"the year we make contact"

Image: Brittany Binler

The Senior Fine Arts Thesis Show runs through April 11th.
Click here for Thesis Website.

Charlotte Cotton Lecture, Fine Arts Lecture Series

Monday March 22nd, 5:30pm Meyerson B3
Charlotte Cotton is the creative director of the National Media Museum's London space, opening in 2012. This space will host exhibitions, debates and other ventures focusing on both historical and contemporary issues in photography, film, television, animation and the web. Previously, Charlotte has held positions as curator and head of photography at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, as curator of photographs at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and head of programming at The Photographers' Gallery in London. She has curated many exhibitions of historical and contemporary photography including Heavy Light: Recent Photography and Video from Japan and New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape (both 2009), Guy Bourdin (2003), Stepping In and Out: Contemporary Documentary Photography (2003), Out of Japan (2002), Imperfect Beauty: The Making of Contemporary Fashion Photographs (2000). She has published four books, including The Photograph as Contemporary Art, and has contributed to a variety of monographs and exhibition catalogues.

Fall Photo Courses...

SENIOR FINE ARTS THESIS SHOW!

March 23-April 11, 2010

Gallery open M-F 10am-5pm

Opening Reception Tuesday March 23, 2010 5-7pm
Charles Addams Fine Arts Gallery

Olivia Coffey, "Evelyn and Thomas"
28" x 42"
Archival Quality Inkjet Print.

Elizabeth Cunningham, Untitled.

photography contest, Silicon Gallery

Image: Elizabeth Cunningham

Elizabeth Cunningham, Brittany Binler, Olivia Coffey & Claudia Seixas represent at Silicon Gallery.
Exhibition up until March 27th.

Tony Ward at Fox Gallery, Opening Reception Thursday February 18th, 4-7PM

How Philly Moves: a massive new gateway to Philadelphia, celebrating the joy of dance

How Philly Moves is a photographic project that local photographer Jacques-Jean "JJ" Tiziou began two years ago; it celebrates the joy of dance in all its forms. On February 2nd, Mayor Michael Nutter announced that How Philly Moves had been selected by the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, Philadelphia International Airport, and the Philadelphia Parking Authority to be turned into a *huge* mural (nearly 50,000 square feet) to be painted across the airport’s parking garages and welcome everyone driving up I-95 into Philly for years to come.

Undergraduate Juried Exhibition

"Lucy" by Ayasha Guerin

Undergraduate Juried Exhibition
through February 12, 2010

Juror: Anabelle Rodriguez

Charles Addams Gallery

Photography by Work by Elizabeth Ansell, Brittany Binler, Olivia Coffey, Elizabeth Cunningham, Clare Din, Ayasha Guerin, George Karandinos, Missy Ma, Alex Remnick, Katch Silva, & Hersh Singh.

Micah Danges at Vox...

Micah Danges, Wake Up Sharp
Through photographs and sculpture, Micah Danges examines balance and measurement in spaces and environments, natural and man-made. A blurring of material and place portrays a site where the remembered meets the imagined.

VOX Populi Gallery
EXHIBITION DATES: February 5 - 28, 2010
GALLERY HOURS: Wednesday - Sunday 12 - 6pm
GALLERY TALK: With Luis Gispert, artist and UPenn Department of Fine Arts MFA Photo Faculty, Sunday, February 28 at 3pm

Eleanor Antin Lecture!

ELEANOR ANTIN

Mon. 15 February, 5:30pm - 6:30pm

B1 Meyerson Hall

Lecture Series event featuring performance artist, filmmaker, and installation artist Eleanor Antin

Hosted by the Department of Fine Arts

Supported by the Spiegel Fund

Plaisir d’Amour (after Couture)

Photograph: Courtesy Ronald Feldman Fine Arts,New York

Eleanor Antin was born in New York City in 1935. An influential performance artist, filmmaker, and installation artist, Antin delves into history as a way to explore the present. Antin is a cultural chameleon, masquerading in theatrical or stage roles to expose her many selves. Her most famous persona is that of Eleanora Antinova, the tragically overlooked black ballerina of Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. Appearing as Antinova in scripted and non-scripted performances for over a decade, Antin has blurred the distinction between her identity and that of her character. In her 2001 series The Last Days of Pompeii, Antin lingers behind the camera to stage the final, catastrophic days of Pompeii in the affluent hills of La Jolla, California. Eleanor Antin received a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 1997 and a Media Achievement Award from the National Foundation for Jewish Culture in 1998. She has had numerous solo exhibitions, including an award-winning retrospective at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1999. This lecture is a Speigel Distinguished Artist Lecture Series.