Da Vinci Art Alliance - DVAA

Da Vinci Art Alliance - DVAA Da Vinci Art Alliance (DVAA) is a non-profit community art organization and gallery space.

Da Vinci Art Alliance is a membership organization for artists and art-lovers. DVAA is governed by a Board of Directors and run by professional staff. Our membership model provides visual artists with a platform to share their work, build community and connect with thousands of annual visitors while sustaining the organization through membership dues. Artist memberships are for adult artists of an

y medium who are looking for deep connections with an organization and other passionate makers and creators. Supporting Memberships are also available for art-lovers, appreciators, administrators and collectors to support DVAA’s mission!

This month we have pop-ups in our Third Floor Gallery!⛓️ Rogues' Gallery… featuring Shannon Cronin and Derek Ayres    … ...
08/30/2024

This month we have pop-ups in our Third Floor Gallery!

⛓️ Rogues' Gallery… featuring Shannon Cronin and Derek Ayres
… September 4 - September 18 …
… The adage "Don't judge a book by its cover" applies here. Starting with old mugshots of Gilded Age criminals, Cronin and Ayres pull these thieves, forgers, pickpockets, swindlers, pennyweights, sneaks, and confidence men out of history and deposit them into alternate contexts.

🌅 Circadian… featuring Julia E. Katz, Adina Segal, and Jessica Eldredge
… September 19 - September 26 …
… Circadian features an informal collective of mother-artist peers who have been visiting each other's studios for care, critique, and inspiration since 2019. Amidst global and personal crises, as well as the chaos of daily lives, we support each other to continue an artistic practice, a consistent and iterative rhythm of returning again and again to be present with possibility.

❓Interested in hosting your own pop-up exhibition? Learn more about rentals at davinciartalliance.org/rentals or email [email protected] for for information.

🪜 Closed for the week for install!See you next Thursday, September 5 for the first of our 2024 Fellowship Exhibitions fe...
08/29/2024

🪜 Closed for the week for install!

See you next Thursday, September 5 for the first of our 2024 Fellowship Exhibitions featuring "Pressing Change" with Joy Lai, Sofie Rose Seymour, & Felisa Adderley and "Moon Gazing: A Call to Ancestors" curated by Romana Lee-Akiyama.

The 2024 Michelle Angela Ortiz Fellow Exhibition…🌙 Moon Gazing: A Call to Ancestors… Curated by Romana Lee-AkiyamaFeatur...
08/28/2024

The 2024 Michelle Angela Ortiz Fellow Exhibition…

🌙 Moon Gazing: A Call to Ancestors… Curated by Romana Lee-Akiyama

Featuring… Chen Lok Lee, Chenlin Cai, Hanzi, Mel Hsu, Gina Kim, Michelle Myers, Winnie Sidharta, Hanalee Akiyama, Joon Thomas, and Kumaji “Harry” Nakatsugawa

🥮This September, millions of people around the world will celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival by gathering with family, eating sweet treats such as moon cakes, and remembering loved ones. 'Moon Gazing: A Call to Ancestors,' is a group exhibition designed to bring ancestral heritage into conversation with the present.

🌌Inspired by the work of the late painter, printmaker, and professor Chen Lok Lee (1927 - 2020), Romana Lee-Akiyama, Lee’s daughter, curated this exhibition to explore contemporary expressions of identity for Asian and Asian American artists connected to Philadelphia, as well as the tensions that underrepresented and systemically excluded artists with hyphenated identities face.

🌔This immersive experience will feature work by nine artists who were tasked with responding to the legacy and work of Chen Lok Lee, whose selected works are the centerpieces for the exhibit.

✨Visitors will experience soundscapes, visual works, and stories from those longing for connection.Themes of ancestry, identity, spiritual longing, and impermanence flow into the supporting programming designed for youth: a reading from award-winning poet Michelle Myers’ middle-grade debut novel ‘Talk Me a Story About Moon Rabbit’ and accompanying hands-on story-writing and culturally influenced crafting workshop.

