Artblog | Roberta

October 23, 2020 by Roberta

Morgan and Roberta co-write an essay about value– specifically, why art is undervalued in America–and for the first time, you can LISTEN to this post!

April 17, 2020 by Roberta

COVID-19 Artist Emergency Relief Grants of $1000 through The Velocity Fund

The Velocity Fund announces the COVID-19 Artist Emergency Relief Fund for Philadelphia visual artists, with applications open today for the first round of $1,000 grants, to be selected by lottery.

December 17, 2019 by Roberta

Added Velocity awards, $15k each to 5 Philadelphia artists, announced by The Velocity Fund

The Velocity Fund announces the inaugural ‘Added Velocity’ awards of $15,000 each to 5 artist projects, to grow and develop their mission-driven Philadelphia initiatives.

May 28, 2019 by Roberta

Karina Puente believes in mission and works with other mission-driven women

In this sponsored post, Roberta interviews Velocity Fund grantee Karina Puente about her collaborative project #sisterlyhistory, with Yolanda Wisher and Women of Color (WoC) entrepreneurs of Germantown.

May 19, 2019 by Roberta

Apiary X, new issue of beloved Philadelphia literary magazine, coming soon

Apiary Magazine is a community-spirited literary magazine now in its tenth year of publishing print copies and online editions with beautiful art, lively commentary, poetry and free-form writing.

May 9, 2019 by Roberta

Women in Re-Entry and Re-Entry Think Tank, two drumbeats of decarceration

In this first of three posts about active community art projects you should know about, Roberta writes about Mark Strandquist and Courtney Bowles’s People’s Paper Co-op project, Re-Entry Think Tank, supported by the Velocity Fund and an allied project, Women in Re-Entry.

April 1, 2019 by Roberta

Jacob Chris Hammes on curating, art-making, capitalism, and comedy

Jacob Chris Hammes is an artist, curator, teacher, and founder of the gallery Pilot Projects. In this podcast Morgan Nitz and Roberta talk with Chris about funding, the importance of discourse, seasonal- (and capitalism fueled-) depression, pond theory, and hear a few jokes. Catch Jacob Chris Hammes’s upcoming solo show, at the new gallery, Information, 2024 E Westmoreland St, on April 13th, 2019. The interview was recorded at Pilot Projects and is 31:40 minutes.

March 24, 2019 by Roberta

Ask Artblog’s Beth Heinly on answering questions, writing essays and making art

Beth Heinly wears a lot of hats. (And sometimes funny noses, eyebrows and glasses.) In addition to being a performance artist (see her Friday, March 29 at Final Fridays at the PMA), Beth is one of Artblog’s “Ask Artblog” columnists. And, of course, she creates the weekly comics series, “The 3:00 Book,” now in its fifth year of continuous postings on Artblog! Morgan and Roberta caught up with Beth at the Blue Jay Diner recently and asked her how she does it all. The interview is 25:05 minutes long.