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4.09.2008

Learn about art and your home from Eileen!






LIVE WITH IT
Collecting Emerging Art Series

Speaker: Eileen Tognini, Independent Curator

Part I: May 14, 2008 6:00 pm
Experience how art can be creatively incorporated throughout your home. Join Eileen Tognini and several artists for a guided tour of the "Live With It" exhibition at Photo West Gallery. From site-specific installations to framed photographs, experience how art can be incorporated into home spaces in unique ways.
Location: Photo West Gallery, 3625 Lancaster Avenue, Philadelphia
Gallery Phone: 215.222.2649


Part II: May 21, 2008 6:00 pm
Join Eileen Tognini as she discusses her curatorial practice and how she helps others incorporate art into all facets of their homes. From the walls to the garden, learn to collect and display art in an innovative manner throughout your home and property.
Location: 237 South 18th Street, Suite 3A, Philadelphia

Each program will be followed by cocktails and hors d'oeuvres.

Program fee: Tickets for the Collecting Emerging Series are $30 for one session, $50 for both and $40 with the purchase of a Premiere ticket. RSVP is required. To reserve a seat please call 215.546.7775 ext. 11 or email Genevieve at cfeva dot org.

Eileen Tognini is an independent curator that organizes and curates with a commitment and passion for showing viewers how to live with art. Seen as gallery shows, artist salons, sculpture garden events, and other unique projects including private client services; Eileen emphasizes the work of emerging and recognized contemporary artists in the Philadelphia and New York regions. Every September for the past 9 years, Eileen has curated, Gallery in the Garden, a major contemporary exhibition of fine art works in bronze, steel, glass, ceramic, and site specific installations housed in a one-acre naturalistic garden and 200-year old farmhouse in rural Pennsylvania. Most recently, Eileen was the co collaborator in creating a boutique hotel room experience, featuring the work of some 30 Philadelphia-based artists, designers, and purveyors at The Westin Hotel, Philadelphia.

For more information, download this pdf.

4.03.2008

Design*Sponge on Gallery in the Garden



Guest Blogger Kevin Derrick is invited by Design*Sponge to highlight a few Philadelphia art/design folk and their digs. A long time supportor, Kevin captures "how to live with art" during 2008 Gallery in the Garden.