Underfoot / Overhead, Neila Kun
COFFEE BREAK: Artist Talks | ACPS Artists Coffee Break: Artist Talks | ACPS Artists Neila Kun & Jessica Barber
Saturday, April 12 2025 | 10:00a.m. – 12:00p.m.
FREE | In-Person Event
Our Coffee Breaks are sponsored in part by the Jenkintown Lyceum.
Bagels are generously provided by Fill-A-Bagel in Jenkintown.
Abington Art Center is proud to host this artist talk, featuring two of American Color Print Society members, Neila Kun and Jessica Barber.
Our Coffee Break series is a casual conversation with the artists featured in our exhibition programming. Learn more about the exhibiting artists’ process and technique through a talk and a Q&A. Coffee and bagels are provided for free.
Neila Kun
Neila Kun is a Philadelphia-based printmaker, who earned her BFA and MFA from Tyler School of Art and Architecture. Kun explores issues relating to personal history, cultural identity and the passage of time within her work, noting “art isn’t static, it is a state of mind, a set of feelings, a practiced craft, hard work.” Her prints, made with Akua liquid pigment, act as a visual exploration of change and impermanence, hope and loss, magic and longing.
Neila Kun’s work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally. Her work is held in many public collections, including The Philadelphia Museum of Art in Philadelphia, PA, MOMA in New York, NY, The Saint Louis Art Museum in St. Louis MO, Bryn Mawr College in Bryn Mawr, PA, and Swarthmore College’s, McCabe Library in Swarthmore, PA.
Jessica Barber
Jessica E. Barber is a mixed media artist and printmaker originally from South Central, PA. Her intuitive approach to the creative process includes the use of monotype and lithograph printmaking, pastels, and mixed media painting. Most recently, she has expanded her studio practice to include cyanotype photography. For the last ten years, Barber has had a heightened interest in the natural world, fueled by hiking throughout the Mid-Atlantic, South Florida, and American West. This interest was further enhanced through volunteering and work-related activities spent at local preserves, presenting her with more opportunities to gain awareness of the natural history and preservation of their diverse ecosystems. The exposure to and enjoyment of the pristine beauty of open space and its inherent contrast to gritty, ephemerally abandoned areas being reclaimed by the elements has fueled her most recent works.
Jessica E. Barber earned her B.S. at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and her M.Ed from Cabrini University. She is a co-founder/vice president of Art 504 Creative Collective in Delaware County, PA and a secondary Social Studies educator in Philadelphia. In addition to solo and group exhibitions in Greater Philadelphia, her work has been shown in New York, Miami, Toronto, and Kansas City.
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This event is produced as part of our American Color Print Society Members Spring Exhibition, on view from March 14 – April 21, 2025.
Our Coffee Breaks are sponsored in part by the Jenkintown Lyceum.
Bagels are generously provided by Fill-A-Bagel in Jenkintown.