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Sunday, March 10, 12-4 pm: Closing Reception for Arlene Love: Selections from Seven Decades at the Interactive Museum of Contemporary Art

Experience the creative journey of Philadelphia’s celebrated artist, Arlene Love, through “Selectio
Friday, March 8, 6-8 pm: Reception & Artists’ Remarks at Pentimenti Gallery; dialogue at 6pm

JACKIE MILAD | Solo Exhibition | March 5 - April 6.

Women in the City of Brotherly Love | Group Exhibition: KIKI GAFFNEY, JUDY GELLES, AND LAUREN
Friday, March 8, 5-8 pm: Claiming Space: Women Artists in Philadelphia at Philadelphia City Hall Council Caucus Room, 4th Floor. Panel from 5-6 pm, followed by a reception and viewing of the show until 7:30 pm. NOTE: Please sign in at the NE corner v
Sunday, March 3, 2-4 pm: Artist Talk: Julie Linowes at the Boiler Room, Globe Dye Works 

The Boiler Room at Globe Dye Works will feature a solo exhibition by Julie Linowes, curated by Marsha Moss. Linowes’ multi-disciplinary installation deplo
Saturday, March 2, 12-4 pm: Panel: 1974 x 2024 at Dina Wind Art Foundation

THEN: A city-wide arts program that occurred in Spring 1974, “FOCUS: Philadelphia Focuses on Women in the Visual Arts”, shone a spotlight on the underrepresented
Friday, March 1, 5:30-6 pm: Screening & Discussion: Matcha Colón at Taller Puertorriqueño
Film Screening: Perfume Gardenias

A Queer, Feminist film that follows an elderly Puerto Rican woman who finds solace in designing idiosyncrat

In the Right Place: Photographs by Barbara Crane, Melissa Shook, and Carol Taback
Jul
7

In the Right Place: Photographs by Barbara Crane, Melissa Shook, and Carol Taback

  • Sunday, July 7, 2024
  • 12:00 AM 1:00 AM
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art, Main Building, Honickman Gallery 156 (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

This exhibition brings together three photographic series made in the 1970s: Barbara Crane’s People of the North Portal (1970-1), Melissa Shook’s Daily Self Portraits (1972-3), and Carol Taback’s photo booth pictures (1978-1980).

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CLOSING RECEPTION: Erin Murray
May
25

CLOSING RECEPTION: Erin Murray

  • Saturday, May 25, 2024
  • 3:00 PM 5:00 PM
  • PEEP Projects (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Peep Projects is pleased to present Objects and Their Fields, a solo exhibition by Philadelphia-based artist Erin Murray. Executed in graphite and ink on canvas, with drawing extending to the frames, these new works present a uniquely tactile experience of Murray’s architecturally based abstractions.

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RECEPTION: Fran Orlando
May
22

RECEPTION: Fran Orlando

  • Wednesday, May 22, 2024
  • 4:00 PM 7:00 PM
  • Hicks Art Center Gallery, Bucks County Community College (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Reception for The Roosavelt Project: Photographs by Fran Orlando

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Fran Orlando: The Roosavelt Project
May
22
to Jul 3

Fran Orlando: The Roosavelt Project

  • Wed, May 22, 2024 12:00 AM Wed, Jul 3, 2024 11:55 PM
  • Hicks Art Center (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Fran Orlando photographed the residents of Roosevelt, NJ, for two years starting in 1978. This exhibition revisits the previously unfinished project and presents a selection of 40 portraits that reflect a unique community at a particular moment in time.

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CLOSING RECEPTION: The Peter Miller Story
May
11

CLOSING RECEPTION: The Peter Miller Story

  • Saturday, May 11, 2024
  • 5:00 PM 8:00 PM
  • Morton Contemporary (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Closing Reception for The Peter Miller Story: A Forgotten Woman of American Modernism

Born Henrietta Myers in 1913, the artist known as Peter Miller graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) in 1934. In an effort to ensure fair evaluation of her artwork, Henrietta changed her name to Peter, believing her art would be more positively received when attributed to a male creator. Peter channels a soulful brilliance of glowing color that inflames her canvases.

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PANEL: Women Who Collect Art
May
11

PANEL: Women Who Collect Art

  • Saturday, May 11, 2024
  • 2:00 PM 3:00 PM
  • Philadelphia Musuem of Art, Perelman Building (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Anita Blanchard, Leslie Anne Miller, Jennifer Rice, and Sara Vance Waddell discuss how they approach collecting art. Moderated by Jessica Todd Smith, Director of Curatorial Initiatives and The Susan G. Detweiler Curator of American Art.

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Conversation with Nancy Hellebrand
May
9

Conversation with Nancy Hellebrand

  • Thursday, May 9, 2024
  • 6:00 PM 7:00 PM
  • Print Center (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

For these female-identifying artists working decades apart, explorations of materials and printing processes are foundational to the understanding of the world around them.

