Tuesday kisses for Mayor Nutter

By libby and roberta

January 29, 2008   ·   9 Comments

Maggie Van Scoyk …taking pictures with Austin Lee @ Exclamation Gallery!

Hi my name is Leigh Owens and I am a Writer and Photographer. This is one of my favorite photos titled Mystikal, which I took in Philadelphia on Benjamin Franklin Parkway last summer. We need the Office of Arts and Culture in this city…Please keep your promise!!!

Michelle Posadas

Alana Bograd

Hey pals, Great project! If Nutter opens the office the ArtJail organization will provide free office space inside of one of the giant ArtJail TVs! One less roadblock on the glorious road to Arts and Culture! Albo Jeavons

Join the Kiss for Mayor Nutter campaign! Send in your 281(h) x 375(w) jpeg photo of yourself to libbyandroberta@gmail.com and help us demonstrate how many people care about the mayor’s campaign promise to create an Office of Arts and Culture.

Email this project info around to every Philadelphia artist and art lover you know. Let’s show Mayor Nutter the face of Philadelphia’s amazing arts community. No broken promises, Mayor Nutter, please!!

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9 Responses to “Tuesday kisses for Mayor Nutter”

1. Lauren says:

   January 29, 2008 at 9:34 am

   This is an honest question (not trying to be obnoxious), but doesn’t Philly already have an office of arts and culture? What’s this?
2. libby says:

   January 29, 2008 at 3:04 pm

   What that is, is a cyber-dream, bit-bite fiction. Former Mayor Street closed down the office of arts and culture. Mayor Nutter, in his campaign, promised to reopen it. But what you see on that website is not what you really get.
3. doc says:

   January 29, 2008 at 4:57 pm

   Hello,

   Not trying to begin by being off topic, but any suggestions on blogs where people speak about galleries, in terms of me being an artist looking for a gallery that looks for certain types of abstract painting?

   doc
4. libby says:

   January 29, 2008 at 5:15 pm

   I don’t know if there’s a blog that organizes gallery shows by genre, but like ours, most blogs have a search function. Try putting in the word “abstract” and see what comes up, looking for pictures that seem to fit the bill. That should lead you to galleries specializing in abstract work.

   Another idea is to search in blogs or do a google search for living artists whose work seems a good fit with your own, and then work backwards, seeing where they show.

   Hope that helps, doc.
5. roberta says:

   January 29, 2008 at 6:06 pm

   Hi lauren and doc, thanks for the comments! I agree with Libby wholeheartedly on both comments. Doc, you might try these out for information and see what you think….libby’s idea to google an artist is a great one.
   http://www.minusspace.com/
   http://gierschickwork.blogspot.com/
   http://www.douglaswitmer.com/blog/
   http://looksee.chrisashley.net/
6. doc says:

   January 29, 2008 at 7:46 pm

   Hey,

   Thanks, thats very nice of you people to offer some suggestions! I normally use blogs to communicate about economics and finance junk, but this is refreshing to get positive feedback; what a difference!
   Ill try the links and do more searches, and want to add that I have never dealt with a gallery before in terms of wanting to sell my work. I hate the idea of art as being business related, but it is a reality. Im on the West Coast and thinking in terms of San Francisco or Seattle, but even in those very broad general, regional terms, Im clueless as to how to do this, as most galleries are not serious about serious abstract stuff; but I could be wrong?
7. doc says:

   January 29, 2008 at 7:54 pm

   Roberta, et al,

   Just wanted to add, I checked out the link to http://www.minusspace.com/ and the closest thing to my work on that webpage is :

   Daniel Jenkins, Concatenate 54 (CS 1957-D No.1), 2007
Acrylic, oil, mixed media on canvas, 122 x 122cm

   So if that style rings a bell or strikes a match or spark with anyone in regard to a gallery or space, I really can use all the help in the world!!

   Thanks in advance!!!
8. libby says:

   January 29, 2008 at 9:22 pm

   Hi, Doc, what you need to do is get off the front page, now, on that site. Click on artists in the bar at the top of the page. Find your guy whose work seemed simpatico, and look at his exhibition record. There might be something there that’s in your neck of the woods. If not, take a look at the work of the other artists there, and if someone else seems interesting, check out where they show. Just keep at it.
9. doc says:

   January 29, 2008 at 11:15 pm

   Thanks Libby

   Ill jump in deeper and try that approach. I appreciate any help I can get.