Penn is doing its part to participate in this exciting project. Check out these events on campus, all of which are free with your Penncard. See the Back Page for photos from these and other Philagrafika exhibitions.
Colombian born Miler Lagos is currently working on Silence Dogood, a site-specific installation for the Arthur Ross Gallery in the Fisher Fine Arts Library. Lagos is utilizing four tons of recycled newspapers to sculpt large trees, directly in the gallery space.
The Penn Museum presents What in the World, an exhibition inspired by the 1950s television program of the same name. Over 50 years later, artist Pablo Helguera will update the show, working with objects from the collection, current staff members and artists and professors. Stay tuned for the episodes, all of which will be available online.
The School of Design and the Meyerson Gallery are hosting New Prints, Part II, an exhibition organized by the International Print Center in New York, which showcases over fifty artists whose work challenges conceptions of contemporary printmaking. The show opens March 8 and runs through the end of the festival.
The Rare Book and Manuscript Library has played host to Werner Pfeiffer (censor, villain, provocateur, experimenter): Book-Objects & Artist Books since September, in anticipation of Philagrafika. Pfeiffer is a sculptor, printmaker and painter whose book-objects offer critical commentary on the function of the book in the twenty-first century. Hurry to check this one out — located on the first floor of Van Pelt, the exhibition closes February 12.
