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Woodmere Art Museum

Name: Woodmere Art Museum
Address: 9201 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, PA, 19118, US
Telephone: (215) 247-0476
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10/05/2023

October 13 | FRIDAY NIGHT JAZZ presents Tribute to Miles Davis: Mysterious Man with the Horn

$25 ($15 MEMBERS)

Jazz icon and band leader, Miles Davis is responsible for many innovations in jazz, from bebop to jazz fusion, pushing the boundaries and inspiring generations of musicians. Trumpeter Duane Eubanks will celebrate his legacy with “All Blues,” “Seven Steps to Heaven,” “TuTu,” and others.

"Duane Eubanks simmers. Percolates. The jazz trumpeter/ composer/arranger/producer is a multi-talented force whose fiery blasts and sweet distinctive sound carry his horn into a musical space that defies categorization…His jazz bloodline isn’t a border, but a gateway where he crossed over to play and record with Alicia Keys, Talib Kweli, Mos Def, Wu-Tang Clan, Freedom Williams, and Kirk Franklin. He has played the Hollywood Bowl, Carnegie Hall, and the Kennedy Center as well as toured throughout Europe, Japan, and the Middle-East.” (Duane Eubanks)

Friday Night Jazz is offered in partnership with LifeLine Music Coalition. WRTI is a partner for Music at Woodmere.
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For tickets, visit https://woodmereartmuseum.org/experience/happenings/jazz-at-woodmere.

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10/04/2023

Looking for a fun, interactive activity for the whole family? Join us this Saturday for a “Barbara Bullock: Fearless Vision” tour followed by an artmaking project inspired by Bullock's artwork!

Family Tour & Artmaking – Barbara Bullock: Fearless Vision
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7 | 11am-12:30pm | $5/child (FREE for Family Members)
Ages 6 and up, with an adult

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10/03/2023

It was a spectacular night, Sunday, October 1st, to welcome over 250 friends to Woodmere and celebrate 2 very special honorees, Barbara Bullock and Lita Solis-Cohen! Thank you to our great partners Bacchus Market & Catering A to Z Party Rental Alber-Haff Parking Service, Inc Otto Distilling Co. W.P.Palmer Distilling Company Yards Brewing Co. And thanks to Rep. Tarik Khan Norwood-Fontbonne AcademySpringside Chestnut Hill Academy Chestnut Hill PA Chestnut Hill Community Association Chestnut Hill Conservancy for being with us. And many thanks to James Robinson inc. for making the party sparkle!

10/03/2023

📽️Tuesday Nights at the Movies | OCTOBER 3 | 7PM

TONIGHT’S FEATURE FILM…

MAN’S CASTLE (1933 / 75 minutes)

Spencer Tracy and Loretta Young star in this stirring pre-Code drama about the relationship between two homeless people and their struggle to survive in a shanty town. A visually evocative depiction of Depression-Era American life.
On Tuesday nights, Woodmere’s main gallery is transformed into an intimate setting for screenings of rare and underseen films as well as classics. Tuesday Nights at the Movies is presented with the Chestnut Hill Film Group and sponsored by the Chestnut Hill Local.
Donations suggested.

7:00-9:00 p.m. (doors open at 6:30 p.m.)

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10/02/2023

October 6 | FRIDAY NIGHT JAZZ | $25 ($15 MEMBERS)

FEW tickets remain for October 6 Jazz! 🎶 Don’t hold off and get your tickets NOW! 🎫

For tickets visit https://woodmereartmuseum.org/experience/happenings/jazz-at-woodmere.

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10/01/2023

We are “Chasing After Spirits” this October at Woodmere!💫

Come get a taste of “Bitches Brew” in the newly opened “Barbara Bullock: Fearless Vision.” We have an amazing line-up of programming this month, much of which directly correlates to the exhibition, along with Jazz, Classical, Film, Lectures, and so much more!📆

Visit our Calendar of events to see ALL the happenings at Woodmere. https://woodmereartmuseum.org/calendar/?month=2023-10

“Chasing After Spirits 1,” 2011, by Barbara Bullock (Collection of the artist)

“Bitches Brew,” From the series “Bitches Brew,” 2014, by Barbara Bullock (Woodmere Art Museum Gift of the Nixon family on the behalf of James V. Nixon, Jr. in honor of Barbara Bullock, 2023)

