We are very sad to report the passing yesterday of our friend, A.M. Weaver. Her exit from this earth creates a big hole in the art world and a bigger hole in our hearts. We know many of you were friends of hers, worked with her, were mentored by her, and are mourning her loss as we are. We will let you know about a memorial service for A.M. as soon as we hear.
Read MoreArtblog is proud to announce the cash prize winners and honorable mention recipients in the 2017 New Art Writing Challenge! Stay tuned for the articles, which we will publish here and on our partner sites in the coming weeks.
Read MoreThis is the third year of the New Art Writing Challenge, a community-wide festival about the importance of art writing in Philadelphia. We invite you to submit your writings to our art writing contest. Five cash prizes will be awarded this year and we will be publishing the winning articles and honorable mentions on Artblog and on other publications partnering this year with us. Roberta Fallon and Matt Kalasky co-organized the Challenge again this year. Our partners this year are these great Philadelphia online publications: Curate This, Thinking Dance, Title, and Velvet Glove. Help us shine a light on Philadelphia’s great under-sung art writing community. Participate in the Challenge!
Read MoreShort and breezy, the News Post offers congratulations to several artists and a writer/curator for their out-of-town shows and projects, and rounds up two opportunities that have great promise. Check it out now!
Read MoreIn this podcast interview, Matt Kalasky talks with Amanda Buck and Alexa Smith, two of the editors of Apiary Magazine, a beautiful Philadelphia literary publication in print and online, started in 2009 and publishing a wide variety of community voices, in a variety of genres including poetry, fiction and non-fiction. Apiary also includes visual art.
Read MorePeople got connected with art at our recent Look/Draw/Write workshops. We are very happy to share their responses written about the art of Michelle Angela Ortiz.
Read MoreWorkshop participants shared their visions, memories, thoughts about Puerto Rico in poems written in response to Roxana Perez-Mendez’s complex and beautiful art. Perez-Mendez is Puerto Rican and her video installations at Taller Puertorriqueño embody the artist’s own fears and hopes for the island. The show closed March 25.
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