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CALL FOR ENTRIES : Uncommon Threads: The Handicrafts in Book Arts

Deadline
August 13, 2011

Exhibition
September 23, 2011 - October 29, 2011

Uncommon Threads seeks artist books and other forms of book and paper art that utilize handicraft techniques, materials or subjects as a way to round out, illustrate or compliment a central concept. Remember, it’s not just about the materials or techniques. Let’s dispel the myth that the handicrafts can’t have any part in meaningful art.

Carol Philips participates in Art in the Open

Book of the Heart by Carol Phillips
exhibition
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Sunday, June 12, 2011

Art in the Open (AiO) is a citywide event that celebrates artists, their inspirations for creating art, and their relationships with the urban environment. Inspired by, but re-framing, the tradition of painting en plein air, a juried selection of artists working in a variety of media will create art outside, on-site over the four-day period of June 9-12, 2011 along the banks of the tidal Schuylkill River - from the historic Fairmont Park Water Works and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, south to landmark Bartram's Garden.

Lesley Mitchell at the Athenaeum of Philadelphia

A La Milonga / At The Milonga an artist book by Leslie Mitchell
exhibition
Friday, June 3, 2011
Thursday, June 30, 2011

Philadelphia Artists’ Books Travel to Venice
Delaware Valley Chapter of the Guild of Book Workers Members’ Exhibition

 

Lesley Mitchell’s At the Milonga unfolds in myriad ways to reveal a Buenos Aires dance hall with musicians and dancers, and as the wings of the book open and the folds simultaneously tumble towards the viewer, the perspective brings the heads of joyful or serious participants right up to my face. Surely, I am the dancer next to the couple in front. I feel their breath. I hear the music...

AUDIOACITY: Music As Muse at Sande Webster

The intersection of art and music has been a long standing tradition at Sande Webster Gallery. For more than 30 years we have been exhibiting painting, photography and sculpture that is directly influenced by or related to music, specifically Jazz. Whether it’s the gestural marks of abstraction dashed across canvas or light captured by the camera’s eye in the fleeting moments of arpeggio and applause. One motivation remains constant, the actualization of passion.

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