Artists

December 7, 2019 by Janyce Denise Glasper

Janyce Denise Glasper recently spoke at the Philadelphia Avant-Garde Studies Consortium (PASC), and you can read what she had to say here on Artblog!

November 13, 2019 by Natalie Sandstrom

Moore College of Art and Design honors the work of three visionaries

Artblog contributor Natalie visits Moore College of Art and Design to see the exhibition “Visionary Women.”

October 30, 2019 by Alex Smith

Thrifting a way to re-imagined fashion, a conversation with emerging designer Noél Puéllo

Artblog contributor Alex Smith interviews designer Noél Puéllo about her practice of recycling thrifted clothing.

October 30, 2019 by CraftNOW Philadelphia

CraftNOW Celebrates Philadelphia as Craft Capital with More Than 20 Exhibitions and Special Events

CraftNOW marks its fifth anniversary with Craft Capital exhibition series, symposium, hands-on activities, tours, and much more.

October 28, 2019 by Natalie Sandstrom

The terrible and the beautiful, Lugo and Tomezsko’s ‘Wynorrific Times’ at Wexler Gallery

Natalie Sandstrom visits Wexler Gallery to review a collaborative exhibition featuring new works by artists Roberto Lugo and Mat Tomezsko.

October 26, 2019 by Alex Smith

A shrine to Black Divinity, Temple of Sirius at Da Vinci Art Alliance

Alex Smith reviews Malachi Lily’s project, The Temple of Sirius, currently on display at the Da Vinci Art Alliance.

October 25, 2019 by Wit López

A Complex Composition, Bennett and Phillips’s new installation ‘Spitting Distance’ at Napoleon gallery

Wit visits new exhibition, “Spitting Distance” by Keenan Bennett and Heather Raquel Phillips at Napolean gallery, closing on Sunday, October 27, 2019.

October 22, 2019 by Natalie Sandstrom

New exhibition ‘Back and Song’ at Girard College explores medical discrimination and healing

Natalie Sandstrom reviews ‘Back and Song,’ an exhibition by filmmakers Elissa Blount Moorhead and Bradford Young installed at Girard College.

October 21, 2019 by Artblog

BREAKING NEWS — Pew Center for Arts & Heritage announces 2019 grantees

Congratulations to the 39 grantees who have been awarded by the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.

October 18, 2019 by Michael Carroll

Gabe Martinez’s ‘Bound to the Past,’ a revisiting of 1981, at Marginal Utility

Michael Carroll reviews the latest exhibition by local artistic genius “Gabriel Martinez: Bound to the Past.” The display is centered on the summer of 1981 and the importance of that point in time as a cultural and political moment in LGBTQ+ history. Martinez’s work will be on display through October 20, 2019 at Marginal Utility gallery located at 319 N. 11th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107.

October 16, 2019 by Wit López

Clarivel Ruiz on art at the intersection of Caribbean Latinx cultural advocacy

In this 44-minute final episode of Artblog Radio’s Latinx Heritage Month 2019 series, Wit goes to Harlem, NY to speak with maker and cultural advocate Clarivel Ruiz, founder of the Dominicans Love Haitians Movement.

October 15, 2019 by Lightbox Film Center

Lightbox Film Center Celebrates Legacy of Ed Emshwiller in First-of-its-Kind Retrospective Exhibit

Lightbox Film Center presents “Dream Dance: The Art of Ed Emshwiller” running October 18 – December 7, 2019.

October 11, 2019 by Alex Smith

How Are We Free? Lifelines Project pairs art by people in prison and artists outside, at Vox Populi

Alex reviews the project-based show at Vox Populi, “How Are We Free?” at Vox Populi through Sunday, Oct. 13, 2019.

October 11, 2019 by Wit López

Allyson Mitchell and Deirdre Logue on the history and future of Killjoy’s Kastle

In this 34-minute episode of Artblog Radio, Wit speaks with Allyson Mitchell and Deirdre Logue about their traveling, interactive project, Killjoy’s Kastle, available to experience at Icebox Project Space from October 16-27!