Lansdowne Arts

🍞🧂 Why Bread & Salt?

Across cultures, bread and salt have long symbolized hospitality, survival, welcome, and community.

Bread & Salt invites artists to explore the stories, traditions, and relationships that food helps us carry forward.

✨ Who taught you to cook?
✨ What traditions have been passed down through generations?
✨ What memories are tied to the meals you share?
✨ How does food connect us to family, culture, place, and community?

Through artwork, stories, recipes, and personal narratives, this exhibition aims to build a community archive that reflects the many ways food shapes our identities and experiences.

We are seeking artists working in all mediums whose work engages with themes of food, memory, heritage, hospitality, migration, ritual, family, and belonging.

📣 Applications are now open.

Share your perspective and help us tell the stories that gather around the table.

🔗 Apply now: https://bit.ly/breadandsaltapp

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🥖 What’s your story of Bread & Salt? Share it with us!

We’re inviting our Lansdowne community to submit art, writing, recipes, family archives, and more for our Bread & Salt exhibition. Whether it’s a painting, a photo, a cherished recipe, or a memory around the table—if food is the starting point, your story belongs here. Submissions can be personal, playful, or profound. Let’s celebrate the flavors and traditions that make us who we are!

🗓️ Deadline: July 5th
📍 20*20 House Gallery & Studios | 20 Lansdowne Court, Lansdowne, PA 19050
🔗 https://bit.ly/breadandsaltapp

🍞 What food brings you home?
We all have those special dishes—family recipes, holiday treats, or meals passed down through generations—that hold a story. Bread & Salt invites our Lansdowne community to share the memories and traditions behind the foods that mean the most to you. Let’s celebrate the flavors that connect us!
🗓️ Exhibition Dates: August 1 – October 4, 2026
📍Location: 20*20 House Gallery, 20 Lansdowne Court, Lansdowne, PA 19050
🔗 share your story: https://bit.ly/breadandsaltapp

We are excited to announce Bread & Salt, a community-wide project exploring food as memory, identity, culture, and connection. This isn't just an exhibition. It's a collection of recipes passed down through generations. It's stories shared around kitchen tables.

It's the meals that remind us of home.

It's the people who taught us to cook, gather, celebrate, and care for one another.

Through an art exhibition, community cookbook, and communal potluck, we're creating a living archive of the foods, traditions, and memories that shape our community.

🎨 Artists, writers, photographers, cooks, restaurants, and community members are invited to participate.

What does food mean to you?

📅 Exhibition submissions open now: https://bit.ly/breadandsaltapp

📅 Deadline: July 5

Experience an unforgettable night of history, theatre, and community at FINALLY FREEDOM: A Commemoration of Juneteenth. Gather your friends and neighbors for a performance that brings our local spirit to life. Seats are limited—don’t miss out!

🗓️ Saturday, June 15 | 6 PM
📍 20*20 House Gallery & Studios | 20 Lansdowne Court, Lansdowne, PA 19050
🔗 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1990594349284?aff=oddtdtcreator
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🎨✨ A Weekend of Art in Lansdowne ✨🎨

This weekend, we invite you to spend some time with art—whether that means celebrating the work of emerging young artists or exploring an exhibition that asks us to think about how stories are told through images.

Join us Friday from 5 PM – 7 PM for the opening reception of the Lansdowne Middle School Art Show at the Kiosk Gallery inside Utility Works.

Featuring work by students from local schools, this exhibition highlights the creativity, imagination, and unique perspectives of young artists in our community. From careful observations to bold experiments, these works offer a glimpse into how the next generation sees and interprets the world around them. Refreshments will be served, and all are welcome to come celebrate their accomplishments.

Can't make the reception? The exhibition will remain on view throughout the month:
📍 Utility Works Kiosk Gallery
🕛 Wednesday–Saturday, 12 PM – 6 PM

🎬 Then continue your art-filled weekend at 20*20 Gallery, open Saturday and Sunday from 12 PM – 4 PM, for A Cinematic Point of View.

