The A-Space

Art @ A-Space

Currently Showing:

Poetry and Paint 

 The A-Space welcomes local artist and poet, Jesse White, to exhibit her artwork this July. A celebratory reception will take place on Sunday, July 18th from 6-9pm. Jesse will share some of her poetry at this event.

Jesse White's paintings, mixed-media work and words reflect her raw, human experiences and the spirituality that guides her through. She finds faith in creating; the act of writing or painting, a prayer. “As I collaborate with the Creator, I know I will be carried through to the completion of the piece.” Jesse finds creating to be both cathartic and restorative. Spiritually, Jesse feels called to speak from her experiences and it is through lifting her creative voice that she hopes others will hear something of the Spirit as well. 

A creative risk-taker, Jesse's newest series explores the use of found objects in a narration about pain, prayer, health and healing. Other pieces in the exhibition render a girl dancing under a street lamp in the rain at night, an artist at the point of clarity in her creative process and an abstract expression of anger at the power of misconception.

Jesse hosts a drop-in open art studio Sunday evenings at the A-Space through her organization, Pigeon Arts. This pay-what-you-can program strives to strengthen creative community while guiding artists and writers to create with integrity and self-awareness. To learn more about Pigeon Arts, please visit http://pigeon-arts.com/.

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Previously Showing:

 "Sista-matized" and other pen and ink drawings by Leonard Jefferson

Leonard Jefferson is an artist who is currently incarcerated in Pennsylvania.  His work pulls no punches in exposing the horrors of corruption and racism within the criminal justice system.  His work is also highly accomplished and satirical.

Closing Reception June 30th at 7pm at A-Space

Be the Change

*Be The Change* Is An Exhibit Of Works By Youth At The Achieving

Independence Center In Center City, Philadelphia.

Each Artist Was Asked To Conceptualize Change They Wanted To See And/Or Achieve. Each Piece Doubles As A Self-Portrait.

Also On Display Are Complimentary Abstract Works ByThe Artists.

Opening Friday, February 6th, 7:30pm

2 by Jean Paul Stanley

Contexts

Through January

Because art is one of the few means by which prisoners are able to express themselves, and because artwork so frequently accompanies book requests, in 1999 Books Through Bars began a prisoner art project.

The Contexts Collection of Artists in Prison represents some of the realities of prison life, a reality which many of us on "the outside" rarely see or consider.

The Other 9/11

by Eian Weissman

Show ending October 13

Eian Weissman prints about the 9/11 coup in Chile