NET Nights at Moore: 2009

NET Nights at Moore

A new program for students and graduates of local art and design colleges to network with peers and heads of area business associations and arts organizations as well as build relationships with other young professionals.

These lively evenings feature guest speakers, workshops and seminars designed to help Philadelphia artists and designers make creative contacts in our community.

Presented by The Galleries at Moore in cooperation with The Locks Career Center and Moore’s new Business Scholars in the Arts student leadership program.

2010-11 NET Nights at Moore are supported by Your Part-Time Controller and Moore College of Art & Design.

2009-10 NET Nights at Moore were supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

Business Scholars in the Arts (BSA)

The Business Scholars in the Arts is a new program at Moore College of Art & Design that supports a select group of transfer students. The program supplements the students’ art and design training with business-related experiences outside of the classroom. Our group is particularly interested in entrepreneurship. We encompass a wide range of majors, from Graphic, Fashion, and Interior Design, to Illustration, Art History, and Art Education.

Our goal is to acquire the skills necessary to network within the professional art world, which will ultimately aid us in opening our own businesses or taking on leadership roles in a company or organization. The first year of the Business Scholars program stresses this networking process. To that end, we have established a collaborative relationship with the Galleries at Moore to provide support for NET Nights. These lively evenings feature guest speakers, workshops and seminars designed to help Philadelphia artists and designers make creative contacts in our community.

The purpose of this blog is to continue the conversations started at NET Nights and to provide resources that will enable emerging artists and designers to profit from the expertise of the speakers. Look to our blog for our interviews with speakers, our suggestions for interesting upcoming events and links to useful web-sites.

The BSA Students:

Laura Bonvini

Amber Callahan

Melissa Chancer

Amanda Corropolese

Samantha Edmonds

Christine Ferri

Chriztie Kaufmann

Sara Stanton

Haoren Yu

NET Nights Advisory Committee

The NET Nights Advisory Committee is comprised of local artists, designers, curators and arts administrators, business professionals, professors and students from various disciplines and backgrounds. NET Nights programs are the product of thoughtful discussions between these committee members, sharing ideas, insights and suggestions to stimulate new relationships and networking between emerging artists and designers and business and arts professionals in Philadelphia.

Click here for Advisory Committee Blog

Thursday, December 3, 2009

NET Nights at Moore - Opportunities and Options for Emerging Artists / Sept 18, 2009

On September 18 a group of artists, directors and artist collective members got together to talk about the multitude of opportunities and resources available for emerging artists in Philadelphia such as: artist residences and grants, collectives & self-organizing options, exhibition opportunities & competitions, and support & resource services.

Touching on everything from NYFA resources to the Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative to grassroots collectives, the conversation opened an array of options readily available to artists in Philadelphia. In the end, it all came down to one point - Philadelphia is teeming with opportunities for those artists that are willing to take initiative, stay true to who they are and go after what they want.

The conversation involved Adam Natale, Director of Member Services at Fractured Atlas, a non-profit support and resource service for visual and performing artists based in New York City; Warren Angle, Exhibitions Curator at the Samuel S. Fleischer Art Memorial in Philadelphia; Nadia Hironaka, a local artist and co-founder of Screening, Philadelphia’s first gallery dedicated to the presentation of works on video and film located just inside of Vox Populi Gallery; Sam Belkowitz and Martha Savery, members of the artist-run collective Little Berlin in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia ; and Aubrie Costello, a member of The Other Woman, a ladies art collective.

Following the event, the panel participants were interviewed by students in Moore's BSA program, revealing in more detail their own career path and affiliations. Each interview is listed above.

Opportunities and Options for Emerging Artists

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

NET Nights at Moore - Meet Ryan Humphrey

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

On Friday, May 29 The Galleries featured New York-based artist RYAN HUMPHREY for the first official NET Nights at Moore program. Ryan gave an illustrated lecture about his current body of work and how he got to where he is today - featured in the 2009 Queens International 4 exhibition and appearing on season one of Bravo's Top Design in 2007.

Known for his paintings, sculptures, installation and performances that riff on masculinity and Americana, the program was held in conjunction with Fast Forward, his exhibition of over 30 BMX bikes, 3 versions of Marcel Duchamp's Bicycle Wheel (1913) and a massive rug wrapping the walls of the gallery space created with the help of designer Todd Oldham, that traveled to the Galleries from the Queens Museum.

The installation was "artfully" put to use by Ryan along with 80's BMX pro Dizz Hicks, and select local pro-level BMXers. Check out the video!

Ryan Humphrey Talk

Who we are

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

NET Nights began with the question, how do we engage Philadelphia's emerging artists and art and design students as active participants in conversations about contemporary art practice while helping them to connect and network with peers, business professionals and art and design professionals?

This question, along with statistics that the majority of graduates from local art and design colleges leave Philadelphia to pursue artistic endeavors in other cities such as New York City, Chicago and L.A. were the driving force behind the creation of NET Nights at Moore.

Since the launch of NET Nights in June 2009, the program has amassed a following of students from various disciplines who attend or have recently graduated from colleges across the area - Tyler School of Art, University of Pennsylvania, University of the Arts, Drexel University and Philadephia University. A large number of emerging and established visual artists, curators, performance artists, writers along with professionals from arts organizations and businesses.

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