Tag Archive "university-of-the-arts"

Uarts students mix it up at PhilaMOCA

Once in a while we teach. So that’s how we got involved in [re]Mix, a blink-of-the-eye show of work by UArts seniors at a new space in town–PhilaMOCA or Philadelphia Mausoleum of Contemporary Art.

Next week on artblog radio – a discourse on public art

Episode 4 next Monday features Curators Bob Cozzolino of Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Sid Sachs of Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery in a heady discussion about public art.  In the short sample below, hear Sid opine that money should not be spent just to spend money because it spawns a lot of bad art.  Hear Bob asking Sid to name some bad public art in Philadelphia…  Listen to the entire episode on Sept. 13. Curators Bob Cozzolino and Sid Sachs talk about public art — 28 second sample

NCECA 2010 National Student Juried show at UArts

The University of the Art’s Rosenwald Wolf Gallery is hosting the NCECA 2010 National Student Juried Exhibition of  handpicked ceramic works from 40 artists enrolled in various graduate and undergraduate programs across the United States. Among the array of masterful ceramic work, a majority of the figurative pieces within this exhibition dominate the show, impressing passersby with their whimsical nature, quizzical poses, and curious contextual allusions.

Seductive Subversion: Women of Pop at UArts

Some great Pop artists who have fallen off the art historical map are now on view in the exhibit Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists 1958-1968, at the University of the Arts.

Events in Philadelphia and Elsewhere

An incomplete, biased and otherwise personal list of some of the events I hope to get to in the next two weeks: Tuesday, Feb.  2, 6 pm YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES, a Seoul based web-art group, will be speaking at Temple where their work is part of Philagrafika. 126 AUDITORIUM, Temple University Architecture building,  1947 North 12th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19122 Free and open to the public Who wouldn’t want to hear from artists who did a web piece called CUNNILINGUS IN N0RTH K0REA?  You can see it, and more of their work at their site.

Weekly Update – Beautiful with fur or feathers

This week’s Weekly has my review of Beautiful Creatures at the Academy of Natural Sciences. Bennie, a Moluccan cockatoo, looks like he’s about to deliver the punchline of a salty joke. A red fox evokes Joan Rivers on the red carpet, her mouth open and big, dark eyes looking straight at you, an aging raconteur. And a barn owl is a diva on the runway, wings up and strutting. These gorgeous animals, captured in dramatic black-and-white photos by University of the Arts students, exude star power at the Academy of Natural Sciences’ new Art of Science gallery.

Studio visit with Tiago Carneiro da Cunha

Brazilian artist Tiago Carneiro da Cunha is working in a small studio at University of the Arts, near the end of a fall-semester artist’s residency. He is creating a new version of Mudman, one of his stock characters the appear and reappear in his work. This version, a clay figure, is about 2 feet tall, about double a previous version, and too large to fit in the typical Brazilian kiln.

‘Tell All’: Marie Ulmer at U Arts and an exhibition of broadsides by 15 small presses at Kelly Writers House

92-year old Fishtown resident, Marie Ulmer, studied at Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Design, the predecessor of University of the Arts, and was a long-time illustrator at the Free Library. Tell All, which can be seen through Oct. 14 at U Arts’ 817 Gallery (on the 8th floor of the Anderson Building, 222 S. Broad St.) is her first solo exhibition, and long overdue.