Gravers Lane Gallery

06/28/2024

It’s your last chance to be part of the fun! Apply to Serious Fun by June 30th through the link in our bio! This exhibition is curated by .studio & already has some incredible artists included. You don’t want to miss out on this!

Serious Fun is an exhibition of works by contemporary jewelers who apply their expert craftsmanship to playful designs, creating work that both honors the deep history of craft and celebrates contemporary whimsy and creativity. This exhibition is centered around artists who devote their precious time, hard-learned skills, and fine materials to creating works that surprise and delight audiences with their forms, subject matter, or ingenious mechanisms.

06/06/2024

✨ New Arrival at Gravers Lane Gallery! ✨

We are thrilled to unveil Jing Huang’s “Cloud Flow #10”. This stunning piece captures the essence of her exploration of nature, identity, and cultural displacement. This piece is just a preview of the amazing work of Jing’s that we’ll have this fall during her solo exhibition at the gallery.

05/26/2024

Gravers Lane Gallery is proud to announce a special two week exhibition in collaboration with The Stained Glass Project: Windows That Open Doors ✨
The windows will be on view June 1 - June 14, with an Opening Reception on Friday, June 7, 5-8pm ✨

The Stained Glass Project (SGP) is a volunteer run after-school arts program that introduces under-served Philadelphia public high school students to the technically demanding artistic discipline of making stained glass. Each year students come every week and create magnificent stained glass windows for worthy institutions. After working so hard on them, they then donate their windows to deserving students all over the world. They receive social service credits from their schools for attending this program.
This year’s windows were made by students from The Crefeld School and Science Leadership Academy.

After co-founding and running the program for the past 20 years, Paula Mandel and Joan Myerson Shrager are stepping down from their roles. They are passing the torch to Sammie Gualtieri and Kate Crankshaw (GLG’s own Associate Artistic Director), who will be stepping into the roles as co-directors. As a way to honor the impact that Paula and Joan have had over the past 20 years, we are raising money in their honor to establish a scholarship fund. This fund will allow students to continue their glass education at craft schools nationwide.

More information on SGP & the exhibition, as well as the link to donate to the Legacy Scholarship Fund, can we found through the link in our bio 🔗

05/23/2024

See you tomorrow? 💌

✨ Opening Reception tomorrow Friday May 24, 5-8pm with Artist Talks by & at 6:30!

🔗 Link in bio for more information on both exhibitions

05/18/2024

Gravers Lane Gallery is thrilled to announce “Mythos”, a solo exhibition by fiber artist Sasha Baskin 🌹
The exhibition will open with a reception and artist talk on Friday, May 24th 5-8pm at Gravers Lane Gallery in Chestnut Hill, and will close July 15, 2024 🥀

Drawing from Baudrillard’s concept of “hyperreality” and simulation and simulacrum, this series of work examines blurring of the distinction between real and unreal, reality and reality television. Each work becomes a new screen, a new layer of meaning through which a scene from reality television is conveyed. Every new episode of a dating show becomes a new mythological rendering, a new hero’s journey to follow, to worship, to retell and recount. With each podcast, the recap, the meme, and repost, the echoes of these narratives become new mythologies that become the mainstays of our era.

A final rose recipient on “The Bachelor” can become a modern Helen of Troy when she tries to flee the show and break the structure of the past 23 seasons. When she is trapped in her hotel room and forced to resume the season, she becomes (as was Helen) a prisoner of forces she cannot see or control. She is both powerless in the moment while extraordinarily powerful: Helen of Troy started the Trojan War; Cassie from Season 23 of “The Bachelor” changed the nature of the franchise and redefined the structure of reality television.

Reality television exists to remind us to feel comfortable in our own reality. If falling in love on tv is fake, my love is real. Hyperreality exists to make us feel comfortable in our own existence. This work seeks to question that comfort and how we engage with the reality television narratives which surround us. Through bobbin lace and woven images the pieces capture the immediacy of pop culture with the slow analog process of thread. The images themselves unravel. Slow down. Examine the simulation frame by frame.

05/14/2024

Gravers Lane Gallery is pleased to announce Seth Michael Carlson’s first solo exhibition of jewelry at GLG, “MASS MIGRATIONS” 🐝
The exhibit will open with a reception and artist talk on Friday, May 24th 5-8pm at Gravers Lane Gallery, in Chestnut Hill and will close July 15th 2024 🪲

The jewelry industry has dark corners. A minimal research online easily uncovers troubling facts with issues such as human rights violations, political conflicts, and detrimental environmental impact –to name but a few. Jewelry is associated with opulence, celebration, luxury, glitz and romance. Minimal thought is usually given to the impact the industry has on the environment, animals and human beings. Thank goodness that the rise of modern era eco-consciousness in almost every industry has resulted in a growing number of conscious consumers who are raising the jewelry industry standards. Carlson is a jeweler who is not only an outstanding craftsman, but is building his art practice with integrity. He is making jewelry ethically and sustainably which means the materials the jewelry is made from ensures fair wages, safe working conditions, and minimizing environmental degradation. He is concerned about animal welfare and environmental stewardship.

