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UNTITLED
:: DAVID KIME |
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UNTITLED
:: JOE JOHNSON |
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UNTITLED
:: WALTER OATES, JR. |
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Friday, January
11, 5:30pm
Curator's Tour with Coalition Ingenu Director, Robert
Bullock |
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Saturday, February
2, 11:00 - 11:45 am
Slide Lecture - Vision Thru Art: Working with Blind and
Visually Impaired Artists
(presented by Bob Fluhr, Instructor and Gallery
Director, Allens Lane Art Center) |
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To Be Announced
White
Dog Café, Story Telling Series* |
*For reservations on these events call
White Dog Café at 215.386.9224
The Esther M. Klein Art Gallery is pleased to announce the
premier exhibition of its new "Art & Community
Series". This new exhibition series will feature
the artwork of small, independent community centers and grass
roots organizations that use art to positively effect neighborhoods
and communities throughout the Philadelphia area. Not unlike
some of the city's high-profile nonprofits such as Project
H.O.M.E and the Village of Arts & Humanities, these smaller
organizations work in marginalized neighborhoods making similar
efforts to enhance the lives of their constituency. These
organizations are neighborhood specific and each one offers
a very unique and unfiltered glimpse into the life of our
city.
This first Art & Community Series exhibition will feature
the art of Coalition Ingenu, a small, nonprofit organization
that uses art to positively effect the lives of marginalized
Philadelphia citizens with histories of homelessness and mental
illness. Coalition Ingenu "works with mental health centers
and support systems, homeless shelters, and rehabilitation
programs to promote and encourage creativity as a means to
psychological and emotional well-being; and to create a complete
system for the recognition of outstanding expressions of creative
energy by self-taught artists marginalized by extraordinary
circumstances."
The Klein Gallery invites you to explore the links provided
below. These will give a more comprehensive account of Coalition
Ingenu's efforts.
Also, please click on each artists' name to view more artwork
and read a short artist biography, written by Robert Bullock,
Director of Coalition Ingenu. It is important to note that
while these artists all operate under extraordinary circumstances,
it is not their circumstances that are the focus of this show.
This exhibit aims to draw attention to Coalition Ingenu and
its mission to promote the extraodinary and individual creative
visions of the artists who have become part of the Coalition
Ingenu family.
Philadelphia
Weekly (Pdf, 124Kb)
City
Paper (Pdf, 448Kb)
Philadelphia Inquirer(Pdf, 412Kb)
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