Events
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Art at Lunch - Clocks, Calendars, and Conversion Charts
Presented by Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) February 15, 2012 This talk explores how the first modern globalization wave around 1900 profoundly altered notions of time, space, and simultaneity. In 1884, Greenwich Mean Time was adopted as a new universal time standard. Clocks and watches became more affordable and proliferated among ordinary people and as a consequence, new understandings of personal time management, punctuality and time efficiency emerged. Vanessa Ogle, from the University of Pennsvlvania, traces these heated and controversial debates...
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Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) |
02/15/12 |
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), Philadelphia |
Network: Launch into Fashion
Presented by Moore College of Art & Design at Moore College of Art & Design February 17, 2012 Rock your favorite style and accessories for a night of cocktails, local DJ, and the chance to meet some of Philadelphia’s top designers and fashion experts.
Featured speakers:
- Elissa Bloom, Executive Director of the Philadelphia Fashion Incubator, launching this spring at Macy’s Center City
- Jay McCarroll, Philadelphia-based designer and winner of Project Runway, season one. Currently Jay is Chief Creative Officer for Jay...
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Moore College of Art & Design |
02/17/12 |
Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia |
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Family Arts Academy: Dance of Color
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Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) |
02/19/12 |
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), Philadelphia |
Art at Lunch - Moe Brooker: Start to Finish
Presented by Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) February 22, 2012 Artist and PAFA faculty member Moe Brooker has been instructing young artists for almost forty years. Brooker’s philosophy of art-making includes the belief that process determines product, focusing specifically on how studio practices and choice of materials determines the types of images that an artist creates. This talk by Brooker, at the same time that an exhibition of his work is on view in PAFA’s Alumni Gallery, highlights his own process of creation and tracks the...
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Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) |
02/22/12 |
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), Philadelphia |
Beguiled by the Wild: The Art of Charley HArper
Presented by Academy of Natural Sciences at Academy of Natural Sciences December 10, 2011-February 26, 2012 American artist Charley Harper (1922-2007) uses distinctive geometric shapes, vivid colors and delightful graphics to depict nature in an inspiring fashion in Beguiled by the Wild. Harper developed a deep love of nature as a child growing up in West Virginia. He went on to provide illustrations for numerous books and organizations, including the National Park Service and National Audubon Society.
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Academy of Natural Sciences |
12/10/11 -
02/26/12 |
Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia |
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Family Arts Academy: Painted Stories
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Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) |
02/26/12 |
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), Philadelphia |
Art at Lunch - Between Shores: Henry Ossawa Tanner and Transatlanticism
Presented by Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) February 29, 2012 Henry Ossawa Tanner lived a life between two shores of the Atlantic – America and France – and his navigation of these national boundaries deeply affected his art. Tanner pursued his prolific body of religious paintings solely during this time “in between,” never painting a religious scene on American soil, and in this talk, Jeff Richmond-Moll, a Lecturing Fellow at PAFA, discusses how a Transatlantic vision of space and a precedent of “betweenness” in...
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Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) |
02/29/12 |
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), Philadelphia |
Pen and Paintbrush Club: In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck
Presented by Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) March 7, 2012 Steinbeck’s socially engaged novel highlights the frustration of a community of fruit pickers and their resulting attempts to organize an ununionized strike in 1930s California. Paintings like Philip Evergood’s Mine Disaster and Alice Neel’s Investigations of Poverty at the Russell Sage Foundation will highlight artist interest in the plight of the working class at a volatile time in American history.
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Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) |
03/07/12 |
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), Philadelphia |
PAFA after Dark: Turned On
Presented by Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) March 8, 2012 See PAFA’s biggest exhibition of the year in a totally new light.
View Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit during the artist’s favorite time of day—night—and participate in interactive experiences provided by inventor artists extraordinaire The Hacktory and Hive76.
Fourth Wall Arts curates the guest performances, including percussion group Spoken Hand, opera singer Alicia Mendoza and spoken word poet extraordinaire Nina “Lyrispect” Ball.