MASS MIGRATIONS is an art jewelry exhibit that strives to capture the character of the fauna and flora that Seth encounters in the natural world –a celebration of its beauty. It is important to him that each piece is handcrafted using ethically sourced gold, silver, and gemstones. He sees every piece as a celebration of the natural world and believes that the materials he chooses should reflect the value of life that he seeks to convey. Seth believes in capturing the character of each life form through subtle expressive gestures. With a focus on environmental preservation, each piece is a snapshot in time to bring awareness and appreciation to the lesser known species.

Link in bio for more info 🔗

05/14/2024

Gravers Lane Gallery is pleased to announce Seth Michael Carlson’s first solo exhibition of jewelry at GLG, “MASS MIGRATIONS” 🐝
The exhibit will open with a reception and artist talk on Friday, May 24th 5-8pm at Gravers Lane Gallery, in Chestnut Hill and will close July 15th 2024 🪲

The jewelry industry has dark corners. A minimal research online easily uncovers troubling facts with issues such as human rights violations, political conflicts, and detrimental environmental impact –to name but a few. Jewelry is associated with opulence, celebration, luxury, glitz and romance. Minimal thought is usually given to the impact the industry has on the environment, animals and human beings. Thank goodness that the rise of modern era eco-consciousness in almost every industry has resulted in a growing number of conscious consumers who are raising the jewelry industry standards. Carlson is a jeweler who is not only an outstanding craftsman, but is building his art practice with integrity. He is making jewelry ethically and sustainably which means the materials the jewelry is made from ensures fair wages, safe working conditions, and minimizing environmental degradation. He is concerned about animal welfare and environmental stewardship.

MASS MIGRATIONS is an art jewelry exhibit that strives to capture the character of the fauna and flora that Seth encounters in the natural world –a celebration of its beauty. It is important to him that each piece is handcrafted using ethically sourced gold, silver, and gemstones. He sees every piece as a celebration of the natural world and believes that the materials he chooses should reflect the value of life that he seeks to convey. Seth believes in capturing the character of each life form through subtle expressive gestures. With a focus on environmental preservation, each piece is a snapshot in time to bring awareness and appreciation to the lesser known species.

Link in bio for more info 🔗

05/02/2024

Join us 5-8pm tomorrow evening at the gallery for a First Friday closing reception as part of Arts & Eats 🎨

There will be
✨ artist talks by Pamela E. Becker & Jan Morgen at 6:30 pm
✨refreshments and light snacks
✨discounts & specials at local restaurants
✨so many exciting events hosted by our neighbors in Chestnut Hill

Check out for a list of all the fun things happening on the hill tomorrow!

04/24/2024

Just a little taste of what to expect opening in the latter part of May . SETH MICHAEL CARLSON “Mass Migration” for all that love exquisite jewelry, excellent design, superb craftsmanship with only materials harvested ethically, and have a passion for animals and artists who’s materials are all environmentally safe with no animal testing. This is your an exhibition for you fashionjewelry # # artery

04/16/2024

Flash back Yvonne Pacanovsky Bobrowicz’s “Cosmic Series” a transitional and most important work as she moved away from natural materials embracing knotted monofilament as the medium for her suspended sculptures . Generously Purchased from Gravers Lane Gallery and gifted to the Fuller Craft Museum image: installed at GLG@1213 Walnut st during the inaugural exhibition for Gravers Lane Galleries center city Philadelphia location

04/05/2024

Another short-term stay at Gravers Lane Gallery .. off to a new home new home, Betsy Hershbergs knitted multi layers and mixed material’s necklace

04/05/2024

Take the time to peer inside, something magical can be found The amazingly complex and beautiful interior views of work by Fiber artist Pamela Becker which are currently on view at Gravers Lane Gallery. Part of a two person exhibition with Philadelphia painter, Jan Morgen. Both artists will be attending this evenings First Friday opening in Chestnut Hill The Arts and Eats brings together restaurants and Galleries with many boutiques and shops open until 8 pm Free with special offers in most restaurants

04/03/2024

Join us this Friday, April 5 from 5-8pm for our First Friday Opening Reception of Continuum, an exhibition featuring work by Pamela E. Becker & Jan Morgen! Jan will be giving an artist talk at 6:30 & we’ll have live music by with refreshments & light snacks ✨

Be sure to check out for all of the exciting things happening in Chestnut Hill on April 5 & visit our neighbors!

03/27/2024

Gravers Lane Gallery is thrilled to announce our next show, Continuum, on view beginning today until May 15!

