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Zoe Strauss’ Sneak Peek of “Call and Response”

Posted by Nicole Steinberg | March 19, 2012

There’s just a little over one month left to catch Zoe Strauss: 10 Years at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The exhibition, supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through the Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative, closes on April 22, and soon, the Strauss billboards we’ve all spotted around Philadelphia will begin coming down as well.

Strauss recently took to her blog to give us a sneak preview of a new project, “Call and Response,” a website that will host writings in response to some of the photographer’s individual works. Some of the writers Strauss has tapped include Pew Fellows Jay Kirk (2005) and CAConrad (2011), as well as Nick Hornby, Frank Sherlock, Magdalena Zurawski, and Charday Laverty, who we told you about in January’s Center Spotlight piece. Stay tuned to Strauss’ blog for more on this venture, and click through the link below to read Jay Kirk’s piece, originally posted on that blog.

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Labels:  caconrad  call and response  exhibition  jay kirk  pei  pew fellow  pew fellows  philadelphia exhibitions initiative  philadelphia museum of art  writing  zoe strauss  zoe strauss: 10 years  zoe strauss: ten years 

Even the early Romans had visual identities

Posted by Roy Wilbur | March 7, 2012

S. P. Q. R. was the visual for branding Senātus Populusque Rōmānus (The Senate and People of Rome), referring to the government of the ancient Roman Republic.

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Labels:  branding  exhibition  marketing  pei  visual identity 

Protest, Beyond the Occupy Movement

Posted by Roy Wilbur | February 7, 2012

Five Acts: Chronicles of Dissent, currently on view at Marginal Utility, examines the ways in which social movements and dissenting individuals convey their mission. What are successful models of protest? How do we frame an act of dissent? What part does creativity play in its formation? Do recent structures limit its participants or engage them further?

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Labels:  contemporary art  contemporary practice  exhibition  marginal utility  pei  photography  slought foundation  video  videos  vox populi 

Center Spotlight: Looking Back at a Decade of Zoe Strauss

Posted by Nicole Steinberg | February 6, 2012

Charday Laverty can’t say enough about Philadelphia-born photographer Zoe Strauss. The two have been friends since 2006 and Laverty is now the subject of one of 54 billboards currently on view around the city, featuring larger-than-life versions of Strauss’ photography. The Billboard Project is part of the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s (PMA’s) new exhibition, Zoe Strauss: Ten Years, supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through the Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative. On January 14, Laverty and nearly 2,000 of her fellow Philadelphians and Zoe Strauss fans made their way to the PMA for an opening night dance party. Since that time, the exhibition has received exceptional coverage in the New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, WHYY’s NewsWorks, and elsewhere.

Visit our Center Spotlight page on Zoe Strauss: Ten Years and find out more about this groundbreaking mid-career retrospective and the Billboard Project, a citywide extension of Strauss' decade-long I-95 project.

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Labels:  center spotlight  charday laverty  exhibition  pei  philadelphia exhibitions initiative  philadelphia museum of art  photographer  photography  pma  zoe strauss  zoe strauss: ten years 

Doing Time / Depth of Surface

Posted by Roy Wilbur | January 25, 2012

For their first U. S. exhibition, Spanish artists Patricia Gómez and María Jesús González utilized their trademark strappo process—a traditional mural restoration technique—while in residence at the Holmesburg Prison in Northeast Philadelphia. 

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Labels:  2011 grantee  doing timedepth of surface  exhibition  maria jesus gonzalez  patricia gomez  pei  philadelphia exhibitions initiative  philagrafika  strappo