Fringe Festival September 7!

Thanks to our Treasurer Virginia Maksymowicz and Rick deCoyte from Silicon Gallery, we will have a table in front of the gallery on Friday, September 7 from 5:30-close. Silicon Gallery is even kind enough to provide a table for the event!

We are also really looking for members to donate items for a bake sale. We will also be selling small WCA tote bags, buttons, stickers, and other items to benefit the WCA. We are going to sell water with WCA labels.

There is also the potential to sell small work if you will volunteer time at the table. It is suggested that some portion of sales be donated to the WCA.

If you would like to donate baked goods or food items but you cannot sit the table, you can drop them off at Bonnie MacAllister's house:
339 N State Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 (in West Philly), or we can try to make other arrangements.
Silicon Gallery is located at 139 W 3rd Street.

Please respond to phila_wca@yahoo.com if you would like to participate.

More Member News

Monmouth University

Department of Art and Design

Rotary Ice House Gallery

Presents

PAMELA FLYNN

The Space In Between

September 10 – October 12, 2007

OPENING RECEPTION

Friday, September 14, 7 – 9 p.m.

GALLERY HOURS

Monday – Friday, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

All events are free and open to the public.

For additional information, please call 732-923-4786.

Monmouth University

West Long Branch, NJ 07764-1898

Rachel Citrino, curates "Drawing the Line"

WHO: Rachel Citrino, artist and independent curator, invited a diverse group of established artists:

CAROL CAPUTO, NY MAUREEN CIACCIO, DE MAURO CORBANI, ITALY

JOHN COSTANZA, PA GERARD DIFALCO, PA ELAINE ERNE, PA

SHREEPAD JOGELAKAR, TX JACK LARIMORE, NJ KATE MUNDIE, PA

JIM MUNDIE, PA MICHELLE OOSTERBAAN, MO JACKIE SANDRO, NJ

Z’OTZ COLLABORATIVE, CANADA: Nahúm Flores, Erik Jerezano, and Ilyana Martínez

WHEN: August 17 until September 15, 2007

Opening Reception to meet the artists on Friday, August 17, 2007 5pm-9p

WHERE: THE RIVERFRONT RENAISSANCE CENTER FOR THE ARTS

22 NORTH HIGH STREET, MILLVILLE, NJ 08332

CONTACT: Gallery Director, Carolyne Krull 856. 327-4500

Exhibition Curator, Rachel Citrino 856.305.4810

DETAILS: More than forty drawings by thirteen accomplished international and intergenerational artists will be exhibited and offered for sale at RRCA from August 17 to September 15. The works are diverse in materials used as well as style and subject depicted.

Nicole Dul at Moore College Faculty Show

                                                    Opening Reception

           Wednesday, Sept 5, 5:30  8pm
           Free and open to the public

Join us for the opening of four new
exhibitions:

The 2007 Moore College of Art & Design
Faculty Triennial Exhibition Showcasing
the breadth of talent and artistic achievements by
members of Moore's teaching community.

Important Event for Artists

This is important for Philadelphia artists!

September 9, 2007
5:30 – 7:00 PM
Wine and Cheese reception to follow
The Painted Bride Art Center
230 Vine Street, Philadelphia PA
Free and open to the public

The sponsors of this event are The Samuel S. Fels Fund, William Penn Foundation, Independence Foundation, The Connelly Foundation, LINC Philadelphia, The Leeway Foundation, The Philadelphia Live Arts/Fringe Festival, and The Philadelphia Foundation. Special assistance for the event from Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance , Philagrafika, InLiquid, Studio Z Design, Moore College of Art and Design, Drexel University's Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design.

Philadelphia's expanding and maturing Creative Sector
is at an important and critical juncture. Many public
and private sector opinion makers, civic leaders, and
elected officials agree that there is an opportunity
in this emerging political climate to harness the
energy of the Creative Sector to consolidate
Philadelphia revitalization and create the conditions
to drive the economy and the creative sector.

Culture, Creativity and the City Town Hall Meeting is
an opportunity to discuss the cultural policy issues
relevant to artists, cultural workers, community
members, elected officials, youth, and others, to
learn from the successes and failures of other cities
and to help define our aspirations for the next
administration for the creative sector.

This meeting is intended to draw together and build
consensus in the cultural communities and creative
sector about the key policies that the next mayoral
administration may consider in terms of promising
practices as they relate to the creative sector's
principles. Its theme is centered on the connection of
creative workers and city government.
The Panelists
Panelists are representatives from cities highlighted
in the Rand Report, "Art in the Metropolis: Strategies
for Sustainability":
Dr. Dwight D. Walth, D.M.A., Director of Grants
Services and Community Initiatives, Phoenix Office of
Arts and Culture
Dr. Erin Trapp, Director - Office of Art, Culture &
Film - City of Denver
Randi Vega, Director of Cultural Affairs, Baltimore of
Promotion and the Arts
Moderated by:
Cecelia Fitzgibbon, Director, Arts Administration
Program, Drexel University
A reception sponsored by the Independence Foundation
to follow.
What People are saying about the Culture, Creativity
and the City Town Hall Meeting:
Philadelphia Weekly's Roberta Fallon callsthe meeting
"a must-see Philly Fringe event for every artist and
friend of the arts." Read the article.

