Jacob Rivkin ('13) Animation at the Experimental Films Screening at Animation Block Party

Jacob Rivkin ('13) animation flats and wagons included in the Experimental Films Screening at Animation Block Party

Animation Block Party is the premier animation festival of the East Coast. The 12th annual festival is July 30 — August 2, 2015.

Experimental Films, Graphic Design, and Music Videos

DATE: Sunday, August 2, 2015, 9PM
LOCATION: Peter Jay Sharp Building, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) Rose Cinemas
SCREENING RUN TIME: 70min

http://www.bam.org/film/2015/experimental-films-graphic-design-and-music-videos
http://www.animationblock.com
http://www.jacobrivkin.com

Phillip Adams (MFA '06) in Solo Exhibition at Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia

Phillip Adams (MFA '06) is exhibiting a new series of paintings and drawings in his solo exhibition "Love at the Matterhorn," opening next Saturday, the 24th.  The Exhibition is on view until October 23rd.  

For more information about "Love at the Matterhorn" and about Phillip Adam's work, please visit,

http://seraphin.squarespace.com/phillip-adams-2011/

 Love at the Matterhorn

On View: September 24th-October 23rd, 2011

Opening Reception: Saturday, September 24th, 6-8pm 

Seraphin Gallery
1108 Pine Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
www.seraphingallery.com

 

Edward Carey (MFA '09) Exhibits Installation in UArts Window

Edward Carey (MFA '09) is exhibiting work in two locations during the month of June. The first is in a window display at UArts. The second is at Bird Park on the corner of Third and Arch in Old City. Please check out both installations while they are up.

UArts Window

333 S.Broad Street

Philadelphia, PA 19107

Bird Park

N 3rd and Arch Street

Philadelphia, PA 19106

Multiple Alumni Represented in VOX VII, Co-Curated by Hennessy Youngman (Jason Musson (MFA' 11))

Vox Populi's seventh annual exhibition of emerging artists, VOX VII, co-curated by Hennessy Youngman and Melissa Ho, is scheduled to open July 8th, 6pm. 32 artists were selected for inclusion in the show, including 8 Alumni: Milana Braslavsky MFA `07, Leigh van Duzer MFA `10, Matthew Krawcheck MFA `10, Peter Schenk MFA `09, John Schlesinger MFA `11, Jaime Treadwell MFA `02, Jessica Vaughn MFA `11 and Nathan T. Wilson MFA `10. The complete list of artists follows:

Milana Braslavsky
Chris Domenick
Hillary L. Doyle
Leigh van Duzer
Kristina Estell
Ashlee Ferlito
Erik Geschke
Scott Giblin
Ben Goddard
Bobby Gonzales
Jordan Graw
James Grilli
Adam Jacono
Tara Kelton
Nichola Kinch
Matthew Krawcheck
Jennifer Lingford
Kevin McCullough
Bud McNichol
Dustin Metz
Jonathan Monaghan
Benjamin Pederson
Daniel Petraitis
Lauren Rice
Peter Schenk
John Schlesinger
Run Shayo
Jaime Treadwell
Jessica Vaughn
Sarah Weber
Nathan T. Wilson & Dante Blackstone
Lindsay Wraga

For more information on VOX VII, visit

http://www.voxpopuligallery.org/index.php

VOX VII

July 8 – 31

Opening Reception: Friday, July 8^th, 6-11pm

Vox Populi

319 N 11th Street, Third Floor

Philadelphia, PA 19107

215-238-1236

Vox Populi is open to the public Wednesday through Sunday from 12 pm to 6 pm

Julia Barbosa Landois (MFA '07) in Solo Exhibition at Blue Star Contemporary Art Center (San Antonio, Texas), Opening June 2nd, 6pm

Julia Barbosa Landois (MFA '07) will have work featured in a solo exhibition and live performance, entitled "Culo de Oro/The Golden Ass," at Blue Star Contemporary Art Center. "Culo de Oro/The Golden Ass" examines sex, masculinity, and the tourist mentality along the Texas/Mexico border.

Landois grew up in South Texas, surrounded by men who visited towns like Nuevo Laredo for prostitutes, bizarre sex shows, exotic game hunting, and recreational drinking. Like Las Vegas or Amsterdam, these towns illustrate how the concept of license can change when one changes environments. In this show, she, too, plays the part of tourist in the terrain of masculine identity and gendered desire, in a sexual rite of passage with no counterpart for women of the same culture.

