Follow the comments and suggest a name by noon Friday, vote by midnight Saturday

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  Edna Santiago Gallery

  I am wanting to set a contest out for name selection. I made her, what people see is what interests me. I was thinking of accepting submittals till noon Friday and if I get a fair discussion, lets say 15 votes minimum by midnight Saturday, I will then choose the name with highest votes for the show. I will hang this piece up on Sunday. Spread the word. If your name is chosen you win a couple of painting notecards of mine. If The highest count falls on my suggestion, you still get to place your name in the hat for participating in the name submittal. May the best name win!

3rd Street Gallery

58 N. 2nd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106

215/625-0993

Gallery Hours: Wed - Sun 12 - 5 PM

www.3rdstreetgallery.com

www.keithsharp.net

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LOCATION
1521 Locust St., Lower Level
Philadelphia, PA 19102
www.cfeva.org

September 16
Know your Rights- Enforcing Contracts and Agreements

October 21
Emerging Technology and the Artist

November 18
The Anotomy of a Grant

December 16
Defining Success for Artists Part 1

January 20
Every Artist Insured: a Guide to Healthcare Reform

February 17
Photographic Resources (for Photographers and Artists Alike)

March 17
Defining Success for Artists part 2

April 21
Pricing your Artwork

May 19
Get your Work Out of the Gallery: Alternative Venues to Exhibit

Programs begin at 5:30 pm. Each session is $12.00 unless a $90.00 subscription is purchased for the 2010 – 2011 season.

Registration is required. Individuals who have not pre-registered are not guaranteed a seat. To reserve a space or to receive more information about The Center for Emerging Visual Artists or Direct Dialogues Lecture Series, please contact Genevieve Coutroubis, by phone (215) 546 - 7775 x 11 or by email Genevieve@cfeva.org.

House Party Fundraiser
Thurs., Sept. 30, 7-10 pm
$15 in advance/$20 at the door
We’re kicking off our More Than Just A One Night Stand exhibition with a House Party Fundraiser, complete with music, beer, demos like graffiti art, caricaturists and make-it, take-its like a print exchange and shrinky dink jewelry. House Party guests will also have a private viewing of the More Than Just A One Night Stand Exhibit. Ticket sales benefit the Art Center’s award-winning arts education and community outreach programs. Visit www.mainlineart.org to purchase tickets in advance and save!

Main Line Art Center
746 Panmure Road
Haverford, PA 19041
610.525.0272
610.525.5036 (fax)
www.mainlineart.org

A glimpse into Fairmount Art Center’s fall kids classes finds mini-Mozart’s banging out rhythms on drums and shaking their “tail feathers” on Sundays or Wednesdays. Toddler through teen artists will be thinking-out-of-the-box while exploring art foundations. Tots can draw, paint, print, collage, build, sculpt, and more with a beloved adult and kids ages 4 and up can be dropped off for exciting themed classes that will inspire creative brilliance! All classes are designed to engage children in creative exploration and develop a lifelong love for the arts. Fall session I themes include Spinning Stories, Weaving Words and Puppetry & Mask Making from Around the World for ages 4 to 6, Doll Making & The Dawn of Man and Sculpture Foundations for ages 6 to 8, Adorn: Wearable’s & Jewelry from Northern Africa and Cartooning & Book Arts for ages 8 through teen. Other creative opportunities for kids include after-school art, birthday parties, and vacation camps; if your child’s school is closed-FAC is open!

Adult creative learning includes classes in drawing, painting, printmaking, mixed media, digital photography, photoshop, sewing, screenprinting, jewelry, theater arts, and more!

FAC is also excited to announce a new weekly Friday evening, adult, workshop series. Every Friday night a workshop is held in a wide range of media organized in series including jewelry, textiles, paper and book arts, and ceramics. Sign up for one or sign up for a few related workshops. You can make fused glass or silver clay pieces then work them into jewelry during the beading basics workshop or make paper then book bind with it, there are lots of creative options!

“I am really excited about our 2010 fall schedule. We have brought together a wonderful team of talented teachers that are passionate about sharing their creative approach with artists of all ages and ability levels! We’re also introducing classes in new media, longer studio hours for adults, and more after school art options for kids and families!,” said Jill Markovitz, director of Fairmount Art Center.

Fall Session I begins September 20 and Fall Session II begins November 1, classes run for 6 week sessions. For a full list of classes or to register, visit www.fairmountartcenter.com.

September 10 - October 3
Opening Reception: Friday, Sept. 10th, 6 to 9 PM

“Acts of Nature” is an unpretentious mixture of both film and digital landscape photographs. Derek creates his art while on “photographic journeys” where he travels to remote locations, such as Canada’s Northwest Territories, Labrador or obscure locations throughout the US. Derek drives thousands of miles to get to these places, focusing for weeks on end on only one thing: making the photograph. He has zigged-zagged across the US and Canada multiple times to create his body of photographic artwork. For Derek, creating photographs is not a process that is easily planned out; he makes his photographs by getting a feel for a location and then letting go and allowing the creative part of his subconscious to take over. According to Derek, “once in that zone my Hasselblad camera becomes an extension of my body, I’m no longer aware that it’s merely a tool. It’s a part of me, just like my hand or arm.” Central to the exhibition’s theme are photographs that represent natural landscape scenes from across North America, as Derek found them, making the photograph as though nature was unaware that someone was looking on.

