News today includes some congratulations to Leeway grant recipients, Apiary for issue #9 and Amber Arts for their move to new digs. Our advisor, Craig Stover has a solo show at Jed Williams Gallery and we’ve got two great opportunities for you! Read it now, it’s the news you want.
Read MoreProps to Holly Brigham and her collaborative artist book, “Sacred Sisters,” and props to Velvet Glove on their interview with Astrid Bowlby. The PA Council on the Arts needs an Executive Director…is that you? Read the News Post for more.
Read MoreWe are very happy for one of our favorite comic book artists, Jamar Nicholas, who debuts his brand new graphic novel, Leon, Protector of the Playground, this weekend at Comic Con in Baltimore! In other news, two events on Sept. 28 highlight a project at Ursinus College and a research collaboration; Artblog’s Imani Roach talks with Lane Speidel about their art projects, and Yiddish New York announces a great opportunity for artists.
Read MoreWe are happy for the CSA project and it’s first art-share pickup; Six artists participate this year in the project that takes off from community support agriculture and the “shares” method of support. Also, in the News Post, there’s news of a free documentary film screening and a couple good opportunities, one at the PMA and one with the city to be the new Poet Laureate! It’s News of our world! Read it and enjoy.
Read MoreWe have some people and arts organizations to congratulate in this News Post, plus a shout out to Tattooed Mom for this weekend’s sticker art fest and a couple great opportunities for you.
Read MoreWe round up some great opportunities — but the deadlines are quick, so hurry, look, and apply! Also, Artblog was there as Philadelphia Assembled opened; and we took a group on a stroll down Fabric Row with local historian Joel Spivak regaling us with stories of the neighborhood. Along the way we visited Paradigm Gallery and DaVinci Art Alliance to hear about their great programs and artists.
Read MoreNews is short and to the point today. First we are very excited for the Octavius Catto monument to go up on City Hall’s South apron. We encourage you to read the definitive biography of the early Civil Rights hero, Tasting Freedom by Dan Biddle and Murray Dubin. We correct a date that was misstated in today’s Our Picks Newsletter: Astrid Bowlby’s show at Arcadia has its opening Tuesday, Sept. 26. We’re sorry for our error. And check out the opportunity from Picasso Project.
Read MoreNews of our world features student artists, activist artists, a couple solid opportunities via Fairmount Park Conservancy and Mural Arts and a great read for you. Enjoy!
Read MoreToday’s news has a couple good opportunities and events. And while we don’t ordinarily promote fundraisers, we call your attention to three on the horizon because they are most worthy.
Read MoreToday’s news brings you a roundup of links to some recent good reads around the Internet, in case you missed it. Read about the Lowline in NY and the Dupont Underground in Washington, D.C. Catch a review of the film, Whose Streets, about Ferguson, MO, (and look for Michael Lieberman’s review of the film coming soon on Artblog).
Read MoreNews today includes some terrific opportunities for a program manager job and a couple open calls for exhibitions. Also featured is a mural ending (i.e. the building it’s on is being demolished), a good read and a survey for you to weigh in on your quality of life as an artist in Philadelphia.
Read MoreShort and breezy, the News Post offers congratulations to several artists and a writer/curator for their out-of-town shows and projects, and rounds up two opportunities that have great promise. Check it out now!
Read MoreToday’s news includes a move by an alternative gallery that was in the 319 N. 11th (“Vox”) building to a new home at Crane Arts, an Artist and Change residency, a picture from the temporary home of Vox Populi Gallery at 990 Spring Garden, and two exhibition opportunities.
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