The artwork of Melissa Maddonni Haims comes to Mount Pleasant and the work of Rachel Blythe Udell comes to Lemon Hill!
In conjunction with LOVE Your Park week, Parks and recreation invites you to come out and experience Fairmount Park in all its spring glory and to come inside and experience new art a midst the old halls of Lemon Hill Mansion and Mount Pleasant. For many, these historic park houses are secrets hidden in plain sight.
When
Mount Pleasant Opening
May 18th 10am-4pm Featuring Artist Melissa Madonni Haims
(exhibiting through June 30th)
Lemon Hill Opening
May 18th 2-5PM Featuring Artist Rachel Blythe Udell
(exhibiting through June 9th)
Where
Lemon Hill Mansion
Sedgely and Lemon Hill Drives, Philadelphia, PA 19130
Hours
Wednesday - Sunday
10am - 4pm
Mount Pleasant 3800 Mt. Pleasant Drive, Philadelphia, PA 19121
Regular HRS: Thurs-Sun 1:00pm and 2:30pm tour time
Openings are FREE! Regular visits to Historic Park Houses are $5 For directions and more about Fairmount Park historic houses visit:
About these fabulous artists and their installations:
Rachel Udell uses soft, highly textured materials to create works that feel to her like sentient extensions of herself. By creating forms that feel alive, she counters human isolation.
One feature of Rachel’s installation at Lemon Hill is entitled : My social network, and creates an environment of crocheted netting, this piece and others literally weave and nest themselves into the features of the house, conversing and connecting physically with the craftsmanship of the old house's architecture and collection. The brilliant colors and plant-like qualities in Rachel's work lend themselves to our celebration of the spring -when life begins to emerge again in our parks!
Melissa Madonni Haims Uses recycled, reclaimed and rescued fabrics and yarn to create large-scale crocheted and knitted works mixed with found objects. Known as one of “the Philadelphia yarn bombers” she is a participant in the recent global phenomenon that includes wrapping inanimate objects with a colorful mix of yarns. Ms. Haims has installed this type of knit graffiti around the globe since early 2010 with a recent stop in Miami, where her work was featured in Art Basel, the country’s largest contemporary art fair. Her next stop is Mount Pleasant.
Melissa's soft sculpture installation: Hell (inspired by Dante's Inferno) will be warming up the empty fireplaces of Mount Pleasant, while her yarn-bombed balustrades bring bold color and lively rhythms into the colonial house.
Photo : Fiber art by Rachel Udell