Complete Events List

(alphabetical by location)

updated: March 6, 2008

B Square Gallery

Contemporary Fiber Art

June Blumberg, Heather Bryson, Julie Dittrich, Marie Elcin, Karen Henderson, Tara Herberger, Francina Hill, K. Pannepacker, Francine Strauss, Katie VanVliet

February 7-April 28

614 South 9th St

Philadelphia, PA 19147

(215) 625-0692

hours: Th 1:30-7, Fri, Sa 12-6

www.bsquaregallery.com

 

Crane Arts Building, The Archive Space                       

Borgenicht and Pontz: Collaboration Linking Metal and Clay

March 3 - April 27

Reception: Thursday, March 13, 6-9 p.m.

1400 N. American Street

Philadelphia, PA 19122-3803

hours: Wed - Sun, 12-6 PM or by appointment

www.cranearts.com

 

Crane Arts Building, Hall Project Space

inLiquid Presents: Traces,

a mindful fabric journey by Libby Soffer

March 7 - April 27

Reception: Friday, March 7, 6-9 p.m.

Reception: Thusday, March 13, 6-9 p.m.

Artist Talk: Sunday, March 16, 2 p.m.

www.inliquid.com

 

Crane Arts Building, Nexus Gallery

NEXUSPresents Fiber: 8 Artists 8 Viewpoints

Leslie Atik, Sylvie Britz Shaffer, Regina Dyhouse, Lauren Gross, Sarah Koziol, Rebecca Landes, Jae Lee, Sarah Perot

March 13 - April 4

Reception: March 13, 6-9 p.m.

1400 N. American Street

Philadelphia, PA 19122-3803

www.nexusphiladelphia.org

 

DaVinci Art Alliance

Fiber Artists: Philadelphia, #5

Theresa Alcorn, Wendelyn Anderson, Mary Austin, Alyse C.Bernstein, Gina Bosworth, Maxine S. Burkholder, Erin Castellan, Michelle Clements, Jungyeon Choi, Candace R.Davis, Karen Donde, Shannon Donovan, Patricia Doran, Marie H. Elcin, Caroline Gardner, Karen Henderson, Kathleen Kilkenny, Nancy J. Kirby, Pat dipaula Klein, Maris Krasnegor, Maryann Laverty, Ed Bing Lee, Susan Leonard, Caroline J. Maw-Deis, Bette R. McCarron, Nancy Middlebrook, Melanie Mitchell, Amy Orr, Pam Pawl, Erin M. Riley, Shannon Robinson, Lee Schultz, Sinuhe Schultz Deborah Schwartzman, Carol Moyer Shearon, Nancy Shiffrin, Camphill Soltane, Jacqueline Unanue, Faith Varrone, Georgette Veeder, Jennifer Walrath, Patricia E. Watson, Kathy Weaver, Duane Weber, Carol Woolford, Bette Uscott-Woolsey

Curated by K. Pannepacker

March 5 - 30

Reception: March 9, 1-5 p.m.

Gallery hours: Wednesday 6-8 p.m., Saturday & Sunday 1-5 p.m.

704 Catharine Street

Philadelphia, PA 19147

(215) 769-0466

www.davinciartalliance.org

 

Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts

Sonya Clark: Groom Room

February 15-June 15th

200 South Madison Street

Wilmington, DE 19801

(302) 656-6466

www.thedcca.org

 

The Fabric Workshop and Museum

The New Temporary

an installation by Ingo Mauer

Bright Ideas, Lamps and other lighting fixtures

Cameron Gainer’s Forest Through The Trees

through March

1222 Arch Street Street

Philadelphia, PA 19107

(215) 568-1111

www.fabricworkshop.org

 

Gross McCleaf Gallery                      

Emily Richardson: Art Quilts

Judith James:  Textile Constructions

March 25 – April 15

Reception: March 28, 5-7 p.m.

127 S. 16th Street

Philadelphia, PA 19102

(215) 665-8138

www.grossmccleaf.com

 

Institute of Contemporary Art

The Puppet Show

January 18- March 30

118 South 36th Street (at Sansom Street)

Philadelphia, PA 19104-3289

www.icaphila.org

 

The Knapp Gallery                                  

Christine DeCicco and Veronique Còtè

March 7– April 27

Reception: March 7, 4-9 p.m.

