Join us at CFEVA tomorrow for an important conversation about the history and contemporary context of displacement, war and the refugee crisis both in Ukraine and the Baltic States.
When: Thursday, February 22, 2024 6:00 PM 8:00 PM
Where: CFEVA, The Felicity R. “Bebe” Benoliel Gallery, The Barclay, 237 S 18th Street, Suite 3A, Philadelphia PA 19103
CFEVA is delighted to host this event during #refocus2024 @refocus2024.
Link in bio to RSVP on Eventbrite.
Guest speakers will include Saint Joseph’s University Professor Melissa Chakars, Mary Kalyna the daughter of post-World War II Ukrainian Displaced Persons and a life-long social justice activist along with Latvian/Lithuanian artist Krista Svalbonas @kristasvalbonas
For more details and to RSVP, please visit CFEVA.org/events. Space is limited. If the event is sold out contact please [email protected] to join the waiting list.
#philacfeva #cfevaartist #cfevaphl #visualartistfellowship #artistfellowship #paneldiscussion #gallery #philadelphia #philly #specialevents #photography #photographer #kristasvalbonas
Please join us for a conversation about the history and contemporary context of displacement, war and the refugee crisis both in Ukraine and the Baltic States.
Desiderium: A Conversation about Displacement
CFEVA is delighted to host this event during #refocus2024 @refocus2024.
Link in bio to RSVP on Eventbrite.
When: Thursday, February 22, 2024 6:00 PM 8:00 PM
Where: CFEVA, The Felicity R. “Bebe” Benoliel Gallery, The Barclay, 237 S 18th Street, Suite 3A, Philadelphia PA 19103
Guest speakers will include Saint Joseph’s University Professor Melissa Chakars, Mary Kalyna the daughter of post-World War II Ukrainian Displaced Persons and a life-long social justice activist along with Latvian/Lithuanian artist Krista Svalbonas @kristasvalbonas
For more details and to RSVP, please visit CFEVA.org/events. Space is limited. If the event is sold out contact please [email protected] to join the waiting list.
#philacfeva #cfevaartist #cfevaphl #visualartistfellowship #artistfellowship #paneldiscussion #gallery #philadelphia #philly #specialevents #photography #photographer #kristasvalbonas
#POSTPHL returns this October 2024! 🎉 Celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Philadelphia Open Studio Tours with us.
SAVE THE DATES!
Studios Open West of Broad: October 19 & 20
Studios Open East of Broad: October 26 & 27
Noon-6pm all four days.
The Philadelphia Open Studio Tours (POST) is the largest, self-guided, free-to-attend tour of artist studios and creative workspaces in the region, and one of the premier open studio tour events in the country, crossing into over 26 neighborhoods throughout the city for two weekends each October.
All artists in the city of Philadelphia are invited to be a part. Visit CFEVA.org/register and use code EARLYBIRD24 for 50% off your registration, now through May 31.
Tag a #phillyartist below who should know about POST ⬇️
Happy Holidays from CFEVA! ❄️ Please note that CFEVA offices will be closed until January 2, 2024. The gallery reopens for public hours on January 22 at noon.
While we diligently work on preparing the gallery for 2024, we are delighted to share selections from our Artsy page, that are always on view for you to enjoy.
Discover and explore our Artsy page by clicking the link in our bio or visiting www.artsy.net/partner/the-center-for-emerging-visual-artists.
This season, make a local artist's wishes come true: Share, repost, purchase, and tell a friend about artwork that you love.
When you purchase a piece of art for yourself or as a gift during our sale, you're not just contributing to CFEVA and enabling us to sustain our efforts. You're also backing an artist – a small business owner, a teacher, an entrepreneur. These artists serve as economic catalysts and engaged contributors to our vibrant local community, making it a more enriching and livable place.
We wish you a happy, restful, and inspiring season!
#philacfeva #cfevaphl #cfevaartists #artsy #happyholidays #supportlocalartists #shoplocalartists #phillyart #phillyartists #philadelphia #phillyartcommunity
Support local artists and give the gift of original artwork this holiday season! Explore our online Secret POSTcard Sale at CFEVA.org/secret-2023.
Take a glimpse at a small selection of the 4x6-inch unique pieces available. It's the ideal present for art enthusiasts to enhance their collection or begin a new one...or even to enhance your own gallery wall!
#philacfeva #cfeva #supportlocalartists #shoplocal #philadelphia #phillyholiday #holidayshopping #giftlocalart
Happy October! We're kicking off an exciting and eventful fall season with a glimpse into Mary Henderson's exhibition,
𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙨, now on view at CFEVA.
