Miss Rockaway Armada: Procession #2: Kensington

10 Sep 2011
17:00:00 - 22:00:00

via York and Front Streets, ending at FLUXSpace

Saturday, September 10, 2011

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Miss Rockaway Armada Procession #2: Kensington
September 10, 5 to 10 p.m.
Location: via York and Front Streets, ending at FLUXSpace

From the project description:

"Specifically for the parades, the collective will work with Spiral Q Puppet Theater and FLUXSpace to reach the residents who are served by these organizations directly in their neighborhoods. At each event, various improvisational performances will take place, including Shadow Puppet theater events and musical performances."

Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative Grantee Page
Miss Rockaway Armada Site

Exhibitions

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Artist Talk with Rick Lowe, Emily Chow Bluck, and Aletheia Shin: Consumption: A Project On Pearl Street

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Charles Sheeler: Fashion, Photography, and Sculptural Form

The Michener Art Museum presents an exhibition of painter and photographer Charles Sheeler's little-known fashion photography created for Condé Nast between 1926 and 1931.

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Pablo Helguera

Since 2007, Helguera, a visual and performance artist, has served as director of adult and academic programs in the department of education at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

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Monument Lab Summer Sampler

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Pool: A Social History of Segregation

An interactive exhibition sited in a former public pool and a new play by Pew Fellow James Ijames examine the history and present-day implications of segregated swimming pools in America.

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Plausible Artworlds

Basekamp examined the emergence of plural artistic environments that exist outside of the commercial or institutional mainstream.

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Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview With Visual Artist Michelle Angela Ortiz

Visual artist Michelle Angela Ortiz has designed and created over 50 large-scale public works nationally and internationally. She maintains a practice that examines issues of immigration, inequality, and human rights.

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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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The Michener Art Museum presents a series of lectures and gallery talks exploring the connections between Sheeler’s experimentations in fashion and the industrial paintings and photographs that established his career.

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Bisi Silva

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