The Kensington Kinetic Sculpture Derby (KKSD) is an amazing and totally unique  design competition and parade of human powered vehicle floats.  Enjoy this spectacle as well as a lively Arts Festival!

Photo by Christopher Tromer

A Kinetic Sculpture is a human-powered vehicle that also has an artistic theme. Think of parade floats on bicycles, or mummers on hand crank driven pirate ships, or an alien space ship on welded bikes, it’s a bar and bar stools on a bike, it’s anything you can dream up. A Kinetic Sculpture Competition is all about fun and ingenuity, making the wackiest, most interesting contraption is the goal- finishing the course or winning is not.  Kinetic Sculpture Competitions have been taking place all over the world since 1969 when a California artist named Hobart Brown made some artistic improvements to his son’s tricycle.

Join us on Tuesday, May 7 (5:30 – 7:00pm) to learn more about our certificates and courses offered this summer.

Presentations at 5:45pm and 6:30pm provide the opportunity to hear a general overview about the many certificate programs and classes available – then meet faculty and current students, enjoy refreshments and get your questions answered. New students who attend the info session receive a 10% tuition discount off their first summer course.

We provide high quality courses in digital technology, art + design, photography, writing, music + movement,  and more!  If you are thinking about a career change, developing a portfolio, moving up within your company, exploring a new media, or learning an instrument, we have options to suit many types of students.

Please celebrate the accomplishment of artist and CE Instructor Greg Pizzoli at the Print Center on May 4 (3 – 6 pm) for his Book Release Party!

Story & Pictures by Greg Pizzoli

Enjoy food, drinks, games, art activities and books at this fun and family-friendly event.  THE WATERMELON SEED is his first children’s book and is published by Disney*Hyperion.  Come celebrate and meet the artist and find out more about his work:
Saturday May 4, 3 – 6 pm
The Print Center
1314 Latimer Street (btwn Spruce and Locust)

Image copyright Greg Pizzoli

Join us on Tuesday, May 7 (5:30 – 7:00pm) to learn more about our certificates and courses offered this summer.

Presentations at 5:45pm and 6:30pm provide the opportunity to hear a general overview about the many certificate programs and classes available – then meet faculty and current students, enjoy refreshments and get your questions answered. New students who attend the info session receive a 10% tuition discount off their first summer course.

We provide high quality courses in digital technology, art + design, photography, writing, music + movement,  and more!  If you are thinking about a career change, developing a portfolio, moving up within your company, exploring a new media, or learning an instrument, we have options to suit many types of students.

Living Responsively: Creating Websites that Work Across Devices

Tuesday, April 23:   5 pm – 9 pm

Embassy Suites Center City, 1776 Benjamin Franklin Parkway

The web has gone portable. With some estimates indicating that 20% of web traffic originates from mobile phones and tablets, you can no longer risk alienating the mobile population. But how do you design and build a future-proof website when the devices, screen-sizes and operating systems keep changing, seemingly every few months?

Philly Tech Week is a week-long celebration of technology and innovation in Philadelphia.

This annual collection of events is intended to grow the impact of our innovative region through programming focused on technology, collaboration and improving Philadelphia.

Here are a few featured events – be sure to check out the full schedule!

Powering Creativity, Technology and Community
Monday, April 22: 12 – 6 pm
3848 Lancaster Avenue – a wonderful afternoon of food, fun, art, dialogue, business and music!
Refreshments at 12:45 pm

1:30 pm to 2:30 pm – Discussion on Technology, Creativity and Community, featuring Gary Steuer, Alex Hillman, Aviva Kapust, Rakia Reynolds and others

Useful, Usable + Desirable: Designing for Users – lecture as part of Philly Tech Week

Tuesday, April 23: 12 pm – 1:30 pm

Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce – G. Fred DiBona Jr.
200 South Broad St, #700, Philadelphia, PA 19102

Useful, Usable + Desirable: Designing for Users, presented by Jessica Ivins, Sr. UX Specialist at AWeber

On a beautiful day in 2011, I took one of my typical strolls in the city, enjoying spring, planning to meet up with friends at the first PIFA street festival. I wasn’t sure what to expect; I assumed this would be much like other street festivals, which I love, but I was extremely impressed at the incredible style and elegance of the PIFA fest – and still loads of fun, too. The highlight were those incredible acrobats playing bells dangling above Broad Street – it was ethereal, athletic, surreal, beautiful, mesmerizing. The 2011 PIFA street fair drew thousands and great crowds are expected to this year’s event on April 27.  I can’t wait to be surprised and delighted yet again.

Art lovers of all levels and tastes can find new works for their homes or offices – and support young artists at the same time – at Art Unleashed, an exhibition and sale of artwork in all media from talented University of the Arts students, faculty and alumni. This exciting event opened last night to a ticketed preview crowd to help raise money to support the University’s Sam S. McKeel Promising Young Artists Scholarship Fund. Now you can attend for free and check out – and BUY – lots of great work still available for purchase and to further support so many talented young students.

Whether you work for a tiny non-profit arts organization, a large museum, a comprehensive design firm, small business… really any place that is building a brand and communicating a message to an audience, you probably feel like online marketing can seem a bit mysterious. It is difficult to navigate your options and know what is truly worth your time and investment to yield the greatest return.  Learn how to run email marketing, digital marketing,and SEO campaigns on a limited budget at this presentation by Aaron McLean, co-founder and COO of Eight Eleven Inc., a leading Philadelphia marketing technology agency.

Thursday, April 11 at 7:30 pm – 211 S. Broad Street, Room 511-13, Philadelphia.  Free and open to the public.  RSVP at corzocenter.ticketleap.com.

The Corzo Center for the Creative Economy at the University of the Arts links creative arts, business and innovation.  The Center was formed to keep art where it belongs — at the center of a society and an economy that requires ideas and imagination. Guided by the belief that entrepreneurship is both a form of business innovation and a form of public and social action, its programs provide artists, performers and media makers the tools they need to control their economic lives.