May 20, 2013
For the second year in a row, University City District brings its popular interactive public art installation, Heart & Soul: The University City Public Piano Project, to West Philadelphia. The exhibit, which will be on display June 6-16, features four artist-decorated pianos. This year, all four pianos will be placed throughout Clark Park, and musicians [...]
Read more»March 26, 2013
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) has teamed up with Amtrak to bring Brooklyn-based artist KAWS’ 16-foot-tall sculpture Companion (Passing Through) to Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station in University City. The fiberglass and metal sculpture, a reimagining of Mickey Mouse, will make its Philadelphia debut on Thursday, April 11, and will remain on display [...]
Read more»March 26, 2013
As the spring season approaches, the hugely popular City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program tours are launching upgraded excursions for the 2013 season, offering great opportunities to take in some of the more than 3,600 murals in the city. With a number of new tours like Speciality Trolley Tours, Mural Arts Masterpieces and Mural Arts [...]
Read more»March 5, 2013
Reading Terminal Market’s new art installation is officially on view. Appropriately titled Food Chain, the piece is With Art Philadelphia’s first public art installation and was created by artist, textile designer and author/illustrator, Alex Stadler of stadler-Kahn. Food Chain is constructed out of polychromed papier mache and carved Styrofoam and is the first of several [...]
Read more»October 12, 2012
October is Mural Arts Month, so what better time to put the spotlight on an inspiring new interactive art program to this city — the home of the largest public art program in the United States? If you follow this link, you can compose your own Haiku — one of those clever little 5,7,5 syllable [...]
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Today’s Philly 101 video spotlights Penny Balkin Bach, Executive Director of the Association For Public Art (formerly known as the Fairmount Park Art Association).
The Association for Public Art is the nation’s first private, nonprofit organization dedicated to integrating public art and urban planning. It was founded in 1872, but today is more active than ever in commissioning, preserving and promoting public art in Philadelphia.
Watch the quick video above to meet Penny, see just a sampling of some of the city’s most treasured pieces of public art, and learn what she wishes more people knew about in Philadelphia.
Bonus: get pumped for the Association For Public Art’s exciting fall project, Open Air, a world premiere sky-high interactive public art experience over the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.
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Today’s Philly 101 video spotlights Penny Balkin Bach, Executive Director of the Association For Public Art (formerly known as the Fairmount Park Art Association). The Association for Public Art is the nation’s first private, nonprofit organization dedicated to integrating public art and urban planning. It was founded in 1872, but today is more active than [...]
Read more»June 19, 2012
Public art in Philadelphia just got cooler, literally, with a water-inspired sculpture installed at Manayunk’s Canal View Park. It’s called “Escaped Infrastructure,” and it’s on display now through July 29. This weekend, the Manayunk Arts Festival (more on that tomorrow), is a great opportunity to check it out. “Escaped Infrastructure,” a collaboration between Mural Arts [...]
Read more»June 5, 2012
What do you get when you mix eight pianos, eight artists and eight public spaces? The University City Public Piano Project, of course! From June 7-17, University City District will present Heart & Soul: The University City Public Piano Project, an interactive public art exhibition featuring eight artist-decorated pianos on sidewalks, in parks and public [...]
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Today’s Philly 101 video features Ashlie Thornbury, Director Of Retention Initiatives at Campus Philly, a nonprofit organization that fuels economic growth by encouraging college students to study, explore, live and work in the Greater Philadelphia tri-state region. Learn about what Ashlie does, and what she wishes more people knew about and appreciated here in Philadelphia, below.
Today’s Philly 101 video features Ashlie Thornbury, Director Of Retention Initiatives at Campus Philly, a nonprofit organization that fuels economic growth by encouraging college students to study, explore, live and work in the Greater Philadelphia tri-state region. Learn about what Ashlie does, and what she wishes more people knew about and appreciated here in Philadelphia, [...]
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Watch the Philly 101 video below to meet Village Whiskey master mixologist Lindsey Krueger and learn what he wishes more people knew about in Philadelphia. Turns out, when he’s not concocting creative cocktails behind the bar of Jose Garces’ famed whiskey bar and burger joint, Krueger has an appreciative eye for art in the city.
Watch the Philly 101 video below to meet Village Whiskey master mixologist Lindsey Krueger and learn what he wishes more people knew about in Philadelphia. Turns out, when he’s not concocting creative cocktails behind the bar of Jose Garces’ famed whiskey bar and burger joint, Krueger has an appreciative eye for art in the city.
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