The Residency is growing ever closer, and we are growing ever excited! One more week to go!Artists, you should all attempt to schedule a car pool of sorts, it will help with your cost, our cost, and you can use a H.O.V. lane and make Jay-Z references while you are in it.
Everyone else, The Community Picnic, scheduled for August 16th at 5:30pm, is an event open to the public. Invite your friends, your neighbors, your high school art teachers, and your animals!
In case you didn't get the press release, here it is:
Project Portal Artists Come to Chester Springs
Today, history is repeating itself in the Chester Springs through Project Portal, a partnership between Historic Yellow Springs and the FLUX Space of Philadelphia. On August 15 to 17 a group of contemporary artists, affiliated with the FLUX Space, will take up residence in the village of Yellow Springs to experience what attracted students from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts here 80 years ago.
From 1916 to 1952, the village of Chester Springs in Chester County was a vibrant arts center as the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Country School. Renowned artists such as Daniel Garber and William Lathrop taught at the school, famed photographer Eduard Steichen photographed the village, and N.C. Wyeth was known to visit frequently to offer critiques of student works.
What they see, hear and feel during those three days will be interpreted into an exhibition they will install at Historic Yellow Springs in November. To further connect the past to the present, Project Portal will also include a curated selection of original PAFA Country School artworks from a private collection. The November exhibition will provide visitors with a “portal” to the past through this extraordinary display.
Don’t write a story yet. Join us on August 16 between 5:30 and 8:30 p.m. for a community picnic, a chance to speak with the artists and a special group of local residents who will share in this exciting experience and learn all the details. Bring your camera and imagination and see what magic might happen. Or, if you cannot attend the picnic, please plan on attending throughout the course of the weekend.
Nothing quite like this has happened in the village of Chester Springs since PAFA ended their Country School. We are simply thrilled at the prospects of what the results will be this time and you will be the first to hear about it.
I hope you will join us and if you have any questions, please call me directly at (610) 827-7414, extension 14.
-Rob Lukens, Director of Historic Yellow Springs
Hope to see everyone there!
Cheers,
Shaun M. Baer
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