Chocolate Lovers Festival.


Friday, February 3th

Noon – Ice Carving begins on site in Hufnagle Park.

1-4 p.m. Watch the First Night Ice Carvers create ice sculptures in the park 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.

6:30 p.m. A Cappella on Ice, Campus Theatre.

Stores open late until 9 p.m. Save 15% off a single item at all participating locations with the Heart of Lewisburg Ice Festival Shopping Pass.

Saturday, February 4th

7-11 a.m., Pancake Breakfast, Lewisburg Club, 131 Market Street. All you can eat! Adults $6. Children under 10 $3.

11 a.m. Frosty 5K. Registration begins at 8:00 a.m. at Campus Theatre

10 a.m -2 p.m., Children’s Games in Hufnagle Park, sponsored by Sunset Rotary and Early Care & Education Community Engagement Team Union /Snyder County

11 a.m. – 3 p.m., Chili Cook Off, Puirseil’s Irish Pub, South Sixth Street.

2 pm Polar Bear Plunge, St. George Street landing.

3:00 p.m. Chili Cook-Off Prizes announced, gazebo at Hufnagle Park.

6:30 – 10:30 p.m., Cocoa Fest, a chocolate lover’s festival for kids, at the Donald Heiter Community Center, 100 North Fifth Street. $10 per child

7 p.m. Chocolate Lover’s Festival, Lewisburg Hotel, 136 Market Street. All you can eat hors d’ oeuvres, all you can sample chocolate and beveragefor $25/person. Evening also includes a silent auction, raffle and cash bar. All proceeds benefit the center’s work in the community. Tickets are available in advance only on-line at www.donaldheiter.org