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Painted Bride Artists of the City 2008
Awards Benefit & Garden Party
Sunday, June 1
3pm Reception & Silent Auction
5pm Awards Ceremony
Tickets: $50-$300
BUY EVENT TICKETS ONLINE!
Painted Bride Art Center announces the inaugural Artists of the City Awards honoring local arts luminaries who have focused the world spotlight on the creative energy of the region. This year, the Bride is delighted to honor Germaine Ingram, tap dancer and choreographer; Moe Brooker, visual artist and newly appointed city Arts Commissioner; and Jesse Bermudez, founder and president of Artistas y Musicos Latino Americanos (AMLA), formerly Asociacion De Musica Latino Americanos. Join the extended Bride community as we celebrate these individuals and the contributions they've made to the vitality of our city off the stage.
Painted Bride Art Center has long been Philadelphia's dynamic home for artistic exchange- nurturing artists and their development, supporting their creative process, and connecting their new works with audiences seeking more than what the mainstream has to offer. Come celebrate and support the Bride at an afternoon party that will keep you connected to all that’s cool in our amazing city.
Before the awards ceremony, enjoy delicious food and drink and revel in the warm sounds of percussive traditions from around the world. Let the unique silent auction help you plan your whole summer in one easy afternoon. The auction will feature Philadelphia’s finest hidden treasures and urban excursions. Bid to win on breezy hotel stays, great summer food and wine, Southwest Airline tickets, The Perfect Picnic and more! All proceeds benefit Painted Bride Art Center as we prepare to bring you a world of exhilarating performances and exhibits September through May.
Reception and summer drinks courtesy of: Shackamaxon Catering | Barefoot Wines | Flying Fish
Tickets: $50-$300 | BUY NOW!
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Get Involved!
Contact Kathryn TeBordo at 215.925.9914, ext. 22 or kathryn @ paintedbride . org to participate in the 2008 Painted Bride's Artists of the City award benefit. Join the action and help raise important operating support for the region's most dynamic arts venue:
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Feeling Lucky?
Brompton Folding BIKE RAFFLE
1 chance $10 | 3 chances $25
Retail value: $1,200
Winner will be drawn at the 2008 Artists of the City award benefit. View the bike up close and buy your raffle tickets during your next visit to the Bride. Sorry, raffle tickets are not available for online purchase. Brompton Folding Bike generously provided by Trophy Bikes. Pink not your color? Winner can trade in to Trophy Bikes for silver/ black.
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Awards Committee
James Babb
Deborah Block
Denise Brown
Mark Christman
Carmen Febo
Happy Fernandez
Lystra Harris
J. Michael Harrison
John Hellebrand
Vijay Joglekar
Andrea Kirsh
Hilary Kline
Lynn Lasswell
Bridgette Mayer
Sherrill Neff
Laurel Raczka
Tanya Slattery
Thaddeus Squire
Ruth Snyderman
Patricia Washington
Karol Wasylyshyn
Rachel Zimmerman
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Auction Committee
Morgan Barlow
Jennifer Jordan
Denise Meredith-Clark
Kelly McLeod
Laura Nanni
Laurel Raczka
Harriet Rubenstein
Lenny Seidman
Kathryn TeBordo
Thom Yarnal
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Painted Bride Board of Directors
Beverly Harper, Chair
Jeffrey Cohen
The Honorable Frank DiCicco
Dr. Michelle Hudson
Jennifer Jordan
Gail Lopez-Henriquez
Donald Matzkin
Kelly McLeod
Ann Mintz
Gene Muller
Michael Peters, Esq.
Laurel Raczka
Harriet Rubenstein
Joan Sloan
Zelda Weisman
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Moe Brooker has been an artist and teacher for over thirty-five years. He has taught throughout the United States and abroad. Moe holds a BFA and MFA from Tyler School of Art at Temple University. He has been a faculty member at Tyler, University of Virginia, University of North Carolina, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Tiajin College of Fine Arts in China, Parsons School of Design, and Moore College of Art and Design, where he is currently Professor and Chair of the Basics Department.