The 2024 Linda Dubin Garfield Fellow Exhibition…🔖 Pressing Change… A Group Exhibition By Joy Lai, Sofie Rose Seymour, & ...
08/27/2024

The 2024 Linda Dubin Garfield Fellow Exhibition…

🔖 Pressing Change… A Group Exhibition By Joy Lai, Sofie Rose Seymour, & Felisa Adderley

💡When it comes to social justice, teaching can inspire tremendous change. But when the subject being taught is printmaking, in what ways does the practice also inform the printmaker?

📚In their exhibition “Pressing Change,” printmakers and educators Felisa Adderley, Joy Lai and Sofie Rose Seymour pull from their experience in both worlds to examine the ways the act of printmaking intersects with the act of educating—and how both can be tools to share information and empower communities.

🌟This exhibition pairs the artists’ striking print work with a series of free workshops—sharing affordable printmaking practices with the public they hope to serve. How can the repetition and layers of printmaking become practice for the tireless advocacy and nuance of social justice work?

About the Linda Dubin Garfield Fellowship…

Named after DVAA’s former Board President, Linda Dubin Garfield, in honor of her lifelong commitment of using art as a medium towards bringing people together and building stronger communities. This fellowship track is awarded to a Philadelphia printmaker or collective.

Announcing our September Exhibitions! Welcome to the beginning of our 2024 Fellow Exhibitions.▪️ The 2024 Linda Dubin Ga...
08/26/2024

Announcing our September Exhibitions!

Welcome to the beginning of our 2024 Fellow Exhibitions.

▪️ The 2024 Linda Dubin Garfield Exhibition…

🔖 Pressing Change… A Group Exhibition By Joy Lai, Sofie Rose Seymour, & Felisa Adderley

▪️ The 2024 Michelle Angela Ortiz Fellow Exhibition…

🌙 Moon Gazing: A Call to Ancestors… Curated by Romana Lee-Akiyama

These September exhibitions will run from September 5 until September 22. The opening reception will take place on Saturday, September 22, from 4-7 pm.

And this month… we have pop-ups in Gallery 3!

⛓️ Rogues' Gallery… featuring Shannon Cronin and Derek Ayres

🌅 Circadian… featuring Julia E. Katz, Adina Segal, and Jessica Eldredge

Our monthly closing artist talk and reception is today from 12-2pm!! Come say hello to our fabulous mix of artists featu...
08/25/2024

Our monthly closing artist talk and reception is today from 12-2pm!! Come say hello to our fabulous mix of artists featured in both our juried exhibition and summer member invitational. And, don't forget, our August resident .eleanor will be holding an open studio at the same time. Not to be missed!

In two shakes (two days to be exact!) our August exhibitions close. Swing on by while you still can ✌️✨
08/24/2024

In two shakes (two days to be exact!) our August exhibitions close. Swing on by while you still can ✌️✨

DVAA Members! Our Perennial Visions Submission Call is open 📍Deadline: Friday, September 27th at 11:59pm📍All Artists Not...
08/23/2024

DVAA Members! Our Perennial Visions Submission Call is open

📍Deadline: Friday, September 27th at 11:59pm
📍All Artists Notified: Friday, October 4th
📍Perennial Visions will be on view December 5-22

Get involved in our annual small works exhibition! Get specifics at the link below

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We're open today! But only through this Sunday, August 5th! Hear from all the incredible artists featured in our invitat...
08/22/2024

We're open today! But only through this Sunday, August 5th! Hear from all the incredible artists featured in our invitational and juried exhibitions on the closing day from 12-2pm ✨

***Date Correction: August 25Join us for the closing of our August exhibitions and the open studio of our August residen...
08/20/2024

***Date Correction: August 25

Join us for the closing of our August exhibitions and the open studio of our August resident Eleanor Barba this coming Sunday from 12-2pm 🥳

💌 If you haven't had the chance, check out our latest Blog feature with our July resident Madeleine Conover. Written by ...
08/19/2024

💌 If you haven't had the chance, check out our latest Blog feature with our July resident Madeleine Conover. Written by Communication Assistant Miden Wood, the piece explores connection in tactility!