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09/29/2023

Sunday Family Art & Storytelling🎨📖
SUNDAY, October 1 | 11AM—12 PM
FREE | Children ages 3-5 years old, with adult

Introduce your preschoolers to art experiences this SUNDAY, October 1st at 11AM with Sunday Family Art & Storytelling. Children will focus on one artwork, read a related story picture book and create an art project with their adult companion. This FREE program is a fun and engaging way for young children to enjoy art.🤩

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09/28/2023

Romantic Music for Cello and Piano: Music of Brahms, Debussy & Kodály

Saturday, October 14 | 6:00 pm

$25 ($15 members)

Musicians: Scott Ballantyne, cello & Hiroko Sasaski, piano

Cellist Scott Ballantyne, will be giving his farewell public performance at Woodmere with his long-time collaborator, pianist Hiroko Sasaski. The program will feature the rich lyricism of Johannes Brahms’s sonatas for cello and piano as well as sonatas by Zoltán Kodály and Claude Debussy. The concert captures the late Romantic/Early 20th-century musical scene, one of the most creative and impressive periods in all music. This was the first program Ballantyne and Sasaski played together at their Carnegie Hall debut and has been one of the most popular with audiences.

For tickets, please visit https://woodmereartmuseum.org/experience/happenings/classical-music-at-woodmere.

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09/27/2023

"Pollinator Power!" Opening Reception

Saturday, September 30 | 2- 4 pm

FREE

Make a BEE LINE to the Helen Millard Children’s Gallery to join us in celebrating the opening of “Pollinator Power!” This immersive installation celebrates the miracle and interdependence of pollination, a system in which flowers and pollinators each provide what the other needs. By creating a community based on respect, love, and belonging, young artists were able to unleash the power of their own minds and experience how this increases exponentially with collaboration and teamwork. Don’t let this opportunity fly by!

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09/26/2023

📽️Tuesday Nights at the Movies | SEPTEMBER 26 | 7PM

JOIN US TONIGHT as the Fall 2023 season kicks off with a KAY FRANCIS DOUBLE FEATURE!

TROUBLE IN PARADISE (1932 / 83 minutes)
Director Ernst Lubitsch’s delightful, spicy, and cynical pre-Code comedy about a pair of con artists Miriam Hopkins and Herbert Marshall) and their romantic/criminal triangle with heiress Kay Francis. Costarring the ever-wonderful Edward Everett Horton and C. Aubrey Smith.

ONE WAY PASSAGE (1932 / 68 minutes)
Rueful and bittersweet, pre-Code shipboard romance on a Hong Kong to San Francisco sailing. Captured-scaped murderer William Powell is being returned to prison for his imminent ex*****on, but finds 11th-hour love with terminally ill beauty Kay Francis, having her one last cruise ship hurrah. Their passion smolders and they make the most of their monthlong final voyage. Powell and Francis' 6th movie together, co-written by Wilson Mizner, and directed with expert finesse by Tay Garnet.

On Tuesday nights, Woodmere’s main gallery is transformed into an intimate setting for screenings of rare and underseen films as well as classics. Tuesday Nights at the Movies is presented with the Chestnut Hill Film Group and sponsored by The Chestnut Hill Local. Donations suggested. 7:00-9:00 p.m. (doors open at 6:30 p.m.)

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09/25/2023

JOIN US!📽️
"Syd Carpenter: Places of Our Own" Film Screening
Wednesday, October 11 | 5PM
FREE and open to the public

Woodmere Art Museum has collaborated with Montreal’s The Stewart Program for Modern Design on a short film entitled "Syd Carpenter: Places of Our Own." The video, which features an interview of Philadelphia-based artist Syd Carpenter in her studio, includes footage of her garden, which is a source of her creative inspiration. It also shows Carpenter’s site-specific landscape sculpture at Woodmere Art Museum, La Cresta (2021), created in partnership with her husband, artist Steve Donegan.

🎬Woodmere will be hosting a screening of "Syd Carpenter: Places of Our Own," Wednesday, October 11, at 5PM. The evening will begin at The Frances M. Maguire Outdoor Classroom at Woodmere with refreshments and a tour of La Cresta. The screening will be held in the Kuch gallery and will be followed by a brief Q&A with Syd Carpenter.

