First Friday

Friday, April 4

Join us for First Friday on Friday, April 4 from 6–9 p.m. at the ArtsQuest Center.

Live Music and Bar – TBD

Exhibition

Claire Marcus: Industrial Strength – Located in the Alvin H Butz Gallery and ArtsQuest Center First Floor

Free Art-Making – TBD

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!

April Vendors:

Victoria Siedt
Hi my name is Victoria, I’m a local LGBTQ+ artist. I use art as a way to express my emotions by pouring passion into my works. I draw inspiration from whatever emotion I am filling at the time, be that anxiety, depression, anger and so forth and I try to create something beautiful.

Sharon Moyer
I’m a local fabric & alpaca artist. I make an array of wearable art and also my dream catchers. Portions of my sales go back into donations to the cancer center and neonatal unit. I recently made and donated about 74 beanies to the chemo center and another 50 to the new Norma at the neonatal unit and also bereavement blankets.

Rachel Cavotta
Rachel is a watercolor and embroidery artist living in the Lehigh Valley. She received her bachelor’s degree in English with a minor in studio art from West Chester University. She uses watercolor and embroidery in unconventional ways, focusing on pushing the limits of each medium. Over the last five years, she was involved in a variety of shows and exhibitions throughout the Lehigh Valley and Philadelphia, including the Lehigh Valley Punk Rock Flea Market, Virtual Feminist Flea Market in Philadelphia, Ex Libris Compendium at the Banana Factory in Bethlehem, Lehigh Valley Wicked Oddities Flea Market, and Art in the Park in Allentown.

Crystal Achey
When you shop with Creating Crystals, you’re not only purchasing one of a kind jewelry, but you’re also supporting a woman owned small business, a woman that started from next to nothing and has pushed pass the endless trials and tribulations! The designs of Creating Crystals are inspired by architecture, love and passion of history and the ever changing world of style! Not only that, but Creating Crystals is all about creating YOURSELF; creating your style, finding pieces that speak to you!

Andrea Fernandez
Andrea Fernandez is an artist and environmentalist that is constantly examining the interconnections of life through the relationship between artist and sustainability. Her mixed media work mindfully utilizes biodegradable and ethically sourced materials to inspire her viewers that art can be made with anything! She encourages the expansion of ones relationship with the self and source. By working with the environment, Andreas art teaches us the value in knowing we are not outside of nature but rather an extension of it. Her pieces challenge the viewer, other artists, and herself to explore new methods of sustainability and envision a more healing reality for us as a collective.