We are very excited for two rare opportunities: First, the chance to see Dona Nelson’s paintings in person in Philadelphia (doesn’t happen very often!). Second, a chance to hear four Black Guggenheim photography fellows — Donald E. Camp, Ron Tarver, Wendel White and William Earle Williams — speak about their work in a virtual/in person event is likewise a rare opportunity. Meanwhile, things are opening this Spring, and the Second Thursday openings on the American Street corridor are expanding. We bring you a video that includes Roberta and Morgan (among others) speaking virtually about how to approach the media with your need for coverage. Rounding out the News, there are a couple great opportunities for you, artists.
Read MoreNew Artblog contributor L Autumn Gnadinger interviews Zoe McCarthy, who works in ‘”new media, 3D animation, and mixed reality.’ You can see Zoe’s work in ‘New Now IV,’ a group show of new InLiquid members, through June 19, 2021 at the InLiquid Gallery.
Read MoreIn this 34-minute episode of Artblog Radio, Wit speaks with Allyson Mitchell and Deirdre Logue about their traveling, interactive project, Killjoy’s Kastle, available to experience at Icebox Project Space from October 16-27!
Read MoreSarah Kim writes an enthusiastic review of “Feet First”, an interactive video, painting, and sculpture installation by Joseph Lazaro Rodriguez at Spillway Collective, closing on October 5th, 2019.
Read MoreInLiquid celebrates its nineteenth year of promoting art and artists in Philadelphia this year. The arts and culture non-profit welcomes you to their benefit auction, “Everyone is a Collector,” Feb. 1 and 2, 2019, at the Crane Arts Icebox Project Space. Congratulations to an organization that does much good for the Philadelphia arts and culture scene!
Read MoreChip Schwartz reports on the history of the Icebox Project Space and speaks with co-founders Tim Belknap and Ryan McCartney about how their vision for a multi-purpose arts venue has evolved over the years. He also gives us the scoop on future programming at the Icebox, including a Pew-funded haunted house that taps into our city’s rich LGBTQIA creative networks.
Read MoreMichael checks out the new Tiger Strikes Asteroid space at Crane Arts, with a guest-curated group show he calls important for dealing with serious issues of our time, such as colonialism, police brutality and eco-devastation. The show’s up through Sept. 14, 2017. Make time to go.
Read More“We Do What We Do” is a group show at Spillway Gallery connecting work by artists with a traditional training and artists who have intellectual disabilities and make together in a studio called the Center for Creative Works. Chip discusses how “the perceived barriers between these two segments of the creative population are demolished,” he says with a unifying theme of pattern and order, something we could all use a little more of at the moment.
Read MoreMoody and surreal, Chewing the Scenery is not as grandstanding and over-the-top emotional as its title would imply. That said, the exhibition of ten mostly under-known Philadelphia artists is tautly – and satisfyingly – theatrical.
Read MoreBring your hankies to the Crane when you go. Between now and Dec. 12, Richard Ross’s documentary photographs in the show Juvenile In Justice, will wrap you in sadness and open your eyes to things you do not want to see or think about — children in tomb-like rooms, many of them looking like they are contemplating their own ends.
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