The art world needs a grapevine. We provide one each week in our news roundups.
We curate the news each week to reveal the best of what’s going on in Philadelphia. We find the latest job/exhibition/funding opportunities and important tidbits about Philadelphia art and artists and keep you up to date with what’s cooking.
June’s a happening time in Philadelphia. It’s Pride Month and Black Music Month! We recommend you get out there are participate in the music, parades, events and exhibits lined up to celebrate Philly people!
Read MorePhiladelphia welcomes a new arts administrator, collaborator, curator to town; PAFA welcomes a new Hudson River painting to its collection, and 40th St. A.I.R. wants you!
Read MoreTwo great opportunities for you in today’s News. Plus, a group you should know about, The Souls Grown Deep Foundation, doing good work for artists of the African American South. Read on, friends.
Read MoreWe round up the news! There’s a new space opening in Manayunk and Amy Lipton organizes a show from the Schuylkill Center, “Learn a River’s Name” to debut the space. Also, historian Nell Painter speaks at the Free Library on her two-career life and her move from history professor at Princeton to artist.
Read MoreIt’s a day for evening events. Two we recommend are at Amalgam Comics and Coffeehouse and at Indigo Arts. Read more and get out there and enjoy.
Read MoreA Trifecta of news and information for you, including a call for help from a River Wards art center; a call for participation in a socially-responsible carnival and a story about a great eco-art project involving a melting glacier and the head of our current climate-change denying President.
Read MoreTwo super-duper things in the News: A panel discussion about Black Panther and how it relates to Black Comics and the Black Art Movement and the announcement of grants from the Sachs Program for Arts Innovation – more money for connecting people with art? We are all for it!
Read MoreThe Velocity Fund’s information sessions will answer your questions about funding via it’s new stream of funds for artist one-year projects. And on the Internet, “Ask Dave” will tackle and answer your questions about careers in the arts! Holy cow! Answers are coming.
Read MoreNew Boon(e) collective moves on, and Jerry’s on Front opens up. At Taller Puertorriqueño, there’s hot programming coming up, and ICA garners two large gifts to endow curatorial positions.
Read MoreIntroducing a new Artblog feature – an Advice Column! “Ask Dave” debuts at the end of April with answers to questions about careers in the arts. Also, some photos of photo murals on South Broad Street that should make you slow down and contemplate. A great couple of University of the Arts photo projects!
Read MoreWe congratulate Ulises for their new publishers in residency project, and celebrate the Clay Studio’s new Executive Director (plus get a look at the plan for their new building in South Kensington!). Virginia Maksymowicz, an Artblog contributor and favorite has a solo exhibit at Franklin and Marshall College; plus the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority (PRA) announces a surprising call – for a social practice project in Cobbs Creek.
Read MoreWe’re happy to present two great-sounding opportunities and to tell you about two excellent events this week, one, a Philly School District Women’s Art show reception and the other a lecture by Spanish artist, Jaume Plensa, at Arthur Ross Gallery. Read and share!
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