This is Landois's first project using documentary material as a starting point. The installation and performance are informed by interviews conducted with friends and brothel patrons, sex tourism website testimonials, regional folklore, and ideas about sex and spirituality from ancient Mexico. Landois will perform in the installation space on June 30th with musician Erik Sanden of the art-rock band Buttercup. Creation of this work was made possible in part by the Residency Program at the Santa Fe Art Institute and an Award from the Artist Foundation of San Antonio, with funding provided by the Cultural Collaborative of the City of San Antonio.

To view more of Julia's work, visit http://www.julialandois.com/

Also, to read reviews of the show, please visit

http://www.mysanantonio.com/default/article/Curtain-lifted-on-border-sex-trade-1443687.php

http://glasstire.com/2011/07/02/nuevo-laredo-performs-in-san-antonio-culo-de-oro-the-golden-ass/

Opening Reception: Thursday, June 2nd, 6-9 pm

Live Performance: Thursday, June 30th, 7pm

Exhibition Dates: June 2nd - August 6th

Blue Star Contemporary Art Center

116 Blue Star

San Antonio, TX 78204

http://www.bluestarart.org/

Marjorie Van Cura (MFA '02) interviewed by Peter Gynd Medley of Northside Open Studios

In the Studio: With Majorie Van Cura
By Peter Gynd Medley
posted May 7, 2011
www.northsideopenstudios.org/news/

This week I visited with Greenpoint artist Marjorie Van Cura.
Van Cura’s work is born of experience; her father a computer programmer at a genetic research lab, Van Cura’s work is informed by her personal experiences and reflections on genetic hybridization. Dealing directly with building personally relevant icons through appropriated imagery, her work bypasses the narrative, focusing instead on the subconscious processing of ideas.

Marjorie’s paintings begin with a Google image search. She searches for photos illustrative of both her experiences and the subconscious of an experience. The images are then digitally collaged together forming a hybridized human/animal/mechanical icon.

Reflective of genetic exploration, these icons undergo a series of changes through their generational reproduction. Referring to this as the “generation of a generation”, Marjorie hand traces these forms repeatedly to her final surface, the icon changing or evolving slightly with every successive transfer. This process produces paintings which upon first glance appear as perfectly balanced and symmetrical compositions of repeating forms. Upon closer inspection though, Van Cura’s paintings slowly reveal the subtle variations of the process.

Referencing Op Art and Surrealism, the works are pattern and color based, meant to be disorientating, but not completely overwhelming. The imagery of the icons reflective of the hybridization of contemporary culture and as Van Cura puts it, “a way to process the world and events without being overly political.”

To view more of Marjorie's work, visit www.marjorievancura.com.

Northside Open Studios: June 16th - 19th
* Note: Marjorie Van Cura will be in studio on Sunday only, June 19th from 12:00 - 6:00pm.

Majorie's Studio Location
255 Calyer Street
(@ corner of Newel)
Second Floor
Greenpoint Brooklyn

Brent Wahl (Lecturer, MFA '06) in Solo Exhibition at Vox Populi, Opening May 6th, 6pm

Brent Wahl (Lecturer, MFA '06) will have work featured in his fourth solo exhibition at Vox Populi, entitled "Group Show". Fabricating three-dimensional "situations" that move through contextual and visual shifts is an ongoing interest in Brent Wahl’s work, as are reoccurring themes that investigate cultural phenomena, abstraction, architecture and illusion. For Wahl, abstraction has often been the "glue" that binds together the disparate visual forms in his varied work.

In "Group Show", Wahl refocuses his interest in abstraction in full force. Drawing on his fascination with the optical and spatial shifts that happen between three-dimensional structures imaged in two-dimensions (via photography), he embraces a playful and experimental stance with this work. Collaborating with himself, he compiles a “group show" of imagery that is at once thematically linked and visually diverse.

To view more of Wahl's work, visit, http://brentwahl.com/home.html

Opening Reception: Friday, May 6th, 6:00 - 11:00pm
Exhibition Dates: Friday, May 6th - Sunday, May 29th

Vox Populi
319 North 11th Street
Philadelphia, PA
http://www.voxpopuligallery.org/

Caroline Santa (MFA '07) in Solo Exhibition at Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Opening May 6th, 6pm

Caroline Santa (MFA '07) will have recent work featured in a solo exhibition, titled "Coda", at Tiger Strikes Asteroid. Mining old drawings, discarded scraps of paper, and other found items, Santa's newest mixed media works are improvisatory, intuitive, and guided by serendipity. "Coda" is the inaugural exhibition in Tiger Strikes Asteroid's new space on the 2nd floor.

