S E P T E M B E R 2 0 2 5

Adam Kuder, Seven, mixed media and collage on wood, View Website

FLASH NEWS!! RESPONSE REQUIRED

Small Works Pop-Up - Small Business Saturday – Are You Interested?

We have Freeman Hall reserved for Doylestown’s Small Business Saturday, November 29 as well as the following day. The show will showcase the talents of our membership and provide an opportunity for community members to purchase art for personal enjoyment or as gifts.

Members will be permitted one or two 2-dimensional pieces and two portfolios. The framed pieces will be limited to 12” x 12” but the portfolios can be typical size, wrapped in cellophane.

There will be no registration fee, and the A&C will keep a 20% commission. 

Please reply to the survey HERE by Tuesday, September 30 so that we can assess interest in offering this opportunity. Your prompt reply is crucial. If enough members are interested, we will go forward with it. More details will be available after replies are received.  

Questions? Write to Charlene at treasurer@bucksarts.org or text 717-880-4174

Pamela Shumskas, Growing Artichokes in a Pot, mixed media and collage on wood panel, View Website

FIRST THURSDAYS SALON UPDATES

Updates to Gallery Pages and Notifications of Events

No programming on October 2 for Yom Kippur.

Next: November 6, 7:00-8:30 p.m. Freeman Hall. 

Join us for a wonderful evening of fiction, memoir, and poetry from Jobert Abeuva, LCW Allingham, Katherine Hahn Falk, and Jane Edna Mohler. Don’t miss this mix of literary delights!

Fiction and Non-Fiction Writers!

There are still a few slots available to read in our Fall Fiction and Non-Fiction Reading at the Lower Southampton (Feasterville) Library on November 12, 2025. If interested, please write programs@bucksarts.org.

Elena Maksina, Pine Valley Bridge, oil, View Website

All Writers!

Do you have a new book or newly published work? Have you never read your work at a First Thursdays Salon? We are planning the 2026 First Thursdays schedule and we want to hear from you. If you are interested in participating, write us at programs@bucksarts.org.

Mandy Martin, Earth Our Source, acrylic, View Website

CURRENT ART SHOW EXHIBITIONS AT THE NEWTOWN, EPSTEIN AND UPPER BUCKS BCCC CAMPUSES

Jean Stevens, Colors of Sunflowers, oil

Newtown 



Curated by Hicks Art Center Gallery Exhibitions Associate, Clifford Eberly, The Emeriti Faculty Arts Exhibition on the Newtown Campus highlights the teaching coterie of artists, historians and musicians who have profoundly impacted modern and contemporary culture locally and around the world.

The exhibition demonstrates how the Bucks community of artists, educators, and scholars have dedicated their careers to exploring diverse artistic practices and pushing creative boundaries not only in the classroom but in their own studio practices as well.

A curator’s tour of the exhibition will take place on Sunday, October 19^th at 1 pm in Hicks Art Center. Free and open to the public with a maximum of 25 participants. To register, email gallery@bucks.edu.

Also, on the Newtown Campus in the lobby of the Zlock Performing Arts Center, The Colors of Fall is an exhibition of over 50 artworks by regional artists in a variety of media who responded to an open call. On view through October 15.

Epstein 



The Ebb and Flow exhibit featuring art that depicts the natural rhythm of life as experienced through highs and lows, up and downs, fluctuations, and fluidity, is currently on view through December 11 at The Gallery at Lower Bucks Campus, located at the Epstein Campus in Bristol Township.

Upper Bucks 

Art lovers are also invited to the Show of Shows opening reception at the Upper Bucks Campus’ Fickes Gallery on Friday, September 26, from 6 to 8 p.m. Artworks will be judged and awarded prizes by Hicks Art Center Gallery Exhibitions Associate, Clifford Eberly.

The exhibition will be on view from September 22 to October 31. The Fickes Gallery is located in the lower level of the North Building on the campus in Perkasie.

Admission is free and open to the public at all BCCC locations. All artworks are for sale at The Colors of Fall, Ebb and Flow and Show of Shows, with 25% of each sale benefiting scholarships for Bucks students.  Some of the artworks in the Faculty Emeriti Arts Exhibition are not for sale since they are part of the college’s art collection or on loan from the artist or artist’s estate. Please contact gallery@bucks.edu or phone 215-968-8432 with any questions.

SOMETHING IN THE ARTS FOR EVERYONE!

Art, Music, Literature, and Discussion

Jean Burdick, Fish Lake, acrylic on panel, View Website

Skytop Lodge Plein Air Workshops June 22, August 24, Sept 28, October 19, 2025 Learn New Techniques, skills and different ways to make a masterpiece $125/person Purchase tickets at skytop.com

Skytop Lodge Plein Air Days June 22, 23, & 24; July 13,14,15; August 24, 25, &26; Sept 28, 29 & 30; October 19, 20 & 21 I All participants are encouraged to submit their paintings to a month long plein air exhibit November 2025 at the Lakeview Gallery. For more info and to register, contact pleinair@skytop.com 

The Colors of Fall Exhibition at Hicks Art Center Gallery at BCCC I Lobby of the Zlock Performing Arts Center I Exhibition dates: August 18- November 15, 2025 I A&C Members invited to exhibit: Drop off August 13, 12-6pm. Pick up November 18, 12-6pm Zlock lobby.

Bucks Arts Emeriti Exhibition Opening reception August 28, 4pm- 7pm I Exhibition dates: August 27- October 25, 2025 I Hicks Art Center I 275 Swamp Road, Newtown, PA

Indie Bookshops of New Jersey Bill Hemmig and Margaret Montet are gathering photos and stories for Read Furiously’s 2026 Calendar: Indie Bookshops of New Jersey. Follow their travels and learn about the bookshops they’re visiting on their blog on the publisher’s website

A Celebration of the River Stover Mill Art Gallery I 852 River Road, Erwinna, PA

Saturdays and Sundays September 6- September 28, 1pm-5pm I Receptions: Saturday and Sunday September 6 and 7, 1pm-5pm I Pastels and Oils by Helena van Emmerik-Finn and Sculpture by Jeanine Pennell

Show of Shows Art Exhibition Upper Bucks Campus I Bucks County Community College I Fickes Gallery. 1 Hillendale Rd, Perkasie, PA I September 22- October 31, 2025 Opening Reception Friday September 26, 6-8 pm.

Experimental Abstract Painting by Armor Keller Luminary Coffee I 243 N. Union Street, Lambertville, NJ October 2- November 30, 2025

Art Show: Explore the Art of Local Women Wheat and Vine Provisions I 266 S. Main Street, Doylestown, PA October 3, 6-9pm.

Poetry Reading by Hayden Saunier and V.A Smith Main Point Books I 116 North Wayne Avenue, Wayne, PA I October 8, 2025, 6:30- 7:30pm

Opportunities for Artists at Exhibit B Gallery I Exhibit B Gallery I 105 N. Main Street, Unit B, Souderton, PA I November 21 at 8am- January 31 at 5pm. See Winter Group Show Information to apply.