Open House: Thursday, June 17th from 9am - 5pm. The inaugural exhibition, "On the Rise" coincides with a mayoral ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy and The Art Gallery at City Hall. The ceremony on June 16th is a private affair. Additionally, an Open House is scheduled for the next day, June 17th from 9 am – 5 pm. Beginning with the Open House, the gallery will be open to the general public. Gallery hours will be Monday through Friday from 10 am – 4 pm, closed weekends and holidays. On The Rise includes artists from three of Philadelphia’s leading emerging artist organizations: The Center for Emerging Visual Artists (CFEVA), InLiquid, and Philadelphia Scultpors. The artists exhibiting in On The Rise include CFEVA Artists: Leslie Atik, Tim Portlock, Benjamin Volta, and John Woodin, InLiquid Artists: Arden Bendler Browning, Amze Emmons, Lorraine Glessner, and Miriam Singer, and Philadelphia Sculptors: Colette Fu, Darla Jackson, Samantha Lynch, and Anyta Thomas. The show presents a variety of works including painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, mixed media, drawing, large-scale pigment prints, and installation. The exhibition was co-curated by Leslie Kaufman of Philadelphia Sculptors, Jenny Laden of InLiquid, and Amie Potsic of CFEVA. On The Rise was coordinated by Tu Huynh of the Art In City Hall Program.

Career Development Program

Opening Reception: Thursday, July 22nd 5 - 7pm. Transforming archival materials such as books and microfiche, Maria Anasazi’s work deals with issues of personal and collective loss through sculpture, installation, video, and performance. Leslie Atik considers the metaphors common to language and textiles in her installation works. Drawing on a variety of written sources, Atik creates a chalkboard on which the marks of the chalk, tags, threads, and map pins reveal the inherent elegance of the grammatical patterns that are integral to the meaning of the selected texts. Diane Savona embeds domestic objects between layers of cloth to form fossil-like impressions, which can be read as hieroglyphic symbols. Combined with apron images, Savona’s stitched markings suggest cultural maps.

Career Development Program

Opening Reception: Thursday, August 12th 5 - 7pm.

Career Development Program