Artblog | Interviews

February 2, 2024 by Pete Sparber

Megan Galardi, founder and director of Blah Blah, a commercial gallery in the 319 Building

Pete Sparber interviews Blah Blah founder and director, Megan Galardi, about creating a women and non-binary artist commercial gallery and situating it in the 319 Building, known as a hotbed of the city’s alternative gallery scene.

January 24, 2024 by Susan Isaacs

Talking with Diane Burko and Judy Brodsky about FOCUS (1974) and (re)FOCUS (2024), two major women’s art festivals

November 27, 2023 by Martina Merlo

Stevie Laney and ‘Very’ Magazine, Championing Accessible Erotic Art in Philadelphia

Martina talks with Stevie Laney about her body- sex- and erotica-positive magazine, “Very,” which launches its 8th issue this Wednesday at Tattooed Mom!

October 23, 2023 by Lauren Whearty

An interview with Marilyn Holsing on the power of narrative and landscape

October 20, 2023 by Maxwell Van Cooper

An interview with Bryn Ziegler on their new interactive comic, ‘Dont Look into the Abyss’

October 9, 2023 by Susan Isaacs

From painting to fabric accumulations in abstract wall works, an interview with Margery Amdur

Susan Isaacs pays a visit to Margery Amdur’s studio for a talk about the artist’s work, her exhibitions coming up and her process of working with fabric in accumulations sometimes enhanced with sewing machine glitches which give flavor and texture to the abstract works.

October 4, 2023 by Lane Timothy Speidel

‘We’re All Here But We’re All Dead’ An Interview with Jacob (Chris) Hammes on Pilot+Projects’s History and Closing

In this long-form interview, Lane Speidel and Jacob (Chris) Hammes talk about the history and closure of the alternative gallery, Pilot+Projects, a warehouse space in gentrifying Fishtown/Kensington.

September 19, 2023 by Lauren Whearty

Talking with FJORD on their ten year anniversary

Lauren Whearty interviews members of the artist run space, Fjord, now celebrating their 10th year in operation. Members have changed through the years and so have their rented gallery space — in separate locations in the Kensington/Frenkford area.