exhibition history
All exhibitions organized by The Galleries at Moore unless otherwise indicated.
DesignLab: Sheila Frank ’07 + Anne Schaefer
December 11, 2010 – January 29, 2011
Window on Race / On View 24/7
Frank’s new collection Industrial Revolution features architectural structure & strong lines where the influence of machinery and the color palette, composed primarily of navy and black, reference billowing plumes of smoke & dark skies reminiscent of an 18th century factory. Contrary to the popularity of machine production during that time, this collection is defined by intricate details that can only be crafted by hand-sewn attention to each garment. In response, artist Anne Schaefer creates a site-specific installation employing repeat pattern through a combination of simple shapes, basic building structures and the application of bold color. Here she is given an opportunity to add another level of manipulation, talking both to the visual permeability and to the reflective elements of the store-front window. Curated by Gabrielle Lavin and supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
Celebrating Creativity: Philadelphia Youth in Arts Exhibition
December 8, 2010 - January 22, 2011
Widener Memorial Foundation Gallery
Moore’s annual citywide art contest and exhibition showcasing the artistic talent of Philadelphia’s young people. Art teachers from Philadelphia schools submit exemplary examples of student work for this special presentation. Students receive awards and scholarships to Moore’s Youth Arts Workshop which has been providing arts instruction to boys and girls in grades 1 through 12 since 1922.
Art Education Department presents: Art of Student Teaching
November 17 - December 4, 2010
Widener Memorial Foundation Gallery
K-12 student work from classes taught by Art Education majors. Featuring artworks from students attending the following schools: Philadelphia High School for the Creative and Performing Arts, Upper Merion Area Middle School, Fern Elementary School, Lower Moreland High School, PET Charter School, Gladwyne Elementary School, Pennsbury High School East, Esperanza Academy Charter School, Francis Scott Key School, Perkiomen Valley High School, Urban Promise, Ft. Washington Elementary School, Alexander Wilson Elementary School, Ridley Middle School, Hallahan High School, Bodine High School for International Affairs, Lakeview Elementary, and Ridley High School.
Frank Agostino: The Architecture of Style
October 28 – December 11, 2010
Levy Gallery for the Arts in Philadelphia
For more than forty years, Agostino, a Philadelphia-based designer, has designed couture creations and seasonal collections that embody timeless elegance and distinctive style. The exhibition will feature a range of day suit, dress and evening gown designs focusing on the fundamental elements of line, color, shape and form in Agostino’s couture constructs. Press Release
Celebrating Careers and Creativity: Recently Retired Moore Faculty
October 23 - November 10, 2010
Widener Memorial Foundation Gallery
Featuring works by recently retired faculty members Frank Hyder, Charles Kaprelian, and Anne Seidman.
Focus on: Foundation - Drawing
October 22 – December 11, 2010
Graham Gallery
Featuring artworks by first-year students at Moore.
Practice and Process: 2010 Faculty Triennial Exhibition
October 22 – December 11, 2010
Goldie Paley Gallery
Part of the galleries' ongoing commitment to showcase the diversity of work produced by the Moore community, this triennial exhibition gives students a glimpse into the issues their instructors are currently exploring in their own practices. The exhibition is a curated exhibition and will feature new work produced in the last three years. The exhibition represents the wide range art making or design strategies employed by current Moore faculty as part of the process of expanding the parameters of their practice.
DesignLab 2010: Cheryl Washington + Gibbs Connors
October 22 – December 4, 2010
InSights Gallery / Window on Race
This is the third of five pairings in the DesignLab series featuring a new line by Philadelphia-based designer, Cheryl Washington and the creative response of local artist Gibbs Connors. Called Vert-Vert CoCo, the fashions are a contemporary interpretation of Coco Chanel’s classics; each piece is designed with modern organic and sustainable materials. The collection’s short lengths, ground-grazing trumpet skirts, hand loomed maxi sweater vests, and sexy feminine tops inspired Gibbs Connors, whose skills as a traditional sign maker will enable him to transform the space using visual graphics on a large scale. Curated by Gabrielle Lavin and supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
Urban Camouflage: Selections from Jumpstart Fashion Show
October 15, 2010 – January 5, 2011
Wilson Gallery
Urban Camouflage is the theme for the 15th Annual Jumpstart Fashion Show, Moore's first fashion show of the new school year. Junior and senior fashion design students had to devise, design and showcase a garment based on a theme in one month’s time. In keeping with the theme of Urban Camouflage, students created garments designed to conceal themselves in an urban setting, in this case, various locations around the City of Philadelphia.
