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Metzker at MOMA
Ray K. Metzker first solo exhibit Composites Museum of Modern Art 1967
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Bruce Conner, ICA
Bruce Conner has an exhibition at the ICA. Works include sculpture, assemblages, collages, drawings, and films. November 29 - December 31 1967.
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Ferrer and Scanga Receive National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships
1967- Rafael Ferrer and Italo Scanga are the only two Pennsylvania artists to receive National Endowment for the Arts Artist Fellowships for $7500. One of the six jurors was Stephen Prokopoff, Director of the ICA in Chicago. In 1967 Prokopoff was the Director of the ICA in Philadelphia.
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Phil Simkin Graduates
Phil Simkin graduates from Cornell University. Begins a Post Graduate Fellowship learning offset lithography under Eugene Feldman in the Furness Building at the University of Pennsylvania
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David Lynch
David Lynch marries Peggy Reavey. First Animated film Six Men Getting Sick 16 mm one minute in length looped in a painting installation. Wins Dr. William S. Biddle Cadwalader Memorial Prize
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Philadelphia Council of Professional Craftsmen
1967 Philadelphia Council of Professional Craftsmen is established. Helen Drutt is its Executive Director until 1974. Drutt invites Robert Arneson to give a PCPC lecture at PCA for a $50 honorarium
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Voices of the Revolution
Voices of the revolution; fifteen color woodcuts. (1967) An anthology of poems with historical notes, Edith Kaplan; Helen Haynes
English Book 1 portfolio ([19] leaves, 15 color plates) 39 x 48 cm
[Philadelphia], [E. and J. Kaplan],
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Modern Graffiti
Darrel McCray aka “Cornbread” is credited with being the father of modern graffiti although “Bobby Beck in ’59’ was applied all over city highways. See Steve Powers, The Art of Getting Over, p 10. Cornbread along with Chewy, Kidd, Dr. Cool, Cool Earl (Earl Hubbard) and Badnews Jimmie start tagging the Broad Street subway line and properties in North and West Philadelphia. By 1972, their influence spreads to New York.
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Scanga at Tyler
Fall 1967 David Pease helps Italo Scanga get a tenure track position at Tyler School of Art and the family moves to Glenside. Artists he works closely with include Ernest Silva, Lee Jaffe, Donald Roger Gill, and William Schwedler. Meets graduate student Dale Chihuly while lecturing at RISD and develops a lifelong friendship.
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Terry Riley at PCA
November 17, 1967 Terry Riley first all night concert, Philadelphia College of Art. Concert was eight hours and thirty minutes long. Tape excerpt published by SMS No. 3: June 1968 press from an all-night live concert that Riley was performing on November 17, 1967. This particular concert was attended by the owner of the disco night club who was so impressed that he commissioned the theme. (You’re No Good came out in 1968 Jim McWilliams said it was the Electric Factory.)
Terry Riley (American composer, b. 1935) Poppy Nogood’s All Night Flight (The First Ascent). Cassette edition of work performed Nov. 17, 1967, 10:p.m.- 6:30 a.m. at the Philadelphia College of Art. Cover drawing by Riley’s daughter Colleen, at age 9.
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Crafts Introduced at Philadelphia College of Art
1967-68 Crafts introduced as a major at Philadelphia College of Art. Media offered in ceramics, jewelry and woodworking. Studios in Hamilton and Furness. Illustration formed from Graphic Arts.
First History of Photography course taught by Anne Wilkes Tucker, a former student of Nathan Lyons at the Visual Arts Workshop in Rochester. Tucker is now Curator Emeritus of Photography, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas. First History of Film course taught by David Grossman, Director of the Jewish Film Festival at the Gershman Y.
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