Carley Simone is a social entrepreneur and local artisan, fueling her life’s works in the intersections of social justice, creativity and spirituality. She thoughtfully creates from a space of authenticity and wellbeing leading to brillant works as a Sand Muralist and Sound Guide. What she feels called to, she admires taking on the responsibility to study and grow with the work. As dharma would have it she works with the One Art Community Center in Philadelphia to highlight their community resources, one being a grief support group she started in-part of her end-of-life practice Earthside Services. Her time is equally spent supporting the cultural and creative endeavors of other organizations in the like. This life as she quotes, ” is full and vibrant providing endless sacred opportunities To Be, To Do and To Have.” 

Where I Learned to Look: Art from the Yard  celebrates the foundational role of yards in shaping contemporary art in America. Building upon existing scholarship on Yard Art, artwork created to exist in the transitional space between the home and wider world, artist and art historian Josh T. Franco examines the lineage of this robust American art form which has historically existed outside of museum and gallery spaces. Featuring over 30 works, the exhibition spotlights both community and academically taught artists over the past five decades including David Driskell, vanessa german, Donald Judd, Noah Purifoy, and Finnegan Shannon, revealing connections across communities in creative world-building with what is available. This exhibition is part of ICA’s Sachs Guest Curator Program, which since 2007 has funded artists and interdisciplinary creatives to curate ambitious contemporary art presentations and actualize projects that leverage the space of resources of ICA to examine emerging and underrecognized creative practices.

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