Mark Mattson is a Philadelphia-based artist, illustrator, and designer who, among other things, paints the cutest little faces onto things like marshmallows, donuts and peppermints.
Manufactured Dissent would like to invite you to participate in a challenge. Using this tutorial, offered by the good folks over at the Cartoonist Conspiracy, create a comic. Then scan or photograph your completed work, or a few pages of it, and email it to us at info@manufactured-dissent.com. We'll be featuring all mini-comic submissions in July, so pls try to get us your submission by then. Whether you've been featured on this site in the past, or haven't, whether you are an established or emerging artist, we want to feature your work. So go on now, get to it. Show us what you can do.
Nathan Markham is a south Florida artist and arts educator. Working with a broad palette of color, much of his work is influenced by a trip around the world, taken in 1999.
In Between: Images by Nathan Markham and Sound Art by Rob Matthews. The video was debuted last month at the Global Arts Celebration @ Nova Southeastern University. The title of the video represents the space between experience and memory.
I met Angela a little over a year ago through the Philly Etsy Team. She lead a workshop on crochet that I took, and I've been hooked ever since. Everyone who sees her creations has pretty much the same highly enthusiastic reaction, myself included. People start throwing elbows, trying to get a closer look, pushing people out of the way. Not that we endorse violence. We don't. Anyway, if you'd like to learn a little more about the mad genius behind these unique creatures...look no further. Because we've got a Q&A with Ang.
A fragile memory: Turn of the century glass negatives from Providence Public Library's Special Collections Department
Maybe you're into urban photos. Maybe you prefer picturesque landscapes. Or maybe you just love up-close-and-personal wildlife photos. Allison Ostertag is a photographer, painter and a non-practicing ceramic sculptor.
Her photography portfolio has a ton of noteworthy shots, with a nice range from classic to absurd, from gritty to charming. And did I mention just plain unique? When painting, Allison seems to stick w/ a minimal style, choosing to focus primarily on color and form.
By day she teaches inner city adolescents how to run fruit stands and about basic nutrition. In her spare time, she's a coordinator for Handmade Philly and has been an Etsy seller since 2007. We've got a Q&A with Allison this week, so be sure to check it out.
Baltimore band City Slides is featured this month on our site...we've been hearing about these guys from some friends who live in Baltimore. Here's a pic of them performing at the recent Urb Ag Gala.
Saul Landau is an internationally-known author and filmmaker known for the over forty films he has produced on social, political and historical issues. He has won a number of awards including the George Polk Award for Investigative Reporting, and the First Amendment Award, as well as an Emmy for "Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang." Landau has written over ten books, short stories and poems. He received an Edgar Allen Poe Award for Assassination on Embassy Row, a report on the 1976 murders of Chilean Ambassador Orlando Letelier and his colleague, Ronni Moffitt.
Saul Landau's historic film FIDEL! is now available on DVD through Provocateur Pictures.
The film is a personal portrait of a political phenomenon and a view of the developments since the revolution (which had taken place just ten years before the film was produced). FIDEL! gives a rare glimpse into everyday life of the Cuban people and its leader.
Joshua Park / Papertrees / The Spinning Leaves / Wet Chapel
It's going to be a beautiful night with lots of music, friends, and loveliness. Come let it all hang out. BTW, it's BYOB!
WHEN: Friday, May 8, 2009 at 9:00pm
WHERE: Connie's Ric Rac 1132 S. 9th St Philadelphia, PA
WITH JOSHUA PARK. PAPERTREES, THE SPINNING LEAVES, WET CHAPEL
Check each band out on myspace. Give a little listen. Then we'll SEE YOU THERE.
May 8 - June 19, 2009
opening Friday May 8, 2009 5:30 - 7:30 PM
NEXUS invades the western suburbs with their group exhibit Invasive Species. The NEXUS co-operative comprising experimental artists spanning the entire realm of the creative spectrum from painting to video and drawing to dance will showcase their unique visions in this multi-disciplinary exhibition.
Community Arts Center
414 Plush Mill Rd
Wallingford, PA
http://www.communityartscenter.org/
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NEXUS selects Deadline Sunday May 10
NEXUS is again presenting NEXUS selects, our annual juried exhibition of graduating seniors from the Philadelphia region's art schools and universities. The exhibition will take place in June 2009 with a deadline for submission of May 10. Click this link for the NEXUSselects prospectus. This is a terrific opportunity for aspiring young artists and carries a cash award for most promising graduating senior.
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Opening Next Thursday May 14
Libbie Soffer
Peter Alele
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NEXUS is located in the Crane Arts Building at 1400 N. American St, Suite 102. 2 blocks north of Girard Ave, between 2nd and 3rd streets.
Gallery hours - Wednesday through Sunday 12 to 6 PM
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NEXUS is a registered non-profit organization, incorporated and qualified under Internal Revenue Service Code 501(c)(3), Our exhibitions are made possible through the kind generosity of State, City and Local foundations and by individuals such as yourself.
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http://www.nexusphiladelphia.org/
info@nexusphiladelphia.org
www.myspace.com/nexusphiladelphia
nexusphiladelphia.blip.tv
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