Judith Leiber – Art of the Handbag
September 10 – October 17, 2010
Graham Gallery
Judith Leiber is widely recognized as one of the major figures in handbag design, having created more than three thousand different motifs during a career spanning over thirty years. Art of the Handbag, presented in conjunction with Moore’s 2010 Visionary Woman Awards, features twenty-five designs that highlight the breadth and range of Judith Leiber’s work including examples of early beaded bags from the 1970s to more recent creations from the 1990s. Read more here.
Project 35: Chapter 2
September 9 – November 13, 2010
Widener Memorial Foundation Gallery
35 artists / 35 curators - Project 35 is a year-long exhibition of contemporary videos from around the globe. Curators were invited to select one artist’s video that they think is vital to contemporary art audiences. The works are presented in 4 chapters that will be presented in various formats and locations around Moore’s campus through May 2011. Organized by iCI. Disc 2 features works by: Sammy Baloji, Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys, Andrea Büttner, Alexander Apóstol, Daniela Paes Leao, Ranbir Kaleka, Ho Tzu Nyen, and Stephen Sutcliffe.Sneak Peek: Works by Current Graduate Students Majoring in Studio Art
Sneak Peek: Works by Current Graduate Students Majoring in Studio Art
September 9 – October 9, 2010
Wilson Gallery
First opportunity for the public to see works by Moore’s first class of graduate students majoring in studio art. Works on view by: Rose Andolina, Sarah Warrington, Kristen Osgood, Laura Petrovich-Cheney and Cheryl Durgans.
DesignLab 2010: Commonwealth Proper + Emily Bowser
September 4 - October 16, 2010
InSights/Window on Race
This is the second of five pairings featuring the fashions of Commonwealth Proper and the creative response of artist Emily Bowser. Craig Arthur von Schroeder is the mastermind behind this burgeoning menswear company founded to provide clients with intelligent, lifestyle-enhancing garments and for two years has worked to perfect the brand’s “Superior Fitting Shirts.” Handmade locally by tailors, each shirt is individually numbered and each style is restricted to a production capacity of 20 units. The clean lines and limited edition pieces will inspire local artist Emily Bowser. Curated by Gabrielle Lavin and supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
Focus on Alumnae: In the Studio with Eleanor Schimmel
Widener Memorial Foundation Gallery
August 28, - October 12, 2010
Schimmel, a Moore Alumna based in Philadelphia, is an accomplished painter recognized for her use of encaustic materials, creating unique surfaces and compositions open to interpretation and contemplation. This exhibition is part of a series designed to provide an intimate glimpse into an artist’s working process.
Art Education Graduate Thesis Exhibition
August 7 - August 28, 2010
Levy Gallery for the Arts in Philadelphia
Thesis exhibition of the first graduates of Moore’s new MA in Art Education program with an emphasis in special populations. The exhibition documents each student’s thesis process, research, implementation and conclusion. Thesis presentations by: Amy Cardullo, Bridget Glenn, Alisha Hagelin, Cynthia Hartopp, Patricia Hutman and Gloria Rautman.
DesignLab 2010: Carmelita Couture + Humalode LLC
July 17 - August 28, 2010
InSights/Window on Race
Design Lab 20/10 pairs emerging fashion designers with emerging artists from Philadelphia in creative collaborations. Artists and designers will have the opportunity to respond to the work of selected fashion designers by creating an "environment" for displaying the designs in the Galleries' InSights Gallery, in the window on Race Street. This is the first of five pairings, featuring the fashions of Carmelita Martell of Carmelita Couture, whose boutique just opened at 17 North 3rd Street, and the creative response of Jamie Dillon & Nick Paparone of Humalode LLC. Curated by Gabrielle Lavin and supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
Emerging Artists & Designers: Recent Moore Graduates
July 8 – November 5, 2010
Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
Featuring works by recent Bachelor of Fine Arts graduates from Moore College of Art & Design, the exhibition is drawn from Moore's recent Senior Show exhibition (April 28 - May 16, 2010), which presented works by students majoring in Art Education, Fashion Design, Fine Arts, Graphic Design, Illustration, Interior Design and Textile Design. The selected works on view highlight students majoring in Art Education, 2D Fine Arts and Illustration. Artists featured include: Jaryn Frederick, Courtney Mendenhall and Trisha Oniskey.
Collectively Speaking, Then and Now: The Philadelphia Ten and The Other Woman
June 25, 2010 - September 4, 2010
Wilson Gallery
Selection of works from the 1920s, 30s and 40s by members of The Philadelphia Ten from Moore’s archives and new and recent works by members of The Other Woman, a Philadelphia-based art collective whose members are Aubrie Costello, Laura Graham, Darla Jackson, and Laura McKinley. Both groups were formed by female artists, most of whom were students at Moore College of Art & Design (formerly known as Philadelphia School of Design for Women) in order to cultivate opportunities for group critiques, discussion forums and exhibitions.
