Topic: Art For Change
Art for Change: When a Civics Lesson is also an Artwork
Phoebe Bachman builds opportunities for collaboration and civic engagement, including a pop-up space that artistically re-imagines the City’s budget office, open now at LOVE Park. The latest in a series with Forman Arts Initiative.
By RJ RushmoreArt for Change: Visual Art as a Bullhorn
Chela Ixcopal became an artist by following his heart. That’s how he came to represent immigrants’ rights groups and kids pursuing art for the first time
By Logan CryerArt for Change: Art Is a Verb That Means Change
The Forman Arts Initiative hired its first executive director, Adjoa Jones de Almeida, to shape their vision for an exhibit and engagement space centering their vast art collection and local community. Just don’t call it a museum
By Roxanne Patel ShepelavyArt for Change: A Grand and Gorgeous Abstraction
Odili Donald Odita draws on a unique combination of traditional African art, minimalism, and pop culture influences in his abstract paintings that respond to contemporary social issues. The latest in a series with Forman Arts Initiative
By RJ RushmoreArt for Change: The Comic
Pap Souleye Fall plays with serious themes in multifarious spaces — comic cons, a waste recycling facility — the next in our series with Forman Arts Initiative
By Logan CryerArt for Change: Expanding the Vocabulary of Crochet
Fiber artist Cait McCormack’s sculptures defy expectations of what can be done within the centuries-old tradition of crochet. The latest in a collaboration with Forman Arts Initiative.
By RJ RushmoreArt for Change: Steward of Black Creativity
In going from art student to sculptor to ceramicist to curator to podcaster, Gerald Brown has been an advocate for and supporter of Black and Brown artistry — and a keen observer of the artistic process
By Logan CryerArt for Change: “Like Being In Therapy With God.”
At 25, Philadelphia artist Nazeer Sabree has gained a national reputation for his complicated portraits of young Black men and women. The next in a collaboration with Forman Arts Initiative
By RJ Rushmore