Past Events

SPRING 2013

Open Door: William Way LGBT Community Center
Thursday, June 13, 6:00pm, FREE
1315 Spruce Street, Philadelphia

Limited space is available, Advance registration is necessary  

Open Door is a program of The Print Center to engage audiences through unique behind-the-scenes tours at Philadelphia’s most intriguing cultural sites.

Join us for a special guided tour of Pennsylvania’s largest collection of historical materials focused on the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. Come explore the hidden treasures of the John J. Wilcox Jr. Archives at the William Way Center with archivist and local historian Bob Skiba. Photos and t-shirts, buttons and matchbooks, pulp novels, early homophile journals and much more! 

The William Way LGBT Community Center is Philadelphia’s primary resource for social, educational and cultural programming for the LGBT community and offers a 10,000 volume lending library, art gallery, social and support programming, senior programs, life enrichment courses, peer counseling, job readiness programs, young adult groups and meeting spaces.

Space is limited. Please RSVP here or by contacting Eli VandenBerg at evandenberg@printcenter.org or 215-735-6090 x1

Dinner Date: The Print Center Celebrates Lydia Panas
June 20, 2013

Tour / 6 pm
Private champagne tour of After Sargent with Lydia Panas

Dinner / 7 pm
An elegant dinner at the dramatic Center City home of Joan Wadleigh Curran, co-hosted by Anna & Menno Tas. Catering provided by Garces Catering.

Guests who join us at the Benefactor level or above will receive Ashley, 2012, created especially for this event by Lydia Panas from her After Sargent series.

Click HERE to purchase tickets.

Please respond by June 10.

For more information contact:
Ashley Peel Pinkham
215.735.6090 x2
apeelpinkham@printcenter.org

Lydia Panas is an award winning photographer whose work is regularly exhibited internationally. Panas’ work has been published widely in periodicals such as The New York Times Magazine, Photo District News, Popular Photography, German GEO, San Francisco Chronicle and the Wall Street Journal blog. Panas received her MFA in photography from New York University / International Center of Photography, NY and her BFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts, NY. She is also the recipient of a Whitney Museum Independent Study Fellowship in 2011. Her work is held in numerous private and public collection museums including the Brooklyn Museum, Center for Photography Woodstock, Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston.

Panas’ first monograph The Mark of Abel, published by Kehrer Verlag, received a Best Books Nomination from Photo Eye Magazine in 2011, and was named in the Photo District News’ PHOTO ANNUAL Books of 2012, as well as a Top Ten Coffee Table Book of 2012 by the Daily Beast.

The series After Sargent was inspired by a trip to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston to see John Singer Sargent’s Four Daughters of Edward Darley Boit. “The painting itself is amazing, and I lingered in the Sargent galleries and studied the single portraits as well,” she states in a recent interview with Lenscratch. “I was most affected by Sargent’s attention to the spirit of his models and his own response to them. I find his most successful works to be the ones that feel like photographs. My photographs from this series don’t look like Sargent’s paintings, but they are inspired by the acuity of his psychological connection to his models”.

Visionary: $1,000 for four individuals
• Private champagne tour of the exhibition with Lydia Panas
• Elegant dinner and conversation with the artist at the home of Joan Wadleigh Curran
• Photograph by Lydia Panas

Benefactor: $450 per person; $650 per couple
• Private champagne tour of the exhibition with Lydia Panas
• Elegant dinner and conversation with the artist at the home of Joan Wadleigh Curran
• Photograph by Lydia Panas

Patron: $250 per person; $450 per couple
• Private champagne tour of the exhibition with Lydia Panas
• Elegant dinner and conversation with the artist at the home of Joan Wadleigh Curran

Supporter: $100 per person
• Private champagne tour of the exhibition with Lydia Panas