Miss Rockaway Armada Flotilla Journey and Performances on the Schuylkill River

20 Aug 2011
18:30:00 - 20:30:00

Walnut Street Dock, Schuykill Banks

Saturday, August 20, 2011

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Mississippi River Flotilla

Miss Rockaway Armada Flotilla Journey and Performances on the Schuylkill River

Saturday, August 20, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Sunday, August 21, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Location: Walnut Street Dock, Schuykill Banks, Philadelphia, PA

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Exhibitions

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Michener Art Museum Casts New Light on Charles Sheeler and his 1920s Fashion Photography

From March 18 through July 9, 2017, the James A. Michener Art Museum will present an exhibition featuring 85 portraits and fashion photographs created between 1926 and 1931.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Nato Thompson

Nato Thompson is chief curator at Creative Time. He served as a Center panelist (2008) and evaluator (2010), and contributed to the Center's Pigeons on the Grass, Alas series.

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Darielle Mason

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Questions of Practice

Contemplating the Museum as Score

In September 2016, the Philadelphia Museum of Art presented the eighth annual Anne d’Harnoncourt Symposium, “Museum as Score.”

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Pati Hill: Photocopier

This groundbreaking exhibition presented the early artwork of the late Pati Hill, an American writer who pioneered the use of the photocopier as an artistic tool in the 1970s.

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Fred Wilson

New York City-based conceptual artist Fred Wilson is known for repurposing objects and artifacts to lead people to see them in a different way.

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Event

Alien She: Zine Workshop

As part of the programming related to the Alien She exhibition at Vox Populi, artist Beth Heinly will run a two-day zine workshop at Philadelphia Photo Arts Center.

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Questions of Practice

Grantee Spotlight: Q&A with Curator Daniel Tucker

Curator Daniel Tucker on the exhibition and event series Organize Your Own: The Politics and Poetics of Self-Determination Movements, which explores historical and contemporary questions of equity, justice, and race relations.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

The Clay Studio

The Clay Studio promotes access to the ceramic arts through robust educational programs, artist residencies, and exhibitions.

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Quay Brothers: Through the Weeping Glass

The College of Physicians commissioned the production of a new film, inspired by its Mütter Museum, by London-based twin brothers and filmmakers Stephen and Timothy Quay.

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Billy Dufala

Billy Dufala is the co-founder of RAIR and a Philadelphia-based artist engaged in a variety of creative disciplines, including sculpture, performance, digital media, and drawing.

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Demetrius Oliver: Canicular

New York-based artist Demetrius Oliver's Print Center exhibition consisted of live-feed video projections that drew from telescopes aimed at the constellation Canis Major.

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Event

psychylustro: Ride the Rails and Opening Reception

A special opening reception in honor of artist Katharina Grosse and the world premiere of her public artwork for Philadelphia's rail gateway, psychylustro.

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Making Place Matter

In conjunction with its relocation to South Kensington, The Clay Studio’s collaboration with area community members generates an inaugural exhibition plan focused on the theme of place.

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News

The Rosenbach Sheds Light on Literature’s Most Memorable Monsters with Frankenstein & Dracula: Gothic Monsters, Modern Science, opening October 13

The Rosenbach sheds new light on two seminal Gothic works with a dynamic exhibition on view October 13, 2017 through February 11, 2018.

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Questions of Practice

Inside Bowerbird: Q&A with Founder and Director Dustin Hurt

Dustin Hurt, founder and director of Bowerbird on his Center-supported project Sound Machines: Zwei Mann Orchester.

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Grants & Grantees

The Miss Rockaway Armada Discovery Grant

The Philadelphia Art Alliance underwent exhibition planning with artist collective the Miss Rockaway Armada for a project that explored the organization's relationship to its surrounding neighborhood.

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Tacita Dean: JG

British artist Tacita Dean created a 26 1/2-minute work, in 35mm anamorphic film, in homage to the writer J.G. Ballard.

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Colored People Time: Mundane Futures

The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) presents Mundane Futures, the first chapter of a three-part project examining the history, present, and future of blackness in America.

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Common Touch: Bridging the Story of Blindness (and Vision Loss) Across Two Centuries

The Library Company of Philadelphia presents a conversation on living with blindness and vision loss.

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