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Today. Book Paper Scis­sors, Philadel­phia Cen­ter for the Book

Book Paper Scis­sors Sat­ur­day Novem­ber 19, 2011 10:00 am to 4:00 pm Park­way Cen­tral Library 1901 Vine Street This fes­tive book fair fea­tures prints, artists’ books, hand­made paper, zines, origami, blank books, paper sculp­ture, and jew­elry, all made by local artists. If it’s paper-based art, it’s here! Free book-making work­shops for all ages will also be offered...
Print Center Gallery Store Talk: Kay Healy

Print Cen­ter Gallery Store Talk: Kay Healy

  THIS SATURDAY Novem­ber 12, 2:00pm, FREE Kay Healy’s large scale screen­prints of domes­tic objects can be found through­out the streets of Philadel­phia. One of the exhibit­ing artists in To Scale, Healy will dis­cuss her artis­tic influ­ences and process of large scale screen­print­ing as well as pro­vide a sneak peek of her ambi­tious instal­la­tion, which...
Special Philadelphia Open Studio Tour Performances by Jessica Hoffman at 110 CHURCH gallery

Spe­cial Philadel­phia Open Stu­dio Tour Per­for­mances by Jes­sica Hoff­man at 110 CHURCH gallery

Con­sider the connection/disconnection between mem­ory and dis­carded arti­facts of com­mu­ni­ca­tion. If old let­ters, pho­tographs, or videos are con­nected to past events in our lives — what hap­pens when they are dis­carded or lost? Hoff­man uses obses­sive or med­i­ta­tive actions to explore how we clas­sify, orga­nize, and recall the con­texts and mem­o­ries attached to these orphaned...

Artist Talk: Emily Mar­tin at the Cen­ter for Book Arts

14 Octo­ber · 18:30 - 21:30 In her Fea­tured Artist Project exhi­bi­tion, Theme and Vari­a­tion, Mar­tin presents 4 sets of prints and artist’s books fea­tur­ing let­ter­press printed codex and mov­able books as well as prints: Is That What You’re Wear­ing, Assorted Night­mares, There Were Clues but There Were No Answers, and Crime and Romance. These bod­ies of work,...
The Wassaic Project Summer Festival

The Was­saic Project Sum­mer Festival

  The Was­saic Project Sum­mer Fes­ti­val is a FREE, annual, multi-disciplinary cel­e­bra­tion of art, music, and com­mu­nity in the ham­let of Was­saic, NY. 2011 will fea­ture over 100 artists, 23 bands, poetry read­ings, dance per­for­mances, film screen­ings, and much more. August 5–7, 2011. Art Recep­tion in Maxon Mills Sat­ur­day 5pm-7pm. We are located at: The Maxon...

Fiber­Philadel­phia 2012

March-April 2012 Fiber­Philadel­phia is a bien­nial for fiber/textile art that takes place in and around Philadel­phia, Penn­syl­va­nia, USA. The next Fiber­Philadel­phia will take place in Spring 2012 at major insti­tu­tions and inde­pen­dent venues. It will include exhi­bi­tions by renowned inter­na­tional artists and a new gen­er­a­tion of artists break­ing into the field. Inter­ested in participating? web­site: www.fiberphiladelphia.org...

Pric­ing Your Art­work, CFEVA Direct Dia­logue Lec­ture Series

Thurs­day, May 19, 2011 Speaker: Max­ine Manges, Artist and Art Con­sul­tant, MKM Fine Art Loca­tion: The Cen­ter for Emerg­ing Visual Artists, 237 South 18th Street, Suite 3a Philadel­phia, Pa 19103 All pro­grams begin at 5:30 pm. Each ses­sion is $12.00. Reg­is­tra­tion is required. Indi­vid­u­als who have not pre-registered are not guar­an­teed a seat. To reserve a space...

Work­shop: Pho­tograph­ing your artwork.

Yo Philly artists! The Philadel­phia Photo Arts Cen­ter is hav­ing a work­shop to help you doc­u­ment your work. If you can’t hire some­one to take pho­tos of your work learn how to take the best images you can. Descrip­tion This three-hour work­shop will teach stu­dents the basics of pho­tograph­ing your art­work for doc­u­men­ta­tion pur­poses. This can...
The Unseen World permanent installation by Kate Kaman

The Unseen World per­ma­nent instal­la­tion by Kate Kaman

We met Kate Kaman a few years back. She was mak­ing large scale sculp­ture and had a cou­ple very large pieces that were tem­po­rary instal­la­tions. This week we were lucky enough to be invited to the Ded­i­ca­tion of Kate Kaman’s per­ma­nent instal­la­tion at Tem­ple Uni­ver­sity Med­ical Edu­ca­tion and Research Build­ing the Wendy and Solomon Luo,...
Sunday, February 6, Artist Conversation with Linda Dubin Garfield

Sun­day, Feb­ru­ary 6, Artist Con­ver­sa­tion with Linda Dubin Garfield

Artist Con­ver­sa­tion Sun­day, Feb­ru­ary 6, 2011 The last of our artist con­ver­sa­tions for the Snowflake Salon fea­tures Linda Dubin Garfield on Sun­day, Feb­ru­ary 6 from 1:30 to 4 PM. She’ll be in the gallery to dis­cuss her pas­sion the ART of Print­mak­ing. She loves mono­types and will dis­cuss how she makes them. If you are inter­ested...

Snowflake Salon : Artist Con­ver­sa­tion Sarah Bloom, photographer

Sun­day, Jan­u­ary 9, 2011 Join us in our cozy salon set­ting for a warm bev­er­age and con­ver­sa­tion with pho­tog­ra­pher Sarah Bloom. Her work is gritty and exam­ines decay. You’ll find your­self shocked by the risks taken to cap­ture the images and inspired by the story they tell, and the ques­tions they raise. She has one pho­to­graph in...
Sunday December 12 at 110 CHURCH, Artist Conversation with Rosalind Bloom

Sun­day Decem­ber 12 at 110 CHURCH, Artist Con­ver­sa­tion with Ros­alind Bloom

Sun­day, Decem­ber 19, 2010 Join us for a casual con­ver­sa­tion with mixed media artist Ros­alind Bloom. Some wine, cook­ies, and snacks will be on hand. She’ll have some addi­tional work for sale. And will be happy to dis­cuss her work with visitors. Cur­rently she is also show­ing small work at Da Vinci Art Alliance, 704 Cather­ine...