💬 Read more about Conover and their practice on The Blog now. Our August resident Eleanor Barba feature coming soon... 👀

🔗 davinciartalliance.org/overtures-5-madeleine-conover

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That's a  good lookin’ poster 👀For those who have and have not seen these prints cropping up around town, we’re calling ...
08/18/2024

That's a good lookin’ poster 👀

For those who have and have not seen these prints cropping up around town, we’re calling it DVAA On The Streets 🌆✨

This new program, featuring select works from Da Vinci Members displayed on electric poles around the city, celebrates Philly’s vibrant art scene, right where it belongs – in the public for everyone to enjoy! 🏗️💫

Learn more about the rich history of Philly’s street art scene, our featured artists, and even shop select pieces of work all at davinciartalliance.org/dvaa-on-the-streets. Link in bio 🔗

Featured artists: Ash Fritzsche, Derek Ayres, Eddy Rhenals, Eleanor Barba, Jake Weiss, Lara Bros, Lucy Shaiken, Meg Wolensky, Nasir Young, Neill Catangay, Olivia Guarnieri, Steven Lee Climer, THECOLORG

✨ Tomorrow is the next installment of our quarterly Creative Conversations series.. A Practical Guide to Visual Literacy...
08/17/2024

✨ Tomorrow is the next installment of our quarterly Creative Conversations series
.. A Practical Guide to Visual Literacy ...

⭐ Join us at Da Vinci Art Alliance as we discuss the relationships between art analysis, writing about art, and art practice!

💫 All are welcome. Expand your artistic writing practice with us! Join us in person or virtually.

🔗 You can register now for the workshop happening tomorrow Sunday, August 18, from 12 - 2 pm at eventbrite.com/e/a-practical-guide-to-visual-literacy-a-creative-conversation-tickets-986093902407?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl

❗A final reminder to our members. Today is the last day to submit your 2025 Exhibition Proposal!The DVAA Exhibitions Com...
08/15/2024

❗A final reminder to our members. Today is the last day to submit your 2025 Exhibition Proposal!

The DVAA Exhibitions Committee seeks to create an ambitious collection of thought-provoking exhibitions over the course of the next year.

📍 Learn more and submit your exhibition now at

DVAA hosts at least 8 open exhibition opportunities for artists annually. Fees for entry are waived or heavily discounted for Artist Members.

⏳ Members!We are accepting proposals for our 2025 exhibitions calendar through midnight tomorrow. Get your proposals in ...
08/14/2024

⏳ Members!

We are accepting proposals for our 2025 exhibitions calendar through midnight tomorrow. Get your proposals in while you still can 📝

📍Learn more and submit your exhibition now at davinciartalliance.org/dvaa-opportunities

🖼️ Exhibition pictured: November 2023. Viola Bordon's "Sacred Discernment".

🎵 Tomorrow's the night!RSVP to join us for the artist reception of our exhibition 'Sound + Vision' in friends at Culture...
08/13/2024

🎵 Tomorrow's the night!

RSVP to join us for the artist reception of our exhibition 'Sound + Vision' in friends at CultureWorks Greater Philadelphia brand new space!

📅 Wednesday August 14th
🕓 4-8 PM
📍 Where: 1315 Walnut Street, Suite 300

Come sip, mingle, and let the music-inspired masterpieces move you. 🎧✨ We're so excited to see you!

Featured Artists: Cheryl Levin, Derek Ayres, Jihan A Thomas, Joellyn Ross, Louis Gribaudo, Marilyn Stubblebine, Michael Long, Penelope Tsaltas Lisk, and Sally K. Eisenberg

Announcing our next Creative Conversation ✨.. A Practical Guide to Visual Literacy ...Every quarter, DVAA members, resid...
08/11/2024

Announcing our next Creative Conversation ✨
.. A Practical Guide to Visual Literacy ...

Every quarter, DVAA members, residency and fellowship recipients, and staff gather, with the intention of getting into the nitty gritty of professional development within our artistic practice. Join us at Da Vinci Art Alliance as we discuss the relationships between art analysis, writing about art, and art practice!

