We’re happy to present two great-sounding opportunities and to tell you about two excellent events this week, one, a Philly School District Women’s Art show reception and the other a lecture by Spanish artist, Jaume Plensa, at Arthur Ross Gallery. Read and share!
Read MoreNew Artblog contributor Deborah Krieger visits Maria Dumlao’s latest solo exhibition at Vox Populi Gallery, “History in RGB.” Comprised of densely-layered, multi-colored posters set amongst draped mosquito netting and potted tropical plants, this work imagines colonialism (in Dumlao’s native Philippines and beyond) as a cacophony of myths and half-truths. Colored film viewfinders, installed along the gallery wall, approximate a kind of worldview by allowing visitors to literally filter their experience of work and its histories. “History in RGB” is on view through April 22, 2018.
Read MoreIntroducing The Velocity Fund, a Regional Re-granting Program of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts! The new Philadelphia initiative, a partnership between Temple Contemporary and the Warhol Foundation, kicks off its initial round of applications March 15, 2018, with grants up to $5,000 to 10-15 artists or artist teams awarded in September, 2018. Read more and click over to the application site – link in the article!
Read MoreIn this second installment of correspondent Leah Gallant’s Wing Bowl 2018 narrative, she takes on the main event — the eating contest itself. Read on for conspicuous consumption and a glimpse of what it takes to succeed at a sport which strains the capacity of the human vessel.
Read MoreCatherine Rush attends the February 24th, 2018 performance of “Poor People’s TV Room” at Bryn Mawr College. Created by Bessie-award-winning writer/choreographer Okwui Okpokwasili, and performed by a small inter-generational cast of black women, this multidisciplinary piece exists at the intersection of installation and dance theater. Inspired in part by Nigeria’s 1929 Women’s War, as well as the 2014 Boko Haram kidnappings of 276 schoolgirls, “Poor People’s TV Room” takes a non-narrative, full-bodied approach to articulating the interplay of trauma and resistance.
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