For Immediate Release:
Contact: lancasterwomen@gmail.com
Drexel-Lower Lancaster Corridor Partnership presents
Maria Anasazi
Wendy Graves-Papadopoulos
Mandy Katz
Liddy Lindsay
Bonnie MacAllister
Virginia Maksymowicz
Rebecca Rose
Ellen Tiberino
Ana Uribe
Opens 9/30 from 5-9 p.m. as part of LOOK! on Lancaster Avenue
Show
runs 9/30-10/30
Special Philadelphia Open Studios Hours 12-6 on
10/1-10/2
Gallery hours through 10/30 Wednesday 5-9, Saturday
12-6
People’s Emergency Center
Fattah
Homes
4017 Lancaster Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19104
LOOK!
on Lancaster Avenue: Concept and Vision
To
begin to restore West Philadelphia's Lancaster Avenue Corridor and support the
creative talents of its residents, Drexel University, in partnership with the
University City District, the People's Emergency Center and Powelton-Mantua
community arts groups, is sponsoring a public art project: LOOK! on Lancaster Avenue.
This project will run from September 30-November 30, 2011, and will take place
in various locations along the Lancaster Avenue Corridor, starting at 34th
Street and extending westward to 41st Street.
LOOK! will feature art placed in the windows and
storefronts of vacant buildings along Lancaster Avenue; group art shows in
existing galleries or public spaces; and public performances at various
locations along Lancaster Avenue.
As Drexel University embarks on an extensive program of urban revitalization
in Powelton and Mantua, LOOK!
provides a unique opportunity for West Philadelphia residents to come together
in a celebration of creativity and innovation. The project's goals are to
encourage public participation and social interaction; serve as a catalyst for
business and culture along the Lancaster Avenue Corridor; and help engender a
sense of civic pride and community spirit among the residents of the Corridor
neighborhoods. The project also consists of public presentations by local
artists and performers on September 30, 2011. LOOK! will present performing arts across various
disciplines—music, dance and theater—in various locations along the Lancaster
Corridor.
Women
of Lancaster Avenue Artists
Maria Anasazi is an artist who works in sculpture, installation, video and performance. She has had solo exhibitions at the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, DE, Arlington Arts Place, VA, and Pyramid Atlantic, MD and has been included in group exhibitions in the USA and Europe. Through her art she interacts and transforms materials that are remnants of our collective history by adding personal meaning to them. www.mariaanasazi.com
Wendy Graves- Papadopoulos has lived in West Powelton for 15 years. She
volunteered at the University Arts League for 5 years. She is the co-founder of
the Satellite cafe at 50th & Baltimore. Her current work involves
hand-dyed natural fabrics which are assembled into blankets. She
believes that there is something inherently valuable in art that you can
use, i.e. ornamental utilitarianism. She also works in ceramics and
silversmithing. 
Mandy Katz will be showing mixed media paintings and drawings that express her
subjective experience of the local architecture. Included are portraits of
nearby historic buildings Hawthorne Hall and the Provident Mutual Life
Insurance Company of Philadelphia building. She has lived in various West
Philadelphia neighborhoods over the past 15 years and has been in West Powelton
for the last 4. By day she works as a gardener at Bartram's Garden,
passionately collecting and tending both rare and common plants there. She is
devoted to personal creative expression and for her that has taken a variety of
forms including music making, painting, sewing, ceramics, dress up, building,
and gardening. www.flickr.com/photos/mandykatz/
Liddy Lindsay is an artist living and working in Powelton Village since 1987. She graduated from the Tyler School of Art in 1976. From 1978-83, she lived in Perugia, Italy. While in Italy, Lindsay studied Decorative Painting and Fine Art. Since returning to Philadelphia in 1983, Liddy Lindsay has had a Decorative Painting business, with clients that include the Reading Terminal Market, Winterthur and the Ebeneezer Maxwell Mansion. Liddy Lindsay also designed the mural on the corner of Baring Street and Saunders Avenue in Powelton Village. LiddyLindsay.com
Bonnie MacAllister (WCA member) is a multimedia performance artist who works in oil, watercolor, film, theatre, and mixed media. She has recently shown her visual artwork at the Delaware Art Museum, Galeria 6 (Mexico), the Center for Green Urbanism (DC), University of Pennsylvania, Montclair State University (NJ), and Florissant Valley Art Gallery in St. Louis, MO. She studied under Jacques Derrida, Helene Cixous, and Agnes Varda. She is a Fulbright-Hays recipient to Ethiopia and a Pushcart Prize nominee. She has lived in Sanders Park since 2004. bonniemacallister.com
Rebecca
Rose is a portrait painter,
sculptor, and director of RMFAC Studio/Gallery whose works of art are
inspirational on quality and exceptional detail. She is well known for her “perfect portraits.” She studied under Ms. Rose
Washington-Metzger known for her work during the Harlem Renaissance. She has created commissions
including the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. bronze bust monument as part of the
Pennsylvania State Historic Marker Project launched by the HUB Coalition in
Philadelphia in 2008. www.wix.com/rebecca_rose/RMFACart
Ellen Tiberino can claim a connection to the Lancaster corridor since birth. She is daughter of distinguished artists Ellen Powell Tiberino and Joe Tiberino. She studied visual arts at Fleisher Art Memorial and Moore College as a child and during high school at Creative and Performing arts she studied the performing arts of drama dance and singing. Over the past five years, as well as teaching she directed her main energies to sculptural relief glass work (mural and easel size). She worked at times with artists Joseph Brenman and Gail Gruniger Scuderi on different mosaic mural projects and the community peace pole project (a joint project between the Ellen Powell Tiberino Memorial Museum and the West Park Cultural and Opportunity Center where students clay masks were affixed to a pole in mosaic.) Ellen curates shows at The Ellen Powell Tiberino Memorial, named for her mother and where she has executed two major murals “And Still I Rise” (2007) and “Tomorrows a New Day” (2008). She is currently working on several small mosaic pieces for upcoming shows. tiberinomuseum.org
Ana Uribe is
an artist of many talents who enjoys working in both Colombia and in
Philadelphia, Pa as a muralist. She has worked on a number of murals sponsored
by the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program. In the 80's, when the men of her family died, she
went back to Colombia, and with her mother, she moved to the cattle ranch in
the Cauca region of AntioquĂa, Colombia, and that's when she started painting
landscapes. By expressing herself through them, she experienced the power of
nature, and her whole career took a meaningful path that has carried me on
since then. anauribev.com
