Knight Arts Challenge 2012 Winners!

I am so excited about the winners of this years Knight Arts Challenge! We went to the event last night at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and were overwhelmed by the amazing ideas that are now going to be made possible in Philadelphia! Congrats to our friends Georgia Guthrie from The Hacktory, Sean Stoops, Fleisher Art Memorial, CFEVA, Asian Arts Initiative, Little Berlin, Moore College and the many, many more fabulous recipients! As Emma from Tiny Dynamite (a fellow 2011 winner) said, It's truly a life changing experience, which I can absolutely attest to. The Philadelphia Sculpture Gym was made possible by a Knight Arts Challenge Grant and I am forever grateful to have been given this opportunity. A huge congrats to this years winners...you are all about to have your lives changed!

For a full list of winners visit www.KnightArts.org!

Check out Flash Fl00d at Little Berlin...and at the Philadelphia Sculpture Gym!

Little Berlin just posted this image on their Facebook page that I recognized...it's the back of the Philadelphia Sculpture Gym building! Turns out that there is a flash drive back there that is embedded with artwork in conjunction with Little Berlin art space's "Flash Fl00d" exhibit. Check out the details below!

FLASHFL00D

March 2nd-24th 2012 at little berlin
OPENING on First Friday – March 2, 6-9PM

A semi-secretive mass public exhibition of rapidly-distributed hidden flash drives containing downloadable exhibitions. Curatorial members of Little Berlin along with other Philadelphia galleries, collectives, artists, hackers and members of the public are invited to embed USB flash drives known as ‘dead drops’ in public locations such as walls, phone booths and staircases. The drives’ contents can include photos, video, text or other items and will be listed online at Little Berlin’s website, in addition to the deaddrops.com database.

D R I V E S curated by little berlin members: Alana Bograd, Angela McQuillan, Tyler Kline, Kelani Nichole & Lee Tusman, along with Sean Stoops,  extraextra,  Girard Hall, Data Garden, gli.tc/h + many more…

A full and complete listing of the artists and collectives involved will be exhibited at Little Berlin’s exhibition space at the Viking Mills building. Throughout the month of March, Little Berlin will be holding related programs including performances, glitch symposia, and a DIY dead drop-building workshop.

Coworking for Artists Recap

Wow. I had an amazing time last night at CFEVA talking about Coworking for Artists with a great group of people that I was very happy to meet. In case anyone missed the talk, the panel was made up of myself (representing the Philadelphia Sculpture Gym...yay!), Dan Schimmel of Breadboard, Kelani Nichole of both Indy Hall and little berlin, and our fabulous moderator, Marcel Williams Foster of CultureWorks. I got to hear a bit more about what each of these organizations does and it was so exciting and inspiring. I highly suggest that everyone check all of them out! I took some notes and when I get around to deciphering them, I'll share some thoughts I had and ideas I got from the talk.