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News – Craft fair on Rittenhouse Square, 3rd Ward seeks restaurant, Leeway awards and more!

News First ever PA Guild of Craftsmen fair at Rittenhouse Rittenhouse Square is the location of a fine arts fair every year but it’s never (to our knowledge) held a fine crafts fair.  This Spring (May 11-13), Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen will host their fine craft fair in the park. More than 140 fine craftsmen and artisans from around the state and nation will show and sell handmade jewelry, furniture, pottery, clothing and other crafted items.

In the Garden 2 & 3

Jackie Tileston, Opera Brain Incantation, mixed on linen Gardens become figments of the imagination on the shortest days of the year. So naturally, a show about gardens that begins as the days shorten and ends before they lengthen turns my thoughts to the divide between art and the real thing–any real thing, any art. Jackie Tileston, detail, Opera Brain Incantation, mixed on linen The exhibit is Garden in Winter, a small group show featuring work by six artists–Jackie Tileston, Margery Amdur, Bill Scott, Robert Straight, Carole Sivin and Diane Pieri–at Hopkins House in New Jersey. Each artist takes a different ... More » »

Year Three of the Cooke Museum of Art

This is the third year for the Cooke Museum of Art at Jay Cooke Elementary School. Just off North Broad Street in the Logan section, the school’s Museum of Art is a project organized by Diane Pieri who also works with Cooke students as an artist in residence through the PMA’s Art Partners Program. Pieri works closely with the school’s art teacher to do the project. This year the school had a new art teacher, Young Kim, who worked with the artist and the students to get the Museum off the ground. Pieri got the idea for the museum project ... More » »

School art programs on the chopping block

Bleeding Heart Alert: This post contains material of an activist nature. Nakeem Burton and Jose Vizcarrondo, Edison High School, from the Philadelphia School District All City art exhibit up now until June 9 at the School Administration Building. Yesterday’s Inquirer had a story in the B section about the Philly School District cutting back on art in the schools. Specifically, the cuts are in the contract programs between the District and the Mural Arts Program and one other unnamed contractor (perhaps the Philadelphia Museum of Art) that bring artists in to the schools to work with students to create murals ... More » »