162 N. 3rd Street

Philadelphia, PA. 19106

Phone/Fax: (267) 455-0279

www.knappgallery.com

 

Liao Collections & Asian Antiques

Kai Chan

March 5 – 9

310 North 11th Street

Philadelphia, PA 19107

(215) 922-2229

www.liaocollection.com

 

Moore College of Art

Tension: Annual Juried Alumnae Exhibition

Wilson and Graham Galleries

Through March 14

Reception: January 25, 6–8 p.m.

20th Street & the Benjamin Franklin Parkway

Philadelphia, PA 19103

www.moore.edu

 

Philadelphia Museum of Art          

Precious Possessions: The American Craft Collection

Includes work by H. Theodore Hallman, Jr., Yvonne Bobrowicz, Lewis Knauss, Sheila Hicks, Diane Itter and Michael Olszewski.

Through June 29

 

William Kentridge: Tapestries

Through April 6

 

Costume and Textiles: Recent Acquisitions from A to Z

Through March

26th Street & the Benjamin Franklin Parkway

Philadelphia, PA 19130

www.philamuseum.org

 

Philadelphia University           

Susie Brandt: Rummage          

The Design Center at Philadelphia University

January 24- April 6

Reception:  March 8, 4-6 p.m.

4200 Henry Avenue

Philadelphia, PA  19144

(215) 951-2860

www.philau.edu/designcenter

 

Philadelphia University

Knit, Print, Weave Design Studio Tour

School of Engineering and Textiles

March 8, 4-6 p.m.

Ground Floor, Hayward Hall

Henry Avenue near School House Lane

www.philau.edu/textiledesign

 

Physick House Museum   

Marie Elcin                   

March 7 - 30

Reception: March 7, from 5-9 p.m.

321 S. 4th Street

Philadelphia, PA 19106

Presented by the Philadelphia Society for the Preservation of Landmarks, Landmarks Contemporary Projects

hours: Thurs-Sat 12-5pm, Sun 1-5 pm

www.philalandmarks.org

 

Powel House Museum

Caroline Latham-Stiefeland and Phuong Pham                      

March 7 - 30

Reception: March 7, from 5-9 p.m.

244 S. 3rd Street

Philadelphia, PA 19106

Presented by the Philadelphia Society for the Preservation of Landmarks, Landmarks Contemporary Projects

hours: Thurs-Sat 12-5pm, Sun 1-5 pm

www.philalandmarks.org

 

The Reading Public Museum

Hot House: Expanding the Field of Fiber at Cranbrook

Jennifer Adams, Chris Allen-Wickler, Paula Stebbins Becker, Elizabeth Billings, Beth Blahut, Carol Burns, Nick Cave, Kyoung Ae Cho, Sonya Clark, Annet Couwenberg, Christina Day, Rita Grendze, Wen-Ying Huang, David Johnson, Geary Jones, Sarah Kabot, Emily Keown, Jessica Kincaid, Gerhardt Knodel, Libby Kowalski, Jane Lackey, Mi-Kyoung Lee, Anne Lindberg, Joan Livingstone, Lisa Holmstrom Lockhart, Abbie Miller, Emiko Nakano, Laura Foster Nicholson, Olof Nordal, Michael Olszewski, Erin Palmer, John Panikar, Kinnari Lakhia Panikar, Jann Rosen-Queralt, Judi Ross, Lauren Rossi, Arturo Alonzo Sandoval, Laura Sansone, Warren Seelig, Sheryl Simons, Lucy Slivinski, Katarina Weslien, Seth Winner, Bhakti Ziek

February 9- June 15

Reception: February 9

500 Museum Road

Reading, PA 19611

(610) 371-5850

www.readingpublicmuseum.org

 

Rosemont College                      

Ke-Sook Lee

Threads of Memory: An Installation

March 6 - 31

Reception: March 9, 2-4

1400 Montgomery Avenue

Rosemont, PA 19010-1699

(610) 527-0200 x2310

www.rosemont.edu

 

St. Asaph Gallery                                  

Lorraine Glessner-Fiber and Encaustic Paintings

March 23-April 20

Reception: March 28th, 6-8

27 Conshohocken State Road

Bala Cynwyd, PA

www.saintasaphs.org

 

