artLIFE at heavybubble

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.

New work and recently completed commission pieces
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Cynthia Groya Open Studio, October 23, 2015
Open studio and party!
October 23 – October 23, 2015

Joint open studio event at Mill One, a cool warehouse/studio space in Hamilton NJ, 5 minutes from the famous Grounds For Sculpture. New and existing work by artists Cynthia Groya and Ruthann Perry will be featured in their studios, open to the pubic for the one evening only! Wine and snacks and music will also be on hand.

Questions? Contact Cynthia at cynthiagroya@comcast.net or 267.738.1592 

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Invitation for Common Ground: Singular Visions, Assemblage show at Wayne Art Center
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Assemblage: Common Ground: Singular Visions at the Wayne Art Center
exhibition
October 18 – November 21, 2015

Assemblage Exhibition, Common Ground: Singular Visions  opens at the Wayne Art Center Sunday, Oct 18, on view through November 21

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Stones & Shells Maze, Red/Blue, painting with found objects by Lesley Mitchell
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Lesley Mitchell in Common Ground: Singular Vision at Wayne Art Center
exhibition
October 18 – November 21, 2015

Lesley Mitchell will show paintings from her recent A Maze Ing series as part of Common Ground: Singular Visions, opening this Sunday at the Wayne Arts Center in Wayne PA.

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Welcome screen for 1241 Carpenter creative community
newsy
Launched: 1241carpenter.com, a creative community website

The main areas of the site include:

- info about OUR BUILDING 

- a building DIRECTORY

- two exhibition areas : Ground Floor and @HBHQ

- news (generated by resident artists)

1241 Carpenter site >
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Itajime Shibori: Decorative Papermaking
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Itajime Shibori: Decorative Papermaking workshop with PD Packard
workshop
October 3 – October 4, 2015

During Philadelphia Open Studio Tours EAST, artist PD Packard will be demonstrating Itajime Shibori at @HBHQ at 1241 Carpenter Street, located in the Hawthorne Neighborhood of South Philadelphia. All day Saturday + Sunday, 12 – 6 pm

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PD Packard : Insects too Lovely to Repel
exhibition @ HBHQ
PD Packard : Insects too Lovely to Repel
exhibition
October 3 – October 4, 2015

Special Exhibition
Heavy Bubble is pleased to announce that during Philadelphia Open Studio Tours East we will be showing Insects too Lovely to Repel a selection of watercolors by PD Packard.

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Maze Diptych, acrylic on panel painting by Lesley Mitchell
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Lesley Mitchell Studios Open for POST, October 3 and 4
exhibition
October 3 – October 4, 2015

Lesley Mitchell will show a new series of acrylic paintings on panel and works on paper, entitled A Maze Ing. Her studio will be open to vistors as part of POST (Philadelphia Open Studio Tours)

The show will be open Saturday, October 3 and Sunday, October 4, from noon to 6 pm. Each day, Mitchell will give a painting demo at 2 pm in the 3rd floor art studio and a walk-through artist's talk at 4 pm in the 2nd floor Gallery

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Closing the Gap: Professional Practices for Women in the Visual Arts

Closing the Gap: Professional Practices for Women in the Visual Arts will be held Nov. 13-15 in Clayton, N.Y., located in the Thousand Islands region.

Made possible by a gift from the estate of Bethea S. Owen ’43, an artist and alumna of SU:VPA, the all-expenses-paid retreat is designed to provide juniors, seniors and graduate students in the college’s School of Art, School of Design and Department of Transmedia with tips, tools and techniques to advance their careers, whether their next steps are to find gainful employment or start their own businesses.

SU:VPA >
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CALL FOR ENTRIES : Art of the Film

The ReadingFilmFEST (RFF) presents the first ever "Art of Film," a fine art exhibition featuring regional artists designed to highlight the theme of "FILM," create awareness of the revamped film festival, and engage the community in the event.

A juried Art Show in Collaboration with ReadingFilmFEST, featuring regional artists competing for cash prizes.

Full prospectus >
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Call for Entries : MarinMOCA Fall National Juried Exhibition: Drawing

Open to all U.S. resident artists 18 and over. You are invited to submit up to 5 digital images of your original drawings completed in the past two years, not previously shown in a MarinMOCA or Artists of MarinMOCA exhibit. Artists currently represented by the juror are ineligible for this call. Open to all drawing media except video and film. 

Only online entries with digitally uploaded images will be accepted. 

MarinMOCA website >
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Black and white triangles in a horizontal grid, floating over a layer of red and white striped rectangles. Rotating Triangles (Black on Red) by Bill Brookover
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Bill Brookover at Second State Press
exhibition
September 1 – September 30, 2015

Bill Brookover is the featured artist for September in the Quarter Sheet Challenge at Second State Press. He's showing two recent constructed collages: Vibrating Triangles (Gray on Black), and Rotating Triangles (Red on Black).

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In the Garden, 2. 64 x 48 by Katherine Kurtz
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Katherine Kurtz, In the Garden: New Figures at 3rd Street Gallery
exhibition
September 2 – September 27, 2015

This show comes from Katherine's love of painting the figure freely. The old Shaker song Simple Gifts says it best: "and when we are found in the place that is right/We will be in the garden of love and delight."

In this show, Katherine Kurtz returns to painting the figure, larger and more loosely than ever.  Often monumental in size, the paintings nevertheless convey an intimacy and a tenderness.

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