Brigid O’Brien interviews Phoebe Bachman about her creation, The People’s Budget Office, a community art project established to help raise awareness of the Philadelphia budget and how the departments that serve the city (and its citizens) are funded. The PBO Operates for part of the year from a shipping container in Love Park that is open to the public and distributes pamphlets and collects information from people about their city budget priorities.
Read MoreMegan Bridge sees ‘For Now !’ by Chloe Marie, which debuted at Christ Church Neighborhood House April 30. Performed by seven dancers, with music and conversational voice of the creator interwoven, the piece generates space for rumination of your own place and space, says Bridge, as well as space to absorb your immediate surroundings – the sights sounds and emotional thrust of people performing – and the audience participating by extension.
Read MoreRuth Wolf expresses consternation and concern about what’s going on in the world today. She is worried “about the safety and the direction of our country.” She asks what role can and does art play and answers that art is an act of resistance. Her exhortation at the end is a call to make art, “Inhale courage, exhale art.” We agree.
Read MoreJanyce Denise Glasper bids a fond farewell to Artblog. The artist and writer has been part of the Artblog team for eight years, and in that time has written 22 reviews and features that have expanded enormously our coverage of Black women artists and creatives.
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