The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education

International Design Build Competition. 2009
Sustainably Designed Structures in an Urban Woodland

Gimme Shelter will be a showcase of six, semi-permanent, functional woodland shelters that demonstrate and promote new, unique, and inspiring approaches to sustainable design and building techniques on a small scale.

Over 80 designs were submitted by 65 teams and collaborations between artists, designers and architects from across the country and internationally, including Spain, Lisbon, Korea, and the UK.

Go to http://www.schuylkillcenter.org/gimmeshelter/

Ghosts and Shadows (September – December 2008)
Presented in partnership with the Center for Emerging Visual Artists this outdoor, site-specific art installation was the first at a new site at the Schuylkill Center. Second Site: Brolo Hill Farm located at Hagy’s Mill Road and Port Royal Avenue is a mid 19th century farmstead that includes a house and barn and remnant farm field.

Artists Jennifer Chapman, Keiko Miyamori, Kara Rennert and Marisha Simons were selected by guest curator Warren Angle and are accompanied by a original video documentary by Vincent Romaniello at
http://romanblog2.blogspot.com/2008/09/ghosts-and-shadows-documentary.html

http://www.cfeva.org/

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Art in the Environment- Green Machine
InLiquid and The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education’s Art in the Environment Program present an interactive, multi-media exhibition, Green Machine, on the grounds of The Schuylkill Center, with work by Keiko Miyamori , Katie Murken in partnership with P’unk Avenue, and Chris Vecchio .  The exhibition presents works that incorporate outdoor site-specific installations; an interactive indoor media lab featuring additional technologically-based components to each project as well as a series of documentaries on the exhibition by Vincent Romaniello. As a component of Keiko Miyamori’s work, a live broadcast performance with Toshi Makihara in Philadelphia and Chikara Miura in Japan was presented on May 6 at the at The Schuylkill Center.

http://www.vincentromaniello.com/vlog.html

http://www.inliquid.com/index.frame.html

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Art in the Environment - New Forms in Nature was a public art exhibition that included temporary site specific works by four artists that reflect environmental issues important to the Schuylkill Center. The project was created in partnership with Philadelphia Sculptors and is an example of how artists can work with non arts organizations and venues to create new works that have substance and that are visually compelling. The works were created on site and presented to the public in the summer of 2002. Two pieces remain on the grounds as a gift from the artists.

http://www.schuylkillcenter.org/