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MAPnificent! Artists Use Maps


Curated by Yulia Tikhonova, Founder of Brooklyn House of Kulture
Paula Scher, Joyce Kozloff, Doug Beube, Carole P. Kunstadt, Viviane Rombaldi Seppey, Karin Schaefer, Dahlia Elsayed, Alastair Noble, Aga Ousseinov, Paul Fabozzi, Amy Pryor, Irina Danilova, Robert Walden, Ariane Littman, Jeff Woodbury, Brooklyn Art Library, Hand Map Drawn Association 
MAPnificent! Artists Use Maps brings together a group of artists who creatively employ the philosophy and technique of mapping to convey information ranging from sociological data to aesthetic stimuli. The exhibit features paintings, works on paper and sculpture that reflect the artists’ concerns for the current state of our society, conveyed though charts and diagrams, and their admiration of the map as a symbol of longing and the unknown. The works included either illustrate a scientific research in demographics, or a flow of capital, or distribution of patterns, but also present the artists’ reverence for maps. For some of the exhibiting artists, mapping is a tool to create interactive visuals with the help of sophisticated tools for image manipulation that arrange numbers into intricate geometrical forms. Maps are primarily received as directional; a subway or bus map is understood as a tool to get somewhere. In fact, the title of this exhibition borrows from a google-map application, MAPNIFICENT, which calculates the time between places via public transportation. For the artists, however, a map is often an end in itself: a work of art, filled with revelation and delight. Press Release
February 1–March 31
FIRST FRIDAY reception, March 1, 6–9pm

AIGA Philadelphia SPACE, 72 N. 2nd St., Philadelphia, PA 19106

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FINAL WEEK!
Local Artists at Le Meridien Philadelphia

Works by Rebecca Jacoby and Karl Jones in the beautiful hotel lobby.

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January 4–February 28
Le Meridien Philadelphia, 1421 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102

  



M.S. Heitler in Artists Invite Artists
The Graphic Eye Gallery, Port Washington, NY

January 31–March 24

Artworks by M.S. Heitler, S. Leser and Gaby Heit
Plainview–Old Bethpage Library, Plainview, NY

March 3–31
Meet the Artists: Saturday, March 16, 2–4pm



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InLiquid Art + Design Benefit V

InLiquid Benefit v.13, Friday, February 15, 6:30 - 9:30 pm

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Z Corp., NextFab Studios, 2025 Washington Ave, Philadelphia

Z Corp.,NextFab Studios, 2025 Washington Ave, Philadelphia

Z Corp., NextFab Studios, 2025 Washington Ave, Philadelphia

This 3D printer is laying the foundation for a bust of a famous person in full color. Can you see who it is? The printer spreads a layer of powder then sprays an image using glue, building in layers until a fully rendered object emerges. The results are extraordinary – some objects even have moving parts.

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The Moving Model Workshop

The Moving Model Workshop at The Plastic Club

Bob Jackson is a fine artist able to elevate simple materials like old graph paper and ballpoint pens to an elegant language of signs, symbols, movement and line. The artist sketches quick drawings each less than an inch high as the model moves slowly through a series of athletic poses. The pages quickly fill up with hundreds of tiny croquis. In the historic studio artists draw intensely as the model, Stephanie, makes beautiful shapes in space.

Check the new DoNArTNeWs for more images of Bob Jackson‘s drawings from the Moving Model Workshop and a description of how this video was produced. This video plays in full screen mode for a larger than life look at the drawings.

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The Shoe In: Walk in Our Shoes

Oasis, The Shoe In: Walkin Our Shoes

The Oasis (RHD) community is seeking investment and support in the Shoe In to raise funds, social empathy and awareness for some of our society’s most vulnerable and valueable citizens. Your investment will help create both sustainability and continuity of essential programming for the voices of these Outsider Artists. Support these artists to strive for independence on their own terms.

The ‘Shoe In’ is a political exhibition designed to counteract the erosion of funding for day services for PA citizens with intellectual disabilities.

Oasis is a one-of-a-kind experience for individuals of diverse abilities. The only organization of its kind, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Oasis offers group instruction in art, technology, literacy and life-skills

About Oasis (RHD)

Oasis (RHD) is a studio art and life skills program staffed by artists that nurtures the talents, skills, and creativity of individuals living with mental illness and/or intellectual disabilities. We offer programs and services that support people with developmental and intellectual disabilities by providing opportunities for employment, community connections, and personal development through the arts. Oasis (RHD) is a part of its parent company Resources for Human Development.  

The Benefits of Our Project: The Shoe In

Every pair of shoes brings with it an opportunity and benefits for the members of the Oasis (RHD) community to study:

  1. Formal academics in a venue that uses the arts to communicate foundational cognitive adaptive skills needed to increase independence. 
  2. Concrete participation in collaboration and planning
  3. Support for development in ‘activities of daily living’ (ADL) 
  4. Opportunity to develop an understanding of Empathy
  5. Participation in the regional art community through exhibitions and partnerships with established innovative artists and institutions.    

Help Us Raise Our Game

The Oasis (RHD) community is seeking investment and support in the Shoe In to raise funds, social empathy and awareness for some of our society’s most vulnerable and valueable citizens. Your investment will help create both sustainability and continuity of essential programming for the voices of these Outsider Artists

How does Oasis (RHD) fit into the Big Picture?

Contributing to Oasis (RHD) to fund ‘The Shoe In’ will assist us to continue essential day programming services for the emerging Outsider Artists we serve. We are a small service provider to over 100 adults whose needs are difficult to meet elsewhere. 

Policy changes, financial miscalculations and proposed budget cuts by the Pennsylvania state government continue to ravage services that fell short of current needs even during fiscally ‘flush’ times. What does this mean for the 2.3 million citizens served and the approximately 16,000 people waiting for services, 4,000 of which are people whose situations are considered emergencies?

Funding cuts hurt all of us. Not just those of us with disabilities.

Whether the shortfalls are attributed to the budget crisis, a shift from county-run to state-run services, and the state’s belief that providers, as a whole, can operate more efficiently, the message is still the same: slashing our funding slashes the quality of service provision needed for the artists that call Oasis home. 

The Shoe In: Walk in Our Shoes Indigogo campaign.

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