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The Last Word
2025-12-14 17:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Fleisher Art Memorial, 719 Catharine Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19147, United States
You’re invited to Blue Stoop’s end-of-semester student showcase and celebration, The Last Word. This festive evening at Fleisher Art Memorial will feature appetizers and drinks (included with your ticket), interactive games, and performances by students and faculty, all in support of our financial aid program and free public programs.
RSVP REQUIRED: https://givebutter.com/c/lastword25
What: A student showcase, celebration, and mixer with appetizers, drinks, and music.
When: Sunday, 12/14. Doors at 5:00pm, celebration from 5:30-8:30pm.
Where: The sanctuary at Fleisher Art Memorial, 719 Catharine St, Philadelphia, PA 19147
Who: Adults (18+) are welcome, must be 21+ to drink
Wear: Whatever makes you feel good!
Why: To celebrate each other, ourselves, and the Blue Stoop community
Accessibility info: The venue is ADA compliant and wheelchair accessible via a staff-operated lift near the front door. This is a mask-optional event — masks and tests will be provided upon entry. If you have additional questions, please reach out to info@bluestoop.org

HANDMADE 2025
2025-12-13 11:00 - 17:00, 2025-12-13 08:00 - 17:00
HANDMADE is an indoor juried craft market organized by Fleisher Art Memorial to promote local vendors and artists. Featuring a wide array of handmade and artisanal items, this annual market is the perfect place to find holiday gifts at a range of prices to accommodate all budgets.

Craft Coven Convention
2025-10-19 12:00 - 17:00
Join Cassie of The Craft Coven for a day of workshops, craft shopping, demonstrations and entertainment at Fleisher Art Memorial

The Craft Coven Convention is Philadelphia’s first all day educational makerspace for crafters and newbies alike. Taking place at Fleisher Art Memorial: a 127 year old non profit community arts school, this event is run by Cassie Jones of The Craft Coven. Come for the craft market, and stick around to try your hand at a new skill. We’ll have drinks and cocktails by Jackie Nevin, Sandoz food truck parked on site, and baked treats by Emily Wilson available while supplies last. As well as a whole slew of included activities.
Included with your ticket price:
Access to the Crafty Marketplace of 15+ local vendors and The Coven Yard Sale Corner
Access to FREE Supply Swap Zone to take or give donations
Artist Demonstrations throughout the day by apocolyptic toy maker Waste World Toys, and on the spot printer Marisha Simons
Artist Talks by Linda Ruggiero, artist and author of ‘How to Teach Your Craft: A Handbook, and CJ Hayden, author of ‘Overcoming the Fear of Self Promotion’
Experiences like tarot reading and ongoing Make and Takes
Open Crafting Chill Room
Classic Movie Film Fest
x1 Free Raffle Ticket for each attendee
-raffles from Rittenhouse Needlepoint, Wild Hand, Craft NOW, Black Hound Clay Studio and more
In addition to the above included activies throughout Fleisher Art Memorial, we are also releasing a select handful of workshops happening during the Convention. Through convention ticket sales we are able to offer these workshops at a fraction of the costs of a standalone workshop.
Ticketed Workshops go on sale Friday, September 19th to all Early Bat and Upgraded ticket holders first. Any available spots then will go on sale Monday, September 22
Most Workshops will cost an additional $25 with the exception of $50 for the Stained GlassWorkshops have been announed! More info and timing can be viewed HERE.Included Workshops:
-Weaving a Handheld Broom
-Chain Mail with TheBabeCorporation
-Metal Charm Making with Maureen Duffy
-Spooky Photo Tricks with Elizabeth Kross Photography
-Stained Glass with Pamela of The Craft Coven
-Decorate Your Own Clay Cauldron
-Festive Fall Garland with Aubrey of Art Class Philly
-Clay Altar’s with Nina Rajagopalan
-Miniature Grimoire Building with Valeria Kremser
-Tin type Photography sessions with Daniel Leocadi <—Book directly with that link

Raffle Prizes From:
Rittenhouse Needle Point
Craft Now
Wild Hand
The Craft Coven
Black Hound Clay StudioBlick Arts $200 Gift Certificate
Wooden Shoe Books
Plaza Artist Materials
And More
The best attendees to this convention are attending hoping to meet new friends, learn about some new artforms, and celebrate their love of all things Fall. Organizers, attendees and vendors are queer, bipoc, disabled, trans, allies, and made up of the neighborhood around you. If any of that sounds unacceptable to you, we’d rather you not attend and reserve the right to ask you to leave without refunding your purchases. This is my way of telling y’all to Act Right.
We look forward to meeting you all and making magic together!

Philadelphia Mosaic: Immigrant Film Showcase
2025-08-16 18:00 - 20:00
La Gira Mosaico de Filadelfia: Muestra de Cine Inmigrante celebra y amplifica las voces de las comunidades inmigrantes de Filadelfia a través de proyecciones y conversaciones.
Después de las proyecciones habrá una sesión de preguntas y respuestas con lxs realizadorxs.
Todas las películas serán mayormente en español con subtítulos en ingles.The Philadelphia Mosaic: Immigrant Film Showcase seeks to celebrate and amplify the voices of Philadelphia’s immigrant communities through screenings and conversations.
A Q&A with the filmmakers will follow the screenings.
All films are primarily in Spanish and this will be a majority Spanish-language event with subtitles in English.