Visual literacy is the ability to read, write and create visual images. Both static and moving. It is a concept that relates to art and design but it also has much wider applications. Visual literacy is about language, communication and interaction. All are welcome. Expand your artistic writing practice with us!

You can register now for the workshop happening next week on Sunday, August 18, from 12 - 2 pm on our Eventbrite!

🔗 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-practical-guide-to-visual-literacy-a-creative-conversation-tickets-986093902407

Even the rain couldn't stop the party! 🌧️🎉We all donned our raincoats and umbrellas to dance the night away 🕺 for our Ni...
08/10/2024

Even the rain couldn't stop the party! 🌧️🎉

We all donned our raincoats and umbrellas to dance the night away 🕺 for our Night on Ninth.

Thank you to all who Met Us on South Street!! ✨✨

With performances by The Thinman, Soul Elevators, and Jason Jeffries and the TaLLtrEES, local artisan vendors, important community organizations, and delicious South Street eats, it was a night to remember.

🤝 Presented by the South Street Headhouse District (SSHD), Da Vinci Art Alliance (DVAA), and Friends of the South Street Police Mini-Station.

❗Don't forget to to save the date for our next night market …

𝗦𝗔𝗧 𝟵/𝟮𝟴 - 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗸 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘆
📍South Street between 2nd & 5th Streets, as well as the Headhouse Plaza on S 2nd Street

We’re open for the week 🫣 Stop by Catharine Street anytime through Sunday from 11am - 6pm. Perfect for this rainy weeken...
08/09/2024

We’re open for the week 🫣

Stop by Catharine Street anytime through Sunday from 11am - 6pm. Perfect for this rainy weekend! ✨

⏰ Time is ticking…Members! A week left to submit an exhibition proposal for our 2025 calendar. You too could curate a sh...
08/08/2024

⏰ Time is ticking…

Members! A week left to submit an exhibition proposal for our 2025 calendar. You too could curate a show like Kit Donnelly’s “Re-members Ourselves” seen pictured.

❗DVAA's gallery will be closed tomorrow... because you'll have to Meet Us On South Street!!! 🎉 Join us for tomorrow Nigh...
08/07/2024

❗DVAA's gallery will be closed tomorrow... because you'll have to Meet Us On South Street!!!

🎉 Join us for tomorrow Night on Ninth on August 8th from 5-9pm for a night-life cultural market.

✨ Between 9th and 10th on South Street, you will get to experience the dynamic character of our neighborhood through music, food, creative experiences, and a curated selection of vendors!

🤝 Presented by the South Street Headhouse District & Da Vinci Art Alliance.

08/05/2024

🥁 Drum roll please....We can't wait to Meet You on South Street THIS Thursday!
📅 𝗧𝗛𝗨 𝟴/𝟴 - "𝗡𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗢𝗻 𝟵𝘁𝗵" 𝗡𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁
✨ Experience the dynamic character of South Street neighborhood through music, food, creative experiences, and a curated selection of vendors!
📍 South Street between 10th & 9th Streets
🤝 Presented by the South Street Headhouse District & Da Vinci Art Alliance.

✨ What an opening! Thank you to all who beat the heat and came out to the reception of our annual juried show and summer...
08/05/2024

✨ What an opening! Thank you to all who beat the heat and came out to the reception of our annual juried show and summer invitational.

🌟 Besides our quarterly member invitationals, all DVAA members are allowed to submit to exhibition proposals to our our yearly exhibition calendar. A reminder to members (and a draw to all those thinking about joining!) the 2025 proposal call closes soon on Thursday, August 15th!!

🌠 Oh! And our December all member show Perennial Visions submission call is now open. Members you'll be able to submit through Friday, September 27th at 11:59pm.

✨ Learn more about all our opportunities at davinciartalliance.org/dvaa-opportunities

⚙️ We're trusting the process with our annual juried show "On Process", now on view through Sunday, August 25th!Come cel...
08/03/2024

⚙️ We're trusting the process with our annual juried show "On Process", now on view through Sunday, August 25th!

