Art at Park Towne

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.

Taking a Line for a Walk

Curated by Mat Tomezsko, Taking A Line For A Walk, features artwork united by line as a formal and conceptual element. Spanning a diverse array of media, rich with associative qualities, the artwork consists of sculpture, assemblage, painting, and ceramics. However, each artwork can also be seen as drawing in space. Beginning with a chosen material, be it pipe cleaner, clay, plastic, or acrylic, each artist allows for the form and meaning to meander and fuse, becoming something spectacular and unique, always with an eye to the linear quality of the composition.

Featuring: Nanci Hersh | Sharon Bloomfield Hicks | Taesook Jung | Caroline Lathan-Stiefel | Kate Stewart | Samara Weaver 

Park Towne Place - Taking a Line for a Walk exhibition - Colorful Artwork
Park Towne Place - Taking a Line for a Walk exhibition - Colorful Artwork
Park Towne Place - Taking a Line for a Walk exhibition - Colorful Artwork
Park Towne Place - Taking a Line for a Walk exhibition - Colorful Artwork

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Home to Fine Art Exhibits

Park Towne Place annually hosts a cycle of rotating exhibits, bringing you a fresh perspective with each new theme and unique array of featured artwork.

Immerse in Timeless Artistry

Each piece of art in your permanent collection has been selected with great care from a diverse pool of submissions by local, national, and international artists, including site-specific commissioned pieces.

One of Our Previous Exhibitions: The Shape of Tomorrow

The Shape of Tomorrow highlights the work of five artists, all of whom’s work utilizes color and form to offer the viewer a chance to escape into abstract other-worlds. Throughout the galleries, the work of Charles Emlen, Greg Kelly, Tremain Smith, Larry Spaid, and John Howell White take unabashed joy in their included forms and color pallets to provoke the visual senses of the viewers.

Experience the exhibit and hear directly from the artists in our virtual video tour.

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