It’s no secret that with the current economic climate, education has been taking some tough hits. Furthermore, it’s pretty common knowledge that among the first areas to be slashed is arts funding. Instead of bemoaning the plight of lost money, Barbara Chandler Allen and her son Roger set out to harness the knowledge and talent [...]
Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe proves that its promise to provide quality, year-round programming to the region is in full swing. This Knight Arts grantee just brought the first ever “Robot-Human Theater” to Old City’s Christ Church Neighborhood House. Produced by Seinendan Theater Company and Osaka University Robot Theater Project, this innovative and [...]
Knight Arts Challenge Philadelphia winner Franklin’s Paine Skatepark Fund was awarded $100,000 to help transform Philly neighborhoods by transforming blacktop lots into art-lade skate parks. The video above is the first in their series of Paine’s Park construction.
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 [...]
Homunculus Inc. – the Philadelphia-based theater company – is currently participating in the Philly Fringe Festival (a Knight Arts grantee) with its brand new translation and adaptation of August Strindberg’s classic chamber play “Ghost Sonata.” The haunting play will aptly take place at the Philadelphia Mausoleum of Contemporary Art (PhilaMOCA) through September 16. This production of [...]
On September 20th, the Benjamin Franklin Parkway will come alive with more than just the bright colors of autumn. Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer will transform a stretch of Philadelphia’s famous cultural promenade with 24 of the brightest searchlights in the world for an interactive public art project called “Open Air.” Commissioned by the Association for [...]
The recently relocated Philadelphia Sculpture Gym is beginning to thrive at its new home on Frankford Avenue in Fishtown. This Knight Arts grantee began its move back in March after receiving a $20,000 Knight Arts Challenge grant in 2011. In the works for the new location are gallery space, lockers, a large work area with equipment [...]
The sixth annual Kensington Kinetic Sculpture Derby (KKSD) took place over the weekend on Saturday, May 19. The derby is an outdoor, all-day affair that included more than a few giant, moving, human-powered sculptures. It is supported in part by a Knight Arts Challenge grant. More design competition than race, participants in the KKSD ride [...]
For one of its sparser shows in recent memory, the ever-surprising Knight Arts grantee Vox Populi has an exhibition which showcases a mere four artists, most with only one work apiece — far less than its usual fare. Each artist presents individual pieces of wildly different styles, any of which could almost be a standalone [...]
The theater company Tiny Dynamite has a smashing success with its productions as part of “A Play, a Pie and a Pint,” thanks to its 2011 Knight Arts grant. The idea is that the audience gets to see an entertaining play at a non-traditional time of day (often happy hour) aside a slice of pie and [...]
