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Welcome to artlife where we post a curated selection of events, exhibitions, workshops, and doings by heavybubble and artists that use our services. Check out the artist opportunities and events that catch our eye.

Call for artists : Green Line Cafe

Green Line Cafe has a call for art out. They are a West Philly community spot and cafes — currently looking for work to show as early as August! A few select openings in each of their three shops. Please send images or a link to your website and a show proposal to events@greenlinecafe.com right [...]

This July, Philadelphia artist Anthony Campuzano will transform ICA’s second floor galleries into a free-form art school and working artists’ studio, both free and open to the public. Campuzano has invited peers, mentors, professors, and other special guests to provide art instruction in various media, discuss past and current projects, screen favorite videos and films, [...]

Video tuesday: Jacqueline Cotter

“Jacqueline Cotter is an 89 year old artist with a long career as one of Philadelphia’s leading abstractionists. Her paintings at Rosenfeld Gallery are some of her most luminous to date, which is all the more amazing because of her problems with macular degeneration. Many of Philadelphia’s leading artists, including Bill Scott, Stuart Shils, Mary [...]

We’ve always been facinated with Jean-Michel Basquiat for his artwork and his life, as short as it was. This new film by Basquiat’s friend Tamra Davis pays homage to him friend in this definitive documentary. We’re looking forward to seeing it. Waiting to see how it will be distributed.

Living in the Plains, you’d see surreal things; you’d see mirages. I’m sitting on the front porch, as a little kid at sunset, and the sun is in back of me, and walking across the horizon is a Trojan horse four stories tall. I go “Uh oh—what’s that?” So I run into the house and [...]

An American Icon. Pop Art. http://www.jimrosenquist-artist.com/

The New York Times: “The Noyolas have collaborated with Barbara Levine, a photography curator in San Miguel de Allende, on a book about the collection of more than 1,200 items, “Finding Frida Khalo: Diaries, Letters, Recipes, Notes, Sketches, Stuffed Birds, and Other Newly Discovered Keepsakes” (written with Stephen Jaycox and due this fal from Princeton [...]

ICA Philadelphia : Queer Voice

Queer Voice, 2010, TRT: 5:12 from Erik Moskowitz + Amanda Trager on Vimeo. Viewr becomes listener at this compelling show. In response to an invitation to “describe the queer voice,” artists Erik Moskowitz + Amanda Trager created this video. Exhibition April 22 — August 1, 2010 Institute of Contemporary Art | University of Pennsylvania 118 [...]

video : about Mark Rothko

About the place only art can take us.

Open to Philadelphia area artists. Only actual work will be juried; send no slides or digital images! GUEST JUROR: Marianne Mitchell, renowned artist and innovative educator ELIGIBILITY Paintings, drawings, mixed media, photographs, prints, and sculpture produced over the last two years. No digital reproductions, or work in excess of 40” wide. DELIVERY AND PICK-UP Hand-delivered [...]

JUNE 17th from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM The City of Philadelphia’s Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy and Mayor Michael A. Nutter announce the creation of its new home on the first floor of City Hall, Room 116 with a public open house and the presentation of an inaugural exhibition on June [...]

Win a scholarship, a $110 value, courtesy of Heavybubble: websites for artists The course: Alternative Marketing for Alternative Galleries A 6-week online course from Maryann Devine of smArts & Culture, that you do at your own pace. If you’re part of an artist-run Thing – a cooperative gallery, an on-again-off-again group that shows together, or [...]

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