Street Arts
Great news! SCI-West has just informed us that we have received $3,000 to collaborate with Neighborhood Bike Works (NBW). Two of our resident artists have already begun working with NBW, using art as a medium for engagement with youth in particular. This award will help that work to flourish over the next several months, while ensuring a long and healthy relationship between AIR and NBW. This comes at an especially critical time as NBW prepares for several events and can now lean on our professional artists to make sure that the youth remain engaged through the arts.
A little bit about NBW:
- Young Artists Exhibit Opening Saturday November 16!!!
Please join us for our first ever Young Artists ExhibitNovember 16 – December 7here at 40th Street Artist in Residence (AIR) Program Gallery, 4007 Chestnut Street, First Floor Opening Reception: Saturday November 16, 2PM - 6PM Gallery Hours: Saturdays...
- Air Exchange - 8/10/12 - Exhibit Of 2011-2012 Community Engagement Projects + Bbq Reception
Join us on Friday August 10th, 6-8pm, for an exhibit and casual bbq reception for Exchange! This is our very first exhibit of the work completed over the course of residents' community engagement projects. Bid farewell to our 2011-2012 residents,...
- Resident Jim Garvey's Circles And Circuits Opens On Friday March 11, 2011
40th Street Artist-in-Residence Jim Garveyopens his new showCircles and Circuits Contact:[email protected] Jim GarveyCircles and Circuits opening Friday, March 11th, 2011 5-9pm also on display Fridays March 18 and...
- Article In The University City Review • 2/24/10
40th St AIR Unites Artists with Community UC Review | 24.FEB.10 By Kaley Lacovetta Special to the UC Review Like most artists, Cecilia Paredes always dreamed of having a studio of her own. For years, she worked from her small apartment, sectioning off...
- Current Residents (april 2008 - April 2009)
Maria Anasazi is a native of Greece who has lived in the United States since 1980. She is an active member of the arts community in the Mid-Atlantic region and has been teaching since 1993, in schools and various institutions including detention centers...
Street Arts
40th Street Artist-in-Residence Program has received a $3,000 SCI-West Community Grant award!
Great news! SCI-West has just informed us that we have received $3,000 to collaborate with Neighborhood Bike Works (NBW). Two of our resident artists have already begun working with NBW, using art as a medium for engagement with youth in particular. This award will help that work to flourish over the next several months, while ensuring a long and healthy relationship between AIR and NBW. This comes at an especially critical time as NBW prepares for several events and can now lean on our professional artists to make sure that the youth remain engaged through the arts.
A little bit about NBW:
The mission of Neighborhood Bike Works (NBW) is to create educational, recreational, and career-building opportunities for youth through bicycling in the Philadelphia area, and to promote cycling as an environment-friendly, healthy form of transportation.
NBW foresees a future in which youth are empowered by bikes. Bicycles can aid in empowering youth in many ways. Bicycles promote self-reliance and self-confidence by giving youth self-propelled independent transportation giving youth the freedom to travel locally - to school, play, and eventually work. Self confidence and self reliance are also promoted by giving youth the ability to maintain and repair their own bicycle in addition to the accomplishment of having earned a bike through their own work.
Bicycles can be used, by youths and adults alike, to cross boundaries - literally and figuratively. Cycling can enable exploration beyond one's immediate neighborhood. Cycling also cuts across social classes, both recreational and utilitarian cycling enables people to meet others with like interests that otherwise would not be realized.
To advance this vision NBW will form partnerships and alliances with other groups, both in the youth development community and the cycling community.
Learn more at http://neighborhoodbikeworks.org
Bicycles can be used, by youths and adults alike, to cross boundaries - literally and figuratively. Cycling can enable exploration beyond one's immediate neighborhood. Cycling also cuts across social classes, both recreational and utilitarian cycling enables people to meet others with like interests that otherwise would not be realized.
To advance this vision NBW will form partnerships and alliances with other groups, both in the youth development community and the cycling community.
- Young Artists Exhibit Opening Saturday November 16!!!
Please join us for our first ever Young Artists ExhibitNovember 16 – December 7here at 40th Street Artist in Residence (AIR) Program Gallery, 4007 Chestnut Street, First Floor Opening Reception: Saturday November 16, 2PM - 6PM Gallery Hours: Saturdays...
- Air Exchange - 8/10/12 - Exhibit Of 2011-2012 Community Engagement Projects + Bbq Reception
Join us on Friday August 10th, 6-8pm, for an exhibit and casual bbq reception for Exchange! This is our very first exhibit of the work completed over the course of residents' community engagement projects. Bid farewell to our 2011-2012 residents,...
- Resident Jim Garvey's Circles And Circuits Opens On Friday March 11, 2011
40th Street Artist-in-Residence Jim Garveyopens his new showCircles and Circuits Contact:[email protected] Jim GarveyCircles and Circuits opening Friday, March 11th, 2011 5-9pm also on display Fridays March 18 and...
- Article In The University City Review • 2/24/10
40th St AIR Unites Artists with Community UC Review | 24.FEB.10 By Kaley Lacovetta Special to the UC Review Like most artists, Cecilia Paredes always dreamed of having a studio of her own. For years, she worked from her small apartment, sectioning off...
- Current Residents (april 2008 - April 2009)
Maria Anasazi is a native of Greece who has lived in the United States since 1980. She is an active member of the arts community in the Mid-Atlantic region and has been teaching since 1993, in schools and various institutions including detention centers...