"Artists at Lunch" Series

Portside is excited to launch our "Artists at Lunch" series, a biweekly virtual artist talk being offered to the Portside community and beyond! During each of these 30 minute artist talks that occur every other Wednesday from 12:30-1pm EST, a new artist will be introduced. Artists will explain their artistic practices, share work, give demonstrations, and answer any questions that viewers might have. We hope to engage and connect with others by conducting these artist talks, and to provide each other with inspiration, because right now, art is more important than ever!
Although it is not required to view the "Artists at Lunch" series, we are encouraging viewers to consider making a donation to help support the Portside during this time, and to help us to continue "Empowering the Artists of Tomorrow."
All donations go towards Portside's children's scholarship fund. 
To tune into "Artists at Lunch," please click the link below and enter the password at the scheduled times:

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86591868414?pwd=MEFxTmlwcGNwOEpXRUxPSzNlTG42dz09

Meeting ID: 865 9186 8414
Password: 524824
Wednesday July 22nd 12:30pm - Maria Dumlao

Join us for this upcoming virtual artist talk featuring Maria Dumlao! Maria  is a visual artist working in various combined media including film, video, sound, photography, and installation. Maria was born in the Phillipines and later immigrated with her family to the USA. She attended Rutgers University in New Brunswick where she earned a BA in Studio Art & Art History, and later received her MFA in Studio Art from Hunter College and began showing her work in exhibitions throughout the world. She has had residencies at Vermont Studio Center, Wassaic Projects, Experimental Television Center in Owego, NY, and at free103point9's Wave Farm in Acra, NY. Her collaborative work with Brainstormers has appeared at Brooklyn Museum of Art and Bronx Museum of Art (a collaboration with Guerilla Girls) and received funding from The Puffin Foundation. She currently teaches at Bucks County Community College in Newtown, PA.
​Wednesday July 8th 12:30pm - Cesar Viveros

Cesar Viveros Herrera is an artist born in Veracruz, Mexico. With more than 15 years creating public art in the United States and his Native Mexico. He has been collaborating with the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program since 1997. His Public work has been inspired by the communities he has served throughout the years to whom he has become the extended voice of their particular ideology, recurring primarily on documentary work that help him to visually articulate these individual stories to be exposed to a broader audience, such the particular case of inmates at the State Correctional Institution at Graterford Prison where he lead the creation of the 2003-2004 "Healing wall" murals (documented in the film Concrete, Steel and Paint) opening the doors to many other Art programs in the Philadelphia Prison and Family court systems and the Youth study center.
Wednesday, June 24th 12:30pm - Chris Windle

This upcoming "Artists at Lunch" will feature Philadelphia based artist Chris Windle. Chris' vast body of work spanning over 50 years ranges from technical still life oil paintings to illustrations for children's books. Chris graduated from Tyler School of Art in 1982 after traveling around America in the early 70's, and started a big family soon after. Since, he has worked with kids at a Recreation Center, been represented at Gallery 51 in Philadelphia, published a children's book in Colombia, and much more! Since retirement from the Rec. Center, he has been working part time at the Portside for a year. Tune in to hear some of Chris' fascinating and colorful stories, jokes, and to learn about his extraordinary talent as he shows and talks about his art. We guarantee he will knock your socks off!
Wednesday, June 10th 12:30pm - Jeffro Kilpatrick

This upcoming "Artists at Lunch" will feature Jeffro Kilpatrick, a Philadelphia-based cartoonist and art teacher. He co-founded the Philadelphia Cartoonist Society in 1997 and is a longtime member of the Meathaus Comics Collective. In 2015, Jeffro won a SEED grant (Supporting Entrepreneurship in Education), an annual event presented by PhillyCORE Leaders for his Philly Artrepreneurs program. Jeffro also codesigned a community mural in the Fishtown neighborhood of Philadelphia with the Mural Arts Program.
Wednesday, May 27th 12:30-pm - Kim Creighton

​Our premier "Artists at Lunch" will feature the Portside's very own Founding Director Kim Creighton, an artist specializing in mosaic art, painting, and epoxy. During Kim's talk, she will be demonstrating how she likes to do different types of pour paintings, using acrylic paint, Floetrol acrylic pouring medium and a secret ingredient she uses to make special effects. Get inspired by her funky abstract paintings during this 30 minute artist talk, and stay tuned for our full list of artists and dates soon to come!