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Fluxface in Space Fluxhibition STS-133 & STS-134: The Fluxmuseum Goes on the Last Shuttle Missions to Space.
We stumbled on this project while doing some NASA, space shuttle googling. If you are as crazy about space as we are you'll want to participate in this fun project.
Site specific art that comes under more scrutiny and bureaucracy than most of us could stand. Christo revels in it as part of the process and work itself. This will be the first project since the death of Jeanne-Claude that Christo will attempt to execute.
In celebration of the Philadelphia Sketch Club’s 150th anniversary, an open exhibition of 150 works will be held between July 23rd through August 14th, 2010
Delivery: Hand delivery only- Friday, July 16th, 2010, and Saturday, July 17th, 2010, 1-5 p.m. at PSC if needed. If 150 entries are taken in on Friday, a notice will be posted on the door of the PSC on Saturday. (see address below).
Entry Fees:
A flat fee of $15 per entry will be charged.
CYANOTYPE WORKSHOP - August 7, 2010
Photography and Printmaking Studio
Center Sandwich, New Hampshire, USA
Course fee $120
Materials $30
Class limited to 5.
Saturday 10:00am – 4:00pm
Learn the art of cyanotype photography, a 19th-century alternative printing medium with luscious blue tones on hand-coated paper. We will begin with making full-size digital negatives from your digital files, photographs, or small film negatives. Next, we will press that large negative on top of the hand-coated paper in a contact print frame and expose it to the sun.
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, [...]
“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 [...]
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 [...]