Zine Workshop led by Jess Meoni, Community Organizer, Scranton Punk Collective

Sordoni Art Gallery 141 S. Main St., Wilkes-Barre, United States

Join us for a free zine-making workshop by Jess Meoni, Community Organizer, Scranton Punk Collective. No experience is necessary and all materials will be provided. Space is limited. Please register with melissa.carestia@wilkes.edu. This workshop is intended for adults college-aged and older. A mover-and-shaker from Northeast Pennsylvania, Jess Meoni creates platforms…

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Second Saturday Family Hour: “All About Me” Zine

Sordoni Art Gallery 141 S. Main St., Wilkes-Barre, United States

Join us as we create zines inspired by ourselves. A lot of Gregg Deal’s work explores his identity. This theme, along with the influence of punk culture, is the perfect mixture for a zine, a self-made magazine! Using collage and drawing materials, kids will create a zine while thinking about…

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Art in Context Lecture Series: “Catlin Revisited: Interpreting the Artist and His Legacy from Indigenous America” by Julia Grummitt, PhD

Sordoni Art Gallery 141 S. Main St., Wilkes-Barre, United States

Artist George Catlin was born in Wilkes-Barre in 1796 and dedicated much of his career to depicting Native American life and culture, becoming the best-known “Indian painter” of the nineteenth-century United States. Catlin’s paintings aimed to preserve the traditions of Indigenous peoples facing displacement but also perpetuated racial stereotypes and…

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