Each 2nd Thursday you are guaranteed to find a veritable Art Smorgasbord all under one big Crane Arts roof. See below for a quick glance of what's going on this month, or check out our calendar for a more detailed look.
UNZIPPED
inliquid benefit v.8.0
Preview Party
September 24, 2008
Hours: 6-9pm
Location: The Ice Box
Benefit V.8.0
September 25, 2008
Hours: 6-10pm
Location: The Ice Box
Click here for more information
Sea of Birds
Directed by Sebastienne Mundheim
Philadelphia Live Arts Festival Event
August 29th - Sept. 2nd 2008
Location: The Ice Box
Hours: Various (click here for showtimes / tickets)
ACCIDENS (matar para comer)
Directed by Rodrigo García
Philadelphia Live Arts Festival Event
September 6th & 7th 2008
Location: The Ice Box
Hours: 7PM (click here for tickets)
Betwixt Between These Crossed Stars
Tyler Kline
Presented by INLIQUID.COM
July 9 – August 24, 2008
Reception: July 10th 6pm-9pm
Location: The Hall
Hours: Wed-Sun 12-6pm
Neighborhood Hearts and Hands
a children's photography exhibit
August 14 - 23, 2008
Location: Nexus
Hours: August 15th & 16th, 22nd & 23th 6 to 9 PM
Collectively, Crane Arts is filled with artists, architects, designers, conservators, framers, and in general some of the best and brightest of Philadelphia's creative community.
Crane Arts is a Philadelphia art complex composed of:
· The Crane Building - Our studios & suites
· The Ice Box - One of Philly's largest project spaces
· The Stable - Currently undergoing renovations.
· The Green Space - Large open air patio.
Crane Welcomes Indigo Arts!
Indigo Arts Gallery has moved into the first floor of the Crane Arts Building. Indigo Arts has exhibited international contemporary, folk and ethnographic art in Philadelphia for twenty-two years, the last fourteen of them in Old City.
Indigo Arts opened for a preview on Second Thursday, June 12th, and will be open for regular hours (Wed. - Saturday, 12 - 6pm, Other days by appointment) later in June.
Currently on display for the summer, selections from the Indigo Arts collection of international folk and fine art:
Cuban paintings, Haitian steel-drum sculpture and Vodou flags, Oaxacan prints, and West African barber-shop signs.
For more information please visit them online at indigoarts.com
+ June 2008 - Boulevard of big dreams. An article by Becky Batcha for the Philadelphia Daily News about our beloved and ever exciting Girard Ave.
+ April 2008 - HeartWorks art exhibit debuts. An article by Lewis Washington for the Philadelphia Inquirer.
+ March 2008 - Roberta Fallon Reviews, You Might Find Yourself (on display in the Ice Box through March 16, 2008) and does some Q & A with the exhibition's curator Jocelyn Firth.
+ March 2008 - Three on the road. Jocelyn Firth, curator of You Might Find Yourself (on display in the Ice Box through March 16, 2008) recieves kind words from Edith Newhall in last Friday's weekend section. Click this link and then scroll to the bottom of the new page that opens.
+ February 2008 - Artistic Nirvana in Philadelphia. Check out the recent article in the Philadelphia Inquirer that praises the blooming art scene here in the City of Brotherly Love. Click here to read the full article.
+ February 2008 - If you missed Unbridaled at the Ice Box Project Space in February well, let's just say you missed out on something very special. How special? Take a look at this multimedia slideshow as seen in the Philadelphia Daily News. Click here to check it out.
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