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March 2, 2022 by Roberta

Support the Philadelphia Cultural Fund! Plus Artblog news, area opportunities and two great events this weekend!

Artblog supports the Philadelphia Cultural Fund and you can too. Please email or call Mayor Jim Kenney to show your support for the PCF! Meanwhile, we’ve rounded up several opportunities for artists and two wonderful events happening this Friday and Saturday.

February 25, 2022 by Beth Heinly

The 3:00 Book

February 21, 2022 by Roberta

Rami George announces P(h)ew microgrants to 16 artists, Kukuli Velardi keynotes UPenn Humanities Forum

We are excited to share the generous micro grant project, The P(h)ew Awards, created by Rami George to pass along 10% of their recent Pew Fellowship award to queer and trans artists, writers, performers and musicians in the Philadelphia region. Congratulations, Rami, on this thoughtful and brilliant project! And congratulations to each of the 16 P(h)ew winners, including several with connections to Artblog: Corey Qureshi, Jordan Deal, Savan DePaul, and Suldano Abdiruhman! We love this project and are honored to announce it in our pages! Also in the news, we congratulate Kukuli Velarde and can’t wait to hear her Keynote address Thursday at 5 PM for the University of Pennsylvania Forum on Immigration.

February 18, 2022 by Roberta

Pepón Osorio’s new public art with Philadelphia Contemporary, Black Music City Awards 46 grants, and Black Box Curatorial Opportunity!

February 2, 2022 by Roberta

Stanek Gallery going virtual, Harriett’s Bookshop going silent in February, plus, Sisterhood Sit-In Trolley Tours and Opportunities

The News post is filled with names of POC being advanced in the art world; and we also rounded up some gallery news, bookshop news, museum news, and opportunity calls for Black, Brown and Indigenous filmmakers to submit to Blackstar Film Festival and zine makers to listen to a panel talk about making zine festivals more equitable.

January 28, 2022 by Roberta

Hearty congratulations to Robert Cozzolino, Anne Minich, Jessica Rizzo, Airea D. Matthews, plus support for Blake Bradford and a jolly musical in Princeton

We don’t often urge your support of GoFundMe fundraisers, but we encourage you strongly to support the one for Blake Bradford, arts educator, advocate, activist and great person, who is in hospice, with crushing medical bills and a young family in crisis.

January 13, 2022 by Roberta

Black Quantum Futurism gets Creative Capital, Judilee Reed to US Artists, Wayne Thiebaud at Brandywine River Museum of Art, Moe Brooker passes, plus Opportunities and More

With energy and money, the new year charges in. Creative Capital awards $2.5 Million to 50, including Philadelphia’s Black Quantum Futurism (Rasheedah Phillips and Camae Ayewa). William Penn Foundation’s Judilee Reed becomes president and CEO of US Artists. With sadness we note the recent passing of beloved artist and educator, Moe Brooker.

December 22, 2021 by Roberta

Opportunities for learning, joining, funding and viewing!

This opportunity-filled short list that we curated for you buoys us. When the temperature drops and daylight hours are few, these opportunities point forward with generosity and light.