To register, please visit https://woodmereartmuseum.org/calendar/film-screening-syd-carpenter-places-of-our-own

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09/22/2023

Due to the forecast for inclement weather, SATURDAY NIGHT JAZZ (September 23) will be held indoors. We apologize for any inconvenience. This concert is SOLD OUT; tickets will NOT be available at the door.

Seating will be provided; No food or drinks in the museum.

Be sure to check our website for our full listing of upcoming Friday night Jazz concerts! Visit https://woodmereartmuseum.org/experience/happenings/jazz-at-woodmere.

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09/21/2023

From 1902 until 1906, Violet Oakley, Jessie Willcox Smith, and Elizabeth Shippen Green lived as an extended family at the Red Rose Inn in Villanova. It was here that they were given the nickname The Red Rose Girls. The three artists met in 1897 when they were studying with the famous illustrator Howard Pyle at Drexel Institute. After renting studios at 1523 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia for four years, they decided to pool their income and lease the Red Rose estate, a restored eighteenth-century farmstead, which had recently been purchased by Anthony J. Drexel. The communal household, consisting of Oakley and her mother, Green and her parents, Smith, and Henrietta Cozens, a horticulturist and mutual friend of the artists, made it possible for them to live in picturesque surroundings on the Main Line.

Pictured here is the Red Rose Inn by Violet Oakley and the Red Rose Girls, Violet Oakley, Jessie Willcox Smith, Elizabeth Shippen Green, and Henrietta Cozens.

Image Credits

“Red Rose Inn,” by Violet Oakley, 1904. Courtesy of the State Museum of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.

“Elizabeth Shippen Green, Violet Oakley, Jessie Willcox Smith and Henrietta Cozens in their Chestnut Street studio,” ca. 1901. Violet Oakley papers, 1841-1981. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

“The Red Rose Girls raising glasses for a toast,” ca. 1901. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

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09/20/2023

Sunday Family Art & Storytelling | OCTOBER 1 | 11am-12pm

FREE

Introduce your preschoolers to art experiences! Children will focus on one artwork, read a related story picture book and create an art project with their adult companion. A fun and engaging way for young children to enjoy art!

Children ages 3-5, with adult

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09/19/2023

📽️A new Tuesday Nights at the Movies season kicks off on September 26th!

On Tuesday nights, Woodmere’s main gallery is transformed into an intimate setting for screenings of rare and underseen films as well as classics. Tuesday Nights at the Movies is presented with the Chestnut Hill Film Group and sponsored by The Chestnut Hill Local Donations suggested; 7-9PM (doors open at 6:30PM).

Please join us next Tuesday for a KAY FRANCIS DOUBLE FEATURE...TROUBLE IN PARADISE (1932 / 83 minutes) & ONE WAY PASSAGE (1932 / 68 minutes).

For the season schedule, visit https://woodmereartmuseum.org/experience/happenings/movies-at-woodmere

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09/18/2023

Join us for The Art of Looking with Flo Gelo, associate professor, Department of Family, Community, and Preventive Medicine, Drexel University College of Medicine; Hildy Tow, the Robert L. McNeil, Jr. Curator of Education, Woodmere Art Museum.

Thursday, September 28 | 2PM—3PM | FREE

👀The Art of Looking program will deepen your ability to engage with art. By focusing on one artwork at a time, the program is designed to increase a viewer’s ability to observe and engage in self-reflection, enabling thoughts and feelings to evolve and promote conversation and multiple viewpoints with other participants. This month, we will focus on a work of art from the “Barbara Bullock: Fearless Vision” exhibition.

To register, please visit https://woodmereartmuseum.org/calendar/the-art-of-looking_14384

Image: "Trayvon Martin, Most Precious Blood," 2013-14, by Barbara Bullock (Woodmere Art Museum: Museum purchase, 2014)

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09/15/2023

Shanah Tovah to all our friends observing Rosh Hashanah!