Santa's previously unresolved drawings are remembered, reexamined, and reshaped to become a fresh inventory of color, marks, and surfaces. Enforced by other found items, this collection of materials is recognized for an undeveloped portential and an appreciation of its own characteristics. Her thoughtfulness in observations and the inspiration she finds in overlooked fragments and secondary forms reveals a compelling process. The negative spaces of Santa's drawings become the subject, cut out and reinforced by the application of arbitrary shapes in gouaches, ink washes, spray paint and graphite. Santa holds a BFA from the University of Delaware and an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania. Recently her work has been shown at Projects Gallery, UnSmoke Space, and Gross McCleaf Gallery. In 2007, she was the recipient of the Charles Addams Prize, and was an Artist-in-Residence in Pereira, Colombia. Her work has been exhibited at The Delaware Center of Contemporary Art, FLUXspace, The Jenny Jaskey Gallery, The University of the Arts, the galleries of The University of Pennsylvania, and The Lucy Tejada Cultural Center in Pereira, Colombia. Santa lives and works in Philadelphia.

To view more works by Santa, visit http://carolinesanta.com/news.html

Opening Reception: Friday, May 6th 6:00pm-10:00pm
Exhibition Dates: Friday May 6th - Sunday May 29th

Tiger Strikes Asteroid
319A North 11th Street
2nd Floor (Our New Location!)
Philadelphia PA 19107

Joe Ovelman (MFA '10) in Solo Exhibition at Conner Contemporary Art, Opening May 14th, 6pm

Conner Contemporary Art is pleased to present concurrent solo exhibitions by Jeremy Kost, Joe Ovelman and Geoffrey Aldridge. Joe Ovelman (MFA '10) explores sexuality and the subversion of social norms with a series of new sculptures in his second solo exhibition with the gallery, "Coming Home". Works made of wood and mixed media resemble apparatuses used in past decades to provide anonymity during sexual encounters. Removing these forms from their original contexts and adjusting the relation of their features to human anatomy, Ovelman emphasizes the universality of these objects.

To view more of Ovelman's work, visit http://joeovelman.com/home.


Opening Reception: Saturday, May 14th, 6:00 - 8:00pm.
Exhibition Dates: May 14th – July 2nd, 2011


Conner Contemporary Art
1358 Florida Avenue,
NE –Washington, DC 20002
(in the Historic Atlas/H Street Area)
http://www.connercontemporary.com/
202.588.8750
Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 10:00 - 5:00pm

Marc Blumthal (MFA '10) in Group Exhibition at the Woodbury Hollywood Gallery (WUHO), CA, Opening Thursday April 14th, 7pm

Marc Blumthal (MFA '10) will have work featured in a group exhibition titled, "2D3D-2: Drawing in the Post-Digital Age" at the Woodbury University School of Architecture Hollywood Gallery (WUHO) in Los Angeles, California. Drawing is a major and parallel mode of expression for many of today’s progressive architects. The gallery thus proposes "2D3D", a comprehensive annual exhibition of architectural drawings. Please join the Blumthal and additional artists for this special event.

"Architectural drawings have a variety of uses: to instruct, inform, indulge, confuse, confirm, congratulate and console. The most worthwhile are those that undertake these essential architectural tasks on behalf of the producer rather than the consumer. When this is the case, which is rare, then such drawings do indeed become an integral part of the architecture they portray rather than a cypher for thoughts translated elsewhere, and by other means."
-Cedric Price

To see more of Blumthal's work, visit http://www.marcblumthal.com/

Opening Reception: Thursday, April 14th, 7:00 - 10:00pm
Exhibition Dates: Thursday, April 14th - Sunday, May 1st

Woodbury University School of Architecture
Hollywood Gallery (WUHO)
6518 Hollywood Blvd
Los Angeles, California 90029
http://wuho.org/

Nathlie Provosty (MFA '07) in Group Exhibition at Fowler's Gallery, Brooklyn, Opening April 23rd, 6pm

Fowler Arts Collective is pleased to present "Fist City", an exhibition of abstract paintings by EJ Hauser, Logan Grider, Matt Phillips, and Nathlie Provosty (MFA '07).

