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L-R: Rachel Blythe Udell, Jenna McGraw, Suki Valentine, Ash Garner - THECOLORG, Phillip Chang & Paul Vo, Jamie Campbell, Joanna Fulginiti,  May Maani

Cherry Street Pier Resident Bonnie MacAllister (Studio 16) juried an open call to find fellow Philly artists working in non-traditional fibers.  Phantastic Phibers creates an atmosphere of industrial, fiber optic, hyperbolic, puppetry, soft sculpture, no waste weaving,  and non traditional textiles.  The exhibition  transports the pier into a nautilus full of suspended materials including recycled electronics and bicycle parts, a nine foot tunnel, a series of birds, a cursed sweater, a quilt poem, enormous weavings, a tower of electrical cord baskets, giant fish, deconstructed silks, and sea monsters.  Two and three dimensional work will fill the gallery space and second floor.

The exhibition showcases collaborative pieces from Phillip Chang and Paul Vo, May Maani and Chris Lau, Rachel Udell and Jeremy Newman, Bonnie MacAllister and Ndokaa Bundu, and MacAllister and Jamie Campbell as well as work from Joanna Fulginiti,

Suki Valentine, Aja Beech, Bennett Cafarelli, Kristina Behler, Ericha Fletcher, Caroline Maw-Deis, Jenna McGraw, Yvette Malloy-Jiggetts, Ash Garner-THECOLORG,  Jennifer Ahearn,  and Jenny Lee Maas.  

The Philadelphia Drunken Knitwits (begun in Oxford) are providing textures around the perimeter of the pier, their second large scale knitbombing installation after they covered government buildings in the UK.

The exhibition reception features video, performance,  &  fiber by the 2024 cohort  @ cherrystreetpier

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We are curating a multimedia fibers show called Phantastic Phibers in July at Cherry Street Pier in Philadelphia. The deadline is March 31, notification by April 30, and we will install the first week of July. Here is how to submit: Send a statement on the theme and five images or installation drawings to phantasticphibers@gmail.com. The small entry fee of $10 supports exhibition costs, and there is no commission taken. Please share with other local fiber artists. (Image: crochet sculpture by Jamie Campbell)

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@ktron36!

#poetcs

https://youtu.be/I-CkOmRdh2M

IMCW straight outta Philly bringing the rawness!

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Paul Rubenstein (aka Ubertar) is a composer, musician, musical instrument inventor, recording engineer and educator, and maker of hexaphonic guitar pickups. This multi-instrumental musician invents and builds most of the instruments he plays. Rubenstein studied music composition at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle for a year before moving back to New York and attending the Master of Fine Arts program at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. Paul received the MFA Fellowship for 2001, 2002 and 2003. Paul's main focus in recent years is recording-- building up his engineering skills and creating film scores. Rubenstein continues to expand and develop his use of microtonal scales and unusual timbres.

www.ubertar.com

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Tiny Bones

Her tiny bones, so delicate,


so fragile, moving slowly


beneath her skin.


Her skin: encasing soft tissues and organs, each small thing connecting to the next Her yellow eyes looking and looking for me. I hold her. Her paws knead my chest,


her breath on my skin is quick and cool.


I partner with the sunlight to warm her fur. She is so small in this world,


her bones are


so tiny.


She has not been able to eat today.

I sing to her softly.


I hold her to my chest. Her paws knead and need. I conjure the might of dormant wombs

I summon all of the tears from time

Outside, the sky picks up the signal,


the waves of sound rumble the clouds.


The percussive rain


on the skylight above us, the winds


whisper then hiss through the trees,


whipping the branches and loosing the leaves, shaking the house and the earth and my hand, as I try to write with my own tiny bones.

My hands that are injured and cannot


make art


My hands that are injured but can still offer love.

In my weakened hands I hold her.


She sends out vibrations that bind her to me. She speaks to me through sound and touch.

But what can hold us both together, here, now,


and forever?

Rachel Blythe Udell and her husband Jeremy Newman are an artist team who support one another’s creative pursuits and collaborate on films, music, drawings, and cross-disciplinary projects.  Though mostly known for her visual art, Rachel Blythe Udell has been writing poems since she was a little girl.  Her most prolific period occurred in her teens and early twenties, during which she amassed a body of work that she has begun to revisit in recent years. Likewise, Jeremy Newman is primarily known for his documentary and experimental films, though he has been drawing since he was a little boy.  In this project, they created reflections of their beloved cat, Gertie.