Image: “Cartoon for the ‘Elijah Window,’” 1919, by Edith Emerson (Gift of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 2012)

Edith Emerson, a gifted artist and lecturer, served as director of Woodmere from the early 1940s through her retirement in 1979. Much of the preservation of Woodmere’s holdings and of its ephemera of local artists is due to her diligence and commitment to the art and artists of the Philadelphia area.

Emerson was commissioned to create this full-scale cartoon as part of the multi-panel stained glass window for Keneseth Israel synagogue as a memorial to Theodore Roosevelt. Keneseth Israel, now in Elkins Park, was located on Broad Street and Columbia Avenue. Designed by Emerson and executed by the D'Ascenzo Studios, the window stands at an impressive fourteen feet high.

Explaining in The American Magazine of Art in 1920 why she chose the Prophet Elijah as her subject, Emerson wrote, "Elijah was chosen as the subject of the Roosevelt Memorial window because of the many qualities possessed in common by the great prophet of Israel and this great leader of the American people, among them fearlessness in any kind of personal danger; the courage to assail evil in high places; the decisive mind which does not 'halt between two opinions;' the ability to inspire his followers and the younger generation with an equal zeal and fervor; tenderness toward the suffering and oppressed; obedience to 'the still, small voice,' which alone gives the ability to command others; active, vigorous, effective service in every cause which seemed right and good."

09/13/2023

📣Woodmere Art Museum is pleased to present "Barbara Bullock: Fearless Vision," a retrospective of the artist’s illustrious career. On view September 23, 2023, through January 21, 2024, "Fearless Vision" will showcase Bullock’s development over sixty years of creative practice, from the paintings and drawings of the late 1960s and 1970s to the cut, painted, and sculpted works in heavy-weight paper she is known for today. The exhibition will demonstrate the artist’s participation in a national movement in the arts to strengthen Black identity through explorations of African art, music, and dance and the impact of her extensive travels through Africa and the Caribbean.

Please join us for the Opening Reception celebrating "Barbara Bullock: Fearless Vision" on Saturday, September 23rd from 1PM-4PM. The event is free and open to the public. To register, visit https://woodmereartmuseum.org/experience/exhibitions/barbara-bullock.

Image: "Child in the Land of the Spirits," 1997, by Barbara Bullock (Collection of the artist)

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09/10/2023

❤️Thank you to all the artists, photographers, and friends who came out to celebrate the Opening Reception of “The Photo Review: Best of Show 2023” AND “Just In: Recent Acquisitions!”

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09/09/2023

💯A little rain does NOT stop us…We had so much fun at the Community Project and Straw Maze Opening Reception last night…and the fun continues TODAY! The Straw Maze officially opens at 10AM.🌾

💫And please join us from 1PM-3PM for an opening reception celebrating “The Photo Review: Best of Show 2023” AND “Just In: Recent Acquisitions.” This event is FREE and open to the public.

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09/06/2023

September is National Fruit & Veggies Month! Feast your eyes on two paintings from Woodmere’s permanent collection: “Still Life” by Faye Swengel Badura 🍋🍎🍏 and “Still Life with Carrots” by Mary G. L. Hood! 🥕🥦🥒🥑🍅

Now on display at the Pitcher Perfect exhibition in our Parlor gallery.

“Still Life,” date unknown, by Faye Swengel Badura (Woodmere Art Museum: Gift of the Estate of Patricia van Burgh Allison, 1998)

“Still Life with Carrots,” c. 1943, by Mary G. L. Hood (Woodmere Art Museum: Gift of Sarah Hood Bodine, 2021)

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09/05/2023

🎉 JOIN US this Saturday, September 9th, from 1-3PM for a FREE Opening Reception celebrating Just In: Recent Acquisitions AND The Photo Review: Best of Show 2023.

🌇 Just In: Recent Acquisitions showcases important works by Philadelphia's contemporary artists acquired since 2019 and demonstrates the diversity of voices in the living arts of our city. Highlighting a variety of media, including painting, sculpture, printmaking, and photography, the exhibition also features recently acquired jewelry, offering a preview of galleries that are to be dedicated to Philadelphia's metalsmithing and jewelry arts in Woodmere's newly acquired Frances M. Maguire Hall for Art and Education.

