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Presence/Absence
October 15, 2011 – February 1, 2012
Moore Galleries at Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

Works on paper and mixed media works by Moore alumnae: Leslie Bowen, Arlene Finston, E.B. McHenry, Joan Needham, Mary Phipps-Seward, and Marjorie Russell. Exhibition spaces are located in the two galleries on the First Tier Promenade - north and south sides of the Kimmel Center.

In the Studio: Honoring Moe Brooker
October 1 – November 12, 2011
Widener Memorial Foundation Gallery

This exhibition shows large scale work by Moore Professor of Fine Arts, Moe Brooker, who was named 2010 Pennsylvania Artist of the Year by former Governor Edward G. Rendell. This show documents the artist's working methods through an in-studio visit captured on video and shown alongside the artist's vivid and energetic creations.

Jane’s Carousel: The Making of a New York Landmark
September 24 – December 10, 2011
Levy Gallery for the Arts in Philadelphia

A Visionary Woman Award Exhibition. This exhibition follows the dedicated efforts of Jane Walentas, a Moore alumna, who spent more than two decades working on the complete restoration of a historic Carousel made by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company. The first carousel to be placed on the National Register of Historic Places, the 1922 classic three-row machine consists of the original structure and forty-eight exquisitely carved wooden horses and two chariots, as well as hundreds of beautifully painted scenery panels and friezes that have all been meticulously restored. Through video and photographic documentation and ephemera, we trace the carousel’s extraordinary journey from the auction block to it's permanent home in DUMBO’s Brooklyn Bridge Park.

Jaune Quick-To-See Smith: I See Red, Paintings and Prints 1992-2005
September 24 – December 10, 2011
Goldie Paley Gallery

A Visionary Woman Award Exhibition. This exhibition features the works of Jaune Quick-To-See-Smith, one of the most acclaimed Native American female artists of our time. Elaborating on her Native heritage and worldview, Smith's richly layered juxtapositions of text and image in her large scale prints and canvases address today's tribal politics, human rights and environmental issues with a sophisticated combination of humor and wit.

DesignLab presents: Gabriel Boyce + Preston Link, ROCK
in collaboration with NextFab Studio
September 10 - November 26, 2011
Window on Race

This exhibition showcases the artists' application of new technologies through a recent partnership with NextFab Studio in University City. Using cutting-edge design programs to redevelop a two-year-in-the-making, ongoing project, the artists use advanced fabrication methods to realize a progressive interpretation of Rock – an ever-evolving concept that was grown out of a cell phone image taken in January of 2009. With the assistance of Lewis Colburn and Stephanie Koenig, staff members and working artists at NextFab, Boyce & Link create a 500 pound replica of their ‘rock’ through digital rendering and the assembly of nearly 200 layers of laser-cut, multi-colored acrylic sheets.

MFA Sneak Peek
August 27 – September 24, 2011
Widener Memorial Foundation Gallery

First opportunity for the public to see works by Moore’s first year graduate students majoring in studio art. Having just completed the intensive studio residency in Burren, Ireland this summer, they return to show completed works and works-in-progress for their mid-program review. Featuring works by: Wendy Anderson, Sara Gersbach, Margaret Hine, Ben Panter and Kelly Vignola.

Signe Wilkinson: The World in Line!
August 20 – October 15, 2011
Graham Gallery

A Visionary Woman Award exhibition. This exhibition celebrates the work of Signe Wilkinson, the first woman to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize (1992) for cartooning. Highlighting her career, the exhibition includes a selection of editorial cartoons that she has produced for the Daily News for more than twenty-five years. Grouped by ongoing themes found in the artist’s work, they include her perspectives on education, peace and/or war, women and everything else. In addition, the show includes a section devoted to works from Family Tree, her daily comic strip that follows a family's loopy attempts to live green in modern, chemically dependent America.