Ritual for Reclamation: Queer Botanical Printmaking
2025-05-04 11:00 - 13:00
Join Candy Alexandra González for Rituals for Reclamation a multidisciplinary artistic exploration of maize and queerness.

Join 2024 Leeway x Fleisher Visual Artist-in-Residence, Candy Alexandra González for a printmaking on fabric reflection & workshop as part of their series, Rituals for Reclamation.
Rituals for Reclamation is a multidisciplinary artistic exploration of maize and queerness, a reclamation of the Spanish word “tortillera”– a derogatory term that has been historically used to mean lesbian.
This workshop will start with a reflection on queerness in nature. Participants will be invited to consider what nature teaches us about queerness and liberation. This reflection will be followed by a relief printing on fabric demo. Participants will have the opportunity to carve queer botanicals on linoleum and print them on cloth napkins. Additionally, participants will be invited to print on the table cloths and cloth napkins that will be used for the dinner ritual.
Open to all levels of experience. Open to queer and trans folks, and allies.

Venue Accessibility
The session will take place on the first floor of Fleisher Art Memorial, an ADA accessible space. There are five steps to enter the building, which is wheelchair accessible through use of a stair lift. The session will take place in the Sanctuary, approximately 45 feet away from the main entrance and down 2-3 steps into and across the gallery space. A wheelchair ramp is also available to access the Sanctuary. There are gender neutral restrooms in the lobby near the main entrance. Fleisher offers free parking in the lot across the street, and includes designated accessible parking spaces. The sidewalk surface varies and there is a curb cut at the corner of 7th and Catharine.

Ritual for Reclamation: Tortilla making as a Healing Ritual
2025-04-27 11:00 - 13:00
Join Candy Alexandra González for Rituals for Reclamation a multidisciplinary artistic exploration of maize and queerness.

Join 2024 Leeway x Fleisher Art Memorial Artists in Residency, Candy Alexandra González for a tortilla making workshop & community dinner as part of their series, Rituals for Reclamation.
Rituals for Reclamation is a multidisciplinary artistic exploration of maize and queerness, a reclamation of the Spanish word “tortillera”– a derogatory term that has been historically used to mean lesbian.
This workshop will start with a conversation on the intimate connection between humans and corn, between corn and queerness. Participants will then be invited to reflect on the role of reclamation as a practice of liberation. The group reflection will be followed by a demonstration on making tortillas with heirloom masa harina. The workshop will end with sharing a light meal; participants will be able to enjoy and be nurtured by the tortillas made as a community.
Open to all levels of experience.

Session One from 11am-1pm will be open to QTBIPOC and Latine identifying folks.
Session Two from 3pm-5pm is open to all QT* identifying people and allies.

Venue Accessibility
The session will take place on the first floor of Fleisher Art Memorial, an ADA accessible space. There are five steps to enter the building, which is wheelchair accessible through use of a stair lift. The session will take place in the Sanctuary, approximately 45 feet away from the main entrance and down 2-3 steps into and across the gallery space. A wheelchair ramp is also available to access the Sanctuary. There are gender neutral restrooms in the lobby near the main entrance. Fleisher offers free parking in the lot across the street, and includes designated accessible parking spaces. The sidewalk surface varies and there is a curb cut at the corner of 7th and Catharine.

*Leeway is a trans-affirming organization committed to gender self-determination, and we use the term “trans” in its most inclusive sense, as an umbrella term encompassing transsexual, transgender, genderqueer, Two-Spirit people, and anyone whose gender identity or gender expression is nonconforming and/or different from their gender assigned at birth.

"clay practice" by Shannon Brooks
2025-01-26 12:00 - 17:00
Join Leeway x Fleisher 2023 Artist-in-Residence Shannon Brooks for a durational, immersive performance and installation experience.

“clay practice; and when it lands, will my eyes be closed or open?” is an immersive experience somewhere between a practice, a performance, and an evolving installation.
clay practice uses improvised movement and sound to collectively build evolving, wearable “memory-landscapes” from materials used and created through Shannon’s Leeway x Fleisher residency including clay, ceramic objects, and textiles.
A ritual engagement with our senses, clay practice decentralizes sight as our primary means of experience and reaches into touch, sound, and memory to blur the lines between and expand our sensorial cosmos. This experience invites rest, what is missing, mistakes, twisted insides, and the unfinished. Together we will conjure real and unreal realities to create the impossible and cavort with our uncertain futures.
clay practice is influenced by Shannon’s personal experiences with low-vision/blindness, neurodivergence and chronic illness , as well as the relationships between work, care, queerness, and space/time.
Time stretches until it overlaps. The space is alive. Bodies erode into gravity. Maybe becoming a memory or a dream.
HOW DO I PARTICIPATE?
clay practice is arranged into two fragments of “time.” Visitors are in control over how they experience clay practice and may come and go as they please.
12-2pm // Time Fragment #1:

Visitors are invited to participate in an open practice exploring movement, sound, and material facilitated by Shannon Brooks to create personal “memory-landscapes.” All movement levels, bodies, ages, and genders are welcome to participate.