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. Both artists explore materials with a keen awareness of detail; one layering pigment with mark making and the other coiling embroidery thread into large scale vessels. Their time consuming processes invite healing and contemplative states of being: stitch by stitch; row by row; layer, mark, scrape, paint, repeat. Patterns, symbols and color play off each other in this serene pairing of painting and basketry.

We are proud to present this exhibition as part of
(re)FOCUS celebrates the 50th anniversary of Philadelphia Focuses on Women in the Visual Arts/1974, a citywide festival recognizing women artists. With over 150 exhibitions, panels, lectures, workshops, and demonstrations it was one of the first large-scale surveys of the work of contemporary American women artists, signaling the inception of the American Feminist Art Movement. (re)FOCUS 2024 is also a Philadelphia citywide festival showing how women-identified and BIPOC artists have moved from the periphery to the center of the art world. Like its 1974 predecessor, (re)FOCUS is a collaboration among Philadelphia’s large, small, and diverse visual arts institutions.

03/21/2024

Never too early to stash something away for Mothers Day, May Wedding and Graduation. German goldsmith Eva Steinbergs’ breathtakingly delicate 22 k rich yellow-gold, enhanced with a rare opalescent enamel adorned with a variety of pearls, precious & semi-precious stones exclusively available in the USA #

03/14/2024

It’s your last week to see our two current exhibitions, “Conversation with Oxidation” & sculptural lighting pieces by ! These are two shows you don’t want to miss before they come down after the weekend 🎨
Find more info about the exhibitions, as well as our upcoming exhibitions through the link in our bio 🔗

03/05/2024

A big thank you to everyone who came to our First Friday Reception & Artist Talk by ! It was so great to hear from Harry himself about the stories behind his pieces, each one an intricate assemblage of found and repurposed materials. Thank you, Harry, for such a great talk & to as well for coming to talk about the important work they’re doing in our area!

Harry Anderson & Judith Hoyt’s “Conversation with Oxidation” are both still on view until March 15. Don’t miss your chance to catch these amazing shows before they come down! ✨

This was the first reception held as part of . We’ll be holding events on the First Friday of every month in conjunction with many of the other incredible businesses that call Chestnut Hill home. We hope to see you at the next one on April 5, which will be an Opening Reception for our next show, featuring an Artist Talk from one of our exhibiting artists, 🎨

Learn more about our upcoming exhibits at the link in our bio 🔗

03/03/2024

On view the incomparable Judith Hoyt “Conversation with Oxidation” An exploration of man made materials and natures ability to reclaim through oxidation and decay. Her imagery suggests the inevitability that all things are vulnerable and beauty exists in all stages from birth to death

03/03/2024

Sneak peek at a piece by one of our May/June artists, coiled over to

02/22/2024

Check out the new arts initiative happening in 🎨🍽️

We’d love to see you out on the Avenue for the first Arts & Eats, Friday March 1! We’ll be hosting a reception for our two current exhibitions with an artist talk by at 6:30! Can’t wait to see you all at the gallery next Friday and make sure to check out all the great events our neighbors are hosting as well!

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We’re a collective group of restaurants, art galleries and retail stores in who want YOU to join us every First Friday of the month🥳

The village of Chestnut Hill is a destination experience with its super friendly community🙋🏻🙋🏽‍♀️🙋🏽‍♂️🙋🏼‍♀️, vibrant restaurants🍽️, eclectic art galleries🎨 and stylish retail shops🛍️!

Please join us March 1, 2024 from 5-8pm as we kick off Arts & Eats Chestnut Hill🎉

Stop into any of our art galleries to view the beautiful works, the restaurants will be offering SPECIALS on First Fridays, plus select retail stores will stay open to join in on the fun!

First Fridays are a thing here and we can’t wait to see you! Don’t forget to share this and invite a friend😉

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01/31/2024

Join us this Friday 5-8pm for an opening First Friday Reception of two concurrent solo exhibitions, Harry Anderson and Judith Hoyt “Conversation with Oxidation”!
We’ll have complimentary wine & cheese, live music, and Judith Hoyt will be giving an artist talk at 6:30 ✨

Next month, we’ll be having another First Friday reception on March 1 with an artist talk by Harry Anderson at 6:30 ✨

More info about the exhibitions can be found on our website through the link in bio 🔗

01/31/2024

Timo Krapf 18k with black Diamonds What a perfect Valentines gift from Chestnut Hill with Love

01/31/2024

01/25/2024

Join us on Saturday, February 10 from Noon to 5pm for our Valentines Pop-Up during Love, Chestnut Hill with 💝🍾

We will be serving Prosecco and chocolates for you to enjoy while you shop for gifts for that special someone!
Can’t wait to see you there! 🥂

XOXO
GLG 💘

01/19/2024

The gallery is closed today due to to the snow. Stay safe and we’ll see you tomorrow! ❄️

12/31/2023

Hayden Wilson grew up in the mountains of Western North Carolina. As a second-generation glass maker, he has been around glass his entire life, but working professionally as a glass blower and caster the past six years. In 2017 he acquired Virgil’s Art Glass studio where he continues to run the small business creating glass ornaments in Asheville, NC.