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Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) |
03/08/12 |
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), Philadelphia |
Sketch-A-Saurus
Presented by Academy of Natural Sciences at Academy of Natural Sciences March 10, 2012 Whether you’re a paleo-Michelangelo or a budding artist, you will learn the fascinating art of dinosaur illustration in this all-day class. Jason Poole, a paleo-illustrator and Dinosaur Hall Manager at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, will share tips and tricks on how to improve your dinosaur sketches by studying dinosaurs’ skeletons, muscles, and other features and examining specimens from Dinosaur Hall and the Paleontology Collection. Poole has had his...
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Academy of Natural Sciences |
03/10/12 |
Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia |
Doing Time/Depth of Surface: A Philagrafika Exhibition
Presented by Philagrafika at Moore College of Art & Design January 28-March 17, 2012 Doing Time | Depth of Surface, commissioned by Philagrafika, is an exhibition exploring the architecture and stories of Philadelphia’s historic Holmesburg Prison. Spanish artists Patricia Gómez Villaescusa and María Jesús González Fernández have created large-format “printings” of drawings, paintings and graffiti left by former inmates on the walls of the prison, which opened in 1896 and operated for nearly a century before being...
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Philagrafika |
01/28/12 -
03/17/12 |
Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia |
Materiality: Annual Alumnae Exhibition at Moore
Presented by Moore College of Art & Design at Moore College of Art & Design January 28-March 17, 2012 Juried exhibition featuring original fabric yardage designs, as well as a curated selection of fashion designs. Celebrating the works of graduates of all majors, focusing on textile and fashion design, this show is held in conjunction with FiberPhiladelphia.
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Moore College of Art & Design |
01/28/12 -
03/17/12 |
Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia |
Shizuko Kimura: The Poetics of Form
Presented by Moore College of Art & Design at Moore College of Art & Design January 28-March 17, 2012 Working directly from live models, Japanese artist Shizuko Kimura creates intricately rendered figure drawings that fuse Asian aesthetics with Western concepts of figurative art and abstraction. In allegiance to the performative elements of drawing, her intimate works demonstrate the stitched mark’s ability to record subtle gesture and capture the essential vitality of the human body through a reductive use of line and texture.
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Moore College of Art & Design |
01/28/12 -
03/17/12 |
Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia |
A Circumstantial Assembly
Presented by Moore College of Art & Design at Moore College of Art & Design January 28-March 17, 2012 Featuring recent work created by former fellows in the Center for Emerging Visual Artists’ Career Development Program, this exhibition explores the diverse ways that contemporary artists are (re)interpreting fiber art-based traditions and techniques. Participating artists include: Jill Marleah Bell, Susan Benarcik, Ana Hernandez, Mark Khaisman, Daniel Kornrumpf, Jedediah Morfit and Binod Shrestha.
Held in conjunction with FiberPhiladelphia, a city-wide biennial celebrating...
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Moore College of Art & Design |
01/28/12 -
03/17/12 |
Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia |
Zaha Hadid: Form in Motion
Presented by Philadelphia Museum of Art at Philadelphia Museum of Art - Perelman Building September 20, 2011-March 25, 2012 Innovative architect Zaha Hadid, who in 2004 became the first female recipient of the renowned Pritzker Architecture Prize, has advanced the vocabulary of contemporary architecture and design through the exploration of complex fluid geometries and the use of cutting-edge techniques and manufacturing technologies. For this exhibition—the first in the United States to feature her product designs—the Iraqi-born British architect has created a sculptural environment for a selection...
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Philadelphia Museum of Art |
09/20/11 -
03/25/12 |
Philadelphia Museum of Art - Perelman Building, Philadelphia |
Moore Kicks Off Continuing Education Winter Quarter on January 23, 2012
Presented by Moore College of Art & Design at Moore College of Art & Design January 23-March 29, 2012 Kickstart your New Year’s resolution by rediscovering a new career! Moore offers certificate programs that prepare adults for career redirection in a select group of especially rewarding design fields: Web Design; Digital Media for Print & Web; Fashion Studies; and Interior Design Studies. Eight courses are required to earn a certificate and each course meets one evening a week for 10 weeks. Adults with busy lives can still find time to create new career possibilities for...
