I hope you can join me at one of these events this spring.
February 22,2020
“Founder’s Favorites”
Printed Image Gallery at Brandywine
The exhibit opens Saturday, February 22nd from 6:30-9:30 PM with music refreshments and a preview of the new documentary on John E. Dowell, Jr.’s recent photography exploring cotton and its relationship to slavery and African American history.
February 26,2020
Voyage by Road and Sea
To examine the legacy of American writers Walt Whitman and Herman Melville in the bicentennial year of their births, the Free Library of Philadelphia is preparing an exhibition titled Voyages by Road and Sea: Philadelphia Perspectives on Walt Whitman and Herman Melville. The exhibition will open in the first-floor West Gallery at Parkway Central Library in November 2019.
As a part of this exhibition, the Free Library will feature works from ten guest artists, makers, and authors from the greater Philadelphia metropolitan area that offer contemporary critical and creative perspectives on Whitman, Melville, and their works.
On Wednesday, February 26th at 6:30 p.m., Voyages co-curator Ed Whitley will give a lecture in room 406 of the Parkway Central Library and then lead a tour of the exhibition in West Gallery.
February 27, 2020
“A Matter of Interpretation” Associate group show: Washington Printmakers Gallery,
1641 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. 20007 • 202 669-1497
Open Thursdays–Saturdays, 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. • Sundays, Noon to 5:00 p.m. February 27 to March 29, 2020 Reception: March 14 from 4:00 P.M. to 6:00 P.M.
March 10
“The Tiny Biennale”, an exhibition of miniature works to be held in the Gallery of Art at Temple University Rome. This is the 7th year of this very successful event. The show will be from March 10-20. Participants in the show have included art students and faculty from Temple Rome and Tyler School of Art, other American and Italian art schools based in Rome and artists from the Roman community and artists from the US. Works The money goes to a travel scholarship fund for an art student.
March 18,2020
The Office of Diversity & Inclusion at Chestnut Hill College is proud to host the Women in Art panel as part of our 2019-20 Cultural Awareness Series themed, “ART: The Beauty in Our Differences,” on March 18, 2020 from 6-7:30 p.m.
· Vanessa Thomas-Smith—the first African-American female ringmaster of a U.S. circus/ dancer/ choreographer; former dancer with Philadanco
· Shawnna Williams—an artist who brings book authors’ visions to life through oil paintings and pencil-drawn portraits/ notable illustrations being in the works of Brown Girl and Brown Boy by Daphnie Glenn
· Soha St. Juste—the Architectural Design Principal for Jacobs in Philadelphia/ she also currently serves as secretary for the Board of Directors of AIA Philadelphia
· Marta Sanchez—a Latina artist who paints on mostly tin or industrial corrugated metal painting inspirations from Mexican folk art expressions/ her work has been displayed in The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The State Museum of Pennsylvania, The McNay Art Museum, The Fine Art Museum of St. Petersburg, Florida, and The National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago
· Lele Galer—an artist who commits half her time to steel sculptures ranging from 6 inches to 12 feet, while the other half is devoted to painting in encaustic or oil/ she also has an Art Watch Radio show 1520 am radio on Wednesdays 1-1:30 pm
May 2020
Pensando en el Paraíso, a sculpture and mural project for Casa Indiana on Second and Allegheny St. Philadelphia, PA