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Fine art created by Philadelphia area artists.

My Body/ My Story

The Animal Within, mixed media by Linda Dubin Garfield

My Body/ My Story Opens at FringeArts September 5- 22, 2013 Benefits breastcancer.org

The Book Trader, 7 North 2nd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106 invites you to My Body/My Story by Linda Dubin Garfield and Susan Dipronio, a mixed media memoir installation which is part of the FringeArts Festival from September 5- 22, 2013. There will be two workshop opportunities on Sundays, September 8 and 15, 3- 5 PM, to create a mixed media portrait of a body part that tells a story about you in an ongoing workshop setting. Keep it for yourself or share it with others in a memoir installation which includes textual, mixed media & photographic art which benefits breastcancer.org. They have already collected over $2000 from pre-Fringe activities including an art show and sale and Pre-Fringe birthday party in Linda’s honor. Both Garfield and Dipronio are breast cancer survivors.

Since 2006 Garfield and Dipronio have collaborated on projects for the Fringe Festivals and other art projects including Asian Arts Initiative, The Ardmore Initiative, and Diabetes for Democracy and have raised thousands of dollars for non-profits related to their artistic themes including Locks for Love, Dafur Alert Coalition, Susan B Komens for the Cure and The Food Trust. In 2007, they received a Leeway Grant for Social Change for projects with Endow a Home.

Participants’ art from pre-fringe birthday party- photo by Linda Dubin Garfield

FringeArts presents the world’s most cutting-edge, high-quality artists, amplifying the vibrancy of Philadelphia as a renowned cultural destination and an unparalleled place to live, work, and visit. FringeArts experiences are entertaining, intellectually challenging, provocative, and moving.

For 18 days every September, the annual Festival creates a cityscape filled with theater, dance, music, visual art, and everything in-between. Audiences enjoy nonstop, creative cultural experiences, artists develop their artistic visions in total freedom without any curatorial barriers from bringing that work to avid audiences, and our community is enriched as art takes over our neighborhoods, animating the spaces of our city — from traditional theaters to corner bars and vacant storefronts.

The Body Tells a Story, Linda Dubin-Garfield

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light being (Kurt)

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light being (Kurt), digital photograph, archival inkjet print on glossy paper, 11 x 14″, 16 x 20″ framed, $300.00, DoN Brewer, Absolutely Abstract 2013, Philadelphia Sketch Club

When the sole juror for Absolutely Abstract 2013 at the Philadelphia Sketch Club, appreciates your work enough to select it to be in an art show the sense of accomplishment is extraordinarily gratifying. The digital photograph of an acid green wall combines several contemporary styles like color field, minimalism, performance, street art and computer art and even though it is a representative image the bold color takes over the narrative. The light becomes the environmental paint, the reflections on the surface interact softly with the hard grid of the cinder block. To know that someone else gets it, another artist, understands the underlying concept, and recognizes the inspiration reinforces my determination to continue the exploration of the abstract landscape theme.

How can a photograph be abstract? Because photography doesn’t really represent reality, it is a simulacra of a moment in time and therefore can be whatever the artist wants. An inkjet print is so different from darkroom photography, it’s more like painting with dots of ink than the chemical reactions of film development in the lab.

Thank you Philadelphia Sketch Club for the opportunity to be part of this exciting exhibit of contemporary abstract art by regional and international artists.

An Artists’ Reception will be held on Sunday, August 11, from 2 to 4 PM. Gallery hours are Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 1 to 5 PM. Admission is free.

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Large Format

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Large Format, Philadelphia Sketch Club, Prospectus

Online Submissions deadline: Aug 30, 2013 Enter at: www.entrythingy.com/d=sketchclub.org

Jury Notification: Emailed notification sent on Sept 2, 2013

Hand Delivery of Accepted Works: September 6 – 7, 2013, 1-‐5pm at Philadelphia Sketch Club . Online entry fee: Active PSC members: $25 for one, $5 each added entries Non-Member: $40 for one work, $10 each added entries No limit on the number of entries per artist. Reception: Sunday September 15th, 2013, 2-4:00pm. Awards will be presented at 3:00 p.m. The Philadelphia Sketch Club 235 Camac Street (between 12th & 13th and Locust & Spruce) Philadelphia, PA 19107

Exhibition Chairs: Chair: Faad Ghoraishi (faad@ghoraishi.com)

Co-Chair: Pearl Mintzer (Pearl@GiftWithPurchase.com)