Professor Brooker has an extensive exhibition record including over 30 solo shows and countless group exhibits. He is a regular member and exhibitor of the June Kelly Galley, in New York, The Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia and the Robert Roman Gallery in Scottsdale AZ. The list of his groups exhibitions is extensive and includes Layers of Meaning, Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts, An Exuberant Bounty, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, 25 years, The Cleveland Center for Contempary Art, A Different Point of View, The Noyes Museum of Art, When the Spirit Moves, The Anacosta Museum, Smithsonian
He is the recipient of several honors and awards including the 2004 Conrad Nelson Fellowship and the 2003 Van Der Zee Award, commissions from the Friends of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Absolut Vodka, a Pennsylvania Council of the Arts painting fellowship, and inclusion in the Who's Who in American Art since 2000.
Public collections holding his work include the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art; Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Woodmere Museum, The LaSalle University Museum, The Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and The Federal Reserve Bank, Philadelphia.
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Mr. Bermudez is Founder and Executive/Artistic Director of the Artistas y Musicos Latino Americanos (AMLA), a non-profit multicultural organization that promotes the development and dissemination of Latin music, with an emphasis on educating and empowering youth and community. Since 1982, AMLA has become a presence via television and radio performances, concerts, festivals, school and museum workshops, band bookings and large client productions. AMLA opened Philadelphia's first Latin Music School, and has fostered dozens of cooperative projects with local, regional and national arts and culture organizations.
His diverse background in the arts includes having served as Master of Ceremonies for hundreds of events around the city and region. Mr. Bermudez is a concert producer, of Latin music and bands, was an on-air personality on WNWR 1540 am and a producer of festivals. Mr. Bermudez has received awards from many local and national organizations including the National Congress of Puerto Rican Rights, WPVI-TV Channel Six's "Puerto Rican Panorama," the Stockton Rush Bartol Foundation, the Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau, Latin Beat Magazine, Philly Salsa Award, the Feria del Barrio, and the Navy Defense Department. The Institute for Arts and Education recently named him a "Champion of the Children", placing him in a prestigious group of 16 recipients that included Governor Ed Rendell. He continues to work tirelessly as advisor to a new Charter School for Arts and Culture and to the work that still needs to be done at AMLA in music education and cultural awareness. Bermudez continues to advocate making Latin music part of the fabric of the city of Philadelphia. He is an agent of unity and change locally, across the nation and internationally.
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Germaine Ingram's journey in jazz tap dance began more than a quarter-century ago when, at age 33, she began to study with master hoofer LaVaughn Robinson. She has pursued her passion for the tap genre through performance, teaching, choreography, writing, oral history, film making, and show production. She began performing with Robinson, her mentor and teacher, in the mid-1980s, and performed a duo act with him until he retired in 2003. Their performances included national and international showcases, colleges and universities, and numerous dance, tap dance and cultural festivals. They were one of the tap ensembles featured in the award-winning PBS special, Gregory Hines' Tap Dance in America. Ingram has also performed extensively as a soloist, working and collaborating with some of the most recognized jazz musicians based in the Philadelphia area, including Tyrone W. Brown, Dave Burrell, Bobby Zankel, John Blake and Odean Pope. She has created pieces for Manhattan Tap Company for performances at the Joyce Theater (NYC) and for Tappers With Attitude, a 15-year-old youth tap repertory company based in Washington DC. In May 2006, she premiered with Tyrone Brown, Suite for John A. Williams, a suite of original music and tap choreography honoring one of America's most celebrated literary figures. Bride audiences may remember this season’s premiere of Click Song! Suite, a set of original music by Tyrone Brown, tap choreography and improvisation, vocal music and spoken word, produced by Philadelphia Folklore Project in December 2007. In March 2008 she was inducted into the "2nd Generation Silver Belles", successor to the original "Silver Belles", composed of veterans of the famed Apollo Theater chorus line of the 1930s-1950s.
As an oral historian, she has been a principal designer of, and contributor to the Philadelphia Folklore Project's long-term efforts to recognize and honor senior African American tap artists, especially women. Those efforts have produced a traveling photo exhibition, a stage revue (Stepping in Time) for which she was co-producer, and a documentary video (Plenty of Good Women Dancers) for which she was co-director. She has produced archival materials for the Dance Collection at Temple University, has been a presenter, panelist and interviewee for the Dance Critics Association and various dance history projects, and has written for dance magazines and journals, including Dance Magazine and the International Tap Association Journal. She has been the recipient of fellowships and other awards from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the Independence Foundation. She has also received numerous awards and recognitions for civic work on behalf of children, youth and families.
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