Libby and Roberta, co-founders of Artblog, write a fond farewell to the readers, listeners and supporters of their 21 year old project, Artblog. In the short summary of their story, they relate their art collaborations, which began in the early 1990s. Those collaborations segued into creating Artblog in the early aughts.
Read MoreRoberta talks with artist and longtime curator at both Moore College of Art and Design and Arcadia University, Richard Torchia. They cover Torchia’s early post-college experience working for architects and an early artist collective in Newark, NJ, and his recurring fascination with and use of photocopier machines to make art and books.
Read MoreArtblog contributors, Lane Timothy Speidel and Logan Cryer get into a lively conversation via email about the practice of art writing, its importance, and their thoughts about Artblog closing.
Read MoreBrigid O’Brien interviews Phoebe Bachman about her creation, The People’s Budget Office, a community art project established to help raise awareness of the Philadelphia budget and how the departments that serve the city (and its citizens) are funded. The PBO Operates for part of the year from a shipping container in Love Park that is open to the public and distributes pamphlets and collects information from people about their city budget priorities.
Read MoreRuth Wolf expresses consternation and concern about what’s going on in the world today. She is worried “about the safety and the direction of our country.” She asks what role can and does art play and answers that art is an act of resistance. Her exhortation at the end is a call to make art, “Inhale courage, exhale art.” We agree.
Read MoreJanyce Denise Glasper bids a fond farewell to Artblog. The artist and writer has been part of the Artblog team for eight years, and in that time has written 22 reviews and features that have expanded enormously our coverage of Black women artists and creatives.
Read MoreSharon Garbe sees the towering works by British artist Thomas J Price in an exhibit titled “Resilience of Scale,” and comments that they are not only about scale.
Read MoreRoberta talks with hip-hop artist, poet and columnist for ‘The Local,’ Andre Saunders, and finds a dedicated creative serious about his art and grounded in spiritual practice and dedication to share. Saunders is the poet in residence at “Writers Matter.”
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