Art Proposals — 2013 Season
Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site
2027 Fairmount Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19130

About Eastern State Penitentiary

Eastern State Penitentiary was once the most famous and expensive prison in the world, but stands today in ruin, a haunting world of crumbling cellblocks and empty guard towers.

Known for its grand architecture and strict discipline, this was the world’s first true “penitentiary,” a prison designed to inspire penitence, or true regret, in the hearts of convicts.

Its vaulted, sky-lit cells once held many of America’s most notorious criminals, including bank robber “Slick Willie” Sutton and Al Capone.

Delivery: The deadline is for arrival at the site, not for a postmark. Please mail your application with sufficient time to arrive at Eastern State before the deadline. Applicants may also drop off proposals at the site between 10 am and 5 pm daily.

Grace Period: There is a 24-hour grace period for all applications. Applications received after 4 pm on Thursday, June 14, 2012 will not be reviewed.

Confirmation: Please include a self-addressed, stamped postcard if you would like confirmation that your package was received. All applicants will be notified of the review committee’s decision by email in the fall.

Contact:
Sean Kelley
Senior Vice President, Director of Public Programming
sk@easternstate.org
(215) 236‑5111 x13

www.easternstate.org

2027 Fairmount Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19130
Phone: (215) 236‑3300

Adirondack Chairs reinterpreted.

The Morris Arboretum and Woodmere Art Museum, located in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, are collaborating to organize an outdoor exhibition during the summer of 2012.

Call for Artists

Artists of the Philadelphia region are invited to apply and commit to reinterpreting an individual or pair of full size chairs. Child-size chairs can be included as an optional second or third chair. You’re invited to paint, decorate, reinterpret, redesign, or just do something great with one of America’s great outdoor classics, the Adirondack Chair. Selected works must be treated properly for durability so as to withstand the natural elements for three months outside in the open air. They must also be strong enough to withstand interaction with visitors of all ages. An honorarium of $200 will be awarded to each artist.

The deadline for the submission of a letter of interest is February 7, 2012. Selections will be made by February 22 and partially assembled wooden Adirondack chairs will be available to artists by February 27. Completed chairs are due the week of April 30. Prizes will be awarded and chairs will be on view outdoors throughout the summer at either the Morris Arboretum or Woodmere. The exhibit will close September 3 (Labor Day).

Please submit a letter of interest with contact information and CV electronically tomconners@upenn.edu, accompanied by supporting materials or links to websites that demonstrate the nature of your existing work. A selection of artists will be made with the intent to include a broad range of artistic practices and approaches.

Contact Michelle Conners with questions: 215.247.5777 x109 or mconners@upenn.edu ordownload more information.

It’s the last days to get a chance to see this survey of African American Artists.

from the website:
30 Americans is a wide-ranging survey of work by many of the most important African American artists of the last three decades. Selected from the Rubell Family Collection, the exhibition brings together seminal figures such as Jean-Michel Basquiat and David Hammons with younger and emerging artists such as Kehinde Wiley and Shinique Smith.

30 Americans focuses on issues of racial, sexual, and historical identity in contemporary culture. It explores how each artist reckons with the notion of black identity in America, navigating such concerns as the struggle for civil rights, popular culture, and media imagery. At the same time, it highlights artistic legacy and influence, tracing subject matter and formal strategies across generations.

Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art + Design
500 Seventeenth Street NW Washington, DC 20006
Gallery: (202) 639‑1700

post image: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Bird On Money, 1981. Acrylic and oil on canvas, 66 x 90 inches. Courtesy of Rubell Family Collection, Miami.

We wanted to share this video of Rebecca Gilbert who has one of our sites.
A nice conversation about her work.

from her website:

Rebecca Gilbert is an experienced printmaker who works primarily in the mediums of woodcut and intaglio. She earned her MFA in Printmaking/Book Arts from The University of the Arts, where she was awarded the Elizabeth C. Robert Prize for Graduate Study in MFA Book Arts/Printmaking. She earned her BFA in Printmaking from Marshall University. More recently, she studied non-toxic etching at the Grafisk Eksperimentarium in Capeliera, Spain. Rebecca has been an artist in residence at Jentel Foundation in Banner, Wyoming and is an alumnus of Nexus Foundation for Today’s Art in Philadelphia, where she presented two solo exhibitions and curated The Extra-Dimensional Printmaking Invitational. Rebecca teaches Printmaking at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Her work has been exhibited regionally, nationally, and internationally.

www.rebeccaprint.com

The Center for Emerging Visual Artists invites you to submit images of your artwork for review by our guest curator, Jenny Moore, Assistant Curator at the New Museum. Of the applicants, 10 to 25 artists will be asked to present a digital portfolio of approximately 10 images. Two to four of those artists will be selected for an exhibition in CFEVA’s Felicity R. “Bebe” Benoliel Gallery this summer.

