COMMONWEAL is excited to announce Plantasia, our next exhibition opening on Saturday, June 29th from 5p to 9p. The exhibition, inspired by Mort Garson's beloved 1976 album of the same name, features 11 Philadelphia-based artists focusing on flora and the organic world. Produced on a Moog synthesizer, which was a new technology at the time, […]

It's the early '90's. Communism has fallen, the president is a playwright and the wild east is open for business. Fearless western twenty-somethings head east with the promise of opportunity, prosperity, and cultural awakenings in a not-so-brave visa-free world where conversational English teachers make more than doctors, beer is cheaper than water, and law enforcement […]

Join award winning Black Trans poet, author, educator and filmmaker J Mase III (he/him) for an evening of poetry rooted in community care. Featured on MSNBC, Essence Live, Buzzfeed, Blavity, the Root, and TED, J Mase is the winner of a Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Non-Fiction and a Creative Capital Award. He is co-director of the […]

SOUND TYPE Seminar: GENG PTP aka KING VISION ULTRA & John Morrison Tuesday, July 2, 4:00–5:30PM Join us in this third SOUND TYPE Seminar, which brings into conversation experimental hip hop artist GENG PTP aka KING VISION ULTRA and writer and DJ John Morrison. Geng and Morrison will be talking about cultural history, musical identity […]

Asian Arts Initiative SOUND TYPE Concert: KING VISION ULTRA Tuesday, July 2, 8PM KING VISION ULTRA will perform live at Asian Arts Initiative on July 2 at 8pm in the third exposition of the SOUND TYPE FESTIVAL. KING VISION ULTRA is a project by Manhattan-born and Queens-based DJ, producer, and artist GENG PTP. KING VISION […]

Phantastic Phibers creates an atmosphere of industrial, fiber optic, hyperbolic, puppetry, soft sculpture, no waste weaving,  and non traditional textiles.  The exhibition  transports the pier into a nautilus full of suspended materials including recycled electronics and bicycle parts, a nine foot tunnel, a series of birds, a cursed sweater, enormous weavings, a tower of electrical […]

Celebrate the opening of "Embodied Sound" + "The Earth Has A Fever” at Da Vinci Art Alliance! In her upcoming exhibition at Da Vinci Art Alliance, “Embodied Sound,” artist Julie Woodard uses her long-standing textile art practice to explore these questions. Beginning with her own original music as source material, Woodard transforms the sonic into […]

For the July 2024 show, artists are invited to share landscapes - exploring the fields, forests, seas, cites and towns of travels and imaginations. All are welcome to the opening reception on Sunday, July 7, from 2-5 PM. Exhibit runs through Thursday, July 25.

SUMMER FLOWERS July 11 - September 2, 2024 opening reception Thursday, July 11th from 6-8pm An explosion of dynamic color and texture to beat the heat! SUMMER FLOWERS is the first of two group exhibitions highlighting the artists who work out of CCW's Philadelphia studio. Featuring new and original artworks by Aaliyah Bush, Alexa Sekula, […]

YOU ARE HERE at Box Spring Gallery not only invites the viewer to join artist Michael S. Heitler on city tours and site-seeing, but demonstrates ourselves as a visual culture, where signs, directions and advertising dominate. The exhibition runs from July 11 to August 31, 2024.

July 12 - August 25, 2024 First Friday Opening Reception, Friday, July 12, 6-9 pm Joseph Kattou makes Vejigantes, a type of traditional Puerto Rican mask typically made from the outer husks of coconuts. Their devilish visages, horrific amalgams of horns and fangs covered in colors and patterns, were meant by colonists and religious fanatics […]