Art in the Open Philadelphia

Nancy Agati

Philadelphia, PA

Objects found, the discarded are resurrected as forms to be considered, to be reconstructed things ...

Maria Anasazi

Philadelphia, PA

My plan for the four days of AiO is to work with books. I will ...

George Apotsos

Philadelphia, PA

My preliminary idea is to create and display a number of transparent wire figures that ...

Cynthia Back

Lansdowne, PA

I work as a printmaker and painter.  I also use fragments of prints and paintings ...

Laura Anderson Barbata

New York, NY

During the four-day work period I will create an outdoor costume- and sculpture-making workshop - Please ...

Sonia Elizabeth Barrett

Nurnberg, Germany

My work looks at and debates bastions, values and desires within the black communities across ...

Michael Bartmann

Philadelphia, PA

"That was the chief difference between Olmsted and the other architects. They wanted to create ...

Joan Becker

Philadelphia, PA

My personal interest lies in the selection and combination of color, development of shapes, construction ...

Erika Bergere

I would like to have the audience participate in creating Cyanotype prints, and piece together ...

Ava Blitz

Wynnewood, PA

For Art in the Open Philadelphia I plan to construct and fly/float sculptures reminiscent ...

Ellen K. Bonett

Philadelphia, PA

I want to engage my audience.  My art is not just a reflection of myself ...

Harry Bower

Island Heights, NJ

I hope to work with the "Lawn chair Webbing" and continue to investigate new locations ...

Michele Brody

New York, NY

For Art in the Open Philadelphia I will be re-creating the installation Presencing.  For this ...

Barbara Broughel

West Port, CT

My work is primarily conceptual in nature, but somewhat unique in its attention to materials ...

Linda Celestian

Wilmington, DE

 My process is pouring thinned paint, allowing it to run and puddle like liquids in ...

Zoe Cohen

Philadelphia, PA

My work is motivated by my interests in origin, identity, and place. I seek to ...

Brussels Collective

Brussels, Belgium

By joining gestography, sculpture and painting as team-projects in an open and so beautiful space ...

Nic Coviello

Philadelphia, PA

Working outside, "in the open", feeling the space, and loosing oneself in the in the ...

Brian Dennis

Philadelphia, PA

The temporary nature of my installations celebrates reflection. Combining varied materials such as metal leaf ...

Abdelkrim Djennas

Philadelphia, PA

In the past few years, my studio practice as a painter has expanded to working ...

Nicole Donnelly

Philadelphia, PA

For Art in the Open, I plan to gather natural materials from the area along ...

Laure Drogoul

Baltimore, MD

For AIO, I will create a small mobile smell laboratory to engage and invite the ...

Anda Dubinskis

Philadelphia, PA

I plan to work up a foliage pattern from plant-life found along the banks of ...

Beverly Fisher

Philadelphia, PA

I have been researching issues surrounding the Delaware River Estuary, and early nautical charts from ...

Mindy Flexer

Philadelphia, PA

After returning from a delicious month of painting landscape in Florence a few years ago ...

Candace Fong

Owings Mills, MD

Media: drawing, installation

Valerie George

San Francisco, CA

I have built an art car called the "Car Kit" which is a 1983 300TD ...

Barbara Gesshel

Philadelphia, PA

The work I am looking to undertake will be in watercolor, chalk, and murals on ...

Andrew J. Harrison

Hightstown, NJ

Utopia is, at its center, without a center. It exists as a glimmer of light ...

Nancy Herman

Merion Station, PA

I welcome an opportunity to paint around the river and at Bartram Gardens and to ...

Ana B. Hernandez and Russell Mahoney

Philadelphia, PA

In collaboration with an architectural designer, we propose an installation studying the metamorphosis of the ...

Carolyn Hesse

Philadelphia, PA

I would like to kayak along the river during the festival and gather specific materials ...

Roy Andres Hofer

Rheinfelden, Switzerland

My piece, Globalized Luncheon on the grass, references the French painter Édouard Manet and his ...

Susan Hogan

Lower Makefield, PA

I have been making garments all my life - from doll clothes and paper dolls to ...

Warren Holzman

Philadelphia, PA

For Art in the Open Philadelphia I will be using fabricated steel molds to create ...

Emeka Ikebude

Columbus, OH

Making art, particularly sculpture, is a need within me, almost a compulsion.  It is for ...

Ellie Irons

Brooklyn, NY

I generally do site-specific installations built with natural materials I find on location. I've ...

Leslie Kaufman

Philadelphia, PA

Structures contain within them the seeds of the past, the present, and the future.  Housing ...

Amber Ginsburg and Rebecca Keller

Oak Park, IL

We are collaborators with a great deal of experience in working both in public and ...

Michael Kolster

Brunswick, ME

Participating in AiO will allow me to widen the comparative component of my current project ...

