upcoming exhibitions
DesignLab 2010: Commonwealth Proper + Emily Bowser
InSights/Window on Race
September 4 - October 16, 2010
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.
Wendy Ewald - Secret Games:
Collaborative Works with Children 1969-1999
Five projects 1992 – 1998: September 10 – October 16, 2010
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..
Sneak Peek: Works by Current Graduate Students
Majoring in Studio Art
Wilson Gallery
September 9 – October 9, 2010
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.
Judith Leiber – Art of the Handbag
Graham Gallery
September 11 – October 12, 2010
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.
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.
DesignLab 2010: Commonwealth Proper + Emily Bowser
InSights/Window on Race
September 4 - October 16, 2010
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.
Wendy Ewald - Secret Games:
Collaborative Works with Children 1969-1999
Five projects 1992 – 1998: September 10 – October 16, 2010
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..
Sneak Peek: Works by Current Graduate Students
Majoring in Studio Art
Wilson Gallery
September 9 – October 9, 2010
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.
Judith Leiber – Art of the Handbag
Graham Gallery
September 11 – October 12, 2010
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.