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PEC and the Barnes’ new partnership to engage local community with businesses, public spaces through art

Posted on 01 July 2021 by WestPhillyLocal.com

The Barnes Foundation and the People’s Emergency Center Community Development Corporation (PECCDC) are continuing their collaboration with a new project – Everyday Places Artist Partnerships. The project, which began rolling out last month through the Barnes and PECCDC’s collaborative initiative Barnes West, will provide West Philly residents with spaces to engage with multidisciplinary artistic projects that “offer inspiration and promote ​hope and healing.”

This week, the partners have announced five West Philadelphia-based social-impact artists who have been selected to participate in Everyday Places: Keyonna Butler, Marshall James Kavanaugh, Jahwula Seapoe, Karen Smith, and Andrea Walls. The selected artists will partner with neighborhood businesses and sites – including grocery stores, restaurants, laundromats, public parks, and community organizations – to build interactive, participatory projects. Continue Reading

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Celebrate St. Mary’s Nursery School with Free Admission and Kids Activities at the Barnes

Posted on November 3, 2019 10:00 am by WPL

Saint Mary’s Nursery School (at 40th/Locust) received an award for having the best Pre-K arts programming in Philadelphia. The award will be given at the Barnes on Sunday Nov. 3rd. Admission is FREE all day for adults and children. Arts activities for children all ages, all day 10 am – 5 pm. Storytime 11 am- 12pm. Kehinde Wiley, artist, is part of the current “30 Americans” Contemporary Black Art Exhibit . Come celebrate with SMNS and enjoy free activities for families.

SCHEDULE:

  • 10am – 5pm:  PECO Free First Sunday Family Day: Kaleidoscope at the Barnes Foundation, 2025 Benjamin Franklin Parkway: A Free day of colorful art, moving performance, and cultural voice geared towards families with small children

  • 12:15pm – 12:45pm: 2019 Arts & Pre-K Excellence Awards Ceremony

The Excellence Award came with a $3500 grant to the school. We are looking to match this with $3500 in pledges for our 2020 Spring for Our School fundraiser by Giving Tuesday, December 3rd.

 

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Barnes West seeking West Philly artists for Everyday Places project

Posted on 10 February 2022 by WestPhillyLocal.com

Barnes West, a collaboration between People’s Emergency Center CDC and the Barnes Foundation, is seeking West Philly-based social impact artists and artist groups to participate in the new Everyday Places Artist Partnerships. The program is offering six artist partnership opportunities in West Philadelphia at everyday, neighborhood places like grocery stores, corner stores, restaurants, and parks.

The goal of the program, which launched in 2021, is to highlight the intersection between art and community and to provide an opportunity for local community members to experience and engage with art right where they live.

Interested artists and artist groups are invited to submit their proposals until Friday, Feb. 18. Artists working in any medium are welcome to apply – painters, sculptors, mixed-media artists, performers, writers, musicians, and muralists. Continue Reading

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Barnes Presents! Film Club and Community Chat with Reelblack on Thursday, Aug. 13 (sponsored post)

Posted on 11 August 2020 by WestPhillyLocal.com

Here’s a great opportunity to watch two independent films with your family, friends and neighbors while in your own home! On Thursday, Aug. 13, at 5:30 p.m., join (via Zoom) this pop-up, virtual film club to screen two films from Mike Dennis of Reelblack Inc – “Hardest Part” and “Next Tuesday”. After the screening, stick around to have a community chat and share your thoughts and reactions to the films.

For more information and to register, click here.

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West Philly artist’s Portraits of Black Fathers to be projected on Barnes Foundation facade this weekend

Posted on 19 June 2020 by WestPhillyLocal.com

Photo by Ken McFarlane; digital rendering by Jeff Sugg.

To celebrate Black Lives and Black Fatherhood an outdoor public art installation by West Philly artist and activist Ken McFarlane will be projected on the façade of the Barnes Foundation this Saturday and Sunday (June 20 & 21) from 8 – 11 p.m.

The project, titled “From the Root to the Fruit: Portraits of Black Fathers and Their Children“, is presented by We Embrace Fatherhood, a coalition of West Philadelphia fathers, activists and artists, as a part of the Black Lives Matter movement for eradicating systemic racial injustice and in response to the COVID-19 health crisis which has dramatically decreased public access to the arts.

The installation will be projected onto the facade of the Barnes and can be viewed from their South East plaza as well as from the streets. Music will provided by DJs from PC Radio Live. This will be a COVID-19-safe environment, with six foot spacing. Attendees must wear masks at all times.  Continue Reading

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Barnes on the Block

Posted on July 14, 2019 5:00 pm by Mural Arts

Meet us on the street for food trucks, a beer garden, live music, and art! Barnes on the Block is a large community art block party where you can view art installations from artists, NDA, experience live glass blowing and glass sculpture work while dancing to live music and enjoying refreshing snacks.

Free registration is required for access to the Barnes collection. Register now and get a chance to win exciting prizes.

https://www.barnesfoundation.org/whats-on/barnes-on-the-block

Location: The Barnes Foundation

2025 Benjamin Franklin Parkway

Philadelphia, PA 19130

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