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NET (New Emerging Talent) Nights is a new program for young graduates of local art and design colleges to network with peers and heads of area business associations and arts organizations as well as build relationships with other young professionals.
These lively evenings feature guest speakers, workshops and seminars designed to help Philadelphia artists and designers make creative contacts in our community.
NET Nights at Moore are supported by John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and are presented by The Galleries at Moore in cooperation with The Locks Career Center and Moore's new Business Scholars in the Arts student leadership program.
RECENT EVENTS
NET Nights at Moore - Starting Off Right: from Contracts to Copyright
Career Advice for Emerging Artists & Designers
Conversation and Networking Reception, Friday, May 21, 6 – 8 pm
6:30 pm – Join us for an informal conversation with area artists, design professionals and representatives from the Philadelphia Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts (PVLA) who share practical advice and first-hand experiences about everything from contracts and copyrighting to distribution and reproduction of your work; all crucial steps to starting off right as an emerging artist and designer.
Participants include: Jamie Dillion and Nick Paparone, co-founders of Print Liberation, a design studio in the Northern Liberties founded in 1999; they have appeared on the cover of The New York Times' Style Magazine, T, and caught the eye of celebs from Kanye West to Chloe Sevigny; merging objects and performance, Jordan Griska, a graduate of PAFA and UPenn, is an active member of CFEVA who participated in the 2009 Philly Fringe Festival and had his first solo exhibition at Esther M. Klein Gallery in April; Miriam K. Hohag, Esq., Director of Legal Services at the Philadelphia Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts; and Joan Tarka, Esq., volunteer attorney for PVLA.
Presented in cooperation with the Philadelphia Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts.
NET Nights at Moore - Building a Creative Life as a Teaching Artist
Conversation and Networking Reception, Friday, March 19, 6 – 8 pm
6:30 pm – Conversation with a range of working artists to learn how their role as an arts educator enhances and sustains their creative lives. They will share their paths to becoming teaching artists, strategies for securing teaching artist positions, resources to build your skills as an educator, and their reflections on how they integrate their lives as educators and artists.
Teaching artists participating in the conversation include: Teaching artists participating in the conversation include: Barbara Bickart, a filmmaker and multiple recipient of the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation's Artist and Communities grants whose work often engages communities in telling their stories; Beth Nixon, a visual and performance artist, currently with Pig Iron Theatre Company, who uses art as a tool for activism and social change; Michelle Ortiz, a Moore College alumna, administrator at the Bartol Foundation, muralist and visual artist whose work has taken her all over Philadelphia and around the world and Alex Shaw, a musician, teaching artist and education programs coordinator for Live Connections, a program of World Café Live. Moderated by Beth Feldman Brandt, Executive Director, Stockton Rush Bartol Foundation.
Presented in cooperation with The Stockton Rush Bartol Foundation.
The Stockton Rush Bartol Foundation supports organizations that provide creative opportunities to connect and engage, that give voice to a community’s history and future, and that sustain and share a rigorous artistic process.
Thursday, November 17, 2009; 6 – 8 pm
NET Nights – Film Screening & Reception
Died Young, Stayed Pretty, a film by Eileen Yaghoobian
Picking up where punk left off, Died Young, Stayed Pretty reveals a new breed of counter-culturists; artists that set out to destroy the mainstream through their controversial and intensely visceral design work. Under the guise of advertising for rock shows, these unheralded masters of the silkscreen and Xerox machine carry on public discourses that range from hot button political issues to lewd inside jokes. This feature film is the first of its kind to take a candid look at the renaissance of North America's underground indie-rock poster movement. Presented in collaboration with AIGA Philadelphia and Moore’s Graphic Design Department
Thursday, October 13, 2009; 6 – 8 pm
NET Nights – The Business of Design
Artists, designers, young entrepreneurs, and design business professionals talk about their experiences with building and sustaining art & design businesses. A closing event for DesignPhiladelphia 2009; participants include: Melanie Bergwall, creator of Meljoy, an artworks/graphics studio and ’08 Moore Alumna; Geoff DiMasi, founder of P’UNK Avenue, a design & development firm and co-founder of Independents Hall, a co-working space and community for designers, artists, entrepreneurs, and freelancers; Roz Duffy, co-founder of Refresh Philly, a meet-up organization of designers working to refresh the new media culture in Philadelphia through socializing events, lecture series and workshops; Lindsay Duggan, founder and Caroline Steinberg, main designers of Girl.Bike.Dog,specializing in fully custom messenger bags, bike accessories, and dog accessories.
Friday, September 18, 2009; 6 – 8 pm
NET Nights – Opportunities and Options for Emerging Artists
A conversation with artists, directors and artist collective members to talk about opportunities and resources for emerging artists. Participants include: Adam Natale, Director of Member Services at Fractured Atlas, a non-profit support and resource service for visual and performing artists; Warren Angle, Exhibitions Curator at the Samuel S. Fleischer Art Memorial; Nadia Hironaka, local artist and co-founder of Screening, a venue for video and moving image work located at Vox Populi Gallery; Sam Belkowitz and Martha Savery of the artist-run collective Little Berlin; and Aubrie Costello from The Other Women, a ladies art collective.
Friday, May 29, 2009; 6 – 8 pm
NET Nights at Moore – Meet Ryan Humphrey
Celebratory kick off of NET Nights at Moore with Ryan Humphrey; a New York-based artist known for paintings, sculptures, installations and performances that riff on masculinity and Americana. Humphrey was recently featured in the 2009 Queens International 4, a biennial exhibition of artists from around the world who live and/or work in Queens; his Fast Forward installation is re-envisioned in our Levy Gallery for the Arts in Philadelphia.
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