Waterfront Arts Flag Exhibition
DRWC's Waterfront Arts Program debuted its first site-specific flag exhibition, “Commemorations," at Spruce Street Harbor Park in May 2024.
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Duwenavue Santé Johnson
This flag focuses on the interconnected history of the region and on the importance of textile manufacturing and creativity in the Philadelphia area.
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Mark Gibson
This flag honors the personal lens on American culture stemming from the artists' multifaceted viewpoint as a black male, a professor, and an American history buff.
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Madeleine Herisson-Leplae
This flag to honors the tree. Particularly a spruce tree in honor of the Spruce Street Harbor Park. This image pays homage to the mundane beauty of a tree at night.
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Keo Luu
This flag is inspired by the world around the artist and her love of family, friends and the community she lives in.
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Kati Gegenheimer
This flag honors the four seasons as they have existed in Philadelphia and the greater northeast - fall, winter, spring, and summer - identified through simple shapes and specific colors.
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Katharine Suchan
This flag honors the artists' friend Paige, a poet and artist whom she met during undergrad. Paige is a source of light in Suchan's life, sharing similar views.
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Jordan Buschur
This flag commemorates the women who came before the artist. And takes inspiration from a handmade quilt gifted to her by her grandmother.
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James Heimer
This flag celebrates the Wissahickon Valley. The park is significant to the artist as a place of escape.
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Gordon Stillman
This flag depicts a cyanotype of a horseshoe crab with the words “450 million more years” written to the right of the crab to draw attention to a keystone species of the Delaware River Watershed.
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Caitlin McCormack
This flag celebrates humanity’s interconnectedness with the planet’s vast variety of botanical, mycological, and rhizospheric systems.
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Brice Peterson
This flag honors two eternal figures in a queer pantheon of camp iconography (Shelley Winters and Debbie Reynolds) and symbolizes the artists' own fascination with and devotion to the gay icons of his youth.
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Austin Eddy
This flag is a commemoration of time and its fleeting nature. By using the image of a bird in flight he is aiming to capture the stillness of movement and its momentariness.
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Amy Boone-McCreesh
This flag is a tribute to city living and the significance of access to basic necessities and beauty.
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Alicia Link
This flag celebrates the blurriness of borders, Helis the beluga whale's big swim, freaks, and a fond memory of Link's mother, Małgorzata Link.
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Alex Ebstein
This flag commemorates and honors the various forms, physical or mental, of the vacation count-down calendar.
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Addison Namnoum
This flag is a commemoration of the Delaware/Lenapewihittuck.
Featured artists include Amy Boone-McCreesh, Jordan Buschur, Alex Ebstein, Austin Eddy, Kati Gegenheimer, Mark Gibson, James Heimer, Madeleine Herisson-Leplae, Duwenavue Santé Johnson, Alicia Link, Caitlin McCormack, Addison Namnoum, Brice Peterson, Gordon Stillman, Katharine Suchan, Keo Luu.