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Exhibitions
Nest and Branch: A juried Gallery exhibition on Birds and their Habitats. Nest and Branch features artwork that explores the realities and mysteries of birds. The nine artists represented in this exhibition have taken their inspiration from The Schuylkill Center’s 340 acres of woodlands, fields, streams and ponds, which serve as an oasis for birds in Philadelphia. The works in the exhibition use printmaking, drawing, painting, digital media, installation art, and book arts, to explore themes of migration, flocking, and nesting, as well as presenting imagery relating to endangered and extinct species. Exhibiting Artists: Nest and Branch is curated by Zoë Cohen, Art Program Manager, The Schuylkill Center  
  
 
Down to Earth: Artists Create Edible Landscapes
Guest Curator: Amy Lipton of ecoartspace September 12th - November 23rd 2009 On View through Fall 2010. At The Schuylkill Center’s Second Site, Down to Earth: Artists Create Edible Landscapes is an exhibition that highlights the growing focus and emergence of “green” principles and sustainability in relationship to food, art, design and agriculture. The exhibition will include six artists or artist teams who are all working to create socially engaging interventions in the landscape related to food and agriculture, creating an aesthetic and cultural link between art and farming.
WillaJoan Bankemper(New York, NY) Willa - a contemporary “earthwork” which will function as a medicinal herb garden.
Not Drain AwayKnox Cummin(Philadelphia, PA) Not Drain Away- A rain water collection sculpture off of the roof of the existing farmhouse complete with rain barrels, piping and irrigation system, which waters the American Roots garden.
An American Roots GardenAnn Rosenthal and Steffi Domike(Pittsburgh, PA) An American Roots Garden - Foods common to early America, including Native American crops and those brought by settlers and immigrants.
Drawn to / Drawn from the GardenSimon Draper and the Habitat for Artists Collective, with Todd Sargood ( Hudson Valley, NY) , E. Odin Cathcart ( Burlington, VT), Jeff Bailey ( Phila, PA) and Cathy Lebowitz (New York, NY)Drawn to / Drawn from the Garden - A mini art studio, potting shed, and seven vegetable/flower gardens.
Kept OutStacy Levy(Spring Mills, PA) Kept Out - An enclosure of blue metal fencing that will exclude deer from a small piece of the woods as a way to investigate how the deer alter their own edible landscape.
Urban DefenseSusan Leibovitz Steinman(San Francisco, CA) Urban Defense - a five-sided permaculture urban forest orchard.
Down To Earth: Artists Create Edible Landscapes is supported by The William Penn Foundation, and an award from The National Endowment for the Arts.
Participating organizations include: The Waldorf School of Philadelphia, Lankenau School, Manayunk Academy, Teens for Good, ArtReach, Philadelphia University Engineering and Design Institute, and the Green Woods Charter School. Additional participation in the form of donated services and resources include: Art In City Hall, Philadelphia Orchard Project, Urban Girls Produce, Mill Creek Farm, Weavers Way, Greensgrow Farm, and Re-Store salvage.
Ephemerality Opening Reception: Saturday January 17th, 5-7 pm Artists:
Gimme Shelter Exhibition of the Twelve Semi-Finalist Designs Opening Reception and Announcement of the Six Finalist Designs
At Second Site:Brolo Hill Farm, Ghosts and Shadows Presented in Partnership by  Marisha Simons, Ghost Forest And The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education Guest Curated by Warren Angle Artists: Jennifer Chapman, Keiko Miyamori, Kara Rennert, Marisha Simons
University of the Arts Sculpture Students through December 12th, 2008 on the Gray Fox and Woodcock Trails Loop led by Professor Jeanne Jaffe, Fine Arts Department Chair
Each student has created a site-specific installation in response to the land and current environmental topics using a variety of materials.  Samantha Kanelstein If a Tree Falls in the Woods... cloth and yarn on Woodcock Trail  Alex Hollenbach We Are All Relatives mixed media in Pine Plantation on Gray Fox Loop  Jeanne Jaffe (center) and her art students with Zoe Cohen, Art Program Manager (center left)
 Talia Greene From Coiffed: A Typology of Entropic Variations (Courtesy of Kalogris Collection) SWARM is an exhibition that draws attention to the insect world by presenting artists’ perspectives on the relationship between insects and humans. In understanding the important role insects play in human welfare and survival, we find new reasons to commit ourselves to the survival of all species. SWARM presents seven artists who provide a closer look at insects’ physical beauty, habits, and impact on the human condition, as well as a few imagined scenarios in which the insect world demonstrates, rebels against, and confronts the stresses created by an overpopulated and over-developed natural world.
