November 17, 2016 by guest writer

Nora Chipaumire’s Portrait of Myself as My Father – 2016 New Art Writing Challenge Finalist

Chipaumire announces, “Tired of fighting. Tired of running. Tired of fucking.” The hare bounding over the ropes. The Champion hurling into them, into the ground. Until he, finally, –well, no, you should see it, you should try to feel it for yourself.

November 16, 2016 by guest writer

The Mischievous Guide – 2016 New Art Writing Challenge Finalist

Otake commenced her performance slowly, trembling within herself and laying the foundation for the audience to allow themselves an intensely delicate and intuitive experience. At the first of several stations, she slowly unfurled a cloth she produced from within her garment, going to great pains to keep it just so–only reveling in her own motions long enough for interest to peak–before breaking and leading the group of roughly 70 through the small river path.

November 16, 2016 by Janyce Denise Glasper

Rest But Don’t Forget to Weep – 2016 New Art Writing Challenge Finalist

The Colored Girls Museum contains harrowing levels of metaphoric entryways into once traumatized eyes of the black girl. This provincial ghost overcame dishonorable past. Oppressive chains and tyrannical rulers whipped flesh off back and placed choke hold on her mind, body, and soul. Now released yet not entirely freed from damaged control, she tells many stories inherently stretched through visiting artists. Their works adhere to her walls, sleep on her mantles, stand on her floors.

November 16, 2016 by Roberta

Many congratulations! Judy Gelles for 4th Grade Project; 2016 US Artists Fellows Roberto Lugo, Jacolby Satterwhite, Stanley Whitney and others; PPAC for Teen Program grant; Wharton students for activist art+auction; and USPS for new Hanukkah Stamp!

Wharton student, Charles Li, got in touch to let us know he and nine other Wharton students in a undergrad management class had organized an art exhibit and silent auction for CareLink Community Support Services, to raise awareness of behavioral health issues and to support the clients CareLink serves. CareLink provides services and support to independently-living adults with disabilities in the Greater Philadelphia Area.

November 16, 2016 by Chip Schwartz

DIY History – Circa 1995 at Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery

Nearly any contemporary art excursion around Philadelphia in 2016 is sure to yield a wide range of styles and spectacles, but one persistent–if scruffy–thread is certainly the DIY flavor of many Philly-based artists’ work. At Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery’s exhibit Circa 1995, this commonality is not merely present, it is represented in local art-historical context through objects crafted some twenty years ago. This juncture in Philadelphia’s visual culture would help give rise not only to the ongoing careers of the artists participating in this show, but to a distinctive artist-run flavor that persists in Philly to this day.

November 15, 2016 by guest writer

The Sun is Just the Place Where the Sun Used to Be – 2016 New Art Writing Challenge Finalist

Upon entering the exhibition, I first confront a large piece of wood with Crayola colored letters spelling out the title of the show. The point of meditation. “The Sun is Just the Place Where the Sun Used to Be.”

November 14, 2016 by Beth Heinly

The 3:00 Book

November 13, 2016 by guest writer

The Waves – 2016 New Art Writing Challenge Finalist

I lived in West Philly, at 57th St. There was a small ginkgo tree in the back courtyard. It was impossibly hot, I had no money and spent my time at the house, reading, painting, and dreaming of food.