Concert presenter-classical, jazz, popular music & Wurlitzer organ & art gallery in Foxburg, the tourist destination in beautiful Allegheny-Clarion River valley Allegheny RiverStone Center for the Arts is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit arts organization founded in 2005 and located in Foxburg, Pennsylvania. ARCA's mission is to provide stimulating and enriching professional arts and education programs, touching the lives of thousands of people living in the six county, Allegheny Valley Region – Clarion, Venango, Armstrong, Butler, Mercer and Crawford counties – and thereby contributing to the economic growth and vitality of the region.ARCA provides an annual series of concerts and events in various idioms, including classical music recitals, chamber music, jazz, popular and Celtic music; Wurlitzer Theatre Organ concerts; cabaret; dance; drama; literature; film and visual arts. Fine arts exhibits are presented in The Red Brick Gallery and Gift Shop on Main Street in downtown Foxburg. Concerts are presented in Foxburg at Lincoln Hall – ARCA's home; The Episcopal Memorial Church of Our Father; the Allegheny-Clarion Valley High School Auditorium; on the Foxburg Green and on the grounds of RIverStone Farm. Concerts are also presented in nearby Emlenton, PA at the Crawford Center and Emlenton United Methodist Church.ARCA's first performance season was inaugurated in 2006 in its home, the recently restored Lincoln Hall performance space located atop the Foxburg Free Library. Built in 1909, Lincoln Hall has retained its nineteenth and early twentieth century charm with many authentic design features, as well as an original hand painted stage curtain that now serves as the stage backdrop. Lincoln Hall houses the McKissick Mighty Wurlitzer Theatre Organ, and a seven foot Steinway grand piano graces its stage.Internationally renowned performers have included the Alexander String Quartet, organist David Wickerham, Chatham Baroque, Pittsburgh Symphony Chamber Players, Mezzo Soprano Emily Righter and Pianists David Allen Wehr and Gayle Martin Henry. Other musical attractions include jazz trombonist Hal Betters, C Street Brass, cabaret artist Dane Vannatter, and Tom Roberts and the Allegheny City Ragtime Orchestra.Since 2009, ARCA has presented a sequential arts education program in the Allegheny Clarion Valley Schools, funded by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.The Red Brick Gallery and Gift Shop, founded in 2011, is Allegheny RiverStone Center for the Arts' boutique fine art gallery and gift shop located in historic Foxburg. The Red Brick Gallery exhibits in a charming and historic, 136 year old building at 17 Main Street in downtown Foxburg. The building, once the business office of the Fox Family from Philadelphia, was restored recently and has reopened as both a Gift Shop and Gallery and with an inspired use – as an Artist Cooperative. With the help of local artist volunteers, The Red Brick displays and has for sale on consignment on the first floor, works of local painters, photographers, and artisans. Their work also is featured in a special holiday exhibit annually. The Red Brick Gallery strives to nurture artistic creativity by providing a venue for viewing works by local artisans and other emerging art talent from the surrounding region and to provide a sales outlet for their works.Art works are displayed in the shop space on the first floor and the second floor is used as a gallery space for various exhibitions. In 2013 and 2014, the Red Brick Gallery presented a broad range of exhibits featuring Jason Floyd Lewis, Daniel Stainer, Dennis Keyes, Sigrid Piroche. Fritz Keck, Doug Elder, Debra Pruskowski and sculptor Bill Smith; Rhoda Taylor and Barbara Frohne; and Donna Edmonds and Angela Hardwick. 2015 Exhibits featured artists Carolyn Schiffhouer, Seth McClaine, Carol Modery-Kilkeary, Stacie Johnson-Leske, Sally Heston and Chris DeNapoli Michael and a holiday exhibit featuring Cooperative artists Donna Edmonds, Blanche Hall, Angela Taylor Hardwick, Nick J. Karellas, Dennis Keyes, Jason Floyd Lewis, Paul O'Neil, Ray Rossi, Glenn and Linda Thompson, and Cathy and Jack Trzeciak. Cooperative Membership is open and interested artists may apply.