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Artful Giving, Da Vinci Art Alliance

DA VINCI ART ALLIANCE HOSTS ARTFUL GIVING 2014, A FUNDRAISER EVENT

Da Vinci Art Alliance invites the public to its annual fundraiser and art sale, ARTFUL GIVING 2014, a “brunch and bubbly” affair on Sunday, December 7, 2014, 12:00 – 4:00pm, at 704 Catharine Street in Philadelphia. Chaired by Linda Dubin Garfield, ARTFUL GIVING 2014 will include sales of original fine art contributed by member artists and artisans, and raffles of distinctive gift items such as gift certificates, museum memberships, etc. donated by businesses and cultural venues that support the artists and programs of Da Vinci Art Alliance.

Tickets to ARTFUL GIVING 2014 start at $35 ($45 at the door), additional donations are welcome.

Since its inception in 1931, the mission of Da Vinci Art Alliance as a dynamic organization confidently continues to meet the growing need for community-based arts, and cultural and educational dialogue for artists, individuals and families. Da Vinci is one of the few non-profit artist run organizations boasting ownership of a building since 1959. Requiring to move forward on major repairs of its stately structure, proceeds from ARTFUL GIVING 2014 will initiate Da Vinci Art Alliance’s Building Fund. 

Da Vinci Art Alliance is a public, non-profit 501(c)(3) artists’ organization located in South Philadelphia.The organization was founded in 1931 to serve the needs of professional artists and artisans in the Delaware Valley. Da Vinci currently has over 140 members and is supported through membership dues, gallery/studio rentals, sales commissions, grants, and donations. It holds exhibitions of members’ and non-members’ artwork as well as special events, workshops, performances, poetry readings, and lectures, and keeps its members informed on community events, news and opportunities. The mission of the non-profit artists-run organization is to support its members and to further community-based arts, cultural, and educational exchanges.

For more information about ARTFUL GIVING 2014, tickets, donations, sponsorship, and/or general information about Da Vinci Art Alliance and membership, contact Gaby Heit, Executive Director at davinciartalliance@gmail.com or 646-229-3353.

Da Vinci Art Alliance is located at 704 Catharine Street, Philadelphia, PA 19147. Gallery hours specifically for November’s exhibition, Portraits and Such: Recent Work by Mike Pavol, are Monday 4:00 – 7:00pm, Wednesday 5:00 – 7:00pm, Friday 4:00 – 7:00pm, Saturday/Sunday 12:00 – 5:00pm.

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Wonders

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SMALL WONDERS 2014, Arch Enemies Arts

ARCH ENEMY ARTS PRESENTS: SMALL WONDERS 2014, 3RD ANNUAL AFFORDABLE ART SHOW

ARCH ENEMY ARTS is excited to announce the opening of the third installment of our annual affordable art show, Small Wonders.

SMALL WONDERS 2014, Arch Enemy ArtsMatto, Rabbit Soldier, ARCH ENEMY ARTS PRESENTS: SMALL WONDERS 2014 AEA’S 3RD ANNUAL AFFORDABLE ART

Featuring almost 50 artists from across the globe and over 100 pieces of original artwork, Small Wonders 2014 includes not only Philly and AEA staples like Paul Romano, Maria Teicher, Air Rat, & Caitlin McCormack, but also 34 artists showing at ARCH ENEMY ARTS for the very first time.

Small Wonders 2014, Arch Enemy ArtsJulie Filipenko, Hold My Hand, ARCH ENEMY ARTS PRESENTS: SMALL WONDERS 2014
AEA’S 3RD ANNUAL AFFORDABLE ART 

As with both previous installments, all the work will be sized below 12″, and priced at $250 or less. Small Wonders is our only cash-and-carry show of the year, so everyone can walk out of the opening with art in their hands. It’s way cooler than standing in line at 4:00am for a discount flat screen on BlackFriday.

Small Wonders 2014, Arch Enemy ArtsCarly Janine Mazur, As Above, ARCH ENEMY ARTS PRESENTS: SMALL WONDERS 2014
AEA’S 3RD ANNUAL AFFORDABLE ART 

The opening reception is free and open to the public

First Friday November 7th, 6:00 – 10:00pm
ARCH ENEMY ARTS, 111 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106

Small Wonders 2014, Arch Enemy ArtsLori Nelson, Gnashie, ARCH ENEMY ARTS PRESENTS: SMALL WONDERS 2014 AEA’S 3RD ANNUAL AFFORDABLE ART

“Seeking to fill the need for a centralized hub focused exclusively on new contemporary genres within Philadelphia’s already vibrant art scene, ARCH ENEMY ARTS was founded in 2012 as Philly’s freshest new venue dedicated to exhibiting emerging and established artists, both local and international, with an emphasis on lowbrow, representational, pop surrealism, photo-realism, decorative, figurative, urban, macabre and illustrative style art in a wide range of mediums. Located in Old City, ARCH ENEMY ARTS is Philadelphia Magazine’s “Best of Philly”™ Best Art Gallery for its 40th Anniversary, and was voted the “Best Art Gallery in Philadelphia” on Philly HotList in 2013, and in 2012.” – ARCH ENEMY ARTS

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Encaustics

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Tremain Smith, New WorkTremain Smith, Lotus Born, 2014, oil & wax on panel, 36” x 48”

Tremain Smith, New Works, Encaustics and Mixed Media at Rosenfeld Gallery

November 2nd – 23rd, 2014, Rosenfeld Gallery, 113 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106

“Tremain Smith‘s major media since the 80’s has been encaustic with mixed media. She was the first artist in my gallery to work with hot wax and has developed many technical innovations over the years. She is inspired by a wide range of spirituality from many times and places. The work is always abstract usually with geometric imagery. The recent work explores the usage of the grid.” – Richard Rosenfeld

“Tremain Smith has four works in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.  Her work is in corporate and private collections across the country.  She has had dozens of solo exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Scottsdale, Maine, Delaware, Florida and Hawaii.  Group exhibitions include SOFA Chicago, Art Miami, the Painted Bride, the Philadelphia Art Alliance, and the USArtists American Fine Art Show.  Smith was awarded a 3-month artist residency in 2004 at the McColl Center for Visual Art in Charlotte, North Carolina.  She taught encaustic painting at the Penland School of Crafts in 2006 and will be again in 2015, as well as at the Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill and R&F Paints in 2014.”