📸 The Photo Review: Best of Show 2023 shines a light on 15 prizewinners chosen by noted photographer, teacher, and author Deborah Willis. Willis’s selections range from classical subjects such as architecture, landscape, and portraiture to conceptual images and even AI-prompted photographs. Black life, women, beauty, and LGBTQ+ subjects are also well represented. The Photo Review, a critical journal of national scope and international readership, organizes the competition annually.

To register, visit https://www.tix.com/ticket-sales/woodmere/6096/event/1340296

"Have Your Cake and Eat It Too (after Fragonard)," 2016–23, by Stuart Netsky (Museum purchase with funding generously provided by Barbara and Larry Finkelstein and Pamela and Joseph Yohlin, 2023)

"Carrie Being Made Up for the Ball," 1984, by Mariette Pathy Allen (Courtesy of CLAMP, New York)

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09/04/2023

Wishing everyone a happy and enjoyable holiday!

08/29/2023

Looking for something to do this Labor Day weekend??? Woodmere Art Museum is open Saturday 10 am-6 pm and Sunday* 10 am-5 pm! Celebrate Labor Day Weekend by visiting our collections of American art!

*Sundays are FREE at Woodmere. Free Sundays are sponsored in part by the generous support of the Clarence Rowell Trust.

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08/27/2023

TODAY is your last day to visit “The Woodmere Annual: 81st Juried Exhibition” AND “The Living World: Center for Creative Works”… Don’t miss your opportunity to see over 50 Philadelphia artists using a variety of mediums on display and an exhibition of paintings, drawings, sculpture, and music featuring fifteen artists from The Center for Creative Works!

The Woodmere Annual Guest Juror Doug Bucci states, “One thing I’m starting to really figure out about Philadelphia, being a working artist, being an educator here, is that as much as we think we know about the city we live in, there’s always an unturned stone. With this exhibition, I think we have a really amazing visual of what Philadelphia looks like. We have the people represented. We have ideas represented."

📍 On view now at the Catherine M. Kuch Gallery / Dorothy J. del Bueno Balcony Gallery.

The Center for Creative Works Curator Anna McGlynn states, "I am always drawn to work that reveals each person's novel sensations and feelings around everyday objects or experiences like walking through the grass or the color patterns on a butterfly. The mundane becomes extraordinary again through another person's careful observation of being part of a world alive with detail. The artwork chosen for this exhibit speaks to the sense of being an observer enmeshed in a larger whole, whether it be through visual representations of animals or songs about the seasons."

📍 On view now at the Helen Millard Children’s Gallery.

Reminder: Sundays are FREE Admission at Woodmere Art Museum 🎟️ (does not include events.) Free Sundays are sponsored in part by the generous support of the Clarence Rowell Trust.

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08/26/2023

🎨Artist Spotlight🎨

Today the Museum is happy to highlight local artist Kathleen Greco! Greco is a featured artist in The Woodmere Annual: 81st Juried Exhibition, on view through August 27, 2023.

Read below for a brief statement courtesy of the artist:

"In my In Lieu of Flowers series I developed a process of recontexualizing flower petals as a living medium connecting to the surface of paper. Popular in Victorian times gifts of flowers were given as secret coded messages called floriography to express feelings that were forbidden in society. In lieu of flowers, I create color fields with flower petal stain as the medium in solid unbroken planes to focus on color and meaning as subject and object. Through my process the floral colors connect with the paper surface gradually transforming with slight color shifts while still living connected to the paper surface. What remains is a message of reconnection and transition over time."

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08/25/2023

📣📣📣Sunday, August 27th is your last day to visit “The Woodmere Annual: 81st Juried Exhibition!”

Did you know that August is American Artist Appreciation Month? Come learn about and support local Philadelphia artists at “The Woodmere Annual: 81st Juried Exhibition,” featuring over 50 Philadelphia artists selected by Juror Doug Bucci, an assistant professor and head of the Metal/Jewelry/CAD-CAM Program at Temple University’s Tyler School of Art and Architecture! This year’s exhibition theme explores the connection between people and places and how humans interpret their own emotional being with the concrete surroundings of where they live. Inspired by how human connection is vital in the post-pandemic era, this exhibition aims to highlight how connections transcend through the arts and how the fabric of Philadelphia threads its community of artists. This exhibition will remain open until Sunday, August 27th, come visit this beautiful and thought-provoking exhibition while you can!