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www.rachelblytheudell.com

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Jo-Jo Sherrow is a visual artist, musician and writer. She is the author of 15 zines and comics including Healing Your Magical Body with Plants and the comic series Captcha. Her musical project is called Tic Tac Oh. Jo -Jo lives in the Philly suburbs.

www.jojosherrow.etsy.com

Bandcamp:

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Garden State Gorgon

By Leonora Rita V. Obed

The day Mama died she became for others Spirit but more so for me, Mother Earth. I wound my hair in Palm Sunday reeds and baked with beets and menstrual blood a bread for my beloved. He proposed the next day. There was something delightful about dandelions, I thought, and relished the thought of an overgrown lawn, yellow and mossy. On this I slept, an autumn hammock for my disembodied soul, which couldn’t handle the weight of something others call grief, but which, for me, was a reconciliation, a blessing from a mother who eschewed exercise and urged her only daughter to pray, seemed to give me unabashed exhortation to dive into the water that once frightened me and sit at the bottom of the lake, if just to see the way the light bends, to revel in the smell of salt as it ferments with plankton and kelp and congeals in my hair as naturally as the pink vinyl rollers I enjoyed wearing to the farmer’s market, if only to remember the way Mama used to, those moments when she relished being at home in her corpulent body, her smile her only adornment, her eyes wrinkled with the bliss. Perhaps this is what Heaven is: not so much a release from the earth and all its gravity, but a merging with it, so that a woman who once talked of nothing but wanting to go home to God, urges her child to find her own Eden, a terrarium growing right in her hand, the cherries ripe as they drop forth from her earlobes and chin.

Born in Manila, Philippines artist and writer Leonora Rita V. Obed grew up in Trenton, New Jersey and was educated at St. Joseph's University, University of Toronto and the University of Edinburgh. As a fine artist specialising in oil and watercolors she was taught by award-winning painter Trisha Vergis and has exhibited at New Hope Arts, Smocktberfest at Trisha Vergis Gallery, Artsbridge Members' Show, Art for Easel/Ewing Township Municipal, Master Gardener, Bucks County Arts, Art for Oscar (Hanmerstein) at Highland Farm. Her paintings are owned by collectors in England, Russia, the Philippines, Valley Forge, Willow Grove, Sergeantsville and West Virginia. Her poetry and prose have been published in Bronte Studies Journal, Pre-Raphaelite Poetry II, The Sculpture Foundation's Ekphrasis anthologies, Hopkins Variations: Standing Round a Waterfall, Wild about Wilde newsletter, Journal of the Short Story in English, The Kelsey Review. She has presented academic papers on Oscar Wilde, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Emily Bronte and the Oxford Movement at Homerton College Cambridge University, Universite d'Angers, Universidad de Zaragoza, Gregorian University Rome and the Hopkins International Summer School Monasterevan Ireland. In October 2016 her two-act play "The Nine Nocturnal Wonders of the World" premiered as a public reading on the final day of "Smocktoberfest" Arts Festival at Trisha Vergis Gallery, Lambertville, New Jersey.

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Avataria Live at We Create: Live Stream

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Lora Bloom from her garden 5/2 for We Create: Live Stream (recorded by Rachel Blythe Udell)

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Todd Sperling played Didgeridoo on We Create: Live Stream on May 2, 2020 (recorded by Rachel Blythe Udell)

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Some of the performers from We Create:: Live Stream last night: Grey Harley, Avataria, Courtney Bambrick, and Lora Bloom. Video by Rachel Blythe Udell.

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Alex B. Wassalinko performed original texts at We Create: Live Stream

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Todd Sperling performed didgeridoo at We Create: Live Stream

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Live painting by Kirsten Ashley last night at We Create: Live Stream @stepsusterugly

https://uglystepsisterart.com/

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Log in info in event. 6 pm start time

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Tune in https://facebook.com/events/s/we-create-live-stream/215145373262861/?ti=icl

6 EST / This Saturday, May 2

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Join us for We Create: Live Stream in May 2 @ 6 EST

featuring Avataria

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