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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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FIGMENT Phila

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FIGMENT Participatory Art Experience Announces First Annual Philadelphia Event FIGMENT Phila

FIGMENT Participatory Art Experience Announces First Annual Philadelphia Event – “FIGMENT Phila” – on October 6th in Clark Park

Call for Interactive Art Projects and Volunteers Now Open (Philadelphia, PA) FIGMENT, a free, family-friendly participatory arts experience held in multiple cities and attracting tens of thousands of participants each year, will hold its first annual event in Philadelphia – “FIGMENT Phila” – on Sunday, October 6th from 11am-5pm in West Philadelphia’s Clark Park. Free to attend and open to all ages, FIGMENT Phila will transform Clark Park into large-scale, hands-on collaborative artwork – an explosion of creative energy. This day-long event invites everyone to actively participate in a multitude of interactive art projects throughout Clark Park – perhaps a game, workshop, challenge, or exploratory play – from artists in a variety of disciplines, in every conceivable medium. Produced entirely by volunteers, FIGMENT Phila is a celebration of interactive art and community where everything is possible. No matter who you are, where you’re from, or how old you are, we can all be artists. FIGMENT Phila is an exciting opportunity for artists of all trades and experiences to have their work come alive and take shape at the hands of willing participants. Artists interested in bringing a participatory art project to FIGMENT Phila must submit their idea online by August 23, 2013 for consideration.

Projects must be interactive, safe, and family-friendly. For information about project submissions and guidelines, please visit http://www.phila.figmentproject.org/submit-a-project. FIGMENT Phila is a non-commercial event powered entirely by volunteers and in collaboration with the University City District. We are seeking members of the community interested in donating their time and efforts to help build this experience. Those interested in volunteering are asked to fill out the Volunteer Interest Form: http://phila.figmentproject.org/get-involved/volunteer/

For more information about FIGMENT Phila, please visit www.phila.figmentproject.org.

About FIGMENT:

Founded in 2007 on New York City’s Governors Island with a handful of projects and a few thousand enthusiasts, FIGMENT has grown exponentially into a multi-day, multi-city vent that drew over 30,000 participants in NYC, Boston, Jackson (MS) and Detroit in 2011 and 2012. With the addition of Washington DC, Pittsburgh, San Diego, Geelong, Australia, and several other cities since 2011, FIGMENT is constantly growing and continues its mission to offer free, inclusive participatory art and creative culture to entire communities, removing the barriers of museum and gallery walls and entrance fees, and blurring the lines between those who create and those who enjoy art. For more information about FIGMENT, please visit www.figmentproject.org.

Figment is a 501 (c)(3) not-for-profit organization entirely funded by grants and indivual donations. FIGMENT accepts no corporate sponsorship of any kind. FIGMENT is supported by public funds from the National Endowment of the Arts and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, as well as by the Fund for Creative Communities, supported by the New York State Council on the Arts and Administered by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

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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

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