The first show at the Blue Heron (before it was officially named). This show coincided with the North Branch Arts Festival and featured William Deats of Ithaca, NY with his recent oil painting of Italy. Bill’s work was shown in the Greek Revival section of the Building. Marvin Baker of Hollenback, PA showed his collages, watercolors and pastels in the room that is now the gallery and GWCC office.
October 2003: American Paintings and Acrylics by Louis Pontone
Opening Reception Friday October 10, 2003. Louis Pontone, of Cranston, RI, a former resident of the Wyalusing area and Scranton presents a group of acrylic landscape paintings in the first show in the gallery under its new name. Louis was a faculty member at Keystone College in La Plume, PA and one of the founders of the AFA Gallery in Scranton, PA. This exhibit of Pontone’s work was the inaugural show under the gallery’s new name and the first to be presented after the WCC’s phase one renovations of the former McCarty Garage.
November 2003: Group Show
Opening Reception Friday Dec 6, 2003. The first group show of artists affiliated with the gallery includes Barbara Sowinski, Fred Strugatz, Ed Strosser, Trudy Gerlach, George Schelling, Brian Keeler, Mary Lou Chibirka and Marvin Baker.
March 2004: Julian A. Campbell (1899-1973) Photographs
Opening reception March 12, 2004. Campbell photographed small communities along the Susquehanna in Southern New York and Northern Pennsylvania during the beginning of the 20th century. His son donated a large quantity of glass negatives to the Bradford County Historical Society. His photos are on loan from the Bradford County Historical Society, in Towanda PA and offer a rare look at our area’s past..
July 2004: William Keeler, Paintings and Book signing
of the new book, "The Art Work of William Keeler, Pennsylvania Regionalist Painter" by Brian Keeler. This exhibit is a partial show of the retrospective recently completed at the Everhart Museum in Scranton, PA. These watercolor and tempera paintings of William Keeler, 1923 - 1980, depict the landscapes of northeastern Pennsylvania and were graciously loaned by patrons and family of the artist.
September 2004: Judith Youshock and Paul Bracey
Judy Youshock of Elmhurst, PA exhibited her collages and Paul Bracy of Scranton, his photos in this show which coincided with the North Branch Arts Festival.
November 2004: Holiday Show
Opening reception November 19, 2004. Artists represented in this exhibit included Trudy Gerlach, Barbara Sowinski, Fred Strugatz, Brian Keeler, Ed Strosser, Mary Lou Chibirka, Marvin Baker and George Schelling.
October 2005: Four Artists of the Northeast
The Blue Heron gallery presented a special show of three painters and one clay artist during the North Branch Festival weekend and throughout the fall season. Gerogianna Cray Bart’s pastel still lifes, Bill Teitsworth’s acrylic, charcoal and pastel figurative work and landscapes, his wife Renee Emanual’s watercolor still lifes and landscapes and Laura Orvieto’s clay pots and figures, all presented in the front gallery.
November 2005: Holiday Show
This show featured the work of Jordan Taylor, Jeff Overman, Sarah Sidorek, June Smith-Williams, Jason Strickland, Eileen Balboa, and Karen Black.