Painted Bride and Ma’at Works Dance Collective Present New Residency On Softness For Black, Neurodivergent, and Queer Folk
Painted Bride and Ma’at Works Dance Collective Present New Residency On Softness For Black, Neurodivergent, and Queer Folk Philadelphia artists Ma’at Works Dance Collective to present public workshops and performances from March 23 – April 28 in West Philadelphia Philadelphia, PA (March 8, 2024) – Painted Bride presents “something soft,”…
Resistance Garden: Read zines #1-4 here
As part of our Resistance Garden project, we collaborated with our partners to create zines with educational, creative, and cultural content that were distributed for free across Philadelphia gardens, libraries, and cultural centers. Now, we’re making all four zines available online, so you can access them anywhere, anytime! Click…
Resistance Garden: Recap of Wild Plants from Sovereign Lands Walking Tours
By Amalia Colón-Nava, Resistance Garden Project Manager We began with a chilly, late March, foraging walk through FDR’s meadows. A piece of land that has reverted to a marshy ecosystem largely undisturbed by development. That space is under threat of being turned into soccer fields, which Lady Danni pointed out…
Announcing the I AM ART Project: An Interview with Tierra Rich and Donnell Powell
Over a decade ago, Painted Bride launched an initiative called Rock the Pen!, a spoken word workshop for middle school and high school students to understand the power creative writing has to influence other academic disciplines, and their lives. Initially,…
Bride Next: Listening to Emerging Artists
Painted Bride Art Center was founded 46 years ago with the mission to help artists refine their creative process, build audiences, and get their voices heard. So much has happened since then—politically, socially, technologically. We thought it was time that we learn what it means to be a creative person,…