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Moore College of Art & Design |
01/23/12 -
03/29/12 |
Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia |
Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit
Presented by Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) January 28-April 15, 2012 The subject of this exhibition is the career and life of the artist Henry O. Tanner (1859-1937), including the pioneering African American artist’s upbringing in Philadelphia in the years after the Civil War; the artist’s success as an American expatriate artist at the highest levels of the international art world at the turn of the 20th century; Tanner’s role as a leader of an artist’s colony in rural France and his unique contributions in aid of American servicemen...
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Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) |
01/28/12 -
04/15/12 |
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), Philadelphia |
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Moe Brooker: The Evidence of Things Not Seen
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Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) |
02/10/12 -
04/15/12 |
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), Philadelphia |
After Henry Tanner: African American Artists since 1940
Presented by Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) January 28-April 16, 2012 Henry Ossawa Tanner was a mentor and role model for younger artists during his lifetime and a source of pride for many generations of artists since his death in 1937. Drawing on PAFA’s outstanding examples of work by African American artists, this permanent collection installation will complement the Tanner retrospective on view in the Fisher Brooks Gallery to give a sense of Tanner’s enduring legacy for artists working today.
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Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) |
01/28/12 -
04/16/12 |
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), Philadelphia |
2012 Young Artists Workshop
Presented by Moore College of Art & Design at Moore College of Art & Design February 11-April 21, 2012 Moore College of Art & Design is gearing up for the 2012 Young Artists Workshop, offering Saturday morning and afternoon classes in art and design for grades 1 – 12. Spring classes begin Saturday, February 11, 2012 and run through April 21, 2012. NEW certificate programs are being offered for high school students in art & design, fashion design and graphic design. Spring registration deadline is January 30, 2012. Visit www.moore.edu/youth_programs for additional class...
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Moore College of Art & Design |
02/11/12 -
04/21/12 |
Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia |
Zoe Strauss: Ten Years
Presented by Philadelphia Museum of Art at Philadelphia Museum of Art January 14-April 22, 2012 Zoe Strauss: Ten Years is a mid-career retrospective of the acclaimed photographer’s work and the first critical assessment of her ten-year project to exhibit her photographs annually in a space beneath a section of Interstate-95 (I-95) in South Philadelphia. Strauss’s subjects are broad but her primary focus is on working-class experience, including the most disenfranchised people and places. Her photographs offer a poignant, troubling portrait of contemporary America....
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Philadelphia Museum of Art |
01/14/12 -
04/22/12 |
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia |
Van Gogh Up Close
Presented by Philadelphia Museum of Art at Philadelphia Museum of Art February 1-May 6, 2012 Vincent van Gogh was an artist of exceptional intensity, not only in his use of color and exuberant application of paint, but also in his personal life. Drawn powerfully to nature, his works—particularly those created in the years just before he took his own life—engage the viewer with the strength of his emotions. This exhibition focuses on these tumultuous years, a period of feverish artistic experimentation that began when van Gogh left Antwerp for Paris in 1886 and continued...
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Philadelphia Museum of Art |
02/01/12 -
05/06/12 |
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia |
Bill Viola: Ocean Without a Shore
Presented by Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) November 19, 2011-November 19, 2012 Bill Viola is recognized internationally as one of the most important American artists working today. A pioneer of video and installation art, he is an artist whose subject matter is the profound question of our being and one that considers human life and its relation to the universe, to the soul and human spirit, and to nature and death. Ocean Without a Shore, a recent PAFA acquisition, is a major video installation and a profound experiential work which combines a reverence for the...
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Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) |
11/19/11 -
11/19/12 |
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), Philadelphia |
The Academy at 200: The Nature of Discovery
Presented by Academy of Natural Sciences at Academy of Natural Sciences March 24, 2012-March 31, 2013 The Academy at 200: The Nature of Discovery celebrates the Academy of Natural Sciences’ groundbreaking discoveries of the past and present and provides a glimpse into the future of one of the world’s great natural history museums. Through this spectacular new exhibit, visitors will journey alongside Academy scientists to search for new species and explore how human activity is affecting the environment. See rare and amazing plants and animals from the Academy’s...
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Academy of Natural Sciences |
03/24/12 -
03/31/13 |
Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia |
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Pay-What-You-Wish Sundays at Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Philadelphia Museum of Art |
08/26/10 -
Ongoing |
Philadelphia Museum of Art - Eakins Oval, Philadelphia |