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 […]

“Lick My Wounds” is Boehmer’s first solo show at SATELLITE LES. The exhibition features recent works on canvas and an installation artwork that explore themes of anxiety, fantasy, and nostalgia. Brightly colored faux fur and yarn are sewn by hand together with taxidermy to depict gory imagery with art historical references. The soft sculptures have […]

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 […]

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION: Our dependence on carbon-based energy has given the Earth a fever. Our relationship with the natural world is out of whack. By using nature as something to dominate and exploit, we have despoiled the Earth for our short term needs. The Earth has responded to this exploitation with a devastating cycle of […]

Humans are complex creatures and metabolize experiences in different ways. Artist Agnes Varda summed it up beautifully when she wrote, “If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.” Multidisciplinary artist Julie Woodard processes life through songwriting, time in nature, and the creation of textile terrains. Her work explores themes of loss, the search for hope, […]

Member shows at 3rd Street Gallery. Joe Klaus’s "Without you on my mind" and Youngmin Jahan’s "Recent Works" opens on Friday, July 5, and will run through Sunday, July 28. Opening Reception, Sunday July 7, 2:00-4:00 p.m. 3rd Street Gallery is located at 610 S 3rd Street. Gallery hours: Fridays, 4:00—7:30 p.m., Saturdays, 1:00—5:00 p.m., […]

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 […]

Pathways features a selection of Philadelphia’s cherished educators, art workers, and artists: Morgan Hobbs, Kate McCammon, Kate Moran, Eileen Neff, and Kaitlin Pomerantz. Guest curated by Melanie Delach, coordinated by Addison Namnoum. How do we become who we need to be? And how do we find our way into our work? Although the act of […]