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Main Line Art Center fosters 9 new art commissions!

Over the last year, Main Line Art Center has been toiling away on its excellent project C3: Create. Connect. Collect. Through a series of art salons, they brought together a group of artists and a group of collectors with the idea of fostering the commissioning of new work. As we like to say at artblog — good for artists, good for collectors, good for the economy — and good going MLAC, which took a percentage of the $63,000 gross. Nine new commissioned art works later, the Center organized an exhibition highlighting the new works created through C3, a perfect ending ... More » »

New Pew Fellows!

photo from SchmidtDean Gallery And the winners of the 12 $50,000 Pew fellowships to Philly-area artists are: Charles Anderson choreography King Britt music compositionNicole Cousineau choreographyFritz Dietel craftEd Bing Lee craftGerald Levinson music compositionAdelaide Paul craftPeter Paulsen music compositionJamey Robinson music compositionKate Watson-Wallace choreographyDorothy Wilkie choreographyJulie York craft Ed Bing Lee, Scarlet, Tangerine, Royal, Citron, Olive, 2004. knotted linen. Photo from Snyderman Gallery Five of the recipients were first-time applicants. The winners were selected from nearly 200 artists working in the areas of choreography, craft, and music composition. The 2007 fellowships mark the 16th year of the Pew Fellowships in ... More » »