A Kiss for Mayor Nutter

By libby and roberta

January 24, 2008   ·   3 Comments

Here are five artists at the late lamented Siano Gallery, left to right Chris Ashley (visiting for Cali.), Roberta Fallon, Tim McFarlane, Vince Romaniello and Libby Rosof.

Hello artists and art lovers! Here’s a great opportunity to get on artblog and be part of the stream of love going out to our new Mayor Michael Nutter as he gets ready to appoint an art czar and create an Office of Arts and Culture (we hope).

Here’s the deal. We will create a series of photo posts on the blog called A Kiss for Mayor Nutter that will include images of artists and art lovers throughout the city. These images make the face of the “arts” constituency somehow more real than it seems when people talk about artists and the arts.

So, send us jpeg images of yourselves in the city, one per artist — at Love Park, at a gallery, at the museums, the zoo, on Broad St….somewhere in Philly–you know you have these photos and we want em! Send medium resolution images (281 height x 375 width is the artblog standard size) with your name and the location of the picture. We will run these images in a stream under the heading “A Kiss for Mayor Nutter” in a continuing series of posts starting today.

Act now and send us your images (one per person, please). Email: libbyandroberta@gmail.com .

We are acting in collaboration with Kevin Derrick, of designphiladelphia blog, who proposed an image campaign to show the how Philadelphia artists love the city and love being artists here. Check out what Kevin is doing on his blog.

So see yourself on artblog and show the Mayor the faces of Philadelphia’s visual art world!!

Tags: a kiss for mayor nutter, chris ashley, libby and roberta, tim mcfarlane, vince romaniello

3 Responses to “A Kiss for Mayor Nutter”

1. Anonymous says:

   January 24, 2008 at 1:09 pm

   Hi,

   Thanks so much for keeping this issue in the public eye. One of your previous posts mentioned that the original email address for letters to Mayor Nutter was incorrect. Have you been able to track down a good email to send letters to? Lots of us would love to send advocacy letters, but need to know where.

   Thanks!
2. libby says:

   January 24, 2008 at 1:52 pm

   at this point I don’t have a suggestion for where to send an email. If others wish to weigh in, please do. But I do know city hall is aware there are a number of unhappy artists out there, thanks to all of you who passed on our post.
3. someone no-where near philly says:

   January 24, 2008 at 5:54 pm

   Good luck to you!