The reCreate gallery features local artists & makers who incorporate various forms of sustainability & material reuse into their creative process. The gallery is free and open to the public during our retail hours by design, so that the works & wares are seen by a diverse range of customers & donors, inspiring them to
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Our first all outdoor Now + Then Marketplace of the year, taking place at the recently reopened Greensgrow Farm, that has been closed for over 2 years in Fishtown. The NKCDC is resuming activity at the farm with programming and our market is the first big event since the gates have reopened. The market is
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What is your biggest struggle you deal with as an artist? Register Now! Guest Artist: Joan Becker. Creative Conversations series is a wonderful opportunity to meet with artists who work in various mediums and talk about the joys, struggles, questions, inspirations, and technical issues you are dealing with in your creative journey. There will be
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Rework the Runway is a sustainable fashion show and design competition happening on Earth Day 2024 at North Bowl in Philadelphia. 10-15 hand-selected Philly-based designers will use secondhand clothing and recycled materials to create one-of-a-kind reworked looks to be featured in a fashion show. The winner of the competition will win a full 4-way rack
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McKaig offers pristine 91-acre woods that are well suited for hands-on nature discovery for this full-day, week-long summer camp. Camps will be led by Riverbend’s skilled educators to guide your campers in nature exploration through hikes, stream-stomping, bug-catching, and so much more. Camps have weekly themes including Mini-Worlds, Messy Science, Water Warriors, and Nature Arts!
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Thank you to all who participated in our Critique Day series with visiting artists which was started in 2019 at Cheltenham Art Center. A new series is launching this February 25, 2024, now called Creative Conversations (CC). Our CC continues to be a wonderful opportunity to meet with artists who work in various mediums and
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FRIEDA and FRIEDAcommunity offer a welcoming space to people of all ages and from diverse backgrounds brought together around a curated program of activities and events focused on food, art and culture. Our large-scale participatory art projects are opportunities for everyone to collaborate on installations that bring joy and wow to community members and visitors
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A solo exhibition by Philadelphia-based artist Krista Dedrick-Lai. February 10 – March 23, 2024 Ravel is an interesting word. A contranym. It can be both a noun and a verb. It can mean both tangle and untangle. And isn’t that how life can be sometimes? We find ourselves in a great big mess. And the
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You are invited to join the Beehive Design Collective as they present their newly released 10 Year Anniversary edition of “MesoAmerica Resiste!”, their new book, “The True Cost of Coal”. The Bees use their massive, collaboratively produced, and intricately detailed fabric murals to tell complex global stories of stories of resistance, resilience, and solidarity. Packed
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Riverbend is excited to host local illustrator Kate Garchinsky for a reading of “The Secret Life of the Red Fox” followed by an art workshop. This fun, educational story is perfect for a winter’s day. The story begins on a snowy February afternoon and follows the mother fox’s life cycle as the seasons change around
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