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OPENING RECEPTION: Renee Osubu
May
9
to Jun 29

OPENING RECEPTION: Renee Osubu

  • Thu, May 9, 2024 6:00 PM Sat, Jun 29, 2024 9:00 PM
  • TILT: Institute for the Contemporary Image (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Renee Osubu is an award-winning British Nigerian photographer and film director from London. She often investigates themes about community, identity, race, and childhood using the nuances of everyday life as her visual language.

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Renee Osubu: Dear Philadelphia
May
9
to Jun 29

Renee Osubu: Dear Philadelphia

  • Thu, May 9, 2024 12:00 AM Sat, Jun 29, 2024 11:55 PM
  • TILT: Institute for the Contemporary Image (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Renee Osubu is an award-winning British Nigerian photographer and film director from London. She often investigates themes about community, identity, race, and childhood using the nuances of everyday life as her visual language.

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Honoring the Women of Stanek Gallery
May
8
to May 18

Honoring the Women of Stanek Gallery

  • Wed, May 8, 2024 12:00 AM Sat, May 18, 2024 11:55 PM
  • Google Calendar ICS

A virtual exhibition and silent auction to honor the women of Stanek Gallery. Our represented women artists are: Treacy Ziegler, Christina Weaver, Louise Strawbridge, Katherine Stanek, Leona Shanks, Mary Spinelli, Rachel Romano, Mary Nomecos, Nicole Michaud, Julia Levitina, Stanka Kordic, Carson Fox, Barbara Fisher, Deborah Fine, Jacqueline Boyd, Tamie Beldue.

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BARNES PANEL: Women who Run Galleries
May
6

BARNES PANEL: Women who Run Galleries

  • Monday, May 6, 2024
  • 2:00 PM 3:00 PM
  • Barnes Foundation (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Panelists Betty Cuningham, Helen Drutt, Christine Pfister, Pamela Salisbury, and Cristin Tierney discuss their approach to running art galleries. Moderated by Thom Collins, Executive Director and President of the Barnes Foundation.

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Serious Play
May
4
to Jun 1

Serious Play

  • Sat, May 4, 2024 12:00 AM Sat, Jun 1, 2024 11:55 PM
  • Stanek Gallery (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Gallery artists Carson Fox and Rachel Romano come together for the first time in this vibrant exhibition which promises to be a “must-see.”

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Continuum: First Friday Reception
May
3

Continuum: First Friday Reception

  • Friday, May 3, 2024
  • 5:00 PM 8:00 PM
  • Gravers Lane Gallery (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Continuum highlights the work of two Philadelphia area female artists, painter Jan Morgen and fiber artist Pamela E. Becker. GLG brings them into dialogue about the dedication they apply to their artistic practices, spanning decades.

Artist Talk with Jan Morgen and Pamela Becker at 6:30.

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Conversation with Stephanie Santana
May
2

Conversation with Stephanie Santana

  • Thursday, May 2, 2024
  • 6:00 PM 7:00 PM
  • Print Center (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

For these female-identifying artists working decades apart, explorations of materials and printing processes are foundational to the understanding of the world around them.

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TALK: Lightbox - An Illuminated Lecture by Marisa Williamson
May
2

TALK: Lightbox - An Illuminated Lecture by Marisa Williamson

  • Thursday, May 2, 2024
  • 6:00 PM 7:30 PM
  • Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

A lightbox illuminates from behind. It makes objects and images visible in high contrast that might otherwise go unseen. This illuminated lecture by performance artist, Marisa Williamson, engages literally and conceptually with this form in order to highlight the influence of Barbara Earl Thomas and others on what is visible to us today.

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TALK: Feminist Film Theory
Apr
30

TALK: Feminist Film Theory

  • Tuesday, April 30, 2024
  • 6:00 PM 8:00 PM
  • The Athenaeum (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

"Feminist Film Theory: The Male Gaze at 50" — a talk by Kathleen Karlyn, feminist media scholar.

This talk will identify key moments in feminist film theory. It will also consider the impact of female directors in Hollywood, who are confronting issues of race, gender, power and pleasure head-on and whose achievements in films such as Wonder Woman (Patty Jenkins, 2017) and The Woman King (Gina Prince-Blythewood, 2022) are charting new territory for female artists and audiences alike.

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La Vaughn Belle
Apr
27
to Jun 1

La Vaughn Belle

  • Sat, Apr 27, 2024 5:00 PM Sat, Jun 1, 2024 6:00 PM
  • Pentimenti Gallery (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Enter the realm of La Vaughn Belle’s artistic journey with her first solo exhibition at Pentimenti Gallery.

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RECEPTION: La Vaughn Belle
Apr
27

RECEPTION: La Vaughn Belle

  • Saturday, April 27, 2024
  • 5:00 PM 7:00 PM
  • Pentimenti Gallery (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

La Vaughn Belle makes visible the unremembered. By exploring the material culture, looking for hidden stories and connections, Belle creates narratives from fragments. Working in a variety of disciplines her practice includes: painting, installation, photography, writing, video and public interventions.

