While still photographs capture a moment in time, time-lapse photography allows us to view its progression. In this workshop, you’ll learn the history of, and gain hands-on experience in, time-lapse photography as you shoot around Old City. You’ll also have the opportunity to visit the APS Museum exhibition, Tempus Fugit: Time Flies.

A very limited number of digital cameras and tripods will be available for use during the workshop. If you have a digital camera and a tripod, please bring them with you.

ACT 48 credit is available for PA teachers.

Saturday, May 5, 10am – 1pm
$40 – Register here
held at the APS Museum, 104 S. 5th St.

This workshop is co-sponsored by the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center.

Stay tuned for details!

His talk and the discussion that followed were warm, funny and wide-ranging. It’s probably safe to say that our audience was charmed. After the lecture, Gopnik graciously agreed to continue signing books for those who might have missed the earlier signing.

Sign up now! Winners will be selected at random and notified on Dec 13. Cold frames will be ready for pick-up between Dec 15 and 21.

Also, don’t forget that we’re celebrating the 10-year anniversary of the APS Museum with a reception and lecture by New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik. The discussion is on Dec. 14 — you don’t want to miss it. Click here for details.

Tempus Fugit – Opening in April 2012

Opening Reception on Friday, May 11, 5 – 7 P.M., at 104 South Fifth Street (between Walnut and Chestnut Sts), Philadelphia

The APS Museum has commissioned Chicago-based artist Antonia Contro to create an exhibition pairing her art with pieces from the APS collections.

In Contro’s words:

I have selected pieces from the library and museum’s extraordinary collections and placed them in conversation with my own art. They are bound in a variety of ways—situated in relationships that illuminate aesthetic similarities and contrasts. The exhibition weaves them together thematically and also presents them in ambiguous associations, inviting relative and subjective discoveries.

In this age of immediate and pervasive digital information that we most often access in isolation, I am passionate about the knowledge we attain through our senses, as well as art’s capacity to connect us to this increasingly rare experience. Everything that I make begins as a drawing, modest in scale and materials, typically contained in a bound book. These books become my laboratories. Images and ideas within them provoke deeper investigation—through collage, animation, light, sound—which often evolve into layered and expansive installations.

My site-specific exhibitions create a space and context that place the observer physically inside the piece, activating their senses to receive and process the experience. Walking through a library along a series of unfolding collages. Stepping into a field tent to discover blue sky and a cloud shifting in an animated film. Seeing and hearing sand move through an immense hourglass. Opening a book.

Did you catch A Paper Garden when it was performed earlier this fall? If not, the review from Stage Magazine, applauding the play for informing and delighting audiences may give you a good sense of how both the performance and the entire Greenhouse Projects weaved together science, history, art, and whimsy.

Adam Gopnik has been a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine for twenty-five years. During that time, he has published several celebrated books, including Paris to the Moon, a collection of essays based on the years he spent as the magazine’s correspondent in Paris (1994-2000). Gopnik is a three-time winner of the National Magazine Award for Essays and Criticism. His reporting, fiction, reviews and humor pieces have drawn a dedicated following of readers. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to join in on a talk with one of the country’s best-known essayists.

A few things to whet your appetite for the Dec. 14 talk:

You can visit Gopnik here at The New Yorker

Read an interview with Gopnik, and The New Yorker’s
“house writing style”

Hear Gopnik’s recent interview on NPR’s Talk of the Nation.

And last but not least, here’s Gopnik’s contribution to our podcast series Vive la France: French Cuisine and the Evolution of Modern Cooking (With Recipes)

You might be surprised to find the content relevant to the way that we eat and feast today. Hear historian Susan Pinkard discuss how Enlightenment ideals inspired French culinary culture to break tradition and focus instead on authenticity, the importance of ingredients, and simple preparations (our current “slow food” advocates would certainly agree!). Or tune in to listen to Robling talk with Maggie Lidz and Adam Hill about the history and present-day methods of growing plants inside a greenhouse.

There are even recipes included with each podcast. The one for apples, endives, and grapes slowly cooked in salted butter might make a tasty addition to your holiday table. Tune in!

In these last days of fall, a short walk around Philadelphia’s historic center (Old City) could be just the thing to chase away your autumn blues. Stop by any time! Just click [LINK] to access the tour. Like other Greenhouse programs, the geocaching tour is totally free!

For more info check out the Ghost Gardens and Lost Landscapes page!

If you haven’t had a chance to visit yet, the video provides a wonderful walk-through of the Greenhouse. You’ll notice the colorful cold frames, some of which bloom with tiny flowers and leafy greens, while others house Sabin’s “future fossils” (small 3-D printed sculptures). The music you hear throughout the video is Kyle Bartlett’s composition, Chaotic Menagerie, which pipes through the Greenhouse and adds a rich auditory experience to each visit. The Greenhouse will only be on view for a little while longer so please come by and enjoy a truly magical experience.