In this sponsored post, Roberta speaks with Velocity fund awardee Joy O. Ude about her project, ‘Threading the Needle,’ whose goal is to teach fiber art techniques to those who teach others, thereby bringing the time honored techniques to new generations and making sure the valued craft arts continue in the community.
Read MoreIn this sponsored post, Roberta speaks with two-time Velocity Fund grantee, Yvonne Lung, about her current project “Let’s Talk Aabout Chinatown,” an informational and educational project whose heart is advocacy to save Chinatown from the implantation of an unwanted basketball arena right on its doorstep.
Read MoreStephen Lauf shares from his experience of creating LGBTQ+ supporting art in Russia with a long a complicated personal history with the country.
Read MoreSharon Garbe spends time with Glen Foerd Artist in Residence, Sarah Peoples, and writes about Peoples’s theatrical tableaux on the wooded and grassy grounds outside the mansion.
Read MoreSharon Garbe sees a live garden gnome in action at Glen Foerd. As portrayed by 2023 Performance Artist in Residence at the historic mansion, Alex Tatarsky’s fictitious gnome is punny, funny, morose, musical and politically awake to their plight as a working class anomaly in the garden of a mansion.
Read MoreContinuing our focus on 2022 Grantees of The Velocity Fund, we present a snapshot of UNDUE BURDEN, a collaborative project to organize, document, digitally archive and celebrate the lives and stories of Philadelphia’s Disabled artists; and Spirit on 52nd St. an experimental short film exploring the history and current state of the Black business corridor in West Philadelphia.
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