In addition to individual works and a new installation by The Other Woman collective, the show features paintings by 7 of the 11 initial members of The Philadelphia Ten who presented their first exhibition at the Art Club of Philadelphia in 1917: Theresa Bernstein, Cora Smalley Brooks, Isabel Parke Branson Cartwright, Mary-Russell Ferrell Colton, Nancy Maybin Ferguson, Edith Lucille Howard and Helen Kiner McCarthy.
Focus on: MA in Art Education with an Emphasis in Special Populations: Graduate Student Studio Work
June 24 - August 5, 2010
Philadelphia Wall
Inaugural class of graduates in one of Moore’s three new masters programs, present recent studio work and insights into process and inspiration as it relates to their final thesis projects that will be on view in the Levy Gallery August 7 – September 4, 2010. Schedule as follows: Alisha Hagelin, June 24 - July 6; Bridget Glenn and Patricia Hutman, July 6– July 15; Amy Cardullo and Cynthia Hartopp, July 15 - July 27; Gloria Rautman, July 27 – August 5.
Mordechai Anielewicz Creative Arts Competition and Exhibition
June 3 – 17, 2010
Widener Memorial Foundation Gallery
The Mordechai Anielewicz Creative Arts Competition, now in its 35th year, provides students in grades 7-12 of all religious and ethnic backgrounds with an opportunity to respond to the Holocaust and its related issues through creative expression.
Project 35: Chapter 1
May 29 - July 31, 2010
Levy Gallery for the Arts in Philadelphia
35 artists / 35 curators - Project 35 is a year-long exhibition of contemporary videos from around the globe. Curators were invited to select one artist’s video that they think is vital to contemporary art audiences. The works are presented in 4 chapters, each containing 8 to 9 videos, that will be presented in various formats and locations around Moore’s campus starting in May 2010. Organized by iCI. Read more about Project 35
Ideas in Motion: Moore Celebrates Bicycle Month
May 27 – July 1, 2010
Window on Race
Opening in May, National Bicycle Month, and welcoming the TD Bank Philadelphia International Cycling Championship Race in June, Moore celebrates the art and design of the bicycle with a special installation in the InSights gallery designed by Bilenky Cycle Works, internationally renowned hand-built bike designers and co-presenters of the first Philadelphia Bike Expo to be presented in October 2010.
Wendy Ewald - Secret Games: Collaborative Works with Children 1969-1999
May 22 - October 16, 2010
Multiple Galleries
In the early 1970s, Wendy Ewald was one of the early pioneers in investigating collaboration as part of her artistic practice. Starting as a documentary investigation of places and communities connected to teaching, Ewald's project has evolved over the years to focus on questions of identity and cultural difference working with artists and communities in the United States and throughout the world. In all of these projects, Ewald partners her observational and creative skills with her subjects' visual inventions, encouraging them to use cameras to create portraits of self and community, to articulate their own personal fantasies, dreams, and hopes, and to work directly with her in visual and verbal collaboration. Her early collaborations with children, a process called Literacy Through Photography, have become a model for curriculum that engages students through photography as a means of improving literacy skills and exploring issues of identity and cultural diversity. Ewald herself makes photographs, sometimes giving her negatives to collaborators to mark and write on, mixing the images in such a way that challenges who actually “created” a given image. In blurring the distinction of individual authorship and throwing into doubt the artist's identity, Ewald crosses the line that separates the photographer from the subject and creates a new artistic form. In an exhibition spread across three galleries over five months, Secret Games showcases the scope of Ewald’s work and the powerful results of her collaborations with children. The exhibition features approximately 200 photographs along with video installation and project documentation.
The original touring exhibition, Secret Games: Wendy Ewald Collaborative Works with Children, 1969-1999, was organized by the Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, and the Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland. Highlights from the exhibition have been reassembled by Moore College of Art & Design in conjunction with the 2010 Visionary Women Awards and Moore's introduction of Ewald's Literacy Through Photography curriculum into select Philadelphia public schools in 2010-2011 as part of ArtsRising.
Literacy Through Photography in Philadelphia is supported by the William Penn Foundation. The presentation of the exhibition in Philadelphia is supported by The Honickman Foundation.
5 Into 1 Annual Student Exhibition
May 22 – June 19, 2010
Wilson Gallery
5 Into 1 is an exhibit annually hosted by Moore and organized by Philadelphia Sculptors featuring work by senior and graduate students at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Tyler School of Art, University of Pennsylvania, The University of the Arts, and Moore College of Art & Design. This year, the exhibition is curated by Catherine Martens Betz, a graduate of the School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania with an MFA in sculpture and a 5 into 1 participant in 2007.
