Check Out 2nd Thursday in Old Kensington

During our Meet the Builders Tour this Thursday, it also happens to be 2nd Thursday, one of the most happening nights in Old Kensington. It's an evening of new art exhibitions and we strongly encourage that you take in some local art while you're around.

Old Kensington 2nd Thursday Art Listings:

Live!infili! - an exhibition of new sculptures by New York artist Jason Gandy. 6 - 9 pm at Rebekah Templeton (173 W Girard Avenue)

For Live!infili!, Jason Gandy has installed a new grouping of sculptures created out of wood, leather and porcelain. Each piece conceals an aperture: a porthole in the side of a finely crafted miniature ship or a peephole through a wooden skull. The vessels are compelling, however the true beauty of this work is in the vast, reality-defying, inner-worlds.

Ground Play Nexus Members Show, 6 - 9 pm at Nexus Gallery at Crane Arts (1400 N American St)

In Ground Play, Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education invites six artists from NEXUS Foundation to respond to the history and physical space of its Brolo Hill Farm.

Everyone Wants to be Famous and New Blood, 6 - 9 pm at University of Delaware Gallery at Crane Arts (1400 N American St)

“Everyone Wants to be Famous”, in the upstairs gallery at UD@Crane, explores the disconnect and overlap that occurs between identity, media and a skewed or challenged image of self within our contemporary social framework.

Works from Haiti, Mexico and Cuba, 6 - 9 pm at Indigo Arts at Crane Arts (1400 N American St)

Exhibit includes work by: Haitian masters Montas Antoine, Gabriel Bien-Aimé, Jacques-Richard Chery, Prefete Duffaut, Gerard Fortuné, Serge Jolimeau, Dieuseul Paul, Prosper Pierre-Louis, Denis Smith and Pierre-Joseph Valcin; Mexican painters and print-makers, Enrique Flores, Felipe Morales, Fernando Olivera, Mario Romero; Cuban painter Javier Gonzalez Gallosa.

True Fiction, 6 - 9 pm at Philadelphia Photo Arts Center at Crane Arts (1400 N American St)

The photographs featured in True Fiction exist between truth and fantasy, working within the lines of the documentary and tableau genres. True Fiction illustrates the numerous and complex new perspectives in photography by exploring the perceptual gaps between artifice and the authentic experience.

Islanded - New work by Sharka Hyland, 6 - 9 pm at InLiquid at Crane Arts (1400 N American St)

Islanded is an exhibition of drawings made with wire, consisting of flat, net-like structures made from steel and silver wire. Sharka Hyland’s current body of work explores the notion of representing a three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional plane in an alternative manner, outside of the conventional framework of the Albertian perspective.