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| "In the 20 years that I've been working as an independent knitwear designer, I can point to the growth of the Internet as the major influence on my business: it has taken me from being a "cave" (or isolated) knitter to a "circle" (part of a group) knitter. I'm able to be in immediate touch with yarn companies, editors, other designers, and my customers who are now all through the United States and abroad. My work at the Associated Services for the Blind, where I teach knitting to the blind and visually impaired, influences my business: I've learned from my students that there is always a different way to approach a problem, that the obvious solution isn't always the best one, that you keep trying. The Internet has helped here also, as I've been able to do on-line fundraising for the constantly needed supplies for the class," says Erika Flory, owner www.kidknits.biz. To contact Erika about donating supplies for the ASB class, e-mail kidknits@flory.com. |
| “You can get into the Walnut Streeet Theatre for the price of going to a movie. We have seats in the rear mezzanine on sale every day, which will provide access to people who don't have a lot of money. There is a social interaction that occurs at the theater that goes back to the very birthplace of mankind. We have always been social animals. If you sit in front of a computer for 8 or 10 hours a day and have no human contact you are depriving yourself," says Bernard Havard, producing artistic director of the oldest theater in America and the most-subscribed one in the world. "We need, as social animals, to be able to relate to one another. We relate to the stories on stage. We are a storytelling people. We tell stories to one another all the time. But the theater provides us with a context for doing that.” |
| Joan Myers Brown, artistic director of the Philadelphia Dance Company (PHILADANCO!), thinks that dance offers benefits in daily life. “It teaches discipline, ‘stick-to-it-iveness' and perseverance—all those things come from dance training," she says. “I have people tell me all the time, 'If I hadn’t danced and hadn't studied and hadn’t been at PHILADANCO!, I probably wouldn’t be what I am today.' Even though she’s not a dancer, one of my biggest advocates is Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown. She says that dance really taught her perseverance ... self- confidence, teamwork—there’s so much that happens from being involved with dance.” |
| “I like to think Indigo Arts provides an informed and refined view of other cultures and arts, based on 22 years of experience in the business and many years more of living abroad. It is one of Philadelphia's main links to world- class international folk and contemporary art. I try to spread the knowledge that there is a vital art movement in Third World countries beyond the tribal and primitive it is normally credited with,” said gallery owner Tony Fisher, who grew up in Africa. |
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| community. My goal is to give each of them enough support and space so that they can do what they do best ... be geniuses in their studios. I truly believe that I am exhibiting some of the best contemporary painters working in the region today, and they are forging a path in the history of art and in this area." (Photo by Bill Cardoni) |
| Bridgette Mayer, owner of the Bridgette Mayer Gallery, attributes her successful 8-year-old gallery to "many things, but the main essence is a love of the artists and the artworks that I show," she said. "I think of myself as one of the 'old-school' gallery dealers that were all over New York in the 1960s to 1980s. I have a love of the artists that I represent and show as well as the works they are creating in the studio. There is care in the relationship and a process from studio to gallery, which grows out of mutual respect and partnership and then extends to the clients and |
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