October 28, 2011
USA Today has named the Fairmount Park Art Association as one of the 10 great places to see art enhance nature.
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FPAA Named a Top Place to See Art Enhance Nature
Join us for an “Evening Amongst the Art”
Join us for a new kind of date night! The Art Association invites you to spend an evening amid our city’s public art. Tuck in for a catered picnic dinner, warm your hands over a locally-brewed cup of coffee, and be “reintroduced” to Philadelphia’s exceptional collection of public art.
The event, catered by Capriccio at Cafe Cret, highlights the Art Association’s Museum Without Walls™: AUDIO program, which invites passersby to stop, look, listen and experience public art in a new light. Experience the Museum Without Walls™: AUDIO website, audio slideshows, and mobile app that tours some …
Fairmount Park Art Association Receives AASLH of Merit
September 16, 2011
The Fairmount Park Art Association’s Museum Without Walls™: AUDIO program received an Award of Merit from the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) at its annual conference in Richmond, VA.
FPAA Awarded NEH Grant for Phase Two of MWW: AUDIO
May 2011
The Fairmount Park Art Association is proud to announce that the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded a grant of $170,000 to the Art Association for Phase Two of Museum Without Walls™: AUDIO as part of their America’s Historical and Cultural Organizations Implementation grant program. The funding will enable us to add 30 more stops to the existing 35 stop program, including additional sites along the Parkway and West Fairmount Park — almost doubling the current scope of this award-winning program. More information about the NEH and a list of all awarded grants can be found here.
Philadelphia’s Art in the Open 2011 – We’ll Be There!
Join the Fairmount Park Art Association at this year’s Art in the Open (AiO) for a weekend of free public art programs along the Schuylkill River!
When: June 11-12, 2011
Where: Schuylkill Banks
The Fairmount Park Art Association will be on hand during this year’s Art in the Open festival. Join us for Art in the Open’s “Family Day” on June 11, 2011 for free sculpture making workshops for children or stop by our table on Kelly Drive to pick up a free Museum Without Walls™: AUDIO map.
Event Details:
Sculpture Making Workshops for Kids
Saturday June 11, 2011
10am to 1pm
Schuylkill Banks Park (proposed Skate …
FPAA Receives PNC Arts Alive Award at Arts Magnifique!
April 29, 2011
At the Arts & Business Council Luncheon 2011, Arts Magnifique!, the Fairmount Park Art Association received the PNC Arts Alive Award for Arts Innovation in Honor of Peggy Amsterdam for our Museum Without Walls: AUDIO program. Over 1200 people from the region’s arts and cultural and business communities were in attendance at the event.
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On the Street with Museum Without Walls™: AUDIO
ARTSblog (4/11/2011)
Posted by Penny Balkin Bach
Public art can be one of a city’s most overlooked and under-appreciated cultural assets; but it’s also an ideal introductory cultural experience because it’s accessible “on the street,” visible at any time, free to all, and diverse in content – no tickets, no barriers, no time limits.
The Benjamin Franklin Parkway: Philadelphia’s French Connection
The Paris Inspiration, a PIFA Theme
Artists flocked from all reaches of the globe racing to be a part of Paris’ artistic movements in the early 20th century – but at the same time creative minds from France made their mark on Philadelphia with the realization of our grand boulevard, the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.
Conceived as early as 1871 and substantially completed by 1929, the Benjamin Franklin Parkway stands as a major triumph in urban planning with unmistakable French influence. Among its notable designers were the French architect Paul Philippe Crét and the French landscape architect and planner, Jacques …
Spring Fever: MWW on uwishunu.com
uwishunu.com (3/22/11)
The onset of spring is an obvious deterrent to staying indoors, but neglecting the vast cultural offerings of Philadelphia isn’t an option, either.
The Fairmount Park Art Association has come up with a solution. In honor of the upcoming Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts, the organization has created a free downloadable audio tour entitled “Museum Without Walls™.”
MWW: AUDIO to Receive Inaugural PNC Arts Alive Award for Arts Innovation!
(1/25/11)
News Alert!
The Fairmount Park Art Association and our Museum Without Walls™: AUDIO program will receive the Inaugural PNC Arts Alive Award for Arts Innovation!
The PNC Arts Alive Award for Arts Innovation in honor of Peggy Amsterdam is a new award that will be presented at the Arts & Business Council’s annual Awards Luncheon on Friday, April 29, 2011 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center.
This new award acknowledges an arts organization that has demonstrated an innovative approach to increasing arts access and engagement.
The award recognizes the Art Association’s Museum Without Walls™: AUDIO program, designed to reach culture seekers as well as non-traditional …