 Goal Orientation 1, John Karpinski The Schuylkill Center and The Center for Emerging Visual Artists (CEVA) presents the opening of Relics, Myths and Yarn on Saturday, March 8 from 5:30 pm - 7 pm. Throughout history, humans have used animals, organic objects and other components of the natural world as powerful metaphors in storytelling and mythology--symbolizing worldly ideas, fears, and passions. The works featured in Relics, Myths and Yarn are five contemporary examples of iconic subjects as anchors in story, myth or tale that derive from deeply personal experiences. There will be an artists' talk, Nature and the Creative Process at 6 pm. Career Development Program Fellows at The Center for Emerging Visual Artists™ Darla Jackson
 Timebomb by Deb Hoy The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, in partnership with Philadelphia Sculptors, is hosting an exhibition of small sculptures by five artists whose art addresses the impact of climate change on our environment. Artists in “Tip of the Iceberg” have created small scale work as an allegory for the potential change that just one individual can affect. By combining found objects of contrasting origins, Deb Hoy juxtaposes the natural and the industrial in an attempt at co-existence, pointing a way to the possibility of post- industrial transformation and hybrid species. Carla Liguori’s delicate grouping of cast sheep portrays the fact that all life forms share the same matter. Showing the interconnectedness between animals and humans, her work suggests that it is not only the latter that follows one another blindly. Keiko Miyamori uses tree roots embedded in blocks of clear resin as a symbol of preservation to unite the natural with the man-made, and suggests the possibility of living in harmony. Emily Sullivan’s delicate and poetic works made from wire and black velvet are both tender and playful and convey presence and absence. Their blackness absorbs light but also reflects on the beauty and perhaps impending tragedy of the natural world. The fired and glazed clay works of Austin Tremellen physically convey the intensity of extreme heat, and the process of firing the clay represents the increased temperatures we feel as a direct result of global warming. The dripping and crawling glazes also resonate as metaphors for the spread of diseases caused by increasing temperatures.
Green Machine is a multi-media based exhibition that explores the relationship between nature and technology. Through site-specific installations and an interactive media lab, the viewer is invited to consider three very different reactions to the surrounding landscape. The selected works place emphasis on technology and the man-made, while simultaneously exploring the ephemeral nature of location, sound, universality and time.
This exhibit provides the opportunity to reflect on our agrarian cultural heritage with works that incorporate used garden tools. The pieces included provide a direct link to our history. The artists in this exhibit have rescued some well worn tools and created new art objects that encompass both functionality and fun!
The exhibition portrays work by four artists who interpret the landscape as it is, as it should be, or how it might become. The works bring us face to face with texture, color, and form, in addition to evoking an imaginary world where man and nature are in a true symbiotic relationship.
This presentation of images of delicate, fragile lichen formations in a large-scale format creates an environment in which the viewer becomes a participant rather than spectator. The surfaces of the rocks are aerial views of mountain plains and tundra and the fluidness of the colors moves us through the space as if floating on the water.
Organized in partnership with Philadelphia Sculptors, this gallery exhibition featured a new twist to the concept of conservation and preservation. Industrial byproducts and materials otherwise destined for environmentally destructive landfills took on new identities as they are creatively reincarnated into functional objects.
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The work in this exhibit combined the natural and the scientific in an imaginary world created with simple materials such as: fabric, wire, egg cartons, feathers and seed pods. The work explored the complex relationships between organisms and their environments through larger than life interpretations of the micro insect world, transforming the mundane into the extraordinary.
In her figurative works, isolated human figures interacted with elemental architectural and landform environments and reflected on the development and mastery of skills and knowledge to modify the natural environment.
University of the Arts Students - Jee Yoon Kim, Weng Kok Lee, Marianne Contreras, Lauren LeBlanc, Margie Manogue, Benjamin Quinn-Kerins, Jennifer Bradley, Nathaniel Butler, Jennie Johnson, Christopher Gauvain and Alexander Stanton As part of the Center’s educational commitment, the art program introduced a segment that encourages investigation by local university students interested in exploring environmental issues as part of their artistic vocabulary. These installations commented on issues such as historical shifts in land use, eradication of invasive species, and sustainable architecture. Working in teams the students used natural materials found at the Center.
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Ephemerality
Ephemerality is an experimental gallery exhibition that explores ways in which art, communication, and technology can be used to create a greater sense of connection and meaning within reclaimed wild spaces, natural time, weather, and seasons. In this exhibition, artists will present works that directly reflect the impact that 24 hours on the land of the Schuylkill Center can have on their own awareness, creative process, and use of visual material.
Gimme Shelter Semi-Finalist Designs at the Philadelphia Center for Architecture