#repost @maryhendersonart: An installation walkthrough at CFEVA. I’m here working until 3 today. The show runs through 10/22, with a book event (!) on 10/21. Hope to see soon you if you’re in the area!
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Stop in the CFEVA Gallery during open hours this fall, Monday-Friday, 12-6pm.
𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙨 features miniature paintings, scaled to the size of a hand, that are set in West Philadelphia’s iconic Clark Park, steps away from the artist's home. Inspired in part by the Parisian park and garden-party paintings of French Impressionist painting, the work imagines this public square as a kind of everyday utopia.
Exhibition: September 21 - October 22, 2023
Gallery Hours Monday-Friday 12:00-6:00pm
Open studio hours with Mary Henderson: Thursdays, 12:00-3:00 (and by appointment)
Philadelphia Open Studio Tours (POST) hours: Saturday October 21 & Sunday October 22, 12-6pm
Closing reception and book launch party: Saturday, October 21, 5-7pm
Where: Felicity R. “Bebe” Benoliel Gallery,
237 S 18th Street, Suite 3A, Philadelphia , PA 19103
Contact: [email protected]
#philacfeva #cfevaart #cfeva #cfevaexhibition #philly #phillyart #phillyartist #philadelphia #philadelphiaart #openstudio #artistinresidence #visualartistfellowship #cfevafellowship #40yearsoffellowship #artistopportunities #reception #booklaunch #maryhendersonart
Have a whirl at Andrea Wohl Keefe's kinetic knot painting, Rumination (Running in Place), now on view at CFEVA.
Regular gallery hours end after June 30. Stop in before then and see The Calm Before the Storm - our gallery is open Monday through Friday, 11am-4pm.
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘢𝘭𝘮 𝘉𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘮
2023 CFEVA Members Exhibition
On view: May 24-July 28, 2023
CFEVA is closed June 19, 2023.
Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 11am-4pm (excluding federal holidays)
By appointment only: July 5-July 28, 2023. Contact: [email protected]
The Center for Emerging Visual Artists presents the 2023 Members Exhibition, The Calm Before the Storm. This annual juried exhibition invites members from the CFEVA artist community to showcase their work in our gallery space. This year, in the spirit of our 40th Anniversary and celebration of Forty Years of the Visual Artist Fellowship, guest juror Visual Artist Fellow Chelsey Luster curated the exhibition.
The Calm Before the Storm invites CFEVA Artist Members to showcase concepts that embrace maximalism and excess visual noise in contrast with the exploration of emptiness and solitude. These seemingly opposing visual representations will be interconnected throughout the gallery in this group exhibition.
Featured Artists:
Cynthia Brantley | Justin Bursk | Erin Elman | Sally Eisenberg | Terry Frishman | Linda Dubin Garfield | L. L. Gross | Anna Guarneri | Jenn Hartt | David Heshmatpour | Brynn Hurlstone | Duwenavue Sante Johnson | Monica Kane | Andrea Wohl Keefe | Gloria Klaiman | Bridgette Kluger | Krista Dedrick-Lai | Allison Lau | Penelope Lisk | Roberta Massuch | Kirk Maynard | Kellianne McCarthy | James McGillin | Nicole Michaud | Nick Mittlestead | Sofya Mirvis | Elisa Niva | Marc Provisor | Kaleigh Quinnan | Arshayla Robinson | Orlando Saverino-Loeb | Benjamin Weaver | Christine Walinski
The CFEVA Gallery is closed today, June 19. We will reopen tomorrow, June 20 at 11am - stop in and catch a glimpse of what's on view. While you're here, interact with Brynn Hurlstone's installation, Of Precarity and Release, as you see here.
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘢𝘭𝘮 𝘉𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘮
2023 CFEVA Members Exhibition
On view: May 24-July 28, 2023
Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 11am-4pm (excluding federal holidays)
By appointment only: July 5-July 28, 2023. Contact: [email protected]
The Center for Emerging Visual Artists presents the 2023 Members Exhibition, The Calm Before the Storm. This annual juried exhibition invites members from the CFEVA artist community to showcase their work in our gallery space. This year, in the spirit of our 40th Anniversary and celebration of Forty Years of the Visual Artist Fellowship, Visual Artist Fellow Chelsey Luster juried the exhibition.