A fist is the hand’s best attempt to organize itself. More often than not, our attempts to create order and meaning only remind us of how lawless and mysterious life actually is. What does the inside of your closed hand even look like? "Fist City" is not just a place; ...it is a community and a credo. Hands reaching out to grasp, touch, and configure the entropic. When words become too elusive and you have to take matters directly into your hands, you have entered "Fist City". Titled after the infamous Loretta Lynn song of the same name, "Fist City" embodies the bold, take-notice attitude of Lynn’s lyrics. The artists in "Fist City" are engaged in a rigorous investigation of abstraction and all the different forms it can take. The exhibition is a collaboration between the artists: self-directed and independently organized with the support of Fowler Arts Collective. In addition to paintings, the artists have produced a limited edition broadsheet that will accompany the exhibition.The artists live and work primarily in New York City and Philadelphia. Fowler is a new gallery and studio collective located in Greenpoint, Brooklyn founded by Cecelia Post (MFA '09).

To learn more about Fowler and this exhibition, visit http://www.fowlerartsbrooklyn.org/.

Opening Reception: Saturday, April 23rd, 6:00 - 9:00pm
Exhibition Dates: April 23rd to May 7th, 2011

Fowler Arts Collective Gallery
67 West Street, 2nd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11222
Gallery Hours: Saturday and Sunday 12:00 - 6:00pm or by appointment

Francesca Pfister (MFA '07) and Stefania Luciani Binnick (MFA '87) in Exhibition at the Consulate General:Italy, Philadelphia, Opening April 28th, 6pm

Francesca Pfister (MFA '07) and Stefania Luciani Binnick (MFA '87) will have work featured in a Group Exhibition titled, "The Unity of Italy and USA: A Bridge of 150 Year". Curated by Shara Wasserman, the exhibition will hosts two openings at the Crane Arts Building: Gray Area and the Consulate General of Italy, Independent Mall. Wasserman is the Exhibitions Director at Temple University Rome. A video projection and concert will be featured the day prior to Pfister and Binnick's opening.

* Opening Reception: Thursday, April 28th, 6:00 - 9:00pm

* Consulate General of Italy: Philadelphia
150 South Independence Mall W
Philadelphia, PA



Concert and Video Projection: Wednesday, April 27th 6:00 - 9:00pm

Crane Arts: Gray Area
1400 North American Street
Philadelphia, PA

Penn Alumni at Tiger Strikes Asteroid Promoting Gallery for Funding Support

Tiger Strikes Asteroid has been home to 25 exhibitions since it began in 2009. These include solo shows of its member artists and group and solo exhibits from local and national non-members as well. Our goal is to connect the Philadelphia art community with the National and International community by exhibiting a diverse array of exhibits and other programs.
In the coming months the gallery is also pleased to announce that it will move to a beautiful new space on the 2nd floor of the building it is currently in (319A North 11th Street). This will further plant the gallery in the vibrant community it has been apart of since it began and will increase opportunities for dialogue and conversation with other exhibition spaces and artist groups. In the coming months we will feature member exhibitions from Caroline Santa and Alex Paik, two person exhibitions from Amy Beecher and Susan Bricker, solo exhibitions from Tracy Thomason and Gerard Brown and an exhibit curated by Wallace Whitney, a New York based painter and part owner of the Lower East Side gallery, Canada.

With these coming exhibits comes increased costs. Tiger Strikes Asteroid is asking for funds to help with operating expenses, move related costs and other bills that may arise as we develop our gallery and programming.

Money donated to Tiger Strikes Asteroid will go to:
-The construction and renovations of our new gallery space.
-Shipping costs so we can bring artists from afar to our gallery.
-Equipment so we can expand the scope of our exhibits and programming.
-Costs associated with the development of a visiting speaker series.

Here is the link. Please donate today!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2082312048/tiger-strikes-asteroid-moves-and-expands

To learn more about Tiger Strikes Asteroid, visit http://www.tigerstrikesasteroid.com/

Kim Brickley (MFA '09) and Sarah Zimmer (MFA '08) create light installation for new project by the Mural Arts Program, Philadelphia

Kim Brickley (MFA '09) and Sarah Zimmer (MFA '08) contribute to a new project by the Mural Arts Program, in conjunction with the Northern Liberties Neighborhood Association. The project plans to bring a more permanent light installation to the city. The Spring Garden Gateway Project is an interactive light installation created by Brickley and Zimmer, which hopes to cover the I-95 underpass at Second and Spring Garden Streets with Lightwild Pixel LED lights and motion sensors to “transform the space into an interactive environment that pulses with light and movement.”