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Intergenerational Tea Party for Lesbian Visibility Day
Apr
26

Intergenerational Tea Party for Lesbian Visibility Day

  • Friday, April 26, 2024
  • 5:00 PM 8:00 PM
  • Dyke+ ArtHaus (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Dyke+ ArtHaus and William Way LGBT Community Center have collaborated to showcase works by local Lesbian artists 55 and over that reflect feelings of visibility or invisibility - to the world, or to themselves.

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OPENING RECEPTION: Erin Murray
Apr
20

OPENING RECEPTION: Erin Murray

  • Saturday, April 20, 2024
  • 3:00 PM 5:00 PM
  • PEEP Projects (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Peep Projects is pleased to present Objects and Their Fields, a solo exhibition by Philadelphia-based artist Erin Murray. Executed in graphite and ink on canvas, with drawing extending to the frames, these new works present a uniquely tactile experience of Murray’s architecturally based abstractions.

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Erin Murray
Apr
20
to May 25

Erin Murray

  • Sat, Apr 20, 2024 10:00 AM Sat, May 25, 2024 8:00 PM
  • PEEP Projects (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Erin Murray (1979, Philadelphia, PA) lives and works in Philadelphia. Murray’s richly layered ink and graphite drawings account for things like observed tactility, weighted details, and the influence of reverie on our perception. These new works encourage us to slow down, examine the subtleties of our experience, and to recognize ourselves within our surroundings.

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Stephanie Santana, Martha Zelt, Nancy Helelbrand
Apr
19
to Jul 20

Stephanie Santana, Martha Zelt, Nancy Helelbrand

  • Fri, Apr 19, 2024 3:00 PM Sat, Jul 20, 2024 4:00 PM
  • Print Center (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

For these female-identifying artists working decades apart, explorations of materials and printing processes are foundational to the understanding of the world around them.

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PANEL & RECEPTION: From Me to We
Apr
17

PANEL & RECEPTION: From Me to We

  • Wednesday, April 17, 2024
  • 6:00 PM 9:00 PM
  • University of the Arts, Levitt Auditorium, Gershman Hall (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

This panel brings together curators who have recently organized career-spanning retrospectives of women artists. While these exhibitions celebrate under recognized artists' individual bodies of work they also make space for materials documenting their participation in arts communities.

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Icon Billboard Series Dedication Event
Apr
12

Icon Billboard Series Dedication Event

  • Friday, April 12, 2024
  • 1:30 PM 3:00 PM
  • Silk City (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

The Icon Billboard Series dedication event celebrates the launch of the citywide billboard series with the installation of two icon works of art by artists, Dara Haskins and Wanda Payne.

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CLOSING RECEPTION: Nicole Mouriño
Apr
11
to Apr 13

CLOSING RECEPTION: Nicole Mouriño

  • Thu, Apr 11, 2024 6:00 PM Sat, Apr 13, 2024 9:00 PM
  • PEEP Projects (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Peep is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Nicole Mouriño, Mama Dukes - the artist's first since 2016 and in Philadelphia. The exhibition features the unveiling of Love Languages, a monumental painted triptych alongside an intimate series of works on paper framed in hand-made tile.

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RECEPTION for Sandra Eula Lee : The Walking Mountain
Apr
11

RECEPTION for Sandra Eula Lee : The Walking Mountain

  • Thursday, April 11, 2024
  • 5:00 PM 7:30 PM
  • Pearlstein Gallery, Drexel University (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Sandra Eula Lee: The Walking Mountain brings together sculptural installations that reflect the artist’s interests in labor, migration, and material histories.

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Artist Talk & Closing Reception
Apr
11

Artist Talk & Closing Reception

  • Thursday, April 11, 2024
  • 5:00 PM 7:00 PM
  • Stedman Gallery & Gordon Theater Fine Arts Building, Rutgers University-Camden (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Artist Talk & Closing Reception for Margery Amdur at Stedman Gallery, Rutgers-Camden Center for the Arts

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Silver Legs, Uncrossed
Apr
7
to May 5

Silver Legs, Uncrossed

  • Sun, Apr 7, 2024 3:00 PM Sun, May 5, 2024 6:00 PM
  • Dyke+ ArtHaus (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Dyke+ ArtHaus and William Way LGBT Community Center have collaborated to showcase works by local Lesbian artists 55 and over that reflect feelings of visibility or invisibility - to the world, or to themselves.

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Opening Reception for Silver Legs, Uncrossed
Apr
7

Opening Reception for Silver Legs, Uncrossed

  • Sunday, April 7, 2024
  • 3:00 PM 6:00 PM
  • Dyke + Art Haus (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Dyke + Haus and William Way LGBT Community Center have collaborated to showcase works by local Lesbian artists 55 and over that reflect feelings of visibility or invisibility - to the world, or to themselves.

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Continuum: Opening Reception
Apr
5

Continuum: Opening Reception

  • Friday, April 5, 2024
  • 5:00 PM 8:00 PM
  • Gravers Lane Gallery (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Continuum highlights the work of two Philadelphia area female artists, painter Jan Morgen and fiber artist Pamela E. Becker. GLG brings them into dialogue about the dedication they apply to their artistic practices, spanning decades.

Artist Talk with Jan Morgen at 6:30 pm

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