The Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial presents Street Flora: neighborhood window box exhibition and installation. The exhibition consists of painted window boxes produced by students at Annunciation and Meredith schools, two sites of Fleisher's Community Partnerships in the Arts program. When the exhibit ends, the thirty participating students will give one of their artist-made window boxes to someone in the neighborhood and retain one for their own home. The intent is to make links to the South Philadelphia area and bring color and plants to the street.
March 23 – April 14
Reception: March 23, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Gallery hours are 1:00 to 5:00 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday, with additional hours 6:30 to 9:30 p.m., Monday through Thursday, and 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., Saturday.
Admission to these events is free.
About the Community Partnerships in the Arts program
Formally established in 1997, the Community Partnerships in the Arts (CPA) program is dedicated to enriching children's lives and learning through arts education experiences in local schools and community settings. The arts provide a fertile environment for learning because they promote inquiry, experimentation, and application—the basic building blocks of education—and provide an active and positive means for children to process and re-express, in their own terms, their experiences of the world around them.
The Community Partnerships in the Arts program carries on Fleisher Art Memorial's commitment to reaching families who lack access to high quality arts education programs. Over 100 years ago, Fleisher began as an arts program within a South Philadelphia settlement house. Today they collaborate with local human services agencies (some of which evolved from local settlement houses), local public schools, community organizations, and professional artists in collaborations that draw on the unparalleled capacity of the arts to engage the hearts and minds of South Philadelphia's children and youth, while integrating their academic learning and social development.
