On View in the CFEVA Galleries

In the Felicity R. “Bebe” Benoliel Gallery

Thesentür/The Thinker: Nina Simone and the Politics of Music
Theodore A. Harris

On View November 14-December 20


Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 12-6 PM. CFEVA is closed the following dates: November 28, 29, and 30.
Join us for an Artist Reception on November 14, 5-7 PM at CFEVA.

Theodore A. Harris (1966-) is a Philadelphia-based visual artist and poet. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is in private and public collections such as Fort Garland Museum and Cultural Center, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Saint Louis University Museum of Art, La Salle University Art Museum, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, McGill University Visual Arts Collection, Center for Africana Studies; University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center Rare Books and Manuscript Library; University of Pennsylvania, and the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art, and the Winston and Carolyn Lowe Collection. Harris is the co-founder of the Anti-Graffiti Network/Philadelphia Mural Arts Program. Harris has also co-authored and authored books including Our Flesh of Flames (2019), Malcolm X as Ideology (2008) with Amiri Baraka, TRIPTYCH with Amiri Baraka and Jack Hirschman (2011), i ran from it and was still in it with Fred Moten (2007), and Thesentür: Conscientious Objector to Formalism (2017). He is the Founding Artistic Director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Black Aesthetics. He is a 2022 Visual Artist Fellow CFEVA (Center For Emerging Visual Artists).

Theodore A. Harris, After Nina Simone 1, half here/half gone (Thesentür/The Thinker: Conscientious Objector to Formalism series). 2022, triptych, digital image printed on paper.

In CFEVA’s Side Gallery

SWITCH: Small Works. Cash & Carry.
On View November 12-December 20

Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 12-6 PM. CFEVA is closed the following dates: November 28, 29, and 30.
Join us for an Artist Reception on November 14, 5-7 PM at CFEVA.


Over 50 Artists working in clay, fiber, print, paint, and more. This fun, salon-style exhibition and corresponding events will help CFEVA raise needed funds to continue its mission, building equitable artistic practices for emerging artists throughout Greater Philadelphia.

Pictured: Erika Stearly, Rock Island No. 101.

Participating Artists:
Phillip Adams, Violet Alexandre, Kathleen Beausoleil, Henry Bermudez, Andrew Chalfen, Ziui Chen, Priscilla Dahl, Sandra Davis, Kate the Earthling, Seher Erdogan, Rona Fisher, Julia Fox, Santiago Galeas, Ash Garner – THECOLORG, Sophie Glenn, Phyllis Gorsen, Yikui (Coy) Gu, Sarah Gutwirth, Marguerita Hagan, Mary Henderson, Kevin B. Huang, Darla Jackson, Andrea Keefe, Nari Kim, Rebecca Ledbetter, Diane Litten, Carol Loeffler, Chelsey Luster, Michelle Marcuse, Roberta Massuch, Kellianne McCarthy, Angela McQuillan, Nicole Michaud, Andrea Mihalik – Wild Chairy, Deidre Murphy, Cory Neale, Lauren E. Peters, Mackenzie Pikaart, Timothy Prettyman, Kaleigh Quinnan, Shelly Rabuse, Sammy Rivera, Lauren Sandler, Orlando Saverino-Loeb, Kristin Schattenfield-Rein, Rebecca Simon Miller, Erika Stearly, Marilyn Stubblebine, Emma Van Den Akker, Sophie C. White, Bradley Wind