The Calm Before the Storm invites CFEVA Artist Members to showcase concepts that embrace maximalism and excess visual noise in contrast with the exploration of emptiness and solitude. These seemingly opposing visual representations will be interconnected throughout the gallery in this group exhibition.
Featured Artists:
Cynthia Brantley | Justin Bursk | Erin Elman | Sally Eisenberg | Terry Frishman | Linda Dubin Garfield | L. L. Gross | Anna Guarneri | Jenn Hartt | David Heshmatpour | Brynn Hurlstone | Duwenavue Sante Johnson | Monica Kane | Andrea Wohl Keefe | Gloria Klaiman | Bridgette Kluger | Krista Dedrick-Lai | Allison Lau | Penelope Lisk | Roberta Massuch | Kirk Maynard | Kellianne McCarthy | James McGillin | Nicole Michaud | Nick Mittlestead | Sofya Mirvis | Elisa Niva | Marc Provisor | Kaleigh Quinnan | Arshayla Robinson | Orlando Saverino-Loeb | Benjamin Weaver | Christine Walinski
Did you know that in 2023, CFEVA will be celebrating its 40th Anniversary? Please help us reach our year-end fundraising goal of $10,000 so that we can move into the new year ready to offer our special programming, much of it focused on showcasing the path of all of our past and present Visual Artist Fellows!
CFEVA needs your financial support now more than ever so that we can continue to execute and expand flagship mentoring programs for artists such The Visual Artist Fellowship, and community programs such as our NewCourtland Senior Initiative Partnership, which is powered by teaching artists. Gifts over $500 will add your name to our Gallery Wall!
We have been an integral driver of artist-powered programming in this special place, where creative endeavor blossoms, where socially-engaged citizens thrive, and where diverse audiences interact consistently with art. And we cannot do it alone. Artists who can sustain their art practice stay in Philadelphia to make art for all of us to enjoy.
Be a CFEVA Champion. Be a part of our community of art-lovers and supporters in time for us to celebrate our 40th Anniversary Year. Let's work together to boost artists in the city we all love. Thank you in advance for your support!
Please visit www.cfeva.org/support for more information.
Selections from Art in the Open 2022
Opening Reception June 9, 2022
Exhibition: June 9-24, 2022
Hours: 11am-5pm Monday-Friday by appt.
Contact: [email protected] for an appointment
Where: 237 S 18th Street, Suite 3A
RSVP for the June 9th Reception https://www.eventbrite.com/e/opening-reception-selections-from-art-in-the-open-aio-tickets-344789463567
Exhibiting Artists
Francis Beaty, Patrick Cabry, Way of Words Andrew Christman and Morris Jones, John Cichon, Jessica Eldredge, Daniel Feeser, Steve Rossi, Alex Spragens, Alice Thompson, Aaron Treher, Stephanie Vance, Lauren Vargas, Julia Way, and हम स्वयंour selves
This exhibition is part of a series. More AiO 2022 will follow in the coming year.
Video by Julia Way Created during AiO
Stephanie Vance is an artist and educator born in Southwest Michigan and currently based in Philadelphia. She received her BFA from Albion College in 2011, and her MFA from Visual Studies Workshop in 2015. As an artist, Vance explores notions of memory, biography, and map-making through various strategies in alternative photographic processes, installation design, fibers, and new media tools. As an educator, she has taught fabric works, photography, and exhibition practices since 2008 at various institutions including Albion College, International Center for Photography, SUNY Brockport, NY, Interlochen Arts Academy, and the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center. Stephanie Vance is currently an artist-in-residence in The Print Center's Artists-in-Schools program. Vance’s broad range of experience in education, collections management, exhibition design, and studio production has also led her to consult and assist on projects for many internationally known artists and museum professionals.
I will be working on a community-based collaborative fiber arts project that explores our relationship to, and usage of, the Schuylkill River. We will be using a combination of wet and dry felting techniques and water from the Schuylkill River to create a large felted map of the Philadelphia water systems. Wet felting is an accessible and easy-to-learn technique, which makes it a great community art medium. People from ages 5 to 85 can participate in the making of this project. The resulting map will be approximately 5 x 6 feet, and will be created collaboratively by anyone willing to participate. My interest in this topic stems from my roots in Southwest Michigan, where I grew up with a great fondness for water. My parents owned a marina, and I swam in the lake every day. The lake was recreational, therapeutic, and our livelihood. Later, when I moved to New York City, I quickly realized people’s relationship with the Hudson River was much different. The Hudson was a business highway w
Colette Fu with Pop up book
2017 Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series