Sam Quinn Gallery

Intertwine, Works by Eliza Stamps Won Kyoung Lee, Brooke Hine & Marisha Simons

February 15- April 13

4501 Spruce Street

Philadelphia, PA 19139

(267) 408-5769

Gallery Hours: Friday-Sunday 1-5 p.m

www.samquinn.com

 

Schulykill Gallery

Celebration of Fiber: An Exhibition of the Philadelphia Guild of Handweavers  

March 1 - April 12 

Reception: March 8, 5:00-8:00 p.m.
3510 Scotts Lane, #31
Philadelphia, PA 19129
(215) 287-9963
www.schuylkillgallery.com

                 

Snyderman-Works Gallery

6th International Fiber Biennial

B.J. Adams, Adela Akers, Kate Anderson, Dorothy Gill Barnes, Pamela Becker, Lanny Bergner, Nancy Moore Bess, Karin Birch, Yvonne Pacanovsky Bobrowicz, Ruth Borgenicht, Susie Brandt, Charissa Brock, Sandra Brownlee, Dorothy Caldwell, Nick Cave, Jocelyn Chateauvert, David Chatt, Jane Chavez, Kyoung Ae Cho, Sonya Clark, Ann Coddington Rast, Lia Cook, Katherine D. Crone, Nancy Crow, Michael Davis, Marcia Docter, Joan L. Dreyer, Emily DuBois, Susie Ganch, Lindsay Ketterer Gates, Mary Giles, Katherine Glover, Tim Harding, Matthew Harris, Nancy Herman, Pat Hickman, Bryant Holsenbeck, Jan Hopkins, Marie-Laure Ilie, Susan Iverson, Kiyomi Iwata, Judith James, Michael James, Christine Joy, Kim Kamens, Susan kavicky, Shizuko Kimura, Lewis Knauss, Gerhardt Knodel, Nancy Koenigsberg, Ed Bing Lee, Mi-Kyoung Lee, Anne Lindberg, Kari Lonning, Winifred Lutz, Patricia Malarcher, Ruth McCorrison, John McQueen, Rebecca Medel, Nancy Middlebrook, Norma Minkowitz, Deborah Muhl, Mark Newport, Amy Orr, Marilyn Pappas, Leslie Pontz, Fran Reed, Joh Ricci, Rowland Ricketts III, Jon Eric Riis, JoAnne Russo, Michelle Sales, Amanda Salm, Arturo Alonzo Sandoval, Joy Saville, Cynthia Schira, Joyce J. Scott, Warren Seelig, Hisako Sekijima, Piper Shepard, Joseph Shuldiner, Barbara Lee Smith, Jin-Sook So, Jo Stealey, Hillary Steel, Anna Torma, Patricia Waller, Deborah Warner, Helen Frost Way, Carol Westfall, Xiang Yang, Jiro Yonezawa, Soonran Youn          

Curated by Bruce Hoffman

March 7- April 20

Reception: March 7, 5-8 p.m.

303 Cherry Street

Philadelphia, PA 19106

(215) 238-9576

Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 10-6

www.snyderman-works.com

 

The University of the Arts

2008 International Fiber Symposium

Materiality & Meaning: Examining Fiber and Material Studies in Contemporary Art and Culture

Symposium: March 6-7

Keynote speaker - Gerhardt Knodel

Registration Required

320 South Broad Street

Philadelphia, PA 19102

www.uarts.edu/fiber_symposium

 

The University of the Arts

Contemporary Korean Fiber Art                       

Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery

March 7 - April 5

Reception: March 7, 5-9 pm

215.717.6480

www.uarts.edu/fiber_symposium

 

University City Arts League

Karin Schaller

March 14 - April 5

Reception: March 14, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

4226 Spruce Street

Philadelphia, PA 19104

(215) 382-7811

www.ucartsleague.org

 

University of Pennsylvania, Arthur Ross Gallery

Beyond Boundaries: Contemporary Fiber Art           

Rebecca Medel, Yvonne Pacanovsky Bobrowicz, Lanny Bergner, Nancy Koenigsberg, Tsuguo Yanai, and Warren Seelig

