Art In City Hall
116 City Hall
Philadelphia, PA 19107

 

Wind Prints: It's In the Air

Prints Link Philadelphia
March 8 - April 9, 2010
City Hall, North Portal

Opening Reception:  March 20, 1-3 pm

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Art In City Hall is pleased to present Wind Prints: It?s in the Air, March 8 - April 9. The exhibition by Prints Link Philadelphia will take place in City Hall?s North Portal.   A reception open to the general public will be held on March 20 from 1-3 pm. 

Wind Prints: It's in the Air consists of eight banners, each eight feet by ten feet, printed by children and teens.  The banners will form a canopy over City Hall's North Portal.  Wind Prints is an exhibition of Prints Link Philadelphia (PLP), an open membership coalition of community arts organizations, art centers, museums, schools and teaching artists dedicated to promote and teach printmaking to children and teens in the Philadelphia region.  Founded in May 2009, Prints Link Philadelphia is the only independent project of Philagrafika Festival 2010 dedicated to printmaking by children and teens.  Visit: http://www.philagrafika2010.org/node/220.

The nine groups and their art educator representatives are:  The Attic Youth Center (Beth Pulcinella), Germantown Academy (David Love), Haverford High School (Mark Wangberg). Hill-Freeman School (Valerie Van Pham), Independence Charter School (Rachel Schaffran), Nueva Esperanza Academy (Amy Diaz Newman), Norris Square Neighborhood Project Prodigies (Cathryn Carkhuff), Philadelphia Museum of Art (Carly Wiley), and Russell Byers Charter School (Amy Jared).  Wendy Osterweil at Tyler School of Art/Temple University is the PLP Coordinator.

Art In City Hall hours are 8 - 5pm weekdays, closed weekends and holidays.  For more information, please contact: Tu Huynh, artincityhall@phila.gov, (215) 686-9912. 

Art In City Hall is a collaborative effort between the City of Philadelphia's Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy and Philadelphia's arts community.  It is supported by an independent Advisory Council made up of arts professionals and private citizens.  Since the program began in 1984, over 2000 emerging artists have shown their talents in the hallways of City Hall through juried group exhibitions based on specific themes.  In addition to these exhibitions, the program also displays artwork from Philadelphia?s schools, other city agencies, local non-profits, and community arts organizations. For more information, visit: www.phila.gov/artincityhall or join us on www.Facebook.com.  

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

ART EXHIBITION AT CITY HALL SHOWCASING ARC AND PDDC
ARTISTS WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES

2/20/2010 Philadelphia --The Arc of Philadelphia and Philadelphia Developmental Disabilities Corporation (PDDC)  will host the third annual Art Exhibition with an Opening Reception on THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 2010, from 5:30 P.M. to 8:00 P.M. at Philadelphia City Hall, Fifth Floor.

Artists with developmental disabilities from the Cultural Arts Center at PDDC will showcase their paintings, drawings, water colors, and ceramics.  All the works are for sale.

March is national Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month, and the Art Exhibition is one of the many events which the ARC/PDDC has planned in its observance.

The art work on the invitation is a painting by George Waddell, a program participant of PDDC.

Norma Carter, Esq., president of the PDDC board of directors; Ken Oakes, president of The Arc of Philadelphia board of directors; and Nichloas Nastasi, Jr., Esq., president of the SpArc board of directors announced the following members of the Honorary Committee for the Art Exhibition Opening Reception: 

Rep. Brendan Boyle, Rep. Dwight Evans, Senator Lawrence Farnese, Congressman Chaka Fattah, Rep. Kenyatta Johnson, Senator Daylin Leach, Mayor Michael Nutter,  Rep. Dennis O'Brien, Rep. Mike O'Brien, Governor Edward G. Rendell, Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown,  Rep. Jim Roebuck,  Rep. Tim Briggs, Rep. John Sabatina, Congresswoman Allyson Schwartz, Rep. Josh Shapiro, Senator Mike Stack, Senator Christine Tartaglione, Senator Leanna Washington, Rep. Ron Waters, Senator Anthony Hardy Williams, Rep. Jewell Williams, and Council President Anna Verna.

Other Honorary Committee members include the following: Dr. Arlene Ackerman, Dr. Joke Bradt, Robert Bullock, Rev. Peter M. Donohue, O.S.A., Ph.D., Eleanor Elkin, Jane Golden, Martha Madigan, Stephen Perloff, Charles P. Pizzi, Emily Schreiner, Colleen Shepherd, Kathy Sykes, Street Thoma, Andrew JeffreyWright, and Isaiah Zagar .

The Jeff Torchon Jazz Trio will perform, and there will be refreshments.  Students from the University of Georgia who chose to do volunteer service  at the ARC/PDDC for the week of Alternative Spring Break will serve as greeters and wait-staff.

Laura Princiotta, COO of PDDC, and Linda Price, associate director of the Cultural Arts Center at PDDC, said the public is invited to view the exhibition from March 12 though early May.

For information, please call 215-229-4550 x172.

The Arc of Philadelphia, founded in 1948, is a nonprofit organization providing advocacy services and resource information to individuals, families, and providers so they can make informed choices.  PDDC (Philadelphia Developmental Disabilities Corporation) is a sister organization of The Arc of Philadelphia, specializing in programs for people who have barriers to employment and people who need individualized services, including job training, services for seniors, arts and recreation programs, and community events.

The Arc of Philadelphia and PDDC

2350 West Westmoreland Street

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania  19140

TEL 215-229-4550     www.arcpddc.org

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