Graduate Thesis Exhibitions
August 6 – September 10, 2011
Goldie Paley Gallery

Thesis exhibition of the Summer 2011 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. ALSO presenting the thesis exhibition of the first graduates of Moore’s MFA in Studio Art program, presenting highlights of each student's thesis body of work that is a studio and research based inquiry culminating each student’s experience in Moore’s new intensive two-year low residence MFA program. Featuring works by Rose Andolina, Cheryl Durgans, Kim Gavin, Erin Harrington, Tanya Harrison, Kristin Osgood, Laura Petrovich-Cheney and Bradley Rosenau.

Focus on: MA in Art Education
July 21 – August 8, 2011
Widener Memorial Foundation Gallery

Presented in conjunction with Moore’s 2011 Graduate Thesis Exhibition, on view in Goldie Paley Gallery August 6 through September 10, these selections present recent studio work by the Master of Art in Art Education with an Emphasis in Special Populations graduates. This year marks the second graduating class in the program and these works give insight into their process and inspiration as it relates to their final thesis projects. Works on view by Kim Gavin, Erin Harrington, Tanya Harrison and Brad Rosenau.

Rochelle Levy '79: From My Point of View
June 25 – October 12, 2011
Wilson Gallery

An exhibition of work by Moore alumna Rochelle Levy '79 features recent large-scale oil paintings of figures on the shore painted from multiple perspectives as meditations on how we see. Infused with light and color that goes from hazy to bright—time both passes and stands still in this selection of figurative landscapes. Figures move in and out of the scene, a faceless witness wearing a hat appears and reappears, images of the same children at play are repeated as are images of figures holding onto strings that seemingly “connect nothing with nothing.” As the unseen observer, the artist’s point of view is contemplative, holding on to and connecting that which is temporary.

Recent Moore Graduates
June 25 – October 8, 2011
Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts    

Each spring, we select works by recent graduates of Moore’s various BFA programs to highlight students from all majors that are on display for the duration of the summer. These artworks exhibit the experience that Moore’s students have gained during their studies in their relative fields and visually presents the skills that they’ve learned to apply while pursuing their career in art and design. Works on view are from the following departments: 3D fine arts, graphic design, illustration and textile design. Exhibiting "Pattern and Form" in the North Gallery with works by Sarah Mullan, Laurel Patterson and Kara Weidig and "Illustrative Design" in the South Gallery with works by Jaeger Rae Cohen, Sarah Fritzen and Tessa Guze.

Project 35 Redux
June 3 – July 30, 2011
Goldie Paley Gallery

Project 35 is a year-long international video exhibition of historic and contemporary works selected by 35 curators from around the globe. This installation of the series, curated by Gabrielle Lavin and Elizabeth Gilly, interim co-directors, highlights a small selection of the original 35 videos to extend the dialogue about ideas on contemporary art video, reaching beyond the cinematic formalities. Artists include: Vyacheslav Akhunov, Meris Angioletti, Manon de Boer, Angela Detanico & Rafael Lain, Nestor Krüger, Tracey Moffat with Gary Hillberg, Tracey Rose, and Michael Stevenson. Project 35 is produced and circulated by iCI (Independent Curators International), New York.

Mordechai Anielewicz Creative Arts Competition and Exhibition
June 2 – 16, 2011
Widener Memorial Foundation Gallery

The Mordechai Anielewicz Creative Arts Competition, now in its 36th 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.

Seeing Through Young Eyes: Inside the Philadelphia Classroom & Community
May 25 – September 10, 2011
Levy Gallery for the Arts in Philadelphia

An exhibition of photographs and writing created by students in the 2010–11 Class of Learning Through Photography at Moore, an outreach initiative focusing on the impact of art education on learning and improving literacy and arts access for school-age youth. The 2010–11 Class includes: CCA Baldi Middle School, Dimner-Beeber Middle School, Grover Washington Jr. Middle School, Nueva Esperanza Academy Charter High School and William Cramp Elementary School.

DesignLab: Karl Allen + Jacob Kehs – That Hotel
May 25 – August 27, 2011
InSights Gallery

Featuring the collaborative work of exhibition designer & technician, Karl Allen and Philadelphia-based artist, Jacob Kehs, this exhibition presents a life-sized diorama that bridges their mutual interest in natural history. Influenced by modern methods of taxidermy, the science of botany and human interaction with the animal kingdom, the pair present an environment where identities become blurred in the translation of what is real and imagined. The result is a display that reflects the world around us, where fantasy and reality intermingle through a technologically innovative, didactic and interactive display of visual oddities.

