Artblog debuts a new comics digital flip book to help the reader interface with a long, multi-panel comic! Also (re)FOCUS continues its great programming, with a memorable and inclusive show at Art in City Hall, and a roundtable discussion at the Dina Wind Foundation.
Read MoreHi, this week we start with sad news as we learn of the death of artist H.D. Ivey leaving behind a vast collection of surrealistic sculptures, drawings, and paintings relating the fears of the nuclear age. A friend of the Artblog Betty Leacraft joins Akilah t’Zuberi and Asake Denise Jones in Joyful New Beginnings at Ultra Silk Gallery. Voice your opinions on the design of Harriet Tubman’s statue for City Hall June 22nd and join the 17th Annual Juneteenth Parade in Germantown. Lots to do this week and next, we hope you’ll get out and engage with some of the exciting things happening around.
Read MoreHi, this week we are excited to share a video Brandywine Workshop and Archives ArtistsNCoversation with a friend of ArtBlog, Betty Leacraft. Good news comes to local Philadelphian artists and workshops in the form of Black Spatial Relic’s microgrants. A show I’m excited to see is The Mashrabiya Project at the Museum for Art in Wood. Voice your concerns on March 30 at the Mayoral forum for arts and culture. The Kelly Writers House hosts a reading by Jesús I. Valles and Ricardo Bracho. Plus more…
Read MoreAndrea Kirsh hears a talk by Dindga McCannon at the Penn Museum as part of the BlackStar Film Festival’s programs with artists.
Read MoreToday’s news is filled with local interest: Artist Mikel Elam was asked to reimagine the Liberty Bell and what it symbolizes. He fashioned a sculptural mask called “A muzzle to silence you,” from materials that suggest the history of enslaved Africans.
Read MoreThis opportunity-filled short list that we curated for you buoys us. When the temperature drops and daylight hours are few, these opportunities point forward with generosity and light.
Read MoreFour Philadelphia artists appear in a new book ‘We Are the Story: A Visual Response to Racism’ by Carolyn L. Mazloomi. The book documents the 100 quilts included in group and solo exhibitions curated by the author, currently on view in Minneapolis, MN.
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