Chip Thomas, aka “jetsonorama”: A CONSTELLATION OF MURALS
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Chip is a photographer, an international public street artist and activist who worked as a physician on the Navajo nation between Monument Valley and The Grand Canyon in Arizona for 36 years retiring in 2023. In 2012 he formed the Painted Desert Project – a community project which resulted in a constellation of murals across the Navajo Nation painted by reservation artists and artists from all over the world. As an artist, a doctor and community activist he has committed himself to the vital health of the Navajo nation and the planet earth in general. Thomas was a 2018 recipient...
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Trent Harris - Heroic Misfits and Secret Worlds
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The independent filmmaker based in , has created his own very distinct and unique style of filmmaking. In 2013, proclaimed Harris "The Best Underground Filmmaker You Don’t Know — But Should." Harris' films have been featured at various festivals and museums worldwide, including renowned venues like , the , the British Film Institute in London, the , the Museum of Modern Art in Vienna Austria, Les Laboratories in Aubervilliers France, The in San Francisco, and the in Berkeley. Harris taught film and screenwriting classes at the and worked as a documentarian and television...
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Stuart Netsky - Walking Backwards into the Future
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“I appreciate the Rococo for its extravagance and theatricality, as it appeals to my love of kitsch.”- STUART NETSKY Netsky is a conceptual artist making paintings, mixed media sculptures, prints and other objects. An original voice and artist whose work jumps off the canvas and confronts us with the eclectic absurdity of our image inundated culture. A lover of the theatrical, mixed with his unique version of pop and Romantic master painting. His work is made in distinct series, creating a pictorial eclecticism that obscures our ability to make sense of...
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Donald Camp - Authenticity and Power Revealed
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Donald Camp is a renowned Philadelphia artist and photographer known for his large scale images that explore the dignity and nobility that can be found in the human face. Camp's unique printing methods are based on early 19th Century non-silver photographic processes. In 1990 Camp began his most acclaimed series, Dust Shaped Hearts. These large photographic monoprints are created with raw earth pigment and casein, and transmit haunting and intimate images of the human face. He is the recipient of many prestigious awards, including the Guggenheim and Pew Grants. His work is included in many...
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Dan Rizzie: A World of Memory and Symbols
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Dan Rizzie is an artist of the heart, whose work is playful yet sophisticated and combines a rich variety of medium and textures. His images and subject matter conjure a world of memory and symbols. Born in , NY in 1951, he grew up in India, Egypt, Jordan and Jamaica. Rizzie lives in , New York. Dan is a painter, printmaker, and collage artist. He attended in Conway, Arkansas under the mentorship of Don Marr and Bill Hawes. At Hendrix he received his BFA in 1973. In 2005, Rizzie was awarded Hendrix College's Distinguished Alumnus...
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Sarah McEneaney: A Particular Place in the World
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Sarah McEneaney’s art is singular and unique in its focus on the everyday existence of the artist. Living in the middle of the very busy and complicated city of Philadelphia, she has created a lifestyle of almost monastic discipline as an artist. McEneaney is also an activist and community leader including the formation of the Callowhill Neighborhood Association in 2001, and the co-founding of the Reading Viaduct Project in 2003. She works mostly in egg tempera, and her work is raw and direct, a slow moving autobiographic investigation of the nature of her life, and our life. In that way her...
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Judith Schaechter: A Sensous and Cruel Material
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Judith Schaechter: Stain glass artist that has redefined the scope of contemporary art in both materials and subject matter. She has created a startling body of work, using hi-tech and low tech, if not centuries-old techniques. She has chosen for her subject matter an equally archaic focus that seems to bring the suffering and story telling of ancient religious iconography into the 21st century. Her work can be seen all over the world in major museums and galleries including: , the in , the in , and the . Schaechter's Bigtop Flophouse Bedspins appeared in the 2002 . She has...
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Gail Ann Dorsey: The Art of Intuition and Instinct
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Gail Ann Dorsey, most famous for being David Bowie's bass player and collaborator, has, with her voice and stage presence, made an art of being a session player with other top bands and artists, bringing her unique sound to a long list of important bands and recordings, including Tears for Fears, The National, Lenny Kravitz, Bryan Ferry, Ani Difranco, to name a few. She has written, recorded, and performed her own material as well, creating the 2004 lyrical masterwork, “I Used to Be.” Originally from West Philadelphia, Dorsey, at the age of 22, moved to London to pursue her musical career,...
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Language of the Land: The Art of Stuart Rome
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Stuart Rome, a world-renowned photographer, has produced one of the most eclectic and compelling bodies of work imaginable. He also established the photography department at Drexel University, exhibited his work in top galleries, and is featured in the collections of many major museums. Moreover, he has published books of his work and has been featured in numerous art publications. In 2015, he received the Simon Guggenheim Foundation Award for his current project, Oculus.
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"Moment of Resilience.” the poetry of Mahogany L. Browne.
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Mahogany L. Browne, poet, writer, and artist, is currently the executive director at Bowery Poetry Club and the artistic director at Urban Word NYC. She is also the author of several books, including children's books, stage plays, articles, and audio recordings. As the founder of Penmanship Books, Browne holds the distinction of being the first-ever poet-in-residence at New York City's Lincoln Center.
info_outlineDerrick Velasquez is an artist and exhibition organizer who lives and works in Denver, Colorado. His most recent exhibitions include solo shows at The Herron School of Art and Design, The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Robischon Gallery, Pentimenti, and The Black Cube Nomadic Museum. He has had recent group exhibitions at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Carvalho Park and Transmitter in New York, and was a 2017 recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant for Painters and Sculptors and a 2019 MacDowell Fellow. Derrick also runs Yes Ma’am Projects, an artist-run gallery in the basement of his Athmar Park home and Friend of a Friend, a project space in the Evans School in the Golden Triangle.