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Pastel Flower

By |February 25th|Uncategorized|

Inspired by the upcoming warm up I created a Georgia O'Keeffe flower with chalk pastels. It's always nice to spend time making art!

Quilled Paper Heart for Valentine’s

By |February 4th|Creative, Uncategorized|

Here is a creative and simple way to make a quilled paper heart for Valentine's Day. With Valentine's Day coming up, one of my favorite Valentine's Day cards I've ever made was this one. Paper quilling into the shape of a heart. Simple but beautiful. To do this, cut construction paper into 1/4" strips. Wrap [...]

Dieter Rams: Design Principles

By |November 20th|Design, museum, Uncategorized|

Dieter Rams, one of the world's most prolific product designers, is featured in the Philadelphia Museum of Art's exhibition "Dieter Rams: Principled Design" in the Collab Gallery in the Perelman Building and this past Saturday, Rams was the reciepent of the Collab 2018 Design Excellence Award. For those of you who don't know, Rams design [...]

DesignPhiladelphia 2018 Kickoff at Bok

By |October 8th|Design, Uncategorized|

DesignPhiladelphia is an annual gathering of thousands of local designers, architects and creatives that spotlight Philadelphia's place as a thriving design community. This years kickoff event was at the former Edward W. Bok Technical High School, which is now a multi use artist community in South Philadelphia called simply, Bok. A few images from this [...]

Modern Times Exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

By |April 30th|museum, Uncategorized|

  Modern Times at the Philadelphia Museum of Art I had a chance to view the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s newest exhibition “Modern Times: American Art 1910-1950” which is a nod to the many instrumental American artists of the modern art era.  The exhibition is designed with 7 themes in mind; Modern Life, [...]

Teaching at University of the Arts-Spring 2018

By |February 2nd|Teaching, Uncategorized|

I'm excited to announce a new course I'll be teaching this Spring at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.  This course is organized around the wide-ranging PMA exhibition that re-frames examples of American Modernism in the collection, with an emphasis on painting, sculpture, prints, drawings, and photographs. The exhibition features internationally acclaimed artists who are [...]