April 22, 2025 by Evan Mitchell Schares

Philly-Native BL Shirelle’s mission to empower incarcerated musicians, an inside look

The musician-activist, BL Shirelle, reflects on her childhood, her non-profit record label Freer Records, and why storytelling through music matters to incarcerated individuals. Evan Mitchell Schares talks with the artist.

April 24, 2024 by Ruth Wolf

‘Temporary Monuments, Art, Land, and America’s Racial Enterprise’ raises issues about permanence

Ruth Wolf reads the book ‘Temporary Monuments,’ which deals with a subject, monuments, that seems to be on everyone’s mind these days. In the end, Wolf sums up that statues and monuments come from stories.

March 8, 2024 by Lauren Whearty

Documenting lives and housing of the vulnerable, Amy Ritter’s Mobile Home Archive

Lauren Whearty pens a heartfelt introduction to the work of Amy Ritter, part of a photographic archive recently on view at Grizzly Grizzly.

October 29, 2020 by Morgan Nitz and Roberta

Disarm the Philadelphia police, invest in black lives and community

Roberta and Morgan co-write a short post calling on Philadelphia to disarm the police department NOW following the brutal murder of Walter Wallace Jr. in West Philadelphia earlier this week.

December 9, 2019 by Wit López

A note from the editor

A quick note from our Managing Editor, Wit, about the recent changes to Artblog Radio.

March 11, 2019 by Matt Kalasky

Josh Graupera’s interdisciplinary practice of organizing, protecting, and building

Artbog contributor Matt Kalasky speaks with Josh Graupera– Philadelphia based organizer, artist, educator, and printmaker– to learn about their recent (now closed) exhibition, “Blockadia.” Tune into this 25 minute long podcast, brought to us by The Galleries at Moore (TGMR), to learn how Josh’s practice redefines the term “Blockadia,” a word originally coined by activist Naomi Klein.

June 28, 2017 by Ilana Napoli

Lost & Found brings activism to the classroom and beyond through sculpture

A collaborative project between local artist Sinéad Cahill and the Albert M. Greenfield School, Narrative as Soft Sculpture focuses on students, schools, and activism in and beyond the classroom. Ilana reports.

September 8, 2016 by Roberta

José Ortiz-Pagán talks of etching on steel and curating a booth at “Unlisted”

José Ortiz-Pagán grew up in a small town in Southern Puerto Rico where he was a skater and a fledgling grafitti artist. Fast forward a few and now, he’s been in Philadelphia for seven years. The Tyler MFA in printmaking and sculpture talks about being an activist and about the political roots of his current work at the new Latino art commercial gallery, RACSO.