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08/25/2023

🎨Artist Spotlight🎨

Today the Museum is happy to highlight local artist Dawn Kramlich! Kramlich is a featured artist in The Woodmere Annual: 81st Juried Exhibition on view through August 27, 2023.

08/24/2023

🎨Double Artist Spotlight🎨

Today the Museum is happy to highlight local artist Sarah Detweiler! Detweiler is a featured artist in The Woodmere Annual: 81st Juried Exhibition on view through August 27, 2023. We are also featuring her grandfather, who was an artist in one of Woodmere's Juried Exhibitions 80 years ago!

Read below for a brief statement courtesy of the artist:

"My work is about connecting with the simplicity of the past as catharsis in the present. “Feelings” is a piece from a recent solo exhibition with Paradigm Gallery (Philadelphia) titled, “Memory Palace: Down the Rabbit Hole”. I explore the role of nostalgia and its cathartic nature in a post pandemic world.

"The subjects in the work in this series are concealed to either “haunt” my own memories or to create a vicarious memory. In “Feelings”, the figure is draped in tinsel and disguised as a Christmas tree circa 1973. This piece was inspired by a photo of Christmas in my parents’ first home in the early 70’s. It is the ambivalent emotions of going home for the holidays and a reflection of simpler times."

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08/24/2023

🎨Artist Spotlight🎨

Today the Museum is happy to highlight local artist Marguerita Hagan! Hagan is a featured artist in The Woodmere Annual: 81st Juried Exhibition, on view through August 27, 2023.

Read below for a brief statement courtesy of the artist:

"A blossoming homage to the wonder of diatoms, ANS Herbarium Collection and its matriarchal contributions. Including a nod to the art of Victorian diatom arrangement, ice crystals and snowflakes. The title references the ancient symbol of sacred geometry, the Flower of Life. Its feminine energy embodies the cycle of creation and the blueprint and interconnectedness of the university."

1. “Flourish (view A)”, 2021, by Marguerita Hagan (courtesy of the artist)
2. Bill Valerio and Marguerita Hagan
3. Artist Marguerita Hagan

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08/23/2023

🎨Artist Spotlight🎨

Today the Museum is happy to highlight local artist Christina P. Day! Day is featured artist in The Woodmere Annual: 81st Juried Exhibition on view through August 27, 2023.

Read below for a brief statement courtesy of the artist:
Climber is part of a series of linoleum collages that I started in 2018 made from found architectural salvage, a starting point for my art practice at large. The material was hand cut and arranged into a form that speaks a decorative art language that is both alive and dead, made from material that will never actually break down.

1. “Climber”, 2019 by Christina P. Day (courtesy of the artist)

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08/22/2023

🎨Artist Spotlight🎨

Today the Museum is happy to highlight local artist Heather Phillips! Phillips is a featured artist in The Woodmere Annual: 81st Juried Exhibition on view through August 27, 2023.

Read below for a statement by the artist:

“I create critical and celebratory disruptions within a framework that welcome conversations about power, sexuality, deviance, freedom, failure and desire. DIY aesthetics inform the photography, video, objects & Tex(T)iles* through the use of dark humor and camp techniques. Fiction and fact cavort to build futuristic analog utopias, where insults and stereotypes are appropriated and the abject are embraced.

My practice prioritizes my local community of q***r, trans, gender non-conforming, BIPOC & kinky dissidents- holding space for my subjects to unapologetically exist. Sometimes this impenitence takes the form of demands on a textile, an object that offers a portal into a secret history, or a contemporary take on the art historical. I work to create conversations rooted in intersectional politics and the subversion of Eurocentric, patriarchal, hetero-normative constructs. A (re)construction of pasts, presents and futures. It’s as simple as authenticity, it’s as grand as resistance.”

1. Artist Heather Philip
2. Artist Heather Philip

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08/21/2023

🎨Artist Spotlight🎨

Today the Museum is happy to highlight local artist Matthew Borgen! Borgen
is a featured artist in The Woodmere Annual: 81st Juried Exhibition.