As an exciting new aspect of our Visiting Curator program, this review process and resulting exhibition is a new way to showcase the abundance of talented artists in the region to a curator who is not yet familiar with our artist community. By expanding the program in this way, CFEVA is proud to create more exposure for the artists we serve and provide beneficial new leads for noteworthy curators.

Jenny Moore is Assistant Curator at the New Museum, where her first exhibition Charles Atlas: Joints Array was presented in 2011. In 2010, she was Assistant Curator for “10,000 Lives,” the 8th Gwangju Biennale with Artistic Director Massimiliano Gioni. Moore was Project Curator for The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, New York from 2005 to 2010 where she directed the Andy Warhol Photographic Legacy Program.

The New Museum is the only museum in New York City exclusively devoted to contemporary art. Founded in 1977, the New Museum was conceived as a center for exhibitions, information and documentation about living artists from around the world. From its beginnings as a one-room office on Hudson Street to the inauguration of its first freestanding, dedicated building on the Bowery designed by SANAA in 2007, the New Museum continues to be a place of ongoing experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.

Dates
Application Deadline: March 19th
Digital Portfolio Reviews: March 19 – April 15
Exhibition: May 29 – June 22, 2012
Opening Reception: May 29

Details and Requirements
To apply please visit <https://cfeva.slideroom.com/>. Artists will be asked to provide a resume, artist statement, image list and five images. The total application fee is $20 (this includes the fee to use Slideroom). Artists must reside within 100 miles of Philadelphia and must not currently be a student.

For more information please contact Genevieve Coutroubis at (215) 546‑7775 x11 or gen@cfeva.org.

Zoe Strauss: Ten Years is a mid-career retrospective of the acclaimed photographer’s work and the first critical assessment of her ten-year project to exhibit her photographs annually in a space beneath a section of Interstate-95 (I-95) in South Philadelphia. Strauss’s subjects are broad but her primary focus is on working-class experience, including the most disenfranchised people and places. Her photographs offer a poignant, troubling portrait of contemporary America.

www.zoestrauss.com

About the exhibition >

Do you know her work?

You should.

The work of Eva Hesse born today in 1936. Her work is as fresh today as it was then. If you don’t know her work take the time to learn about this artist who died too soon.

Learn more about her work here >

more info >

The program is intended to support talented, self-directed emerging/mid-career artist in realizing their goals and visions. Resident artists will also serve as a source of inspiration and guidance for the many students, beginning photographers and PPAC members who work and learn at PPAC.

The residency includes access to PPAC’s digital lab during our regular business hours and $500 in credit towards printing and scanning consumables (ink, paper, drum scans or fee for service printing). Travel, housing and living costs are the responsibility of the resident.

Applicants should submit a proposal outlining their project plans. Proposals may include the continuation or completion of work already in process, or the creation of new work. During the residency artists will give one free public event (lecture, workshop, or panel discussion). Upon completion of the residency, artists will be asked to donate one print to PPAC’s collection.

Restrictions:
Because the Artist in Residence program is intended to support working artists, students and commercial photographers are not eligible to apply. We are interested in supporting artists that are committed to the medium and are clear in their goals.
You may submit your application at any time, as the deadline is ongoing. There is a $25 application fee, but no application form or deadline. Application material will not be returned. PPAC’s Artist in Residence Committee will review the application materials. PPAC cannot respond to inquiries about the status of a submission, nor is the Artist in Residence Committee able to offer feedback or reasoning for rejected submissions.

Required Application Materials:
• $25 application fee
• Letter of Intent (one page).
• Resume
• Artist’s statement (one page).
• CD with 15–30 jpegs of work related to the intended project, or recent work if applying for a new project.

Please Send Material to:
Philadelphia Photo Arts Center
Artist in Residence
1400 N American Street #103
Philadelphia, PA 19122

Street Chairs.  It doesn’t matter what city or country, or whether you’re walking or driving by.  They indulge us for a respite. We oblige and pause to contemplate their scene.  We become a part of it. And because they are different, they evoke a sense of fun in us.

The photos are taken quickly, moving from chair to chair, trying to get to them before someone sits down. They’re shot with immediacy—camera in hand, iPhone, toy camera, film, and occasionally, a DSLR. They are then refined to bring out their characteristics of color, shapes, shadows, and location. The best part is not only remembering the location of each set of chairs, but having the opportunity to go and recapture them again and again. Sometimes I just sit in them.  Mostly, I love capturing their portraits.

Anne Saint Peter, 2012

110 CHURCH | gallery
110 Church Street
Philadelphia PA 19106
215 545 7531

HOURS
Wednesday 1:30 – 6:30 pm
Thursday 1:30 – 6:30 pm
Friday 1:30 – 6:30 pm
(except First Fridays, 5:00 — 8:00 pm)

other times by appointment

Located in historic Old City, Philadelphia’s art district 110 CHURCH has been established to show site specific works and unseen work by both emerging and established artists. 110 CHURCH is a Heavy Bubble : websites for artists gallery.