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What a Night!   Last Saturday, we had two fundraisers for The Step Right Up Program and thanks to all of you, both were a huge success!   The first was FEAST which stands for Funding Emerging Artists through Sustainable Tactics. If you don’t know about these people, read up and get into them! What a great group of folks! People submit artistic proposals and eight are chosen to present at a community dinner. Food is donated from lots of awesome local restaurants such as Marlowe & Daughters and Diner, and beer is donated from Brooklyn Brewery. For $20, guests come and feast then vote for their favorite project. Bonnie & Mary were workin’ it! They stood in front of their science...

Saturday July 23rd I'll be once again participating in Roberta's annual block party. This year there are tons of vendors and bands. MMC will be set up with a bunch of sale items and fun beachy custom pieces. For the 2nd year in a row I'll be manning the photobooth and just wait till u see the set we're building for it... Oh and did someone say Free Pizza? Yes, Roberta's is giving away free pizza! Be there 261 Moore xx  

Last week I went to Philadelphia to see Ben Peterson's artwork in the show Urbanism at the Philadephia Academy of Fine Arts.  PAFA was the first art school and art museum in the United States.  It is on Broad Street a couple blocks from City Hall.  It was the first art show I had gone to in a while and I was pleased with it.  Ben's work is incredibly detailed and impressively scaled. Broad Street, Philadelphia - At 548 feet tall, the Philadelphia City Hall is the second tallest masonry building in the world.  It was constructed from 1871 to 1901.  It is the 16th-tallest building in Pennsylvania. The Arch Street United Methodist Church, built between 1864 and 1870.  Behind...

  It Looks Cool - Mary and me outside her studio on Bogart during the Bushwick Open Studios.  It was the fifth year.  Somebody made a blog post about it that featured a photo of us but Nami took this one.  It Looks Cool!