The Knight Arts program is now seeking grant opportunities in Philadelphia that can create transformational change through artistic excellence and collective cultural experiences. If you’re interested in learning more about working with Knight in the arts, please visit Knight Arts Challenge Philadelphia or contact Philadelphia Program Director Donna Frisby-Greenwood.
In its first two years, Knight Arts Challenge Philadelphia has awarded $5.4 million to 71 projects — all of which focus on engaging and enriching Philly’s neighborhoods through the arts. If you’ve got an idea that will bring fresh thinking, inspiration and innovation to the city’s cultural community, now is the time to apply: Applications [...]
Following with their theme of process-based exhibits, the gallery at Knight Arts grantee Philadelphia Sculpture Gym is displaying artwork by a number of member artists in the medium of wood. The first installment in this series dealt with castings (with a solo show sandwiched in between) and now the sculptors take on the versatile material [...]
In order to promote economic stability for the city’s up-and-coming cultural community, Philadelphia’s University of the Arts strives to not only support its graduates, but also the community at large. The Creative Incubator program — for which UArts won a $120,000 grant in the second year of the Knight Arts Challenge Philadelphia— already provides pre-seed [...]
The Painted Bride Art Center, along with Acción Colombia, is co-presenting the exhibition “Papeles” through October 21. The show deals with documents and signatures in terms of immigration, citizenship, national identity and our shared humanity. Acción Colombia’s mission is to promote leadership and empower the Latino community in and around the tri-state area:Pennsylvania, New Jersey [...]
We’re giving you one more opportunity this week to ask questions before the Knight Arts Challenge Philadelphia deadline at midnight on Oct. 15. Join our live web chat this Tuesday, Oct. 9, from 1 to 2 p.m. at KnightArts.org. Just type in your questions and get real-time answers from Knight Foundation staff. Last week, Philadelphia [...]
At the International House Philadelphia, there are two concurrent exhibits of extremely different timbre. First, there is “Faces of a New China,” a documentary photography excursion by Amanda Stevenson Lupke. Just down the hall is “The Woman Represented,” a series of works curated by Reza Ghanad which depicts images of women in a variety of [...]
A multifaceted arts organization in the heart of Philadelphia’s up-and-coming Chinatown North, Asian Arts Initiative is more than a gallery and performing arts space — and its programming backs up that idea. To provide everyday artistic experiences in nontraditional spaces and unexpected neighborhoods, the initiative is creating site-specific works that double as community-development builders. For [...]
The West Philly collaborative workspace the Traction Company has been sprucing up its stretches of Haverford Avenueand 41st Streets with a revolving door – or rather revolving windows – of different artists’ large-scale work. Starting in early October, the windows will be home to the surreal, loosely narrative scrolls of Justin Duerr. The opening of [...]
Philadelphia’s Bearded Ladies Cabaret is on a mission: to attract new audiences to performance art — and to Broad Street. In creating a series of original and immersive late-night cabarets at the Wilma Theater, the Bearded Ladies hope to use the spectacle, intimacy and informality inherent to the art form to tackle questions of politics, [...]
By Jaime Bramble Schell, Philadelphia Museum of Art The Philadelphia Museum of Art is home to the largest collection of work by Marcel Duchamp in the world, with visitors from across the globe drawn to these galleries year after year. One such visit in the late 1950s was so meaningful that without it, the Museum’s [...]
