Paul VanMeter embraces the Viaduct as a vestige of Philly’s past and an emblem of its future possibilities. A landscape artist with a love of sustainable and spontaneous agriculture, Paul launched a mission to repurpose the remarkable greenway as a public park—a project known as ViaductGreene.

[After studying the history of this rail-bed ourselves for years, we still learned new things on the tour with VanMeter.]

(Book your tour at: Viaduct Tour of Philly’s Hidden Industrial Constructions)

CNA General Meeting June 10, 7:30pm

Hear plans for the replacement of the Broad and Noble Sts. bridge.

Azavea  |  340 N 12th St, Ste 402, Philadelphia, PA7:30 pm

eraserhood:

Greetings from the Eraserhood on Flickr.

URBAN LANDSCAPES FROM PHILADELPHIA’S INDUSTRIAL LEGACY

TUESDAY, JULY 2, 2013 TO TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 2, 2013
CAFE 12, 212 S 12TH ST, PHILADELPHIA, PA

Opening presentation 6 p.m., July 2 at Cafe 12

Once again, eraserhood.com documentary photographer Bob Bruhin celebrates the Philadelphia neighborhood that inspired such diverse artists as David Lynch, David Goodis,and Sarah McEneaney. Bruhin’s “twisted views of a demented square mile” lovingly explore the rugged, gritty beauty of the classic industrial Callowhill neighborhood through the transcendent vision of a magical realist.

Bruhin has been working in and documenting the Callowhill neighborhood since 2007. He has exhibited in such diverse venues as West Philadelphia’s Seeds Gallery, Mt. Airy’s Highpoint Cafe, and PhilaMOCA’s 2012 Eraserhood Forever event.

This exhibition is sponsored by the Photographic Society of Philadelphia, in conjunction with Cafe 12.

Alla Prima Figure with David Shevlino

Monday, June 24, 2013, 9:00 AM to Friday, June 28, 2013, 4:00 PM

Studio Incamminati, School for Contemporary Realist Art, 340 North 12th St. Suite 500, Philadelphia, PA 19017

Focusing on painting the figure alla prima (wet into wet), the workshop explores techniques used to create a looser, spontaneous response to our subjects and take advantage of a slow-drying medium to keep the paint fresh and workable. An initial demonstration is followed by students working on their own and learning to interpret and simplify their subject by focusing on basic shapes and forms as described by masses of color/ light and shadow. Learning to simplify what we see allows us to paint our subjects with greater clarity and to use our brushwork with greater economy.

Guest Instructor David Shevlino is a graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the University of Pennsylvania. He has had several solo exhibitions ofhis work in NY galleries and in cities throughout the U.S. His work has been featured in American Artist Magazine, American Art Collector, The New Yorker, New American Paintings and The Artists’ Magazine.

(via Alla Prima Figure with David Shevlino Tickets in Philadelphia, PA, United States)

Second Saturday Series @ AUX
Saturday June 8, 2013
8:00pm

Vox Populi is excited to welcome the collaborative duo Danny Snelson and Mashinka Firunts to AUX for an evening of scholarly research, speculative film editing, poetry, performance, translation, and exploration. Through a series of live lectures, performances, and film screenings they will be presenting an interpretation of a lost Esther Schub/Sergei Eisenstein propagandistic re-redit of Fritz Lang’s Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler.

(via Vox Populi > Second Saturday: Mashinka Firunts/Danny Snelson)

Philadelphia’s Rail Park is an effort by three dedicated Philadelphians to transform an unused rail line into a grand pubic space that connects Fairmount Park to the cultural spine of Philadelphia along the Parkway down to City Hall. The space begins at the far end of Pennsylvania Avenue near 28th Street near Lemon Hill. That’s where a rail line runs underneath a tunnel that heads toward City Hall. Could that tunnel be of one Philadelphia’s next great civic spaces?

(via What Would Rail Park Mean for Philadelphia? | NakedPhilly)