Location: Twenty-Two Gallery, 236 S. 22nd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103
www.twenty-twogallery.com
215-772-1911

Hours: Wed. - Sun.; Noon - 6 pm and by appointment

The Philadelphia Sketch Club’s
150th Anniversary Exhibition at City Hall

The City of Philadelphia’s Art In City Hall exhibition program introduces an exhibition by the Philadelphia Sketch Club in celebration of it’s 150th anniversary. 120 paintings, drawings, photographs and prints adorn the 5th floor corridor near the Offices of City Council and the balcony overlooking Council Chambers. The exhibit runs from September 2nd – October 22, 2010 and is located on the fifth floor, North corridor of City Hall. Visitors should sign in at the NE corner visitor’s entrance and take the elevator to the fifth floor. A reception open to the general public is scheduled for Thursday, September 2nd , from 5-7 pm.

The Philadelphia Sketch Club’s 150th Anniversary Members Exhibition at City Hall celebrates the 150th anniversary of America’s oldest artists club. The Sketch Club was founded on November 20, 1860, by six former students of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) who wanted to improve their skills at illustration. From these early meetings it became apparent the artists benefited from social exchange, seeing the works of others, mutual encouragement and a unique camaraderie. The Club’s membership soon included many painters, sculptors, print makers and art critics who would make their mark on American art history. Important early members included A. B. Frost, Thomas Moran, Edward Moran, Daniel Ridgway Knight and Howard Roberts. In the mid-1870s Thomas Eakins taught life classes at the Sketch Club and used that experience to become an instructor at PAFA when they opened the Furness building in 1876. It was during this time that Eakins painted Philadelphia’s most important painting, The Gross Clinic. In 1912 N. C. Wyeth held his first solo exhibition in the Sketch Club’s gallery. These are but a few of the important highlights from the Club’s history. Linked by their location on the 200 block of South Camac Street to the Plastic Club, an early women’s art club, both clubs remained single gender organizations until 1990. Today, over 50% of the Sketch Club’s members are women. The Club continues today with the same zeal as it did in its early days to fulfill its mission to support and nurture working visual artists, the appreciation of the visual arts, visual arts education and the value of the visual arts to the community.

This exhibition, supported by Art In City Hall and the Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy, presents a comprehensive look at art being produced by contemporary Philadelphia Sketch Club members. The exhibition is part of a number of 150th anniversary celebratory exhibitions arranged by the Sketch Club at important venues to include the National Constitution Center, Brandywine River Museum, Athenaeum of Philadelphia, Berman Museum of Art, James A. Michener Art Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Woodmere Art Museum and the Free Library of Philadelphia. You can learn more about the Sketch Club at www.sketchclub.org.

The death of Louise Bourgeois got me thinking recently about muses, mentors, and defeat. I understand that passing on is a part of life. Fear not, the denial of that is not the focus of this article.

There is always a small tug at the heart when I hear an artist has passed, or when I find out they have passed in recent years. The more recent losses of Jeane Claude, Louise Bourgeois, and Elizabeth Murray have each had their own reaction from me.

I had done a project on Jeane Claude and Christo back in college at Arcadia University (shameless plug). I had learned she and Christo were lovers and shared the same birthday, the day after Christmas. Together they wrapped landmarks, islands, and covered California in beautiful yellow umbrellas to make you rethink your environment.

The illustrative quality of Louise Bourgeois’ sculptures is something I’m sure has inspired the costumes of Lady Gaga. As for Elizabeth Murray; she broke the barrier of the square, rectangular canvas shape. Creating tea cups, jagged obtuse angles and a new expression.

Maybe it’s the thought of looking at those artistic influences in your life and being inspired at the fact that they were still alive and creating and continuing to break molds.  Unlike Cezanne, Van Gogh, and Matisse who have all already passed on even before you knew what the color “red” was.  These genius artists had created and passed and left a mark and would now be studied for years and years and years to come.

It’s the same with when a musician dies.  Whether it’s “their time” or something else.  You almost feel sad that that’s all you are able to have witnessed, and hear or see.  Thankfully, though, we do move on and continue to be inspired by them, and as always, make it your own.

Meg Coonelly

next week: not sure yet, but I know something will come to me.

98 works of art considered by the jurors as Absolutely Abstract

The selection of ninety-eight art works by jurors David Foss and Michael Gallagher for The Philadelphia Sketch Club’s Absolutely Abstract 2010 exhibit is engaging, exciting and challenging.  The range of interpretations runs through almost any media you can think of - Kyle Margiotta’s, Ribbon, pencil drawing takes basic materials and elevates them to an alternate reality, Rik Viola’s painting is a triumph in context and Mina Smith-Segal suggests surrealism, impressionism, brutalism, naive primitive-ism…all modern and contemporary styles but stretching the envelop of the popular view of abstraction.

Read more @ DoNArTNeWs.

The Center for Emerging Visual Artists™ strives to provide the essential support services and programs emerging artists need to build sustainable careers.

Our two-year Career Development Program offers a select group of highly talented artists:

* Exhibitions
* Community
* Career counseling
* Mentorship
* Professional development seminars
* Volunteer opportunities
* Alumni solo exhibitions
* Alumni travel grants

Eligibility requirements include:

* Applicants cannot be full time students.
* Applicants must live within 100 miles of Philadelphia (NYC and the 5 boroughs, NJ, DE, and Baltimore included).
* Applicants cannot have an ongoing contractual agreement with a commercial gallery or gallery representation.

The application can be found online at www.cfeva.org. For more information, please contact Amie Potsic, Director of the Career Development Program at amie@cfeva.org or 215-546-7775 x 12.