Waterfront Arts Flag Exhibition
The Delaware River Waterfront Corporation (DRWC) is pleased to announce the opening of its second consecutive flag exhibition, "States of Change."
The exhibition features 16 national, international, and Philadelphia-based artists who were selected from a competitive pool of applicants to create pendant flags featured at Spruce Street Harbor Park. On display May 31 through August 31.
DRWC's Waterfront Arts Program debuted its first site-specific flag exhibition, “Commemorations," at Spruce Street Harbor Park in May 2024. “Commemorations” was an outdoor exhibition that celebrated the art of remembrance through the vibrant display of artist-designed flags. Inspired by the pioneering artwork of Ree Morton and her 1975 installation “Something in the Wind,” this exhibition invites sixteen (16) selected artists to create large pennant flags that honor individuals, places, or concepts worthy of celebration.
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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.