-Courtesy of Aversa PR & Events
Northern Liberties Business Improvement District (NLBID) is bringing back Artists at Work, a live art-making event featuring more than a dozen artisans and artists sharing their creative process throughout the neighborhood. Artists at Work will take place Saturday, June 10th from 4:00pm to 6:00pm at fourteen locations, all within close proximity to the brand new Northern Liberties Farmers Market which will run from 10:00am to 2:00pm in the Piazza Courtyard. Spectators are encouraged to enjoy all Northern Liberties has to offer as they navigate this multi-location event, including bars, restaurants, retail shops, and art galleries. This event is made possible with a sponsorship from the Penn Treaty Special Services District.
The Artists at Work series was created in the spring of 2020 to support shuttered businesses and local artists while upholding social distancing protocols. It has since evolved into an energetic collaboration between artists and businesses that brings vibrancy to the Northern Liberties commercial corridors. A custom map will help viewers easily find each location and an event webpage hosts more information about each artist and crafter.
The program is simple: artists will set up outside a business (weather permitting) and create a new work in public view. The public is invited to observe and inquire about the artist’s medium, process, and subject matter. “Northern Liberties has a long history as a place for artisans, crafters, and fine artists,” says NLBID executive director Kristine Kennedy. “We are keeping the spirit alive and offering a platform for local makers to build their audience. There aren’t many events where you get to watch people literally make something and get to ask them about how and why they do it.” Featured artists will include illustrators, painters, upcyclers, potters, weavers, and sculptors.
Hosting businesses include Jerry’s Bar, Penn Herb Co., Trunc, The Random Tea Room, Tuck Barre and Yoga, Ray’s Reusables, Casa Papel, NLArts, 1040 Creative, Just Cravings, Stump. Hudson Table, Once Worn Consignment, and The Fairmount House. Other art galleries in Northern Liberties include Spite Haus and Brotherly Love Gallery, both on the 600 block of N 2nd St., and Pete Checchia Gallery on the 700 block of N 2nd St..
For more information, visit https://www.explorenorthernliberties.org/artists-at-work/
1. Tuck Barre and Yoga
1100 N Front St
Artist Sarah Daley
www.sarahdaleyart.com
Sarah is an artist from Philadelphia. Her body of work explores various techniques to create texture and depth with acrylic paint. She utilizes her knowledge and passion for the human body to create expressive figurative artwork. Sarah also offers commissioned work with a specialization in pet portraits.
2. 1040 Creative
1040 N 2nd St Suite 301
Artist Pauline Houston
Pauline Houston McCall is a multimedia artist, vocalist and activist who believes deeply in connecting the threads between many disciplines.
“Art is another way of speaking to the world.”Her large paintings and sculptures and intimate drawings have graced exhibitions throughout the tri-state area, with a deep focus on the falling and rising of the human spirit, told through figurative imagery and stories.
3. Hudson Table
1001 N 2nd St
Artist Shae Payne
https://delikatebones.wixsite.com/gallery
Description-Shae Payne is a mixed media artist who loves using many different materials in each piece. Her mini sculptures are an inventive combination of clay, paint and fiber. She tries to embody her deep passion for vivid color, engaging texture and whimsical elements through each creation.
4. Stump
956 N 2nd St
Artist Claire Resnick
https://wonkyware.bigcartel.com/
Claire Resnick hand builds functional and sculptural ceramic vessels that celebrate the intuitive act of making. Rarely using more than her two hands to make her work, Claire creates pieces that keep her present in the final piece. Her pieces are textural and wonky, they are meant to be used and loved.
5. Just Cravings
946 N 2nd St
Artist William Hilton
https://philadelphiacraftyarts.weebly.com/
Description- William Hilton has worked as an interdisciplinary artist and master craftsman for over 30 years. His favorite subjects include plants, flowers, animals, and all other aspects of the natural world. He was born in Philadelphia and is a longtime resident of Nicetown-Tioga.