Diedra Krieger

Philadelphia, PA

My ongoing project is Plastic Fantastic ...

Georges Le Chevallier

Garner, NC

As an installation artist I am seeking this outdoor exhibition opportunity due to my strong ...

David Lee

Whitehall, PA

I plan to paint watercolors on location along the Schuylkill banks.  I'll paint whatever ...

Dan Lobdell

Lancaster, PA

Rivers flow through landscapes dense with traces of past human presence. The images here represent ...

Carole Loeffler

Philadelphia, PA

It is the knowledge, investigation, exploration, and continual experience of making that motivates me.  It ...

Chloris Lowe

Philadelphia, PA

I am currently working on an ongoing series of pieces in which I give myself ...

Elizabeth Mackie

Frenchtown, NJ

Folk tales, stories, oral narratives and legends are the inspiration for many of my sculptures ...

Virginia Maksymowicz

Philadelphia, PA

My goal as a visual artist is to create iconographies that can communicate ideas to ...

Joseph Mangrum

New York, NY

Medium: installation

Ed Marston

Pipersville, PA

Plein air painting is a good way to refamiliarize oneself with the practice of seeing ...

S. Zachary Martin

Philadelphia, PA

The drawings and paintings I create are a result of my experience of a place ...

Austin + Mergold

Philadelphia, PA

Domus Avicus Philadelphicus endeavors to draw aviary urban habitats into the public eye by creating ...

Jeannie Moberly

Upper Darby, PA

My plan for this year's event is winding rows of surreal plants and insects ...

Sarah Jackson Moore

Bloomington, IN

I am stealing the patterns and textures from not only beaver markings but also embroidery ...

Arpie Gennetian Najarian

Woodcliff Lake, NJ

Making art has always been my way of creating order and capturing the beauty of ...

Peter Nein

Pottsville, PA

I am continually in awe of subtleties of nature that surround us. This is the ...

Anna G. Norton

Philadelphia, PA

All of my work as a visual artist attempts to understand and mark the experience ...

Daniel Petraitis

Philadelphia, PA

Medium: sculpture

Francesca Pfister

Philadelphia, PA

I think of my work as a form of visual archeology. I explore the physical ...

Carol Philips

Philadelphia, PA

Making art, for me, feels like a jam session among materials, emotions, thoughts, imagination, perceptions ...

Christopher Pierro

White Plains, NY

For many people graffiti is considered an act of vandalism or a crime and deserves ...

Dolores Poacelli

Collingswood, NJ

I begin my general statement by saying that Relationships are never easy . . . especially those between ...

Cynthia Richards

Canonsburg, PA

No matter where I am I always have a container with me for collecting loose ...

Abbey Ryan

Philadelphia, PA

begin by being patient with yourself, later you can be patient with others. (name of ...

Paul Santoleri

Philadelphia, PA

I intend to use various sites in the area, to embellish with drawings in ink ...

Diane Savona

Passaic, NJ

Diane incorporates various items in her textile art, embedding small tools, buttons and coins between ...

Gary Garrido Schneider

Montclair, NJ

Using athletic field marking paint I propose to install one of my site specific Field ...

Tremain Smith

Philadelphia, PA

During Art in the Open Philadelphia I will be painting on wood panels to create ...

Simone Spicer

Wyndmoor, PA

I have a huge collection of plastic containers and lids, and would be interested in ...

Leah Stein Dance Company

Philadelphia, PA

Art in the Open Performances at Schuylkill Banks - Saturday, June 11, 6 pm and 7 ...

Karen Stone

Philadelphia, PA

I consider myself a collector of artifacts, information and the stuff of life imbued with ...

Katie Tackman

Philadelphia, PA

I would like to explore using Polaroids and Fuji instant film for Art in the ...

Denise Karabinus Telang

Portland, ME

Working behind a temporary structure that is a graceful spin on a traditional blind used ...

Blaise Tobia

Philadelphia, PA

I will be photographing at various locations along the Art in the Open Philadelphia route ...

Mat Tomezko

Philadelphia, PA

I propose to create a series of paintings about the river, its wildlife, and our ...

Roman Tybinko

Secane, PA

Working from direct observation has always been an important discipline for me, though with my ...

Justin Tyner

Philadelphia, PA

Recycling broken bottles in combination with traditional stained glass materials has been my goal.  The ...

Lauren Vargas

Philadelphia, PA

My current work focuses on making portraits of my family and friends.  One of my ...

Amira Najah Whitfield

Philadelphia, PA

Creating art is one of the best moments of my day.  Being able to fill ...

Wendy Wolf

Philadelphia, PA

I plan to bring my collection of manufactured leaves and patterns collected from damaged leaves ...

Summer Yates

Pipersville, PA

I plan to divide my time during the 3-day exhibition between breaking mirrors (in a ...