People, bikes and cars would all activate motion sensors, which (depending on the speed and position of said commuters) would activate pixels varying in color and brightness. The display would be ever-changing and depend entirely on the commotion of the city around it. Michael Sebright is the architectural consultant on the job, Adam Rokhsar of Harvestworks is the interactive programmer and Billy Hodges of Illuminations is the lighting consultant on the project.

To learn more about this project, visit http://nakedphilly.com/northern-liberties/the-spring-garden-gateway-project-an-interactive-light-installation-under-95/

Nathlie Provosty (MFA '07) in Group Exhibition at Jolie Laide, Opening April 8th, 6pm

Nathlie Provosty (MFA '07) will have work featured in a group exhibition titled "Becoming Something Found" at Jolie Laide, Philadelphia. "Becoming Something Found" explores how chance and uncertainty guide the processes of making art. The exhibition included artists from different generations who “collaborate with chance” (Rebecca Solnitt). The artists are connected through practices that involve unplanned gestures and indirect courses. Their processes are similar yet disparate, overlapping in approaches to materials and abstraction and varying in particularities of methods and imagery. For all of the artists, making art entails an ability to get lost and to remain open to what one may find. Additional artists featured include Jessica Dickinson, Emily Do, Rachel Foullon, Shelia Hicks, Alison Knowles, Fabienne Lasserre, Siobhan Liddell, Ree Morton, Jo Smail, and Molly Smith.

To see more of Provosty's work, visit http://www.nathlieprovosty.com/


Opening Reception: Friday, April 8th, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Exhibition Dates: Friday, April 1st - Saturday, May 28th

Jolie Laide Gallery
224 N. Juniper St.
Philadelphia, Pa 19107
http://www.jolielaide.com

Alexis Granwell (MFA '07) in Exhibition with Rick Lewis at MACAS, Opening March 5th, 6pm

Mount Airy Contemporary Artists Space (MACAS) is pleased to present artwork by Philadelphia artist Alexis Granwell (MFA '07) and Brooklyn artist Rick Lewis. Utilizing a variety of techniques and media, including painting, print and wall-mounted assemblage, the artists demonstrate their connection to place. Their work is as much about the performance of making as it is about the paradoxical tension between their use of fragile materials and the strength of their designs. Granwell is inspired by the cycle of decay and renewal in the urban landscape. Using detritus from the city she assembles constructions that suggest new possibilities. Her prints incorporate the lines and patterns of topographical maps leading us to a visualization of a psychological geography. MACAS is a small artist-run exhibition space in the northwest of Philadelphia. The gallery’s program is focused on connecting artists and artist communities through exhibitions that pair artists from different regions.

Opening Reception: Saturday, March 5th, 6:00 - 9:00pm
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, March 5th - Saturday, April 2nd

MACAS
25 West Mt. Airy Avenue
Philadelphia PA, 19119
267.270.2787
info@mountairycontemporary.com
http://www.mountairycontemporary.com/
Gallery Hours: Saturdays 1:00 - 4:00pm

Tetsugo Hyakutake (MFA '09) in Exhibition at Gallery 339, Opening March 8th

Gallery 339 is pleased to present "Ephemeral Existence", an exhibition by Tetsugo Hyakutake (MFA '09). In "Ephemeral Existence", Hyakutake explores the contradictions inherent in the Japanese landscape and how those contradictions offer clues to understanding Japan today. Hyakutake’s work focuses primarily on industry and the infrastructure of modern society (bridges, railroads, highways), through which he seeks to decipher recent Japanese history and culture. Hyakutake’s conflicted relationship with these sites comes across in his ambiguous images. The grandeur of the structures suggests his admiration for the role that industrialization played in making the Japan of today: a manufacturing superpower, the second largest economy in the world, a country rebuilt from the ashes of the Second World War. Yet the images are not robust celebrations of national pride. There is an uncertainty to these structures. They have an ephemeral quality, as if they might disperse in the night air—beautiful dreams rather than steel and concrete. Hyakutake’s industrial photographs are also more than cold documents; they are suffused with a surprising sense of humanity, evoking the lives and toil that stand behind these monuments. The industrial miracle of the post war era clearly returned Japan from defeat to a remarkable economic victory, but Hyakutake ponders whether the price was too high and the victory too fleeting.

