Ever since Nate Garcia was a first-grader, he knew he wanted to go into art, but he never imagined himself as a cartoonist living in Philadelphia. Inspired by his teacher’s stories back in 2008 to him and his classmates, he began creating cartoons...

For Liz Carter, life has always been art.  Carter, a senior, is enrolled in the Emmaus High School AP Studio Art course and can’t help but produce a masterpiece with every project she embarks on. Since the discovery of her passion for art in...

After almost an entire year since receiving the American Visions & Voices Medal award, senior Nate Garcia’s infamous “Trojan Cow” piece is embarking on yet another journey.  The artwork is among about 50 other pieces in the Art.Write.Now.Tour....

The picture-perfect Hallmark-type Christmas is painted in the following: Hot cocoa steaming, ice skaters spinning, fires crackling, stockings hanging, brightly-colored lights shining, children giggling and to many, this is the “most wonderful time of...

Last year in May, junior Nate Garcia woke up to a loud splash in the pitch black of his room. As he stepped out of bed, his feet became submerged in a puddle of water. On the floor lied Garcia’s infamous piece featuring a large cow on wheels being...

The air is spiked with the smell of hot wings and pizza as drummer Dylan Michael sings his ABC’s in a soundcheck to the crowded room at Big Woody’s Sports Bar & Restaurant in Emmaus at 8 p.m., pizza Friday. The band, Spiders Dressed in Red,...