Emerging Artists & Designers: Senior Show 2010
April 28 - May 16, 2010
All Galleries
Works by seniors graduating from Moore’s Bachelor of Fine Arts programs, representing all majors.
Annual Fellowship Exhibition
April 14 - 21, 2010
Goldie Paley & Wilson Galleries
The Fellowship exhibition features work by third-year students competing for highly coveted travel fellowships. Closing Reception: Friday, April 16
Essentially Pattern
April 3 - July 3, 2010
Moore Galleries at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
Featuring alumnae, with works by: e Bond ’96, Mona Brody ’72, Marie Elcin ’00, Lana Heckendorn ’88, Katie Van Vliet ’07 and Angela Victor ’99
NCECA Invitational: Earth Matters
March 13 - April 10, 2010
Levy & Widener Galleries
Ranging in format from functional pottery to large scale installation, Earth Matters features 50 ceramic works by 28 artists from the US and abroad in an exhibition celebrating the beauty and fragility of nature and the ceramic medium. Presented in conjunction with the 2010 NATIONAL COUNCIL ON EDUCATION FOR THE CERAMIC ARTS held this year in Philadelphia, Earth Matters is curated by NCECA’s Exhibition Director, Linda Ganstrom and presented in cooperation with The Galleries at Moore College of Art & Design.
Focus on Curatorial Studies: Student Thesis Exhibition
Sergio Goes & Hawaii: The Seer and the Spectacle
March 11 – 24, 2010
Philadelphia Wall
Curated by Watsuki Harrington.
The Art of Student Teaching
February 23 - March 3, 2010
Widener Memorial Foundation Gallery
Moore's Art Education Department presents their annual exhibition of student works. Participating schools include: Alexander Wilson Elementary School, Groveland Elementary School, Maritime Academy Charter School, Pennsbury High School East, Philadelphia Performing Arts Charter School, R.C. Molina Elementary School, Russell Byers Charter School, Springfield High School, Urban Promise.
Focus On: Digital Print Design for Fashion & Textiles
February 18 - March 6, 2010
Philadelphia Wall
In this course taught by professor Heather Ujiie, computers are used as a design tool for fashion and textile majors.
Introduction ‘10: Career Development Program Fellows from The Center for Emerging Visual Artists
February 3 – 20, 2010
Widener Memorial Foundation Gallery
The Center for Emerging Visual Artists in cooperation with The Galleries at Moore presents a first look at the work of the newest Career Development Program fellows at The Center for Emerging Visual Artists.
Philagrafika 2010: The Graphic Unconscious
January 29 - April 11, 2010
Multiple Galleries
The Galleries at Moore were one of five venues presenting the exhibition, The Graphic Unconscious in conjunction with Philagrafika 2010, Philadelphia’s international festival celebrating the print in contemporary art. Drawing upon Moore’s 160 year-long tradition of focus on the fine and applied arts of textile design, graphic design, interior architecture and fashion, Moore College of Art & Design was transformed by five major site-specific installations created by internationally-known artists who employ printmaking in patterning and ornamentation. The selection of works on view at Moore delved into the renewed interest in incorporating and investigating the potentials of using printmaking strategies found in patterning, wallpaper, and fabrics in contemporary practice. Artists: Gunilla Klingberg (Sweden); Virgil Marti (Philadelphia); Paul Morrison (London); Betsabeé Romero (Mexico); and Regina Silveira (Brazil). CLICK HERE for more information about the exhibition, the artists and their works on view at Moore.
Elemental / Ornamental
January 16 – March 3, 2010
Levy Gallery for the Arts in Philadelphia
Transcendence through abstraction and form is the focus of these works in a variety of media by Moore Alumnae Jill Bonovitz ’71, Mary Judge ’75, and Deborah Warner ’69. The show features fragile translucent vessels and wire sculptures by Jill Bonovitz, mesmerizing traces of ink on handmade paper by Mary Judge and poetic fragments of memory and place embedded in encaustic by Deborah Warner. Fluidity between form and meaning is evident in each of the artist’s working process and the elemental aspects of their chosen media. Curated by Lorie Mertes, Director and Chief Curator.
Focus on: Illustrative Portraiture
January 15 – February 20, 2010
Philadelphia Wall
In this course taught by instructor Ernie Norcia, juniors and seniors at Moore are introduced to the tools and techniques employed by portrait painters and illustrators. Studio work and a selection of serial paintings from an assignment focused on facial features are included.