Just in time for the holiday season, Painted Bride has launched the Bride Bazaar, a marketplace where you can purchase special, one-of-a-kind items and experiences from local artists. All proceeds support the Bride and the artist.   Are you an artist that would like to contribute something… Read More

The Painted Bride Art Center is very excited to be Co-Commissioners on DANCE IQUAIL!’s “Public Enemy (PE).” Public Enemy is about the humanity of Black men and the diversity of that humanity. This Philadelphia-based community dance project by choreographer Iquail Shaheed explores Black male identity in the context of… Read More

Review by Malkia Okech In connection to the Painted Bride’s Deep Roots Bold Future legacy, they invited a series of intergenerational conversations in which artists and practitioners shared their hopes, worries, joy, and vulnerability with us. These two conversations were honest, open dialogues that… Read More

Sumi Tonooka & Arnetta Johnson Ursula Rucker & Sudan Green Greg Giovanni and Eric Jaffe Ozzie Jones & Cheyenne Barboza Brenda Dixon-Gottschild & Lela Aisha Jones Vashti Bubois & Blew Kind… Read More

  I just watched the entirety (so far) of this series—a brilliant idea from the Painted Bride. I was hoping to find among these four conversations between young artists and ‘elders’ a communality of purpose and theme. The similarities of our conversations can be… Read More

Art-making of any kind in this landscape feels futile or even frivolous. But it is in this charged climate that I am further drawn to the work done through the Painted Bride’s “Building Bridges: On the Rise ” project, the goal of which is not to… Read More

Recording of showcase: James Allister Sprang’s Aquifer of the Spirit: Website: www.jamesallistersprang.com https://paintedbride.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Aquifer-of-the-Spirit_6.28.20.mp3   Ani Gavino: Instagram: @ani_malayaworks Anthony Carlos Molden: Instagram: instagram.com/anthonymolden You can drive/walk by the Tree Oracle in Germantown at the corner of… Read More

Since February the Building Bridges cohort (Ursula Rucker, Caitlin Green, James Sprang, Ani Gavino, and Anthony Carlos Molden), Painted Bride Executive Director Laurel Raczka, Project Manager Li Sumpter, and Bride Communications Manager LaNeshe Miller-White, have met weekly (only once in person, pre-COVID-19) to discuss their projects, and everything that has… Read More