January 19 - March 16

220 South 34th Street

Philadelphia, PA 19104-6303

(215) 898-2083

www.upenn.edu/ARG

 

Wayne Art Center

ArtQuilts at the Sedgwick, AQATS RE:View

B.J.Adams, Bob Adams, Jeanne Lyons Butler, Debra M. Danko, Ruth Garrison, leesa Zarinelli Gawlik, Valerie S. Goodwin, Beatriz Grayson, Michele Hardy, Pat Kroth, Eileen Lauterborn, Linda Levin, Emily K. Lewis, Linda MacDonald, Angela Moll, Jean Nesbitt, Sue Pierce, Judith Plotner, Arle Sklar-Weinstein, Gabrielle Swain, Daphne Taylor, Bette Uscott-Woolsey, Jeanne Williamson, Charlotte Ziebarth

March 1 - March 29

Reception: March 9, 6-9 p.m.

413 Maplewood Avenue

Wayne, PA 19087

(610) 688-3553

www.wayneart.org/exhibits/artquilts.php

 

Wayne Art Center                                  

Art Quilt Elements 2008 (formerly, ArtQuilts at the Sedgwick)

Deidre Adams, Jill Ault, Elizabeth Barton, Sarah Bearup-Neal, Sharon Bell, Mary Beth Bellah, Astrid Hilger Bennett, Regina V. Benson, Martha Brown, Peggy Brown, Lisa Call, Georgie Cline, Linda Colsh, Helene Davis, Kim Eichler-Messmer, Deborah Fell, Cheryl Dineen Ferrin, Dianne Firth, Britt Friedman, Bean Gilsdorf, Sonji Hunt, Terry Jarrard-Dimond, Sherry Davis Kleinman, Pat Kumicich, Janet Kurjan, Judy Langille, Judith Larzelere, Eileen Lauterborn, Linda Levin, Kathleen Loomis, Suzanne MacGuineas, Eleanor A. McCain, Karen L. McCarthy, Barbara Barrick McKie, Roberta Chalfy Miller, Patricia Mink, Angela Moll, Lori Moum, Dominie Nash, Anne McKenzie Nickolson, June Ann O'Neil, Lori Lupe Pelish, Mirjam Pet-Jacobs, Julia E. Pfaff, Marti M. Plager, Wen Redmond, Toot Reid, Leslie Joan Riley, Lonni Rossi, Barbara J. Schneider, Susan Shie, Bonnie J. Smith, Brenda H. Smith, Joan Sowada, Virginia A. Spiegel, Marcia Stein, Carol Taylor, Daphne Taylor, Bette Uscott-Woolsey, Norene Walworth, Nelda Warkentin, Laura Wasilowski, Barbara W. Watler, Maggie Weiss, Leni Levenson Wiener, Kent Williams, Jeanne Williamson, Barb Wills

April 4 - May 10

Reception:  Friday, April 4th, 7-10

www.wayneart.org/exhibits/artquilts.php

 

Wayne Art Center

Breaking New Ground

Symposium, Workshops and Tours

Surface Design Association and Studio Art Quilts Associates

April 5-9

Registration required

www.surfacedesign.org

 

Wexler Gallery

Tim Edwards, Glass                                   

Also featuring , Donna Rosenthal and Wendy Wahl

March 7 – April 26

Reception: Friday, March 7,  5-8 p.m.

201 North 3rd Street

Philadelphia, PA  19106

(215) 923-7030

www.wexlergallery.com

 

William Way Community Center

Woven Works by K. Pannepacker

March 3 - May 2

Reception: March 14, 6-8 p.m.

1315 Spruce Street

Philadelphia, PA 19107

Hours: Open 7 days a week

www.waygay.org

 

Wood Turning Center

7 Visions: Wood as Fiber                      

Dorothy Gill Barnes, Michael Brolly, Markku Kosonen, Dona Look, Bill Luce, Debra Sachs, and Jack Slentz

March 7 - May 17

Reception: March 7,  5:30-7:30 p.m.

501 Vine Street

Philadelphia PA 19106

(215) 923-8000

Hours: Tuesday-Friday 10-5, Saturday 12-5,

Sunday & Monday: Closed

www.woodturningcenter.org