XPN Morning Show and "Arts and Culture Maven,"
Michaela Majoun, interviewed Matty Hart for the Fall
Arts Preview. Listen to the show.

Member News

Sonia Sherrod's assemblage, "By Hand" was accepted into the juried show, "The Art of Sacrifice" at Altered Esthetics Gallery, Minneapolis MN. The show runs from September 6th through the 27th. Opening reception September 7th 7pm-9pm.

Altered Esthetics
1224 Quincy St Ne
Minneapolis MN

                                                               
Alison Altergott                                                                                                                             
In Print/Imprint
Solo Show
Opening September 7


St. Stephen's Lutheran Church 
13th & Broom Streets 
Wilmington, DE
302-652-7623



Carol Taylor-Kearney Curates Show at Stratosphere

Three artists from New Jersey, Don Simon, Luke
Weichmann,and Charles Katzenbach, will be
exhibiting their artwork at StrataSphere,an
exhibition space in Philadelphia.
The exhibition is entitled Multiplicity, which
refers to theidea of repetition and duplication.
The show, curated byCarol Taylor-Kearney,
will be at StrataSpherefrom August 25th
through September 29th.
An opening reception for the show is
from 2pm until 5pm on Saturday, August 25th.

Stratasphere is located at 1854 Germantown Avenue
in Philadelphia.For more information on this
and other upcoming events
at Stratasphere, please call 267/974-5060 or send an
email to info@thestratasphere.com.
You can also visit them on the web at
 www.thestratasphere.com.

Virginia Maksymowicz at Powell House

Virginia Maksymowicz
Rules of Civility

September 14-October 21, 2007
Opening reception: Sept. 14, 5-8pm
Powel House Museum
244 S. 3rd Street
Philadelphia, PA
215.627.0364
Pay-what-you-wish admission
Thurs-Fri, 12-5pm,Sun 1-5pm

Rules of Civility is a mixed-media installation that draws its inspiration from two Eliza's: Elizabeth Willing Powel and Eliza Leslie. Besides sharing similar first names, the women were roughly contemporaries, their lives having overlapped by 43 years. They both lived in Philadelphia. And they were both, very much, ladies of their time.

Elizabeth Willing (1743-1830) was the wife of one of Philadelphia's mayors, Samuel Powel, and the house they shared on 3rd Street was often visited by George and Martha Washington, John Adams and Benjamin Franklin. She was a prolific letter-writer and many of her personal papers are archived at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and at the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association in Virginia. Although credited with convincing Washington to serve a second term as president, much of her correspondence as seen by Maksymowicz deals with the day-to-day minutia of turn-of-the-century life. Her husband died of yellow fever in 1793, and Elizabeth spent her remaining 36 years as a widow.

Eliza Leslie (1787-1858) was born in Philadelphia and spent her childhood in London. Her father, Robert, was a clockmaker and a personal friend of Benjamin Franklin. The family returned to America when Eliza was twelve. Even at that early age, she loved to write but despaired at ever becoming a published author. When her father died in 1803, financial hardship caused her mother to take in boarders. Eliza went to cooking school, possibly to help with the family's new business. These studies led her to the publish a cookbook, followed by a series of children's books, magazine articles and etiquette guides. She eventually became somewhat of a celebrity and she received many distinguished visitors at her residence at the United States Hotel.

The Powel House installation consists of a series of open books, cast in white Hydrostone plaster, overlaid with quotations from Eliza Leslie's The Behaviour Book and Elizabeth Powel's own words. Images of Elizabeth, chosen from the numerous portraits painted of her during her lifetime, peer out from underneath the texts. The books, along with pairs of 18-century shoes, quill pens and inkwells also cast in Hydrostone are positioned within the various rooms of the historic house, along with items selected from the collection. Throughout the installation, a soft female voice can be heard detailing the etiquette of middle-class society. The title, Rules of Civility, is taken from Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior, a pamphlet of good manners written by George Washington himself.

Exhibition made possible with support from Franklin & Marshall College and the Vermont Studio Center.

Call For Entries

THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS: The Seven Holy Virtues.
Needed:
original artwork, readings, video,
performances and
installation proposals 
inspired by any of the sins
and/or virtues - lust/chastity, 
gluttony/abstinence,
greed/liberality,
sloth/diligence, wrath/patience, 
envy/kindness, pride/humility
for exhibition and/or
performance in 
November through December, 2007
at the Fulton Street
Gallery, Troy, NY.
 
Contact: 274-8464; e-mail:
info@fultonstreetgallery.org
fultonstreetgallery.org

Member News

Dae Rebeck Sanchez  
The Collingswood Crafts and Fine Arts Festival*
Haddon Avenue, Collingswood, NJ
Saturday August 11th  10am to 6pm
Sunday August 12th 11am to 5 pm
She is in Booth #175
For More Information:  www.collingswood.com