The Plastic Club

⭐ CALL FOR ART! ⭐

The open call for our September 2026 exhibit, TRANSITIONS, is live! 🎨✨

Artists are invited to consider submitting work about:

* Transitions from the personal to the cosmic: in the visual experience, the environment, the weather, politics, careers, society, or gender…

* Musical transitions in volume, tempo, rhythm…

* Human growth and development, animal migration, the life cycle of plants…

* Compositional transitions in color, perpective, patterns, materials…

This show invites artist to explore transition in its many forms!

Prize Juror: Kassem Amoudi

Important Dates:
* DELIVERY: 10 AM-3 PM on Friday, August 28 & Saturday, August 29
* PICK-UP: 10 AM-3 PM on Friday, September 25 & Saturday, September 26

* Opening Reception: Sunday, September 13, from 2 PM – 5 PM (NOTE: 2nd Sunday in September!)

Learn more and pre-register at:https://www.plasticclub.org/opportunities/transitions

Image: "October", oil, by Catherine Kuzma

On Saturday evening, 8/1, all are invited to the August openings! Mark your calendar for the August 2026 Opening Reception: PORTALS AND PASSAGES and WORKSHOPS, MODELS, AND MONITORS!

Starting at 4 PM, we're pleased to host PORTALS AND PASSAGES, a solo exhibition by artist member Phyllis Dyer Weldon in the Bob Jackson Gallery!

All are invited to attend the annual WORKSHOPS, MODELS, AND MONITORS show in our main galleries starting at 6:30 PM! There will be light refreshments, and the garden will be open, weather permitting - followed by performances in our 2nd floor Shiekman gallery!

Both shows are on view through the end of August. Learn more and take a sneak peek of several works online: https://www.plasticclub.org/current-exhibitions

Images (l-r):
* "Hannah", gouache and charcoal, by Andrew Hoffmann
* "Sacred Geo Merkaba", acrylic, by Phyllis Dyer Weldon

⭐ CALL FOR ART! ⭐

The open call for our August 2026 exhibit, WORKSHOPS, MODELS, AND MONITORS is happening now! 💃🏽🎨✨

Open to all Plastic Club workshop participants, models, and monitors!

Important Dates:

* DELIVERY: Friday and Saturday, July 24th and 25th, 10 AM to 3 PM, and during workshop sessions in July

* PICK-UP: Friday and Saturday, August 28th and 29th, 10 AM to 3 PM

* Opening Reception: Saturday, August 1st, 6:30 – 9:30 PM

Learn more and pre-register at: https://www.plasticclub.org/events/workshops-models-monitors-2026

Image by Juliette Watts

Join us on SATURDAY, 7/18 at 7 PM, for Le Plastic Club Cinémathèque! As always, FREE and open to the public! 📽🎞🍿

We'll be watching:
* Team Manager (Bill Melendez, 1983, 12 min) - Charlie Brown’s baseball team is on a losing streak in this segment from The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show.

* The Railrodder (Gerald Potterton, Buster Keaton, and John Spotton, 1965, 25 min) - Buster Keaton travels across Canada on a railway motorcar.

* Basquiat (Julian Schnabel, 1996, 106 min) - Painter Jean-Michel Basquiat rises to fame and befriends Andy Warhol. Featuring David Bowie as Warhol. [We'll be watching Criterion's new black and white version on blu-ray.]

To stay in the know, sign up for our monthly Movie Night newsletter: https://www.plasticclub.org/movie-night

Special thanks to all who attended the Opening Reception for OUR TOWN: PHILADELPHIA, the July 2026 show, prize juried by Debra Ward.

The award winners:
* First Prize - "Looking East" by Wayne Franks
* Second Prize - "Reading Terminal Market" by Jane Wilkie
* Third Prize - "Walking Along the Schuykill RR Tracks" by Regina Barthmaier

Honorable Mentions:
* "Everyone Loves the Flower Show" by Robert Reinhardt
* "The Betsy Ross House of Ill Repute" by Mitchell Landsman
* "Clae's Paint Torch at PAFA" by Laurel Grady
* "The Spirit of '76" by Anders Hansen

See the online gallery: https://www.plasticclub.org/events/our-town-philadelphia

On view at the Club through Thursday, 7/23.

On Sunday, 7/12, all are invited to attend the Opening Reception for OUR TOWN: PHILADELPHIA in our main galleries from 2-5 PM! 🏙️🥨🎨✨

Prize Juror: Debra Ward, Bridgette Mayer Gallery

We're also pleased to host IN HARMONY: HANDMADE PAPER AND TANGIBLE MEMORIES, a solo exhibition by artist member Marlene D'Orazio Adler in the Bob Jackson Gallery!

Both shows are on view through the end of July.

Learn more and take a sneak peek of several works online: https://www.plasticclub.org/current-exhibitions

Images (l-r):
* "Window #60 - the Italian Market", photograph, by Melvin Chappell
* "A Blessing in Motion", mixed media, by Marlene Adler

🕰️ A REMINDER! 🕰️

Friday, 6/26 and Saturday, 6/27 from 10 AM to 3 PM are pick-up dates for those who entered the MEMBERS CHOICE show! If you can't make it to the Club to pick up work, please reach out to [email protected] to make alternate arrangements. 🎨✨

Drop-off will take place at the same time for the July show, OUR TOWN: PHILADELPHIA. The opening reception will be held on Sunday, 7/12, from 2-5 PM (NOTE: this is the second Sunday in July!).

Details and pre-registration: https://www.plasticclub.org/opportunities/our-town-philadelphia

Image: "Boy Bites Dog", acrylic on canvas, by Jane Wilkie

Join us on SATURDAY, 6/20 at 7 PM, for Le Plastic Club Cinémathèque! As always, FREE and open to the public! 📽🎞🍿

We'll be watching:
*Cartoon: Alice the Whaler (Walt Disney, 1925, 8 min)
*The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1943, color, 163 min)

To stay in the know, sign up for our monthly Movie Night newsletter: https://www.plasticclub.org/movie-night

⭐ CALL FOR ART! ⭐

The open call for our July 2026 exhibit, OUR TOWN: PHILADELPHIA, is happening now! 🏙️🥨🎨✨

Artists are invited to submit work about the people, places, and things that make Philadelphia feel like home — the neighborhoods, faces, traditions, corners, murals, music, sports, history, and moments that give our city its character. What do you love most about our town?

Prize Juror: Debra Ward

Important Dates:
* DELIVERY: 10 AM-3 PM on Friday, June 26 & Saturday June 27
* PICK-UP: 10 AM-3 PM on Friday, July 24 & Saturday, July 25
* Opening Reception: Sunday, July 12, from 2 PM – 5 PM (NOTE: 2nd Sunday in July!)

Learn more and pre-register at: https://www.plasticclub.org/opportunities/our-town-philadelphia

Image: "South Philadelphia to Center City", watercolor on Yupo paper, by Plastic Club member Mina Smith

Our Town: Philadelphia — The Plastic Club The people, places, and things that make Philadelphia feel like home — the neighborhoods, faces, traditions, corners, murals, music, sports, history, and moments that give our city its character. What do you love most about our town?