Encaustic painting, also known as hot wax painting, involves using heated beeswax to which colored pigments are added. The liquid or paste is then applied to a surface—usually prepared wood, though canvas and other materials are often used. The simplest encaustic mixture can be made from adding pigments to beeswax, but there are several other recipes that can be used—some containing other types of waxes, damar resin, linseed oil, or other ingredients. Pure, powdered pigments can be used, though some mixtures use oil paints or other forms of pigment. – Wikipedia

Tremain Smith, Encaustic Painting

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Rancocas

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Rancocas Valley Plein AirJan Terry, Mount Holly Meeting House, watercolor & ink

Rancocas Valley Plein Air Painters Exhibit

The inaugural show, About the Art, Art Gallery Space at 137 High Street, Mount Holly, New Jersey, 08060, November and December, 2014. Jan Terry, curator.

Opening Reception: Saturday November 8th, 2:00 to 4:00pm
Please join us for our first exhibit, About the Art. Meet the artists, enjoy refreshments and get to know our new gallery space! Watch for plein air painters in the area (weather permitting), Saturday December 15th (Second Saturday) from 1:00 to 5:00, light refreshments will be served and a warm environment welcomes you! The area also will be one of the sites for The Battle of Iron Works Hill.

About the Art Gallery Space at 137 High Street will begin hosting art exhibits in
November. Curator, Jan Terry invites artists and art groups to exhibit their work for
shows throughout the year. Each exhibit will run from 60 to 90 days. Receptions will be
held on Second Saturdays as part of Mount Holly’s Second Saturday Arts Crawl. Special
events and classes are being planned and will be announced in the near future.
Artwork will be displayed in the public spaces of the Office Condominiums at 137 High
Street, and in the offices of the Burlington County Bar Association on the third floor. All
the offices in the building are wheelchair accessible. The space is open during regular
business hours and during Mount Holly’s Second Saturday Arts Crawl from 1:00 to 5:00pm.

Call for Artists: Please contact Jan Terry, 609 280 6890 for information about opportunities
to exhibit with the Art Gallery Space at 137 High Street.

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Way

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William Way LGBTQ Community CenterWilliam Way LGBTQ Community Center Group Art Show: Gina Giles, Thom Duffy, Lance Pawling

“Thom Duffy, Gina Giles, and Lance Pawling are the winners of the 2013 William Way LGBT Community Center Juried Art Competition and their exciting and diverse bodies of work will be on display this September and October in the gallery.

Thom Duffy will display beautifully created watercolor still lifes on paper featuring an autumn theme. Gina Giles has exhibited in The Plastic Club, Off the Wall Gallery at Dirty Franks, Hicks Art Center Gallery, and more and will display photographic works. Pawling is a performance and installation artist known for his work with the improvisational theater group Dumpsta Players. Lance Pawling’s found-object sculptures ‘provide the viewer with a magnetic vounce through wonder. Evocative, often disturbing and equally alluring, his work redefines our ideas of refuse.’ The show will be on view in the gallery from through October 31, 2014.

The group art show at William Way LGBTQ Community Center presents three of Philadelphia’s most interesting and influential artists that were chosen from the 2013 Juried Community Art Show. I believe these artists are influential because they each are living their own authentic artistic self-actualized selves and influencing Philadelphia’s artistic culture.

Gina Giles is documenting the drag scene in Philadelphia, a performance art with a long Philadelphia history, through candid and backstage photographs. Thom Duffy is a fine painter who created a whole new body of work, beautiful Autumnal watercolors in a variety of sizes. Thom also operates a successful business, Thom Duffy Massage Therapy LLC, ‘offering a full array of therapeutic massage services for men and women to achieve specific targeted goals and physical well-being’. His job is to make you feel better. Lance Pawling, who’s day job is at The Philadelphia Museum of Art, is influential because of his fearless performances in burlesque shows as well as his visual art skills. I caught the latest performance of The Weird Beard Review, an all male burlesque review, at L’Tage and watched the man with the Dali moustache transform from art nerd to bearded lady sex bomb before my eyes.

October is Gay History Month and a lot of gay history is being made around the world. ‘LGBT History Month is a month-long annual observance of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history, and the history of the gay rights and related civil rights movements. It is observed during October in the United States, to include National Coming Out Day on October 11.[1] In the United Kingdom, it is observed during February, to coincide with a major celebration of the 2005 abolition of Section 28.’ (Wikipedia).

The group art show at William Way LGBTQ Community Center is part of gay history now and I believe that the main takeaway is that ‘gay art’ is art just like LGBTQ people are people. Living an authentic life with a freedom of spirit and nature just feels right and brings happiness to our lives.

Read my interviews with each of these artists on DoNArTNeWs Philadelphia Art News Blog.

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