Event

Winter Fountains Dessert Reception & Barnes Pop-Up Holiday Market

Friday, December 15 5:00 - 8:00 rain or shine
The Barnes Foundation (2025 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy, Philadelphia, PA)

Up for an evening of art, shopping, and holiday treats? The Barnes Foundation is hosting a FREE Open House: Pop-Up Holiday Market on Friday, December 15th from 5-8pm, just steps away from Jennifer Steinkamp’s glowing Winter Fountains installation on the Parkway (a centerpiece of the Parkway 100 celebration). Explore all four illuminated domes – one is right across from the Barnes Foundation – and stop inside for a Winter Fountains dessert reception with hot chocolate and cookies; a holiday gift market with funky apparel, artisanal goods, and handmade jewelry from local vendors; and free admission to the museum and the Kiefer Rodin exhibit.

Winter Fountains installation
Winter Fountains (2017) by Jennifer Steinkamp, presented by Parkway Council and commissioned by Association for Public Art. Photo © James Ewing Photography

 

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Sponsorship

Winter Fountains for the Parkway is presented by the Parkway Council and commissioned by the Association for Public Art (aPA) for Parkway 100 in Philadelphia, with major support from the William Penn Foundation. Additional support is provided by the Association for Public Art (aPA); The Logan, Philadelphia’s Hotel; and individual donors. In-kind support is provided by Visit Philadelphia, Pennoni, and The Franklin Institute. Our partners include the City of Philadelphia and Philadelphia Parks & Recreation.

Parkway 100 is also made possible through the generous leadership support of PECO, PNC Bank, and 6abc.

Jennifer Steinkamp is an American installation artist who works with video and new media to explore ideas about architectural space, motion, and perception. She is currently a professor in the department of Design Media Arts at UCLA. Jennifer Steinkamp has participated in such noted exhibitions as Time Square Arts: Midnight Moment (2016), Prospect. 2 in New Orleans (2013) and executed a range of commissions, included the projection work 6EQUJ5 on the central dome of the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Her installation art has been the subject of exhibitions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; and MassMoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts; among other venues.;and has toured with the band U2.

Related Artworks

Artwork

Winter Fountains

(2017-2018)

by Jennifer Steinkamp (b. 1958)

Benjamin Franklin Parkway (Aviator Park, Rodin Museum, Park Towne Place, and Spring Garden Triangle)

A centerpiece for the Parkway 100 celebration, Jennifer Steinkamp’s Winter Fountains illuminated the Benjamin Franklin Parkway with the artist’s dream-like digital animations.

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