Read below for a description of the artwork courtesy of the artist:

“Temptation in the Wilderness, (2019) deliberately conflates history and mythology by combining the composition from a classical print, The Temptation of Christ, c. 1500/1505 by Master LCz (Lorenz Katzheimer), with appropriated images of Davy Crockett and a cartoonish devil from mid-20 century American comic books. The combination of imagery points to parallel examples in history of individuals deliberately merging fact and fantasy to manipulate the thoughts and actions of large groups of people.”

1. Artist Matthew Borgen
2. “Temptation in the Wilderness”, 2019 by Matthew Borgen (courtesy of artist)
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08/20/2023

🎨Artist Spotlight🎨

Today the Museum is happy to highlight local artist Caitlin T. McCormack! McCormack is a featured artist in The Woodmere Annual: 81st Juried Exhibition, on view through August 27, 2023.

Read below for a short artwork description courtesy of the artist:

“These works contemplate societal reluctance to legitimize gendered craft and regard crochet as a behavioral response to apocalyptic conditions. I draw inspiration from folkloric and medieval botanical motifs, institutional osteological displays, science fiction, po*******hy, and cinematic body horror. The therapeutic, transformative act of laboriously crocheting and then literally pinning or stiffening each element into a static composition allows me to recontextualize moments of grief, terror, and rage as ornate, provocative, or comical specimens. Each object is an unraveling artifact of a fugitive memory, tethered to a surface and made viewable from a distance.”

1. Artist Caitlin T. McCormack (courtesy of the Peter Bullough Foundation)
2. “Low Country Special”, 2021 by Caitlin T. McCormack (courtesy of artist)
3. Caitlin T. McCormack

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Body Language: The Art of Larry Day is on view through January 23, 2022. You won't want to miss this ambitious retrospective! Click here to learn more: https://woodmereartmuseum.org/experience/exhibitions/the-art-of-larry-day

NOW ON VIEW: Body Language: The Art of Larry Day This multipart retrospective exhibition celebrates the artistic contributions of Larry Day in his centenary year. Until November 21, the full exhibition is on view at Woodmere, @universityofthearts, and @arcadiaexhibitions. To learn more, click the link in bio.

NOW OPEN: Body Language: The Art of Larry Day On view through January 23, 2022, this exhibition celebrates the Philadelphia artist Larry Day in his centenary year and explores his singular contributions to American art and the lasting power of his observations and imagination.

Opening Soon: “Body Language: The Art of Larry Day” explores the artist’s contributions to American art and the lasting power of his observations and imagination. This ambitious retrospective is an exhibition in three parts at Arcadia Exhibitions and The University of the Arts. #ArtOfLarryDay

ROLAND AYERS: CALLIGRAPHY OF DREAMS Roland Ayers (1932-2014) created free-flowing compositions that merged dreams, memories, and landscapes into fantastical images. This exhibition offers a thirty-year survey of Ayers’ exploration of the psychological and spiritual mysteries of life. Roland Ayers: Calligraphy of Dreams opens this Saturday, July 10. Plan your visit: https://woodmereartmuseum.org/visit — Image: The Emperial Message, 1959, by Roland Ayers (Courtesy of Patrick Terenchin). #WoodmereArt #TellingTheStory #CalligraphyofDreams #RolandAyers #DailyArtFix #OpticalIllusions

In the latest episode of our Diving Board podcast, Woodmere’s CEO & Director sits down with Syd Carpenter and Steve Donegan, the artists behind Woodmere’s latest outdoor sculpture installation, La Cresta. Listen to Diving Board wherever you get your podcasts. #WoodmereArt

Tickets for Woodmere’s Summer 2021 Jazz Series are on sale now! Click the link in bio to buy your tickets today. #PhillyJazz #WRTIMusic #LifelineMusicCoalition

On May 6, join us in celebrating the artists of the Group ‘55 exhibition through an online closing reception. The #Group55 exhibition will be on view through Sunday, May 9. ✨ To register for this event, visit our website!

