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Make Your Holidays Karpinski Days

Here are three ways you can transform your holidays into Karpinski Days:

1. Silicon Gallery: Small Works for the Holidays - December 5th - 30th with an Opening Reception on Friday, December 5th from 6:00 to 8:30 PM. Silicon Gallery is exhibiting and selling over 50 prints from various  Philadelphia artists. Each work is under $95, including this one.

2. The Center For Emerging Visual Artists: Perspectives at the Icebox Project Space. Current CFEVA Fellows (myself included) will be showing work at this fantastic space. The exhibit runs from December 3rd - 20th with an Opening Reception on Thursday, December 11th from 6:00 to 9:00 PM.

3. ShopInliquid is featuring some of my prints on their super site. Search for the ideal holiday gift - they will have it.

DCCA INVASION 11/05/08 & 11/07/08

DCCA - Art Salad

Please join me on Wednesday, 11/05/08, from 12 to 1 PM as I discuss one of the few subjects I know - me.  Hiro Sakaguchi and I will share the hour to discuss current works being shown at the DCCA as well as artistic process, influences, and careers. All while eating large bowls of salad. A sight to behold. More information about the Art Salad program can be found here.

DCCA  - Fantastical Imaginings Opening Reception

If you could not get enough salad or art on Wednesday, please join me on Friday, 11/07/08, from 5:30 to 8 PM for the Opening Reception of Fantastical Imaginings, curated by J. Susan Isaacs Ph.D. More information about the show and participating artists can be located here.

The Delaware Center For The Contemporary Arts is located on 200 South Madison Street, Wilmington, DE. For more information about the DCCA and their programs, please visit their website.

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PHILADELPHIA OPEN STUDIO TOURS

Discovery! Join us on 10/04/08 & 10/05/08 and witness the creative process! Excitement! Eat snacks! Adventure! Drink beverages! Suspense! Ask questions that could be met by awkward silence! Romance! Fall in love with a print, painting, book, or drawing - get lucky and take one of them home with you! All this and more can be experienced at 608 S. 51st Street from 12 to 6 (both days).

More information about POST can be found here. Or here. Here. Yes, here. Or even here.

 

SNEAK PEEK: A PREVIEW OF CFEVA'S ARTISTS AND PROGRAMS

Ignore the burn. Run over to 1234 Market Street, get on the elevator, push the button for the 18th floor... and be met by security. To avoid the preceding scenario, contact Elizabeth Hubbard of the Philadelphia Foundation ([email protected]) to arrange an appointment to see works by James B. Abbott, Rita Bernstein, Arden Bendler Browning, Donald Camp, Andrea Cote, Kay Healy, John Karpinski (that's me), Sean O'Neil, Michelle Ortiz, Amie Potsic and Wendy Wolf.

The exhibit will be available to the public until 03/13/09. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM by appointment only.

More information about the program can be found here (under "Past Events", scroll down).

UNDERGROUND

Genevieve Coutroubis will be showing photographs in an exhibition curated by Lee Stoetzel (curator of the West Collection) at the Center For Emerging Visual Artists (237 South 18th Street, 3rd Floor). The show runs from October 2 through October 23rd with a closing reception on the 23rd from 5:30 to 7:30 PM.

Hit the link for more information about the exhibit.