Posted by:Dan on March 29th, 2012
During the month of April, The Philadelphia Beekeepers Guild will showcase the ancient tradition of beekeeping, highlighting a variety of modern hives types and beekeeping techniques within the Art in the Age gallery space.
For the exhibition, each hive will be painted by select local artists to represent important milestones in beekeeping history. The Beekeepers Guild and Art in the Age hope to increase awareness of, and interest in, the central role that bees play in our food systems, while promoting community participation in the sustainable conservation of the honeybee.
Featuring hives by: Michael Alan, Jesse Mademann, Leanne Biank, Nicholas Polidore, Aaron Birk, Suzanne Matlock
Join us for an artists reception and lecture at the Art in the Age Store; Thursday, April 26th, 6:30-8:30PM
Be sure to visit our Facebook event page for updates!
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Posted by:Dan on March 28th, 2012
We recently stumbled upon this great photo post on The William Brown Project, documenting a visit to Bennington Pottery in Vermont. Needless to say, we are already planning a summer road trip!
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Posted by:Dan on March 7th, 2012
We recently received a copy of the newly released Knowing Nature: Art and Science in Philadelphia 1740-1840, edited by Amy R.W. Meyers and Lisa L. Ford. Not only is the book an extremely interesting and educational read, the historic scientific illustrations are incredible!
“Philadelphia developed the most active scientific community in early America, fostering an influential group of naturalist-artists, including William Bartram, Charles Willson Peale, Alexander Wilson, and John James Audubon, whose work has been addressed by many monographic studies. However, as the groundbreaking essays in Knowing Nature demonstrate, the examination of nature stimulated not only forms of artistic production traditionally associated with scientific practice of the day, but processes of making not ordinarily linked to science. The often surprisingly intimate connections between and among these creative activities and the objects they engendered are explored through the essays in this book, challenging the hierarchy that is generally assumed to have been at play in the study of nature, from the natural sciences through the fine and decorative arts, and, ultimately, popular and material culture. Indeed, the many ways in which the means of knowing nature were reversed—in which artistic and artisanal culture informed scientific interpretations of the natural world—forms a central theme of this pioneering publication.”
Knowing Nature will soon be on the shelves in our AITA library, so feel free to stop by and take a look!
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Posted by:Dan on March 6th, 2012
Our friend Swabreen Bakr never fails to wow us with her dramatic photos of happenings throughout the city of Philadelphia, posted on her popular blog iPhotophilly .
We can always count on Swabreen to shoot stunning photos of our First Friday openings, and her recent post featuring our opening with blacksmith Louise Pezzi is amazing!
Check out a few of the shots below:
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Posted by:Dan on March 2nd, 2012
The first blacksmith to arrive in Colonial America was a fellow by the name of James Reed, who promptly forged an iron chisel for each of his gratefull Jamestown shipmates. Needless to say Mr. Reed was sorely missed when a fever took him the next summer.
Zuni Blacksmith Shop
American Indians also valued the ironworker’s craft. So much so, that many chiefs demanded in their treaties with the colonists that a well-supplied smithy be settled among them.
Colonial blacksmiths rarely did any finishing or polishing of the charcoal blackened metal, which issued from the forge. Some did however, impress their initials or mark upon tools of which they were particularly proud.
For our March exhibition at Art in the Age, Philadelphia blacksmith Louise Pezzi has hand stamped each of her forged railroad spike bottle openers specifically for the show! Join us for our opening First Friday reception and see these beautiful openers in person!
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Posted by:Dan on February 29th, 2012
We couldn’t be more excited about our new railroad spike bottle openers forged by local Philadelphia blacksmith, Louise Pezzi!
Stay tuned for more images, or if you’re in the Philadelphia area this First Friday, stop by the Art in the Age shop and see them in person!
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