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From Paradise to Pavement

From Paradise to Pavement, Frameworks Studio and Gallery

From Paradise to Pavement, Frameworks Studio and Gallery, September through October 27th, 2013, Opening Reception: Friday, September 13th, 6:00pm – 9:00pm, 2103 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19103, 215-567-6800

Caroline Adams, Susan Barnes, Kathy Deaville, Katya Held, Randall Lake, Steven Martin, Rebecca Miller, Patrick Neilson, Ann Northrup, Carol Oldenberg, Sharon Strasburg, Steve Wetzel and Ella Yang

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Music, Sex & Religion

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THE ART SHOW TOO FRINGEY FOR A FESTIVAL!

Philadelphia artist Larry West is pleased to announce his latest show, “Music, Sex, & Religion” at the intimate InFusion Cafe in the Mt. Airy neighborhood featuring Heavy Metal-inspired Pop-Art. Larry West is a locally-known artist and illustrator who has worked with horror rock band Wednesday 13 and did design work for the Ron Paul for President campaign. InFusion Cafe has chosen to show his work for the month of September 2013.

Larry West‘s show consists of his gig poster designers, concert photos, and other pieces related to music, sexuality, and religion. The show focuses of showing how all three are interconnected in ways that enrich the human experience, and inspires some of the greatest achievements possible. The show runs from September 3rd to September 30th, with an opening reception on September 13th, 2013, from 5pm to 7pm.

Living in Philadelphia his entire art, Larry West has enjoyed doing First Friday events in Old City and creating work for various bands and political figures. “I’ve always enjoyed metal music, and for this show I wanted to focus on what it means to me as both an artist and fan.

InFusion Cafe has hosted various art show over the years, but nothing like the pop-art and politically-charged artwork created by Larry West. Located at 7133 Germantown Avenue in the Mt. Airy section of Philadelphia, InFusion Cafe is a coffee shop and cafe that allows for artists to put on display some of the best contemporary art around while guests enjoy Fair Trade and local coffee’s. The shop is open from 7am to 7pm Monday to Friday, 7am to 6pm on Saturday, and 8am to 4pm on Sunday’s.

For more information on Larry West and his work, as well as how to contact him, visit his website at larrywestproductions.com or email larrywest@morisecomics.com

You can see the Facebook Event Page here: https://www.facebook.com/events/122365171267266/

CONTACT INFORMATION: Larry West, larrywestproductions.com,

Email: larrywest@morisecomics.com

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My Body/ My Story

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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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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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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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