Silent Sunday
Tag: architecture
It’s a Wrap 2! Guest Blog
My friend Joanne’s flight was delayed so she was getting a bite to eat and then walking around Terminal A-East in the Philadelphia Airport, waiting for her flight to be called. Although she was eager to get to her destination, the delay gave her time to photograph all these colorful artworks. Creating a guest blog today was not her plan, it just happened. There was a lot of yarn!
IT’S A WRAP 2 is in Terminal A-East
Ticketed Passengers
“This exhibition features work by Philadelphia area artists(listed below) who were invited to create unique architectural interventions within the Airport terminal. Using yarn, fabric, felt, found objects, tape, paint, wheat paste, and wood, the artists applied their work to the ceiling tiles, columns, rockers, walls, walkway, and windows. They have visually transformed this location into an immersive and experiential art-filled passageway.”
Artists
- HENRY BERMUDEZ
- HEIDI BLEACHER
- LUIZA CARDENUTO
- RHONDA COOPER
- JESSICA CURTAZ
- MARIE ELCIN AND JOHANNA MARSHALL
- MELISSA MADDONI HAIMS
- KAY HEALY
- JESSIE HEMMONS
- EURHI JONES
- NATALIE KUENZI
- TIM McFARLANE
- ANGELA McQUILLAN
- NICOLE NIKOLICH
- ANGELA RIO
- ANNE SCHAEFER
- MIRIAM SINGER
- ANTHONY TORCASIO
- ANTHONY VEGA
- ANDREW JEFFERY WRIGHT
Have a wonderful holiday . Thank you Joanne. Joanne’s most recent guest blog was the one of the bronze sculptures in Halifax Nova Scotia – The Volunteers.
Adventure Completed
We returned to Lawrenceville where we started our library adventure. It was the branch where we’d gotten our CLP Passports and our first stamp. Librarian Steve gave us the forms to fill out. He offered to stamp our passports but we already had the stamp. He stamped our notes pages with the extra large stamper though! A bonus stamp. He also emailed us the pdf brochures about each library branch we visited. Thank you.
the first branch library (1898) after the Main Library
What a fun time Jen and I had driving all over the city, collecting the stamps at the nineteen branches within the city limits. It was her idea to participate and I’m so glad she invited me along.
You Can Checkout a Chair for 21 Days
At the Carnegie Main Library Branch you can checkout a chair, a ukulele, or board games. There are tool libraries and cake pans to be loaned at different county libraries.
When I arrived and asked to have my passport stamped, Christopher asked if I’d like to see something? I said yes. He took me first to the children’s room and opened the door revealing this tiny marble sink.
Then after he thoughtfully inquired could I climb stairs? (there was an elevator, too) he took me to see the dinosaurs in the Museum of Natural History. We walked through the stacks to this window and could see the display in the museum with an aerial view. So cool!
Up again to the 11th floor (this time in the elevator) to see the rooftop views
Thank you Christopher for the special tour of the Main Branch.
Stairs
Flags on Saks Fifth Avenue
The strong sunlight coming through the American flags was eye catching.
Looking up
Last Monday morning, Laura, Roy snd I were shopping for baby gifts at the Pizazz Gift shop run by the Worthington Ohio Craft Guild (an Artists and Craftsmen’s Cooperative.) it’s the place to shop for unique handcrafted gifts.
This glass rotunda is in the center of the mall and the sun was out, the sky a beautiful blue not gray.
Octagonal Houses Were A Fad
Around 1850! Who knew?
The words Hendricks House on the historical marker caught my eye as I was a passenger in the back seat. We were at the New York Sheep and Wool Festival in Rhinebeck a couple of weeks ago and staying in Red Hook where this landmark is located. It’s the town’s Public Library.
Built in 1865. Randi pulled over so I could capture these pics.
“The Hendricks House is a rare surviving example of the octagonal concrete form of house construction popularized in the mid-19th century by phrenologist and author Orson Squire Fowler, whose book A Home for All (1850, 1854) launched a nationwide fad for octagonal buildings. Between 1847 and 1856, Fowler built his own octagonal concrete house in nearby Fishkill, which may have provided inspiration for local builders in Dutchess County”
Silent Sunday
Cathedral of Learning and Heinz Chapel