5 Into 1 Annual Student Exhibition

May 21 – June 18, 2011
Wilson Gallery

5 Into 1 is an exhibit annually hosted by Moore and organized by Philadelphia Sculptors featuring work by senior and graduate students from the following art & design schools: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts: Tyler Kline and Tom Yurkovic; Tyler School of Art: Maxi Eisenmann and James Shomo; University of Pennsylvania: Rachel Eschenbach and Jessica Vaughn; The University of the Arts: Tyler Held and Colin O'Neill; and Moore College of Art & Design: Kelly McGovern and Laurel Patterson. Curated by Emma Irvin, BFA Moore College of Art & Design 2010 and Anna Romaniuk.

Emerging Artists & Designers: Senior Show 2011
April 27 – May 14, 2011
All Galleries

Works by seniors graduating from Moore’s Bachelor of Fine Arts programs, representing all majors.

Curatorial Studies Thesis Exhibitions
March 25 – April 16, 2011
Various Locations on Campus

Thesis exhibition project overseen by Curatorial Studies Thesis Advisor, student projects will be featured in various galleries and spaces across campus including Philadelphia Wall and Diamond Display Windows. Exhibitions organized by graduating seniors: Brianna Barton, Lily Fierman, Monika Kuder, Magda Mierzejewska, Alexa Tubbs, Caitlin Tucker and Sarah Wilson.

Annual Fellowship Exhibition and Student Show 2011
March 25 – April 16, 2011
All Galleries

The Fellowship exhibition features work by third-year students competing for highly coveted travel fellowships. The Annual Student Show features works by first-year Basics students, as well as second and third year students representing the following departments: Art Education, Basics, Fashion Design, Fine Arts, Graphic Design, Illustration, Interior Design, Photography + Digital Arts, Textile Design.

Art, Culture and the City of Lights – An Exhibition of New Work by Students at Moore
March 7 – June 1, 2011
Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

Inspired by the many architects, artists, designers and writers who made the city of Paris a cultural capital in the early 20th century, students at Moore College of Art & Design have created designs and illustrations reflecting upon the city’s creative joie de vivre. Presented in conjunction with fPhiladelphia International Festival of the Arts (PIFA) at the Kimmel Center, the exhibition features poster-sized works by graphic design and Illustration majors on view in Moore’s two permanent exhibition spaces on the Center’s First Tier Promenade. Works on view by students of instructors Dorothy Funderwhite and Richard Harrington.

Focus on: Advanced Independent Projects in Digital Print
March 1 – 19, 2011
Philadelphia Wall

This advanced course taught by Professor Heather Ujiie in Digital Print Design features work by students using the computer as a creative design tool for textile and fashion design.

Art Education Department presents: Art of Student Teaching
February 23 – March 9, 2011
Widener Memorial Foundation Gallery

K-12 student work from classes taught by Art Education majors. Featuring artworks by students at the following schools: Baldi Middle School, Esperanza Academy Charter School, Francis Scott Key School, George W. Childs School, Prospect Park Elementary School, and William H. Cramp School.

Focus on: Alumnae – Tete a Tete
February 10 – 28, 2011
Philadelphia Wall

For this open-call exhibition, all alumnae were invited to submit work in any medium but with a size restriction. As implied by the title Tête à Tête (defined as a private conversation between two people), these works are small, intimate pieces that attract the viewer.  Tête à Tête runs in conjunction with the annual juried alumnae exhibition Conversations installed in the Wilson Gallery. All Tête à Tête work was donated by the artists and was available for sale through the Art Shop - each priced at $50 with all proceeds supporting student internship fellowships at Moore.

