PHILADELPHIA, June 14, 2013 -- Bridgette Mayer Gallery announced today’s launch of PhillyArtExperience.com, a hub website highlighting exclusive art events happening in Philadelphia. Concurrently with the Philly Art Experience website launch, Bridgette Mayer Gallery is staging a month-long group exhibition featuring more than 200 artists – roughly half of them from Philadelphia -- creating 400 paintings, photographs, collages, and sculptures. The exhibition benefits BalletX, Philadelphia’s premier contemporary ballet company and will run July 9th through August 9th, 2013. Each artist is working with one or two ten inch square panels generously donated by Ampersand Art Supply. Philadelphia, national, and international artists from every point in their career—from recent MFA graduates to established artists held in prominent museum collections – will exhibit side by side in the gallery. Each work will be sold for either $500 or $1,000, with proceeds benefitting BalletX. For a list of exhibiting artists, please visit www.bridgettemayergallery.com/exhibitions/benefit-exhibition-for-balletx. A component of PhillyArtExperience.com will present each of the 400 works as an e-commerce platform.
To commemorate both the website launch and the exhibition, three days of events, from Thursday, July 11th through Saturday, July 13th, will include, educational programming, collecting advice, and local specials at restaurants and hotels. The events will be held at Bridgette Mayer Gallery, and will include a private walkthrough of the exhibition on Thursday, July 11th, a Meet and Greet with the artists on Friday, July 12th prior to the public opening, and a panel discussion on collecting art Saturday, July 13th.
The exhibition and related events are graciously sponsored by the With Art Philadelphia campaign™, at www.visitphilly.com/withart and uwishunu.com – both properties of the Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation. The With Art Philadelphia™ collaborative is a first-of-its-kind partnership to position Philadelphia among the world’s great art destinations and to increase visitation to the region from around the world.
“The incredible support of our sponsors will help PhillyArtExperience.com draw visitors to Philadelphia and realize the gallery’s vision to promote local artists’ careers as well as foster attendance to dining, hospitality, and cultural institutions,” said Bridgette Mayer, founder and president of Bridgette Mayer Gallery.