THE ICA HONORS SHEILA HICKS
2011 SPRING BENEFIT
Wednesday, May 4
6 pm cocktails · 7:30 pm dinner
Festive Dress · Valet Parking
The Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania is delighted to honor Sheila Hicks,
and to celebrate her fifty years of her contributions to the arts. Hicks, whose remarkable career is
surveyed in the retrospective exhibition
Sheila Hicks:
50 Years, has built an international reputation with her painterly and sculptural work in
fiber, which crosses traditional boundaries between art, craft, and design.
For details on purchasing tickets
visit the ICA website.
INTERLACE:
WEAVING COMMUNITY
Saturday, May 7 @ 11am-4pm
Interlace, a fabric structure in which each element alternately passes over and under one
another to blend and mingle, is the inspiration for a day of demonstrations, performances, and our
own mingling! Guest curated by Kelly Cobb, Instructor, Fashion and Apparel Studies, The University of Delaware.
TAKE TWO: A COLLECTION OF COLLABORATIVELY MADE FILMS
Wednesday, May 18 @ 8pm
Take in a screening of Megawords' international network of filmmakers, featuring work by the
Maysles Brothers, Adams & Itso, Matthias Wermke and Mischa Leinkauf, Elissa Bogos, and others,
on ICA's terrace.
MIRANDA // THE ICA BLOG
Get excited about Megawords'
Take Two screening series by reading
Miranda on the fabulous
zine-making workshop Megawords held at ICA in April.
"Dan and Tony are consulting with a young woman named
Colleen about the taped and stapled pages spread across the tables...
//
Read more...
TRAVELOGUE – BEIRUT, LEBANON: LAMIA JOREIGE
Wednesday, May 25 @ 6:30pm
Take a "staycation" and visit faraway art centers through the eyes of those who know
them best—all without leaving Philadelphia
. Catch the next flight to Beirut, Lebanon, the final stop in the series with Lamia Joreige.
Lamia Joreige, a painter and video artist, is co-founder and co-director of the Beirut Art Center.
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