Saturday Night Jazz returns to Woodmere’s grounds on May 8 for a preview of the upcoming season, which officially kicks off in June! Enjoy an evening of outdoor jazz that pays tribute to Sarah Vaughan. ✨🎷 To learn more, visit our website. #WoodmereArt #PhillyJazz #LiveMusicPhilly #DiscoverPHL WRTI

Jazz From the Art- “Hot and Spicy”

Jazz from the Art: What’s Going On and more

“Schofield: The Art of Uncle Elmer”

Violet Oakley Capitol Murals

Extremely excited to share #violetsvision with our community this weekend! We hope to see you all this Saturday at 4pm. For more information regarding upcoming events for "A Grand Vision" visit: ow.ly/9NYo30fwr8H

CALL FOR ARTISTS | The Woodmere Annual: 76th Juried Exhibition

CALL FOR ARTISTS Woodmere Art Museum invites artists to submit work that contends with the importance of art in an era of heightened political uncertainty for The Woodmere Annual: 76th Juried Exhibition. For more information on the exhibition and how to submit, visit woodmereartmuseum.org or call 215-247-0476

The Storybook Magic of Jerry Pinkney

Run (don't walk) to see our Holiday exhibition 'Twas the Night Before Christmas. Muybridge's lithograph is actually a zoetrope. A zoetrope is a 19th century optical toy consisting of a cylinder with a series of pictures on the inner surface that, when viewed through slits with the cylinder rotating, give an impression of continuous motion. Deer, running, 1879, by Eadweard Muybridge ( Woodmere Art Museum: Gift of J. Randall Plummer and Harvey S. Shipley Miller, 2007)

Come and join the fun at our Halloween Parade!

Social Class in Mosley's Photographs As described by one of our summer interns, Xavier Brooks

Conservation of Harry Bertoia Free Interpretation of Plant Forms (1967) began today here at Woodmere !

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Telling the Story of Philadelphia’s Art and Artists

Woodmere Art Museum is dedicated to the art and artists of Philadelphia. The building and grounds, together with the core of the collection, are the gifts of Charles Knox Smith (1845– 1916), who purchased the estate in 1898 with the intent of transforming it into a showcase for his great collection of art.

A passionate collector of contemporary art in his day, Smith was born of modest means and his life story represents the American dream. He lived in various parts of urban Philadelphia most of his life and purchased the Woodmere estate with the grand ambition to provide spiritual encounters with art in the context of nature’s beauty. Smith opened Woodmere’s doors to the public in 1910.

Woodmere continues to honor Smith’s vision to bring art and nature together and in recent years has acquired important examples of outdoor sculpture by Harry Bertoia and Dina Wind, and Robinson Fredenthal. The collection consists of more than 8,000 works of art. Woodmere’s vibrant, changing exhibitions serve as a platform for an ongoing series of opportunities: family events, tours, gallery talks, lectures, panel discussions, studio art classes, film, and music performances.

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https://materialculture.com/john-laub/

Material Culture's upcoming "Fine, Folk & Outsider Art" auction includes 5 Paintings by landscape artist John Laub

Live Online Auction: Monday, November 23, 2020, 10AM ET
Preview: November 21-22, 10am – 3pm, Appointment Required

Is there anything by Barbara Bullock for sale in the museum store?

Hello to the movie crowd that enjoys the Tuesday nights at the Woodmere museum. This is Mary, the tall lady that is a volunteer on movie night. I had a little slip on black ice in January, but I am fine now. I just want to say how much I miss being at the museum on Tuesday night. There is so much I enjoy on these nights. I miss the beauty of the building as we walk up, the sculptures and the charm of the porch and seasonal flowers. The exhibits that we can enjoy when we come a few minutes early are so beautiful and always changing and showcasing different artist and monthly themes.
Mostly I miss you, the movie goers, and the conversations we have before the movie. Our talks on past movies and the stars and celebrities that we remember from previous shows. Sometimes we need a few seconds to remember these names, ha-ha, but it usually does come to us. Of course, how could I forget the cookies, store bought and some special homemade nights. I sincerely hope we will back together soon and resume this great tradition.
I hope everyone is staying safe and healthy and to quote English theologian and historian Thomas Fuller “it is always the darkest just before the dawn”.

The FAME 2019 EXHIBITION CATALOG is now available for download HERE! http://www.fellowshippafa.org/fame

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Is it possible to still purchase tickets to tomorrow's event?

Sept 2018

What a fabulous exhibit! So happy to get to know the work of Violet Oakley! Thank you

Emmett and I will be going here today!!

Kids have off school today and it's a gorgeous day to be outside.... this should be open!!

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