Forecast 2024

A GROUP EXHIBITION BY THE 2022 FELLOWSHIP COHORT

EXHIBITION RUNS JANUARY 6 - JANUARY 21

 
 

About the exhibition:

Da Vinci Art Alliance’s exhibition Forecast excitedly introduces our 2024 Fellowship cohort from January 6-21 in Gallery 2. This year’s awarded fellows include:

Each artist comes into this space pursuing narrative explorations of their culture, identities, and sense of home, utilizing disparate techniques and communication styles. Forecast hopes to give the audience a sense of what the Fellowship exhibitions this fall will encapsulate and find the connections within each artist’s work.

ABOUT THE ArtistS:

Romana Lee-Akiyama Romana Lee-Akiyama is the founding director and curator of the Chen Lok Lee Legacy Project, which she founded in March 2021 as a homage to her late father Chen Lok Lee, a pioneering Asian immigrant artist, printmaker, and professor. While growing up with two artists as parents, Romana was discouraged from pursuing a career in the arts. She instead established herself as a leader in social work, the nonprofit, philanthropic and public sectors. She currently serves as the executive director of the Mayor's Office of Public Engagement with the City of Philadelphia. At this juncture in her career, she is leaning into her emerging skills in curation, and plans to expand her portfolio to include additional underrepresented Asian/Asian American artists. Since launching the Chen Lok Lee Legacy Project, Romana has curated two exhibits in Philadelphia, and each has included community sessions focusing on themes of immigration, belonging, anti-Asian hate and violence, and what it means to create “home” for marginalized populations. With support from the Sachs Program for Arts Innovation at the University of Pennsylvania in 2021 - 2023, Romana recently curated EXCLUDED/INCLUSION which just closed at Penn’s Annenberg Center on May 31, 2023. The exhibit is currently showing at Friends Select School in Center City, Philadelphia.

Lisa Hendrickson Born and raised in suburban Chicago, I began painting and drawing in high school, often inspired by old family photos with their sepia shades and vintage costumes. After college, I moved to the east coast to pursue a 30 year career in fashion design. Upon retirement, I resumed my fine art journey taking classes at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts, Wayne Art Center, and Fleisher Art Memorial studying painting with artists including Fred Danziger, Peter Van Dyke, and Patrick Lee. I am inspired by Dorothea Lang, Hung Liu, and Brian Peterson whose works visually tell the stories of people experiencing food insecurity and displacement. My work has won awards in juried shows across New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Currently I live and work in Mt. Laurel, NJ.

Ash Fritzsche Ash Fritzsche is a tradeswoman and artist living and working in West Philadelphia. An electrician by trade, Ash spends as much time as possible practicing lithography and painting. She is motivated by a love for process, science, the mystical and alternative narrative-making.

Joy Lai Joy Lai is a 1.5 generation Taiwanese-American art educator/artist who loves nature, travel, and collaborating with others through play and experimentation. She currently teaches Visual Art at the William Penn Charter School.

Sofie Rose Seymour Sofie Rose Seymour is interested in the art of teaching and learning, and how together we can use art-making as a tool for community building, historical reckoning, and imaginative future-building. They have taught at public schools in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, covering subjects including Social Studies, Language Arts, Health / Sexuality, and the Arts of Social Change. Their mediums include movement, printmaking, book-making, and pedagogy.

Felisa Adderley Felisa Adderley is an artist and educator making work in mediums including printmaking, ceramics, metal, and paper-making. She often refers to her practice as "process based”, allowing for textures and shape to reveal themselves on their own, but she also draws inspiration from nostalgia, community, and family heirlooms. She received a BFA in Printmaking from Pratt Institute and teaches 5th-8th grade Art at Girard College.