Ali & Ed's Wedding at The Bank Street Annex

Ali and Ed had an elegant December wedding at the lovely Bank Street Annex in Easton, Pennsylvania. The 1929 art deco architecture of this vintage venue, the former Easton National Bank building, never fails to inspire me.

After their romantic candlelight ceremony, the entire bridal party strolled up the block under the bright lights of Historic Downtown Easton.

Venue: The Bank Street Annex
Officiant: Rev. Karen Kohler
Flowers: Elysian Fields Specialty Florals
Cake: Granny Schmidt
DJ: Chuck Russo
Gown from Jon's Bridal
Faux Mink Wrap by Pamela McCoy

Vint-edge work by Ed Eckstein

Easton's Cosmic Cup on College Hill makes the best cup of coffee in the Lehigh Valley and also encourages local talent by inviting them to use wall space to display their work.  Cosmic's owner, Troy Reynard, is actively involved in the community- locally and globally-and encourages painters, photographers, musicians, poets and writers into his cafe.

Photographer Ed Eckstein has vintage work displayed at Cosmic Cup on College Hill . . . 

as well as new work in historic downtown Easton across the street from the Easton Arts Building on Ferry Street,  just a few steps from Sette Luna Restaurant.  Check out his new website at www.EdEckstein.Com

Easton at MOMA!

Lehigh Valley legendary photographer Judith Joy Ross has work from her 1988 series of portraits taken in the City of Easton on display at the Museum of Modern Art 's current exhibition Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography.  During Sal Panto's previous term as Mayor, he and sculptor Karl Stirner spearheaded grants for artists to do work in and about the City.  One of the images from that body of work, shown here on the cover of Ross's MOMA book, is included in the exhibit, along with several portraits from her work at the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C.,  her portraits of Hazleton, Pennsylvania school children, and members and staff of the United States Congress.  The exhibit will be on display until March 21, 2011.

I was excited at the prospect of seeing the Cartier-Bresson retrospective and if you can't make it into MOMA, check out the online catalogue of images by Henri Cartier-Bresson. 

The performance artist, Marina Abramovic, has a first-of-its-kind retrospective of a performance artist and is at MOMA everyday from March 14th to May 31st in her piece entitled The Artist is Present.