Scrabble with Cats, John Gummere

Juried Exhibition

On View August 4 – September 12
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Thursday 12:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Outdoor Reception: Friday, August 28, 6:00-8:00pm

This exhibition celebrates art in all its forms, showcasing submissions that have been hand-picked by our juror from the community. We’ve welcomed submissions in any medium for display in our galleries this summer.

Juror
Mashiul Chowdhury

Chowdhury is a Philadelphia based artist and alumnus of Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He has had several commercial and art center gallery exhibitions in and around Philadelphia. He has acquired national and international recognition and awards including ‘Best Landscape Award’ in the 151st small oil painting show by the Philadelphia Sketch Club. Chowdhury has also published a book named Hidden Canvas, exploring digital abstract photography.

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Works on Display

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Juried Exhibition
On View November 15, 2019 – January 2, 2020
Opening Reception: Friday, November 15, 6:00-8:00pm

This exhibition celebrates art in all its forms, showcasing submissions that have been hand-picked by our juror from the local community and beyond. We’ve welcomed submissions in any medium for display in our galleries this fall.

Juror
Alan Greenberg

Alan Greenberg is a practicing artist based in Elkins Park. Alan has exhibited nationally and internationally, as well as at many local Philadelphia area institutions. Greenberg received a BFA from Tyler, an MFA from Purdue, and has held teaching positions at Tyler, UArts, and Drexel.

 

Awards:

This year we’ll be giving out three awards, each with a cash prize. These awards were generously funded by anonymous donors that have chosen to celebrate three different mediums. All mediums, however, will be accepted for exhibition. If there are qualifying entries, the juror will select one recipient for each of the following awards:

Tile and Mosaic Arts (TAMA) Award
Ceramics Arts Award
Paper Arts Award

At top: Float, Carly/David Van Anglen/Ferro

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Transitions
On View June 14 – July 26, 2019
Opening Reception: Friday, June 14, 6:00 – 8:00pm

A juried exhibition acknowledging the cyclical phase of transformation between the relinquished end & the revived beginning. By exploring energized peacefulness & embracing duality, we are able to find solace in the pieces of the present.

The works presented in this exhibition, showcase submissions from both emerging and professional artists from the local community and beyond; hand-selected by our juror, Shannon Rose Moriarty.

Juror
Shannon Rose Moriarty

Shannon Rose Moriarty is a teaching artist who believes in the creative power of authenticity. She successfully motivates others to grow by encouraging self expression and curiosity through playful experimentation, creative problem solving, and artistic decision making. She serves at-risk youth at Philadelphia OIC Workforce Academy in Philadelphia, where she built a comprehensive arts & humanities curriculum intentionally focused on bringing the art of living into the classroom. At Abington Art Center, Moriarty energizes ceramics enthusiasts who each recognize and meet their personal creative goals; as well as adult artists with special abilities at the YWCA in Princeton, NJ; who together, prove to be the strongest example of a supportive artistic community. Shannon is also a founding member of the artist-run gallery space, Spillway Collective, where she joyfully curates inclusive and collaborative exhibitions.She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts with a concentration in ceramics, a minor in art education and, a Pennsylvania PK-12 art teaching certification from Arcadia University in 2015.

At top: Let Me Go, Maryalice Carroll

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Juried Exhibition
On View November 9, 2018 – January 4, 2019
Opening Reception: Friday, November 9, 6:00-8:00pm

This exhibition celebrates art in all its forms, showcasing submissions that have been hand-picked by our juror from the local community and beyond. We’ve welcomed submissions in any medium for display in our galleries this fall.

Juror
Martha Gyllenhaal

Dr. Gyllenhaal, head of the Fine Arts Area, is an art historian and painter who integrates humanities and the fine arts in her teaching. She enjoys using the art collections in Glencairn Museum to enhance her classes. One of her courses, Topics in Twentieth-Century Architecture: Bryn Athyn’s National Historic Landmarks, meets on site and examines the process it took to build Bryn Athyn Cathedral, Glencairn Museum, and the Cairnwood and Cairncrest estates. She has lived and traveled extensively in Europe and encourages her students to plan their own grand tours. Her passion is 17th century Dutch art. Her research focuses on the studio practices and working methods of Rembrandt and the artists in his circle.

At top: Garden Party, Callie Connors

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Juried Photo Exhibition

On View June 15 – July 27, 2018

Opening Reception: Friday, June 15, 6:00-8:00pm

The U.S., more than any other nation, is a melting pot of different cultures. Our modern America was born out of diverse immigration, and has continued to be a destination and safe haven for many in countries all across the globe to settle themselves and their families. There’s a feeling of belonging to one’s own tribe–ethnic, religious, or otherwise–as well as being a part of the overall fabric of America, stitched together by core beliefs of freedom, opportunity, and equality. This diversity of ideas and cultures has been what makes this country extraordinary, inspiring, different, and beautiful, even as we struggle with the division and conflict they have wrought.

Abington Art Center has invited artists to submit their photography that responds to or incorporates this theme. This exhibition will run this summer concurrently to our annual World Music Concert Series as well as a planned Weaving Public Threads community talk focused around the topic of immigration.

Juror
Ron Tarver

Ron Tarver received a BA in Journalism and Graphic Arts from Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma and an MFA from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. He is Visiting Assistant Professor of Studio Art at Swarthmore College. Before joining the faculty at Swarthmore he had been a staff photojournalist at The Philadelphia Inquirer for 32 years where he shares a 2012 Pulitzer Prize. While at the Inquirer he was nominated for three additional Pulitzers and honored with awards from World Press Photos and the Sigma Delta Chi Award of the Society of Professional Journalists among others. He is co-author of the book We Were There: Voices of African American Veterans, published by Harper Collins.

Tarver is recipient of the prestigious Pew Fellowship in the Arts. He has received funding and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and Independence Foundation. His fine art work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is included in many museums, corporate and private collections including the National Museum of American Art of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, Philadelphia Museum of Art and The Studio Museum in Harlem.

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On View May 13 – July 23, 2016

Opening Reception: May 13th, 6-8pm

For over 30 years, the annual juried show has featured between 40 and 90 works of emerging and professional artists from the Philadelphia region and beyond. A wide range of artistic experience and media has meant an exuberant and unique show each year. We see this as an opportunity to spark artistic discussion, welcome fresh faces to our Art Center, and to help artists of all ages build their exhibition resumes.

This year, our juror is Leah Modigliani, Assistant Professor and Program Head of the Visual Studies Department at Tyler School of Art. Modigliani is an artist and writer who earned her BFA from Concordia University, an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and a PhD in Art History and Criticism from Stony Brook University. She has taught visual studies, studio art and modern and contemporary art history at California College for the Arts, the University of Guelph, the University of Toronto and Ontario College of Art and Design University. Her visual work has been exhibited at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia in Halifax, The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art in Toronto and the Moore Space in Miami, among other galleries and museums.