2-3pm // Intentional rest and reflection
3-5pm // Time Fragment #2:

Visitors are invited to witness an improvised “performance” further interacting with the “memory-landscape.”
Visitors may witness the performance as a “relaxed performance” and are invited to get comfortable and tend to their emerging needs.
Visitors may be invited into the performance space by Shannon or a collaborating artist and will have the choice to participate.

EVENT ACCESSIBILITY

Shannon and collaborators will use self-audio description when possible.
Various types of seating will be provided.
Masks and rapid testing are strongly encouraged. Masks will be provided onsite.
Content Warnings: Practice/performance may engage in themes of disability, c-ptsd, neurodivergence, and ableism, as well as contain content visitors find sensitive, such as coarse language and brief nudity. The performance and installation space will contain light and sound changes throughout the experiment. There may be loud sound during portions of the performance and ear plugs will be available at the front desk.

VENUE ACCESSIBLITY
The session will take place on the first floor of Fleisher Art Memorial, an ADA accessible space. There are five steps to enter the building, which is wheelchair accessible through use of a chair lift. The session will take place in the Sanctuary, approximately 45 feet away from the main entrance and down 2-3 steps into and across the gallery space. A wheelchair ramp is also available to access the Sanctuary. There are gender neutral restrooms in the lobby near the main entrance. Fleisher offers free parking in the lot across the street, and includes designated accessible parking spaces. The sidewalk surface varies and there is a curb cut at the corner of 7th and Catharine.

ABOUT THE LEEWAY x FLEISHER ARTIST RESIDENCY
Established in 2019, the Leeway x Fleisher Visual Artist Residency is an opportunity for a Leeway grantee to utilize Fleisher’s art-making studios and facilities as one of the oldest community art-schools in the country. The Artist-in-Residence receives a $2,500 stipend from Leeway and access to Fleisher’s space to create their work. Learn more about Fleisher and Leeway.

clay practice; terrestrial-touch with Shannon Brooks
2024-07-27 12:00 - 15:00
Join Leeway x Fleisher 2023 Artist in Residence Shannon Brooks for a workshop exploring movement, sound, material, and wearable ceramics.

Join Shannon Brooks, Leeway x Fleisher 2023 Artist in Residence for a community workshop!
Somewhere between a movement/sound practice, a loose experiment in past/future/interdimensional archiving, and a ceramic workshop, clay practice; terrestrial-touch invites participants into a collaborative practice using movement, sound, and material (clay) to create wearable, ceramic memory-landscapes.

12-1:15pm: In the first part of this workshop, Shannon will guide participants through guided movement/sound improvisations to connect with our bodies, environment, and each other. Together, we will root into each of our personal and collective subterranean-archives, our real and unreal histories, dreams, and futures.
1:15-1:45pm: 30-minute break.
1:45-3pm: In the second part of the workshop, we will translate these explorations physically into clay with our bodies, imprinting this sensory information as a topographical archive of textures using our full bodies (hands, feet, knees, elbows, etc.). The workshop will culminate by working our surreal forms into structurally sound, wearable objects meant to be touched, moved with, and worn.

By joining this workshop, attendees are contributing to a large-scale, collaborative, artwork that will be a part of Shannon’s Leeway x Fleisher Visual Artist Residency final exhibition. Participants will have their wearable creations fired, glazed and worked into a sculptural, memory-landscape that evolves and is interacted with over the duration of the exhibition. At the conclusion of the exhibition, participants will be able to take home their finished pieces.
This workshop is adaptable to any body, mind, age, gender, etc. No dance/movement experience is necessary to participate! Shannon is deeply influenced by the work of Disability Justice leaders and understands pain, Disability, and Access as generative, creative forces that transform time, space, and power structures. This practice is deeply influenced by personal experiences with low-vision/blindness, madness, and chronic illness.
Learn more about Shannon’s 2023 Leeway x Fleisher residency here.
VENUE ACCESSIBILITY
The workshop will take place in Palumbo Park, right next door to Fleisher, accessible by a ramp. There are gender neutral restrooms in the lobby near the main entrance which are accessible by climbing a few stairs or using a stair lift. Fleisher offers free parking in the lot across the street, and includes designated accessible parking spaces. The sidewalk surface varies and there is a curb cut at the corner of 7th and Catharine. The rain date for this event is Sunday, July 28th. If rain is present on both days, there will be communication regarding rescheduling the event.
COVID PROTOCOL
Masks are encouraged, but not required.
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ABOUT THE LEEWAY x FLEISHER ARTIST RESIDENCY
Established in 2019, the Leeway x Fleisher Visual Artist Residency is an opportunity for a Leeway grantee to utilize Fleisher’s art-making studios and facilities as one of the oldest community art-schools in the country. Artist-in-Residence receive a $2,500 stipend from Leeway and access to Fleisher’s space to create their work. Learn more about Fleisher and Leeway.
