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April 8, 2022 by Roberta

Mikel Elam, Morgan Nitz, Black Quantum Futurism, the Quilts of Gees Bend, plus opportunities!

…Shannon Maldonado, founder & creative director of YOWIE. Check back on April 20th for the next interview in the series! “Gees Bend Quilt puzzle,” quilt by Essie Bendolph Pettway, one…

April 6, 2022 by Miles Orvell

Laurence Salzmann’s photographs explore animal-human connections, without sentimentality, at Art on the Avenue

…Salzmann family was a happy one, from the photographer’s perspective, but Salzmann’s keen awareness of Garip’s deracination is the creative source of the photographic series that imagines him, as in…

March 18, 2022 by Roberta

Thoughts about cities, plus news of Philly Community Wireless and two solid opportunities

…Artblog videos: Overview of the Creative Africa show at PMA Francis Kere Akinbode Akinbiyi Walé Oyéjidé of Ikiré Jones ARTBLOG NEWS Podcasting: Should your organization consider launching a podcast? March…

March 16, 2022 by Kate Brock

Two Pennsylvania artists of different eras, Polly Apfelbaum and David Ellinger, intersect at Arcadia Exhibitions

…Works Progress Administration, furniture he painted, and photographs and texts from his performance career. These materials start to give flesh to a life punctuated by significant loss and creative resilience….

March 2, 2022 by Roberta

Support the Philadelphia Cultural Fund! Plus Artblog news, area opportunities and two great events this weekend!

…the creative economy not only be sustained but more heavily invested in as an essential part of Philadelphia’s long term economic recovery from COVID-19. And while $3.5 million is an…

February 23, 2022 by Roberta

Added Velocity 2021-2022 awards five worthy Philadelphia arts projects $15,000 each

…do work with communities to apply to the Velocity Fund, which is the entry point for Added Velocity. The community need is great, and artists’ projects offer wonderful creative solutions….

February 10, 2022 by Logan Cryer

Artist and curator Chelsey Luster on Blackness, visibility, and claiming space

…your decisions. Because when I do talk to other curators or like people that are creative that want to do things, I feel like there’s this idea that you can’t…

February 2, 2022 by Roberta

Stanek Gallery going virtual, Harriett’s Bookshop going silent in February, plus, Sisterhood Sit-In Trolley Tours and Opportunities

…Mike Africa, Jr. Her writing has most recently appeared in Seen, Documentary Magazine, The Believer, Film Quarterly, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, How We Fight White Supremacy: A…