Listed on the National Registry of Historic Places, Park Towne Place offers a robust and award-winning art program that includes rotational exhibits, engaging artist talks, and hands-on workshops. This complements an extensive permanent collection featuring 150 artworks from over 110 artists.
Located in the heart of Philadelphia’s cultural district on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, you’ll find fine art around every corner.
hearth, frame, foundation explores the textures of urbanism through the lens of five artists, Francis Beaty, Cimone Kind Berman, Annette Cords, Michael Morgan, and Rita Scheer, who draw materials and inspiration from the built environment. Found materials, patterns, textures, and abstraction give visual expression to the dialogue between cities and the people who live in them.
The included artists play with diverse methodologies from fields including architecture, construction, archaeology, and botany, exploring the links between construction, inhabitation, and the passage of time in cities. The parallels between construction in the built environment and the artist’s studio are seen through the included series of maquettes and drawings, highlighting how, in architecture, sculpture, or installation, the process of shaping physical space is a translation of ideas from inner worlds to outer expression.
Inspired by climate systems and the ever-changing landscape, the five artists of Material Time evaluate and deconstruct patterns and forms found in nature. Working with materials and processes that are both natural and human, each artist offers ways of being with environments, acting as both witnesses and agents of transformation.
In the wake of altered climate systems and human disruption, Material Time serves as a catalyst for contemplation, urging individuals to consider their relationship with and their role within an ever-changing environment.
