Lisa Weselchuk Exhibits Indoors and Outdoors at AIRSpace Gallery

AIRSpace Gallery and 40th Street Artists-In-Residence Studios, 4007 Chestnut Street, will present two exhibitions by photographer Lori Waselchuk based on her current documentary project, Them That Do, an ongoing portrait series and multimedia project about local block captains. AIRSpace Gallery will show Block Party, an exhibition of new work by Lori Waselchuk, October 11 – November 1, 2015. In conjunction with her solo show,

Waselchuk created the public art exhibit, Windowishes, resulting from a two-month collaboration with five Philadelphia block captains and one block leader. Windowishes is a site-specific installation created for the storefront display windows on the west side of S. 40th Street, between Chestnut and Ludlow Streets in West Philadelphia. The six collaborators and Waselchuk will install a small environment in each of the bay windows inspired by their community stewardship and neighborhood histories. The block leaders and captains - Lisa Barkely, Mary Campbell, Carol Dubie, Freda Egnal, Elizabeth Waring, Renée McBride-Williams - will incorporate images collected and shot for the installations, personal and archival photographs, neighborhood objects, furniture, props and craftwork made by the participants. Windowishes is truly a community project. Many hands, young and old, from the West Philadelphia community will have contributed to the displays.

A reception in the AIRSpace Gallery will celebrate the opening of both exhibitions, Friday, October 16th from 5:30pm to 8:30pm. Waselchuk is a 2015 POST artist and her exhibitions will be on view during the Philadelphia Open Studio Tours October 17 & 18 from noon to 6:00pm.