Nest and Branch: A juried Gallery exhibition on Birds and their Habitats.
December 5, 2009 – April 3, 2010
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Nest and Branch: A juried Gallery exhibition on Birds and their Habitats.
December 5, 2009 – April 3, 2010
Artists’ Talk in Conjunction with Citizen Science Lecture on Birds
Thursday, March 4th, 6:30 pm

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:
Linda Byrne
Valerie Carrigan
Matthew Derezinski
Kelly Franklin
Kirsten Furlong
Mara Scrupe
Marisha Simons
Elysa Voshell
Michelle Wilson

Nest and Branch is curated by Zoë Cohen, Art Program Manager, The Schuylkill Center

 

 Down to Earth: Artists Create Edible Landscapes
September 12th  -  November 23rd  2009
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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,
at the corner of Port Royal Ave and Hagy’s Mill Rd.

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. 

 

Willa

Joan Bankemper
(New York, NY)
Willa - a contemporary “earthwork” which will function as a medicinal herb garden.

Not Drain Away

Knox 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 Garden

Ann 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 Garden

Simon 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 Out

Stacy 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 Defense

Susan 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
January 12 – April 12, 2009
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Ephemerality
January 12 – April 12, 2009

Opening Reception: Saturday January 17th, 5-7 pm
With an Artists’ Talk at 6 pm

Artists:
Nancy Agati
Torkwase Dyson
Jenn Figg & Tatania Ginsberg
Sarah Phillips
Matt Pych
Theresa Rose
Claudia Sbrissa

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.
Six artists and one artist team were selected to create temporary artworks with natural materials on the grounds of the Schuylkill Center, with the guidelines that the artworks created must last no more than 24 hours.  The installations, sculptures, interventions, or events created were documented by the artists using photography, video, sound, and text. These documentations of the outdoor ephemeral artwork will comprise the gallery exhibition.


 

 Gimme Shelter Semi-Finalist Designs at the Philadelphia Center for Architecture
February 1 – 28, 2009
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Gimme Shelter
Sustainable Design/Build Competition
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Exhibition of the Twelve Semi-Finalist Designs
February 1 – 28, 2009
The Center for Architecture in Center City Philadelphia
1218 Arch St.

Opening Reception and Announcement of the Six Finalist Designs
Friday February 6th
6-8 pm


 

 Ghosts and Shadows
September 6, 2008- January 2, 2009
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At Second Site:Brolo Hill Farm,
corner of Port Royal Ave and Hagy's Mill Rd, Philadelphia.

Ghosts and Shadows
September 6, 2008- January 2, 2009
ART on VIDEO, Ghost and Shadows Documentary by Vincent Romaneillo

Presented in Partnership by


Marisha Simons, Ghost Forest
The Center for Emerging Visual Artists
And
The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education

Guest Curated by Warren Angle

Artists: Jennifer Chapman, Keiko Miyamori, Kara Rennert, Marisha Simons

Jennifer Chapman, Keiko Miyamori, Kara Rennert, and Marisha Simons were chosen to produce site specific installations because of their poetic sense of place. Each artist has set up a dialogue with the natural and human constructed landscape at the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education's Second Site location. They have mined specific references to place and sensations of past and present using audio as well as visual components in the construction of their works. - Warren Angle, Curator


 

 University of the Arts Sculpture Students
December 12th, 2008
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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

Laurie Berenhaus Sarah Blake Renata Gordon
Alex Hollenbach Samantha Kanelstein Sean Langan
Ian Patterson Marianna Peragallo Eric Presendanz
Julia Rexon Olatunji Richardson Emily Schumacher
Joe Williams    

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...
c
loth 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)
 
 

 SWARM
May 22 - August 29, 2008
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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.
 
B.A. Bosaiya
KT Carney
Talia Greene
Lisa Murch
Richard Ryan
Matt Stemler
Rosalind Sutkowski

 

 Relics, Myths and Yarn
February 11 - April 18 2008
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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
John Karpinski
Matthew Neff
Tara O'Brien
Serena Perrone

 

 Tip of the Iceberg
November 10, 2007 - January 31, 2008
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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
Keiko Miyamori, Katie Murken w/P'unk Avenue, Chris Vecchio, and featuring a documentary about the making of Green Machine by Vincent Romaniello
May 6 – October 30, 2007
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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.

 

 

 Implements Implications
-Harry Anderson, Carol Cole, Linda Horn, Joel Spivak, and Burnell Yow
January 15 – April 15, 2007
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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!

 

 
 

 Before, After, and Between: Variations of the Landscape
– Cynthia Back, Ann LaBorie, Gina Michaels, and David Taffet
September 9 – December 10, 2006
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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.

 
 

 Visual Meditations – John Phillips
February 11 – August 31, 2006
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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. 

 

 
 

 Re-Use ReFuse– David Edgar, Ni Luh Wayan Ayu, Leo Razzi, Neil Benson, Lena Helen, Jeff Davis
Ended January 7, 2006
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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.

 

 Natural Selection –Katrina Mojzesz
Ended September 19, 2005
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This exhibit included a collection of
photographs featuring natural objects
from the Center’s grounds.

 
 

 Natural Artifice Lisa Murch
Ended June 30, 2005
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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.

 
 

 Figures, Animals, and Landforms - Laura D’Angelantonio
Ended March 30, 2005  
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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
Ended June 2005  
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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
Ended June 2005

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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