Photos: Po/Jazz Night

We heard some amazing words from the poets at our Po/Jazz Night. Warren Oree & the Arpeggio Jazz Band also gave an incredible performance.

Photos: Latin Jazz Night

Enjoy some of our photos from Latin Jazz Night with Edgardo Cintron and his band!

Chestnut Hill House Evolves into a Home for Art

Chestnut Hill House Evolves into a Home for Art 
By James Weaver

Some people have called it the “Addam’s House” because it resembles the house in the television show The Addams Family. Actually, no one knows where the name of the handsome Victorian mansion at the corner of Bells Mill Road and Germantown Avenue, Chestnut Hill, originated. Charles Knox Smith (1845-1916), a prominent Philadelphia businessman (oil brokerage and gold and silver mining in Mexico) and member of the Philadelphia Common Council (before it became City Council) acquired the house and grounds in 1901. Built sometime before 1867, it was already called “Woodmere” and the name stuck. Smith was the fourth owner. He was living in the city’s Kensington neighborhood at the time, but he was rapidly outgrowing his space. He had become interested in art and art collecting and his collection was growing.

Videos: Jazz Nights - Ellington, Coltrane, Gershwin, Armstrong

 

Warren Oree & the Arpeggio Jazz Band

Photos: Woodmere's Friday Evening Jazz Series - Ellington, Coltrane, Gershwin, Armstrong

Enjoy some of our photos from our recent Jazz Night on Friday, May 13! Warren Oree & the Arpeggio Jazz Band played an incredible show featuring the Jazz Classics: Ellington, Coltrane, Gershwin, Armstrong and more. Thank you for all your support!

Artists At Work

ARTISTS AT WORK, a Woodmere Art Museum program, is designed to be an educational experience demonstrating to young people that making art can be a vocation, a viable lifestyle and a means to make a living. Classes of elementary school students from local public and private schools will watch artists creating art work at the Woodmere Art Museum.

Artists Include:

Paul Dusold – Portrait Painter 

Shelley Thorstensen – Printmaker

Laura Pritchard – Batik Artist

Friday Night Jazz: Ellington, Coltrane, Gershwin, Armstrong featuring Warren Oree & the Arpeggio Jazz Band

Join us this Friday, May 13 from 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm for Jazz Classics: Ellington, Coltrane, Gershwin, Armstrong and more featuring Warren Oree & the Arpeggio Jazz Band. 

Woodmere Reciprocal Membership Benefits

Woodmere Art Museum is a member of the North American Reciprocal Membership program! Our Contributor level membership ($100) is good at over 400 museums in the United States and Canada! Some of the participating museums near Philadelphia include:

Pennsylvania:

The Brandywine River Museum

James A. Michener Art Museum

Susquehanna Art Museum

Abington Art Center 

Lancaster Museum of Art 

Tyler Arboretum

Institute of Contemporary Art/University of Pennsylvania 

National Museum of American Jewish History 

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts

The Philadelphia Art Alliance 

The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology 

August Wilson Center for African American Culture

Pittsburgh Center for the Arts 

Reading Public Museum 

Valley Forge National Historical Park

Our Collection: Frederic Edwin Church

Frederic Edwin Church was perhaps the best-known representative of the Hudson River School of landscape painting. Born in Hartford in 1826, he was the privileged son of Joseph Church, a jeweler and banker of that city, who interceded with Connecticut scion and collector Daniel Wadsworth to persuade the landscape painter Thomas Cole to accept his son as a pupil. From 1844 to 1846, Church studied with Cole in his Catskill, New York, studio and accompanied him on sketching sojourns in the Catskill Mountains and the Berkshires of Massachusetts. At one point, the master characterized the student as having "the finest eye for drawing in the world."