Co-Chair: Sylvia Castellanos (sylviacastellanos@gmail.com)

Juror: David Guinn, Mural Artist

David Guinn has fourteen years of experience designing and painting large-scale public murals. Responsible for all facets of community mural creation. He participated in the 2006 International Mural Conference in Mexico City. Founder and Curator of the Freewall, The Artists’ Wall, Mural Project Space in Philadelphia, PA. Adjunct Faculty, Moore College of Art and Design. Guest Lecturer at The University of Pennsylvania, University of the Arts, Earlham College, Indiana, Johnson State College, Vermont, Philadelphia University. Instructor at Mural Training Program, Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, 2007. Resident Artist, Delphi Art Futures Program, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2007.

Columbia University, New York, NY. Bachelor of Arts in Architecture, 1994.Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Studio for Advanced Studies, 1998. http://www.davidguinn.com

Prizes: The Juror will select works for exhibition & award prizes. Works Eligible:

• Any number of 2-dimensional works utilizing any medium, including digital art

• All submitted work must be offered for sale during the exhibition.

• Minimum size is 40”, maximum is 60” on any one side including frame.

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Levitate Philly

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WOMEN IN THE ARTS AND THE FOLKS WHO LOVE THEM COME TOGETHER FOR AN UPLIFTING EXPERIENCE

This month a special late night Levitate Philly. Join us in this fund-raising event to support Equality PA and The Attic Youth Center. Live performances, body paint, silent art auction and more!

Women in the arts are being brought to the forefront joining forces to share their gifts and let the public inside of their creative minds. Levitate Philly is a monthly roving event that takes place every 3^rd Friday and providing spaces all over the city for women in the full spectrum of arts and art performances. The artists, their supporters and the public have a chance to come together to discuss not just arts but a range of issues in an environment that supports interactions and builds camaraderie.

Each event showcases a new line up of visual artists, performers and DJ’s. All female and all unique in their style of craft keeping things fresh and giving attendees a taste of something familiar while exposing them to new sights and new sounds. Past and pending artists range from first time exhibitors to established and well known performers in the Philadelphia scene.

This month’s event on August 16^th is a special late night event from 9pm-2am and a fundraiser for both Equality PA and The Attic Youth Center. This event is be an art expose and dance party with body paint, live music, and even a short theatrical presentation by Emmanuelle Delpech. Favorite past artists including American Queen TJD and participants in the Attic’s art program will also showcase and present a piece of art especially themed “What does equality mean to you?” for auction.

To find out more about this and future events or to submit your information to be showcased check, out www.levitatephilly.com or find them on Facebook @LevitatePhilly.

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Young at Art

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Every single one of us is born an artist. Google the thought and you get a quote from Picasso:

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” He’s probably just the most famous person to have said it. We’re convinced there are many artists who have conveyed the sentiment, including artists realizing why they had failed.

The reason children’s art is so magical and buoyant — for them and for us, the viewers — is that it’s the essence of creation. Unguided, unfettered, uplifting. Until someone says to them, “You can’t draw that,” “That doesn’t make sense,” “It doesn’t look right.” The point, early enough, is: there is no wrong way to create. From birth, there is a brain; there are emerging fine motor skills and the tools of creativity; and there are blank spaces to fill with ideas, confluences of color, imagination come to life.

We celebrate the sheer joy of creation with our 2013 MIDSUMMER SHOW, YOUNG AT ART, which opens 7-10 PM THIS THURSDAY and runs through SEPTEMBER 28. Alas, the artists — KYLIE GROVE, CARL and JACOB KAPLAN, EMI and NOA TRAVALIA, and SKYLAR WILLENBORG, all ages 4 to 7 — will have taken their baths by the time we gather and will be fast asleep, with any luck, by the middle of our proceedings.

(They will, however, host a special MEET THE ARTISTS reception and party on AUGUST 17; more about that next week!)

But, in addition to hors d’oeuvres, fine beverages, poured by none other than our curator, JODY SWEITZER, what will be there for us is: THE ART, PURE AND SIMPLE. Take it all in. Take nothing for granted. Accept everything as feasible. And LOVE: the work, the dreamers, the endless possibilities.

After all, art is love. So everyone is born loving and creating. Then the world gets in the way. Well, not at Off the Wall and Dirty Frank’s. Not if we have anything to say about it.

Togo Travalia

Manager, OFF THE WALL GALLERY at Dirty Frank’s, NE Corner, 13th & Pine Streets, Philadelphia, PA 19107

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