Feels very appropriate to be writing this blog post on my birthday after sharing an evening with good friends and eating cake… The newest exhibit at Philadelphia International Airport (PHL)features the work of Melissa Maddonni Haims, who has crocheted a series of layer cakes which are on view in Terminal D through November 2013. The […]
Philadelphia artist Kay Healy is known for her hand-drawn, hand-sewn, stuffed fabric cutouts of life-size home furnishings. For the past year she’s been holding community sewing days so that others could help make the hand-sewn elements for Coming Home, a 30-foot long installation of 4 rooms – a kitchen, bathroom, dining room, and living room […]
Former skateboard champion Victor Perez now has an art gallery in Philadelphia where he creates and sells Sk8Lamps – lamps made from broken and damaged skateboards. Part of the ‘upcycling” trends, “the lamps are constructed of used or rejected decks, wheels and trucks that have either fulfilled or cannot fulfill their intended purposes. The electrical […]
Feels very appropriate to be writing this blog post on my birthday after sharing an evening with good friends and eating cake… The newest exhibit at Philadelphia International Airport (PHL)features the work of Melissa Maddonni Haims, who has crocheted a series of layer cakes which are on view in Terminal D through November 2013. The […]
Philadelphia artist Kay Healy is known for her hand-drawn, hand-sewn, stuffed fabric cutouts of life-size home furnishings. For the past year she’s been holding community sewing days so that others could help make the hand-sewn elements for Coming Home, a 30-foot long installation of 4 rooms – a kitchen, bathroom, dining room, and living room […]
Former skateboard champion Victor Perez now has an art gallery in Philadelphia where he creates and sells Sk8Lamps – lamps made from broken and damaged skateboards. Part of the ‘upcycling” trends, “the lamps are constructed of used or rejected decks, wheels and trucks that have either fulfilled or cannot fulfill their intended purposes. The electrical […]