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Reception, Exhibition, Celebration : Spring Awakening

Recep­tion, Exhi­bi­tion, Cel­e­bra­tion : Spring Awakening

  Spring Awak­en­ing is a group exhi­bi­tion of paint­ings and works on paper by Lor­raine Gessner, Linda Dubin Garfield, Mary Kane and Stella Unta­lan. Please join us for the recep­tion hon­or­ing Ed Bron­stein, who started art exhi­bi­tions at the Philadel­phia Board of Ethics. Stella Unta­lan will be show­ing six draw­ings in her new Sound­ings Series. Sound­ing refers...
Anne Saint Peter photographs at the Cosmopolitan Club

Anne Saint Peter pho­tographs at the Cos­mopoli­tan Club

Went over to The Cos­mopoli­tan Club today to see pho­tos by Anne Saint Peter. A won­der­ful exhi­bi­tion of Philadel­phia. Take a moment to stop in and see the show at a Philadel­phia Landmark. Anne Saint Peter uses her cam­era to cap­ture how the mem­ory sees rather than what the cam­era sees. Look­ing at a vista, one sees...
Discovering the work of Catherine O'Connell.

Dis­cov­er­ing the work of Cather­ine O’Connell.

Cather­ine O’Connell | What Alice Wanted | Cut rice paper, acrylic & col­ored pen­cil on rag paper | 12.5″ x 15″ | 2012   We liked her paint­ings when L G Tripp showed them last year. In this works on paper show Cather­ine O’Connell has only a few small and intrigu­ing works. Go and see them.  ...

Cre­ate Change Pub­lic Artist Res­i­dency, The Laun­dro­mat Project

The Laun­dro­mat Project (The LP), in col­lab­o­ra­tion with Lee­way Foun­da­tion and in part­ner­ship with The Cen­ter for Emerg­ing Visual Artists, Asian Arts Ini­tia­tive, and Philly­CAM, has announced a call for pro­pos­als from Philadel­phia based artists of color inter­ested in mount­ing a pub­lic art project in their neigh­bor­hood laun­dro­mat, bar­ber­shop, or sim­i­lar pub­lic space. Suc­cess­ful appli­cants will...

Call for entries : Meta-Fiber

Meta-Fiber Art In City Hall & FiberPhiladelphia2012 Philadel­phia, PA March 12 — May 11, 2012 Dead­line: Feb­ru­ary 20, 2012 by 4:00 p.m.  Meta-Fiber, part of FiberPhiladelphia2012 is open to artists work­ing in non-traditional ways and with non-traditional mate­ri­als that uti­lize fiber and tex­tile art mak­ing tech­niques such as weav­ing, sewing, applique‘, quilting…Non tra­di­tional mate­ri­als may include: recy­clables,...

Hum­ble: Pho­tog­ra­phy Small Works Exhi­bi­tion Open Call

Dead­line for sub­mis­sions: Feb­ru­ary 28, 2012, 11:59 PM This June, Hum­ble Arts Foun­da­tion, in con­junc­tion with Magenta Foun­da­tion, will present Small Works, an exhi­bi­tion of 50, 8 x 10 inch pho­to­graphic prints curated by Jon Fein­stein and Amani Olu. Fein­stein and Olu will select works from an inter­na­tional open call to exhibit at the Flash For­ward Fes­ti­val...
Drawing Sol Lewitt at MoCA

Draw­ing Sol Lewitt at MoCA

This exhi­bi­tion is massive.  

East­ern State Pen­i­ten­tiary, Call for Proposals

Pro­posal Dead­line (for all fund­ing and approvals) Wednes­day, June 13, 2012, 4:00 pm At East­ern State Pen­i­ten­tiary Art Pro­pos­als — 2013 Season East­ern State Pen­i­ten­tiary His­toric Site 2027 Fair­mount Avenue Philadel­phia, PA 19130 About East­ern State Pen­i­ten­tiary East­ern State Pen­i­ten­tiary was once the most famous and expen­sive prison in the world, but stands today in ruin, a...

Call for Entries: Take a Seat!

Adiron­dack Chairs reinterpreted. The Mor­ris Arbore­tum and Wood­mere Art Museum, located in Chest­nut Hill, Philadel­phia, are col­lab­o­rat­ing to orga­nize an out­door exhi­bi­tion dur­ing the sum­mer of 2012.   Call for Artists Artists of the Philadel­phia region are invited to apply and com­mit to rein­ter­pret­ing an indi­vid­ual or pair of full size chairs. Child-size chairs can be...
Last days to see 30 Americans at the Corcoran

Last days to see 30 Amer­i­cans at the Corcoran

It’s the last days to get a chance to see this sur­vey of African Amer­i­can Artists. from the web­site: 30 Amer­i­cans is a wide-ranging sur­vey of work by many of the most impor­tant African Amer­i­can artists of the last three decades. Selected from the Rubell Fam­ily Col­lec­tion, the exhi­bi­tion brings together sem­i­nal fig­ures such as...

Artist con­ver­sa­tion: Rebecca Gilbert

We wanted to share this video of Rebecca Gilbert who has one of our sites. A nice con­ver­sa­tion about her work. from her website: Rebecca Gilbert is an expe­ri­enced print­maker who works pri­mar­ily in the medi­ums of wood­cut and intaglio. She earned her MFA in Printmaking/Book Arts from The Uni­ver­sity of the Arts, where she was...
Call for Submissions: Center for Emerging Visual Artists, Philadelphia

Call for Sub­mis­sions: Cen­ter for Emerg­ing Visual Artists, Philadelphia

Guest Cura­tor Jenny Moore, New Museum The Cen­ter for Emerg­ing Visual Artists invites you to sub­mit images of your art­work for review by our guest cura­tor, Jenny Moore, Assis­tant Cura­tor at the New Museum. Of the appli­cants, 10 to 25 artists will be asked to present a dig­i­tal port­fo­lio of approx­i­mately 10 images. Two to...