See Hayden’s work in our upcoming holiday exhibition, brilliance, November 24-January 12.

Gravers Lane Gallery presents a showcase of American Studio Craft as personal adornment, decor for the home and an alluring array of artist made objects for gift giving throughout the holiday season. This exhibition will feature the hand-selected work of more than 40 talented artists and craftspeople from across the country, many of whom make their home in the Philadelphia area.

Please join us during the four Stag & Doe evenings on Wednesdays, 5-9pm, in Chestnut Hill when stores remain open late with refreshments for holiday strolling and shopping along the avenue accompanied by an array of outdoor festivities. The dates for these events are on 11/29, 12/6, 12/13 and 12/20 to experience a nostalgic night of shopping and immerse yourself in the old world holiday charm of decorated storefronts in the neighborhood.

12/30/2023

Growing up as the son of a carpenter in West Virginia, Matthew Thomas was exposed to woodworking at an early age and lumber and tools have always been a part of his life. Although his career path started in construction, his woodworking hobby gradually grew into a full-time business. Building on his German/Italian heritage, all of his work cherry, walnut and maple inlaid designs possess clean lines and an elegant aesthetic.

See Matthew’s work in our upcoming holiday exhibition, brilliance, November 24-January 12.

Gravers Lane Gallery presents a showcase of American Studio Craft as personal adornment, decor for the home and an alluring array of artist made objects for gift giving throughout the holiday season. This exhibition will feature the hand-selected work of more than 40 talented artists and craftspeople from across the country, many of whom make their home in the Philadelphia area.

Please join us during the four Stag & Doe evenings on Wednesdays, 5-9pm, in Chestnut Hill when stores remain open late with refreshments for holiday strolling and shopping along the avenue accompanied by an array of outdoor festivities. The dates for these events are on 11/29, 12/6, 12/13 and 12/20 to experience a nostalgic night of shopping and immerse yourself in the old world holiday charm of decorated storefronts in the neighborhood.

12/29/2023

Thomas Spake uses opaque and translucent glass to explore texture and pattern. He is inspired by the subtle yet mysterious beauty of our natural world, and his simple forms and shapes are intended to act as a canvas for the glasscapes to inhabit. Spake uses unconventional techniques along with the inherent chemistry of the metal oxides in the colored glass to create complex patterns that imitate natural objects or landscapes. After blowing the glass, he engraves the surface to reveal the interior colors, then sandblasts the piece to create a matte finish.

See Victoria’s work in our upcoming holiday exhibition, brilliance, November 24-January 12.

Gravers Lane Gallery presents a showcase of American Studio Craft as personal adornment, decor for the home and an alluring array of artist made objects for gift giving throughout the holiday season. This exhibition will feature the hand-selected work of more than 40 talented artists and craftspeople from across the country, many of whom make their home in the Philadelphia area.

Please join us during the four Stag & Doe evenings on Wednesdays, 5-9pm, in Chestnut Hill when stores remain open late with refreshments for holiday strolling and shopping along the avenue accompanied by an array of outdoor festivities. The dates for these events are on 11/29, 12/6, 12/13 and 12/20 to experience a nostalgic night of shopping and immerse yourself in the old world holiday charm of decorated storefronts in the neighborhood.

12/28/2023

Kavita Singh’s designs are an example of what is achieved when a masterful hand is led by an artistic heart. As a fiber artist she has come a long way since her apprenticeship in Paris as a textile designer. Kavita has perfected her silk painting techniques by studying and practicing silk painting for more than 25 years. Being truly international Kavita has studied, produced, and exhibited in London, Paris, South East Asia and her native India. She produces her wearable works of art in her design studio in Saratoga, California.

See Kavita’s work in our upcoming holiday exhibition, brilliance, November 24-January 12.

Gravers Lane Gallery presents a showcase of American Studio Craft as personal adornment, decor for the home and an alluring array of artist made objects for gift giving throughout the holiday season. This exhibition will feature the hand-selected work of more than 40 talented artists and craftspeople from across the country, many of whom make their home in the Philadelphia area.

Please join us during the four Stag & Doe evenings on Wednesdays, 5-9pm, in Chestnut Hill when stores remain open late with refreshments for holiday strolling and shopping along the avenue accompanied by an array of outdoor festivities. The dates for these events are on 11/29, 12/6, 12/13 and 12/20 to experience a nostalgic night of shopping and immerse yourself in the old world holiday charm of decorated storefronts in the neighborhood.