DesignLab 2011: Sarah Van Aken + Brenna K. Murphy
February 7 – April 16, 2011
Window on Race

Sarah Van Aken is the C.E.O. & founder of S.V.A. Holdings Corporation, a vertically integrated and sustainable private label apparel business located here in Philadelphia.  The company is comprised of four private apparel brands – each of which consider all aspects of  sustainability including; local job creation, carbon footprint reduction, and design and community  partnerships. She designs her clothing with an artist’s sensibility, with an eye for form, color and texture. Her latest fashions are inspiration to local artist, Brenna Murphy, whose resourcefulness in using her own hair as the basis for her ritualistic works will transform the storefront window to emphasize the sustainable nature of both designer & artist. Curated by Gabrielle Lavin. Support for DesignLab 2010 is provided by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

Introduction 2011: Career Development Program Fellows
February 2-19, 2011
Widener Memorial Foundation Gallery

The Center for Emerging Visual Artists (CfEVA), in cooperation with The Galleries at Moore, presents a first look at the work of the newest Career Development Program Fellows. Artists are selected for CfEVA's two-year fellowship by the renowned Board of Artistic Advisors. While active in the program, the artists have opportunities to experience a full exhibition schedule, receive career counseling and mentorship, earn money from the sale of their work, teach in the community and participate in numerous professional development opportunities.

Mel Kadel: Spacing Awake
January 29 – April 16, 2011
Graham Gallery

California-based artist, Mel Kadel creates detail-rich ink drawings using found or stained paper and small Micron pens. The figures in many of her narrative works portray a strength and defiance as they endure and persist through various trials and adventures in the highly imaginative world created by Kadel. Originally from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Kadel received a BFA in illustration from Moore College of Art & Design in 1997.  She resides in Los Angeles.

Frances Trombly: Everything and Nothing
January 29 – March 15, 2011
Goldie Paley Gallery

A twist on Duchamp’s notion of the readymade, Trombly’s sculptures are meticulous recreations of mundane objects that would normally escape attention. Close attention to the minutiae of their own making reveals that her works are laboriously hand woven, embroidered or cross stitched - customs in the field of craft traditionally associated with women’s work. By choosing innocuous objects and displaying them to initially deceive, Trombly provokes the viewer to assess their “value” in an environment where value lives and thrives - the gallery or museum. Her obsessive meditations on the ordinary reverses the conventional hierarchy of value associated with the original, instilling a mass-produced object with an authority that is missing from the utilitarian original.

Jenny Drumgoole: Real Woman of Philadelphia
January 29 – March 15, 2011
Levy Gallery for the Arts in Philadelphia

Jenny Drumgoole is a Philadelphia-based multimedia artist who incorporates photography, performance and video into extradisciplinary actions inserted into the public domain. Her video-based performance work involves the artist physically and virtually infiltrating competitive events with subversive art actions. From serving as a “wingette" at the annual Wingbowl in South Philadelphia to submitting how-to cooking videos for a Philadelphia Cream Cheese on-line recipe contest sponsored by Kraft Foods/Paula Deen entitled, “The Real Women of Philadelphia,” Drumgoole traverses art’s institutional boundaries to perform humorous, yet critical actions that raise questions about our obsessions with celebrity, desire, and the limits and illusions of individuality in popular culture.

Conversations: 2011 Annual Alumnae Exhibition
January 29 – March 12, 2011
Wilson Gallery

Conversation is an exchange of ideas between people. Works of art function much like a conversation, they invite the viewer to be engaged by the ideas behind their creation, to respond to the colors and shapes and subject matter and to bring their own experiences to an exchange that is always a unique and spontaneous interaction. This exhibition features approximately 22 works in all media by 18 Moore alumnae who graduated between 1957 and 2007.  Jurors: Nick Cassway, artist, former executive director of Nexus foundation for today's art and David Clayton, artist, curator of programs for Breadboard, Esther Klein Gallery.

Fellowship Selections 2010
June 2010 - March 2011
3rd & 4th Floor Diamond Windows

Works by students who applied for the 2010 Moore Fellowships. Featuring artworks by Kathleen Callahan, Jaeger Cohen, Kelly McGovern and Alissa Straube.