6. Jerry’s Bar
129 W Laurel St
Artist Peaches
peachesgoodrich.com
Peaches Goodrich is an illustrator, filmmaker, animator, and musician. Born in Atlanta, currently in Philadelphia, Peaches collaborates with Sam Sharpe on the smorgasbord comics anthology Viewotron, creates experimental 16mm film animations, enjoys the subtleties of the color brown, and performs with the disco-punk outfit Boston Cream.
7. Ray’s Reusables
935 N 2nd St
Artist Jackie, Bird and Brush Art
https://www.instagram.com/birdandbrushart/
Jackie (aka Bird) creates hand-painted, botanical-inspired, and joyful glassware and paper goods. By using upcycled or recycled, second-hand, and donated materials, she hopes to create cheerful and functional art that is also good for Mama Earth – because frankly, we’ve put her through enough.
8. Trunc
929 N 2nd St
Artist Duane Gordon
Duane is an artist from Southwest Philadelphia whose work is a reflection of the vibrant energy and rich culture of the urban inner city. His art, which he creates under the name Originally Distinct, is a celebration of individuality, imagination, and the power of self-expression.
9. Once Worn
906 N 2nd St
Artist Jessica Eldredge
http://www.jessicaeldredge.com/
Jessica Eldredge is an artist based in Old City. Working with fiber reactive dye, she creates paintings, prints, collages and installations inspired by quilts, weaving and other textiles. In addition to her studio practice, Jessica is a teaching artist who leads workshops for all ages and is a past Director of NLArts.
10. Casa Papel
804 N 2nd St
Artist Cait Maud
www.caitmaud.com
Cait Maud is an artist and illustrator living in Philadelphia. She has years of experience as a traditional painter in mediums such as watercolor and is also a digital artist who makes greeting cards. Her favorite subject to draw is animals and she is inspired by nature.
11. Random Tea Room
713 N 4th St
Artist Anastasia
https://anastasiafinearts.com/
Anastasia Alexandrin draws because she has to. Drawing is life and breath to this artist. Alexandrin believes art should be about celebrating beauty and aesthetics. Using drawing as her medium she dives into subjects of friendship and journeys with a healthy amount of owls in the mix.
12. The Fairmount House
206 Fairmount Ave
Artist Keith Warren
www.keithgreiman.com
Keith Warren Greiman lives and works in Philadelphia, PA. His bright and animated images of real and supernatural beings depict life, captured in experience, being ascendant, melancholic and at all times wild.
Keith’s work has been shown in various galleries and publications from all over and everywhere. He currently teaches illustration at the Tyler School of Art and is the curator at the Fairmount House Gallery in Philadelphia.
13. The Spite Haus
616 N 2nd St
Artist Lindo Jones
LindoYes is a spoken word artist, creator of LindoYes! clothing line, and an event host who was born and raised in Uptown Philadelphia, PA. He is an unapologetically Black fusion of theatrical poetics and visual art whose work addresses the constructs of love, masculinity and social injustice.
14. Penn Herb
601 N 2nd St
Artist Arshayla Robinson
www.arshaylarobinson.com
Arshayla Robinson is a multi-gifted creative visionary, creative director, and educator from Miami, FL, based in Philadelphia, PA. She expresses art as a self-taught designer, textured artist, textile artist, LED artist, illustrator and photographer. Arshayla’s creations are gorgeously and magically grounded into fusing her passions for music, art, dance, literature, fashion, African culture, the emergence of black culture and identity, and Afrofuturism. As she aims to become a beacon of light, love, and hope for the youth and her community, she is rooted in her belief that where there is darkness and pain embedded in our past and present, there is also light and love that is birthed and engraved to re-envision, realign, reinvigorate, and recreate our future.
Whether during the live demonstration or general exhibition, patrons are encouraged to make an evening of their visit to Northern Liberties. Enjoy a cocktail along Northern Liberties Restaurant Row before strolling through the exhibition, stop in at one of our independent retailers, and afterward dine at one of the many beautiful outdoor dining spaces. Plus, come out early for the Northern Liberties Farmer’s Market.
For more about Artists at Work and other events and happenings in Northern Liberties, visit explorenorthernliberties.org.
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