Opening Reception: Friday, April 8th, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Exhibition Dates: Tuesday, March 8th - Saturday, May 7th

Gallery 339
NE corner of 21st & Pine Streets
Five Star Parking Garage is located between 20th and 21st Streets on Lombard Street
http://gallery339.com/html/

Edward Carey (MFA '09) in Group Exhibition with Philadelphia Sculptors at Urban Outfitters Headquarters, Opening, March15th, 5pm

Edward Carey (MFA '09) will be featured in a group exhibition with Philadelphia Sculptors at Urban Outfitters Headquarters. Philadelphia Sculptors is fortunate to be able to share in its new development with their upcoming exhibition, "The Journey", in one of URBN's renovated buildings that also houses a restaurant and coffee bar, both open to the public. Twelve artists will exhibit sculptures and installations in this historically renovated brick and glass building on the URBN campus. Featured artists include Tom Bendtsen, Edward Carey, Carol Cole, James Fuhrman, Melissa Haims, Daniel Hoffman, Kim Knauer, Tecu'Mish Munha'Ke, Joanna Platt, Colleen Rudolf, Libbie Soffer, and Carol Wisker will exhibit their works in the gallery space leading to the public restaurant. Using a wide range of materials and techniques, artists portray life's journeys as they offer glimpses of flying and walking, transient experiences and deep memories, beginnings and endings. Join them at the opening reception for art, for ambience, and of course, for refreshments. Please RSVP by March 14 to urbncommunity@urbn.com

Opening Reception: Tuesday, March 15th, 5:00 - 8:00pm
Exhibition Dates: Tuesday, March 15th - Friday, April 15th

Philadelphia Sculptors at Urban Outfitters Headquarters
Sculpture and Installations at Gallery at B543
5000 South Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19112
http://www.philasculptors.org/events.htm

Tadashi Moriyama (MFA '06) featured at multiple venues for Art Fair NYC, Opening the 1st week of March

Tadashi Moriyama (MFA '06) will be featured at two venues for Art Fair NYC. His first exhibition will be held at ARTPROJX CINEMA at the SVA Theatre, New York. The exhibition is in association with The Armory Show & Volta NY. Tadashi will also have work featured at SCOPE ART SHOW.





ARTPROJX CINEMA at the SVA THEATRE, NEW YORK
in association with THE ARMORY SHOW & VOLTA NY
Exhibition Dates: March 1st - March 6th, 10:00am - Late
The SVA Theatre
333 West 23rd Street between 8th & 9th Avenues
New York, NY
http://www.thearmoryshow.com/
(Represented by Johannson Projects Oakland, CA)

SCOPE ART SHOW
Opening Reception: Wednesday, March 2nd, 3:00 - 9:00pm
SCOPE ART SHOW
320 West St (West Side Highway)
Across from Pier 40
New York, NY 10014
http://www.scope-art.com
(Represented by Bonellia Arte Contemporanea Mantova, ITALY)

General Admission Fair Hours:
Thursday | March 3 | noon - 8pm
Friday | March 4 | noon - 8pm
Saturday | March 5 | noon - 8pm
Sunday | March 6 | noon - 7pm

Nsenga Knight (MFA '10) in Performance at the Brandywine Workshop, Sunday, February 27th, 9:30am

Nsenga Knight (MFA '10) will be performing at the Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia in the work titled "Last Rite". In "Last Rite", a performance and print-based work, Knight reimagines historical events and presents a series of prints connecting Malcolm X’s transformative final ritual– his 1964 pilgrimage to Mecca, to his assassination and funeral rites in 1965. "Last Rite" re-sketches the final events and rituals in Malcom X's life, and commemorates the days in which they occurred. The "Last Rite" performance at the addresses the audience as witness, catalyst and participant - blurring the lines between spectator space and performance, while prompting questions about communal and ethical responsibility. This performance score is the first in the "Last Rite" project and commemorates the funeral of Malcolm X forty six years ago on this date and time. Knight earned a Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of Pennsylvania and an undergraduate degree in Film Production at Howard University. She is currently an artist in Residence at The Brandywine Workshop. Last Rite is generously supported by a Leeway Foundation Art and Change Grant.

Event Date and Time: Sunday, February 27th, 9:30am
Opening Reception: 10:30am - 12:00pm

Glass Lobby Gallery
Brandywine Workshop
728 South Broad Street (Avenue of the Arts)
215.546.3675
* Event is free and open to the public
* Free parking available on the street and MAB Paints' parking lot next door