Come celebrate the show going up with the juried artists and our DVAA members in our summer invitational "Dispatches from Kindred Worlds" at our opening reception TONIGHT from 4-7pm ✨

Where do you go to make sense of the world? Is it a person? A place? A state of mind? With our current invitational "Dis...
08/02/2024

Where do you go to make sense of the world? Is it a person? A place? A state of mind?

With our current invitational "Dispatches from Kindred Worlds", you'll explore the profound connection between art-making, world-making, and the truths that we discover when tryin to make sense of our ever shifting realities.

Join us for the opening of "Dispatches" and our annual juried exhibition “On Process” tomorrow Saturday, August 3rd from 4-7pm 🎉

🌌💡Our Annual Juried Show “On Process” and the Summer Member Invitational “Dispatches from Kindred Worlds” are now open t...
08/01/2024

🌌💡Our Annual Juried Show “On Process” and the Summer Member Invitational “Dispatches from Kindred Worlds” are now open to view! Stop on by to view this incredible group of artists.

If you'd like to celebrate along with them, join us for the opening reception THIS Saturday, August 3rd from 4-7pm 🎉

🌱 As July comes to close, so does our time with our current resident Madeleine Conover!Madeleine Louise Chun 春 Conover i...
07/30/2024

🌱 As July comes to close, so does our time with our current resident Madeleine Conover!

Madeleine Louise Chun 春 Conover is a Chinese American adoptee and artist. Her images and sculptures, explore her ideas of Asian American diaspora, her adoption from China, and the subsequent discovery of her biological family.

More on Conover's time at DVAA and their artistic process coming soon to The Blog... 👀

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Join us on Wednesday, August 14,  from 4-6 PM for a special event at CultureWorks Greater Philadelphia .Get a sneak peek...
07/30/2024

Join us on Wednesday, August 14, from 4-6 PM for a special event at CultureWorks Greater Philadelphia .

Get a sneak peek of Cultureworks new space while enjoying a showcase of amazing art from local artists. Sound + Vision highlights artworks that incorporate or evoke sonic elements. Visual artwork has many of the same formal components as music and performance. It has rhythm and composition. It can be loud or quiet, chaotic or orderly. Most importantly, it is expressive. Many of the works in this exhibition directly reference specific songs or genres of music.

Come mingle, sip on some drinks, and take in artwork inspired by music. See you there!

This event is FREE for members of CultureWorks and DVAA. A $10 dollar donation is required for all guests. Proceeds will go to both organizations in support of their efforts.

🔗 Register now through eventbrite.com/e/dvaa-art-opening-preview-of-our-new-space-tickets-940559758557?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl

Featured Artists: Cheryl Levin, Derek Ayres, Jihan A Thomas, Joellyn Ross, Louis Gribaudo, Marilyn Stubblebine, Michael Long, Penelope Tsaltas Lisk, and Sally K. Eisenberg

💕 Fracture / Fragment…A Solo Exhibition By Meg Wolensky At Atria 👥 As a still-life painter, Meg Wolensky pulls together ...
07/29/2024

💕 Fracture / Fragment…A Solo Exhibition By Meg Wolensky At Atria

👥 As a still-life painter, Meg Wolensky pulls together clusters of objects documenting q***r life in the every day and throughout human history. In the same space, Wolensky holds the reality of emotional, cultural, economic, and political systemic devastation of the q***r community as it stands opposed to the risk of freedom: life lived out loud.

💭 Inspired by Fragments of Sappho, Fracture/Fragment reveals some, but not all, displaying fragments of archival q***r literature and resistance publications woven amongst personal narratives, memories, myths, dreams, and relationships. Assembled through chromatic cross-sections and color chasms, the artist portrays affirming ephemera and analyze the contrasting systemic violence beneath the surface.

🏠 Through the language of cultural lineage and self-preservation, Wolensky rebuilds a home where their whole identity is welcome and celebrated. Through these multi-year observations, the artist shows that q***r people are here now, and, as Wolensky firmly states, “We have been here throughout all of time.”

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