This regional exhibition explores how visual artists use the tools of cinematography—lighting, perspective, framing, mood, and scale—to create narratives beyond the screen. Through photography and other visual media, the exhibition considers how a single image can suggest an entire story, inviting viewers to linger, observe, and imagine what exists beyond the frame.

Whether you're drawn to the fresh perspectives of young artists or the thoughtful storytelling of established regional creators, there's plenty to discover this weekend in Lansdowne.

Come look closely. Stay curious. Let the artwork do the talking. ✨🖼️

🎬🖼️ Looking for something inspiring to do Sunday?

Stop by A Cinematic Point of View at the 20*20 House Gallery to see works exploring storytelling through lighting, perspective, composition, and mood.

This Sunday, 31, included artist Jeff DiStefano () will be gallery sitting and available to chat about his included works.

🖼️ A Cinematic Point of View
💁‍♀️ Presented by LEDC's Arts Committee and the Media Arts Council
📍 20*20 House Gallery, 20 Lansdowne Court, Lansdowne
🕛 Saturday & Sunday | 12–4 PM

💛 It takes a village to make Arts on the Avenue happen.

As we look back on an incredible festival, we want to extend a heartfelt thank you to some of the organizations whose support helped bring thousands of people together to celebrate art, music, small businesses, and community in Lansdowne.

A big shout-out and thank you to:
✨ Xfinity ()
✨ Blissful Baths ()
✨ BRE ()
✨ Pella Windows ()
✨ Renewal by Andersen (renewalbyandersenofnepa)
✨ Woodward Properties
✨ WSFS Bank ()

Events like this can only happen because local businesses and community partners invest in the places where they live and work. Their support helps create opportunities for artists, brings visitors to our downtown, supports local businesses, and strengthens the sense of community that makes Lansdowne so special.

Thank you for believing in this work and helping make Arts on the Avenue possible!

🎨 Meet an Artist This Sunday at the 20*20 House
Looking for a reason to stop by A Cinematic Point of View this weekend?
On Sunday, one of our lovely LEDC Arts Committee members Sydney Jones () will be gallery-sitting!
While in the gallery, Sydney will be working on her upcoming Fall/Winter 2026 Philadelphia Fashion Week collection; stop by and get a peak behind the creative curtain!
🖼 A Cinematic Point of View
📍 20*20 House, 20 Lansdowne Court, Lansdowne
🕛 Sunday | 12–4 PM
While you are here, be sure to also ask Sydney about a new project she is working on to help connect artists from Lansdowne's creative community with broader audiences.

🎬🎨 Opening This Saturday: A Cinematic Point of View

What makes an image feel cinematic? The lighting? Perspective? The sense that a story is unfolding just beyond the frame?

Join us this Saturday for the opening reception of A Cinematic Point of View, a new group exhibition presented by the Lansdowne Arts Committee in collaboration with the Media Arts Council (). The exhibition explores how artists use composition, mood, perspective, and visual storytelling to create narrative through a single image.

Opening Reception:
🗓 Saturday, May 23 | 4–8 PM
📍 20*20 House, 20 Lansdowne Court, Lansdowne
🔗 RSVP https://bit.ly/CinematicPOVFB
🖼 Exhibition on view through June 28

Featuring:
Mark Aizenberg, Allison Aubry (), Kerin Cashin, Matt Cohen, Lisa Davis, Ruairi Devlin, Jeff Distefano, Barry Good, Daniel Jackson (), Ted Knighton (), Benjamin MacMaster (), Frank McCann, Tania O'Donnell (), Jasmine Pritchard (), Sarah Quinn, Robert Reinhardt (), Alison Schuettinger (), Peter Smyth, Dafna Steinberg (), Jim Timko (), Donna Troyan, Alec Ullman (.stuff), Christina Wills ()