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June 14, 2016 by Roberta

Congratulations 2016 Pew Fellows + Organizations – Sharon Hayes, Tiona McClodden, Erin Bernard, Kelsey Halliday Johnson, Monument Lab, Temple Contemporary, ICA, PMA, Barnes! Plus Brandywine Workshop Happy Hours with the Arts, In/Out Symposium at Moore and Opportunities

The Pew Center for Arts and Heritage spreads $10 million in 53 grants to individuals and organizations. We’re especially happy for these strong women in the mix – Sharon Hayes and Tiona McClodden, who are new Pew fellows; Erin Bernard and The History Truck and Kelsey Halliday Johnson for her exhibition about women’s art and technology from 1970-85 – yay! Congratulations, all!

June 7, 2016 by Roberta

Center for Creative Works, Allens Lane benefits, Sarah McEneaney in Portland, OR, Blackstar Film Fest and Wall Writers movies at International House, Crane Arts Archive Space closes Philly space+opens elsewhere, Plus Brown Bag it with ICA and Opportunities

Allen’s Lane Art Center’s Second Annual “Night of the Arts” This Saturday, 6PM – Immerse yourself in this vibrant community art center in Mt. Airy – and spend time with their gallery exhibition by photographer Harvey Finkle, whose socially-activist works Artblog has long admired.

May 31, 2016 by Roberta

BaddDDD Sonia Sanchez movie tonight at AAMP, Latino Film Festival June 10-12, First Friday Art Safari, T+M Studios ends gallery run, Asian Arts FF on Pearl St., Jennifer Zarro+Art Dive to CR Ettinger Studio, Gina DeCagna+Symbiosis Mag, Moe Brooker in NY, Suzanne Horvitz+Robert Roesch at Legends+China, Plus Opportunities

In movie news — TONIGHT – Film screening of the biopic, “BaddDDD Sonia Sanchez” at the AAMP as the finale to the Art Sanctuary’s Celebration of Black Arts. Philadelphia Poet Laureate emeritus Sanchez will attend for a Q+A with filmmaker Barbara Attie after the screening.

May 24, 2016 by Roberta

Congratulations Jessica Todd Harper, Tyler Kline, Nick Cassway and Catherine Byers! Martin Puryear’s “Big Bling” in Philly, free admission to Magic Gardens June 5-10, the last Art Safari of the season June 3, Dave and Illysa Kyu’s Campfire Stories, Abigail DeVille, Quentin Morris, Nancy Davidson write-ups, and a teen Opportunity

Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens will debut a new program beginning June 5 titled Philly Free Week.The program gives Philadelphians free access to the outdoor labyrinth, the Isaiah and Julia Zagar exhibition “Dear Julia” and daily gallery talks. On the kick-off date, there will be music by Bridgeset Sound and a photo booth.

May 17, 2016 by Roberta

Congratulations 2016 NEA awardees, Artist-at-Sea Rebecca Rutstein, Blum+Poe exhibitors Quentin Morris and Julian Hoeber; Brent Burket on Barnes’ new Digital Initiatives guru Shelley Bernstein, Peek at the SI’s new African American Museum, Pepon Osorio’s reForm ends with Fairhill Fun Day, some Good Reads by John Muse, Stan Mir, the New Yorker, plus Opportunites

NEA awards $807,000 to local arts organizations to foster learning and engagement. Congratulations, all!

May 10, 2016 by Roberta

Woodmere’s Big new Dina Wind sculpture, PAFA’s ICreate lectures with Brandywine Workshop, Delaware Art Museum’s new E.D., Taller P+History Truck+reForm Bobcats honor Fairhill, Donald Trump tombstone mystery unwrapped, Kathryn Pannepacker at Coleman Library, (Pictures of) Cats and Birds at Main Library, Drexel’s Jesse Rosenstein throws benefit for Art Reach at Blokes Barber Shop, Plus Opportunities

Museum News 1 – Public Sculpture by the late Dina Wind debuts at Woodmere Art Museum – It’s big!

From Woodmere’s Gabrielle Turgoose, the piece by Dina Wind is a 30-foot steel sculpture, titled, Spring & Triangle. “…this is a fabrication based on a maquette of 1986 and the realization of the artist’s dream to see her work made on a public scale, interacting with trees, the sky, and the grandeur of nature,” said Turgoose, Director of Communications at the Museum.

May 3, 2016 by Roberta

ASR student Gabrielle Patterson’s animations, Snohetta’s SFMoMA (and soon Temple Library), Linda Harris in ArtNews, Pilot Projects and Nice Futures debut, Moore’s new Chief Academic Officer, Shelley Spector in Williamsburg, Plus Opportunities

I caught up with ASR student Gabrielle Patterson, who graduated from University of Pennsylvania a year ago with a BFA in Fine Arts, and some wizardly animation skills. After graduation, Gabrielle decided to stay in Philadelphia where she has been working part time for an educational media production company, Fabian-Baber, Inc. in Media, PA. She’s also working at the Lea school’s after-school program. And this summer, she will be teaching an animation workshop for high school students at the Brandywine Workshop.

April 26, 2016 by Roberta

Voting day news – Art+Philadelphia Youth Poetry memorial May 7 for youth poet Tyrone Alexander Tillman, plus opportunities from Icebox Project Space, PCAH, UCAL, PAFA, Cerulean Arts, WXPN World Cafe

Friend of Artblog Bruce Hoffman, who is director of Gravers Lane Gallery, wrote to say the gallery was organizing a special program and poetry event, Saturday, May 7, 1PM-5PM, honoring slain aspiring poet, Tyrone Alexander Tillman. Tillman was a high school student and active in the Philadelphia Youth Poetry movement. Gallery artist, Rachel Bliss, has a connection with the youth and facilitated the event in conjunction with her exhibit at the gallery in May.