First Friday Opening for A Plank in a Shipwreck: The Windgate Arts Residency Program in Wood 2025
August 1 @ 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Free
First Friday Opening for A Plank in a Shipwreck: The Windgate Arts Residency Program in Wood 2025 | Fri, August 1, 2025 | 5:30 – 8:00 pm | In-person Event
Walk-in’s Welcome
The Museum’s annual summer exhibition represents the culmination of the Windgate Wood Arts Residency Program (WARP-Wood), a two-month arts residency program. In this exhibition, the international group of artists presents work created during the residency, which emphasizes research, exploration, and the opportunity to work in a collaborative environment. Now in its twenty-eighth year, this renowned residency offers artists specializing in the material of wood the opportunity to test their vision and skill, while developing connections with colleagues, collectors, and the city of Philadelphia.
This year’s fellows, listed below, will bring immersive and installation sculpture, furniture and woodworking, sculpture, and research to the Museum’s exhibition space.
Artist Fellows:
2025 Windgate Resident Fellows
Artists
Klara Knutsson | Stockholm, Sweden
Allen Laing | Pretoria, South Africa
Nifemi Ogunro | Brooklyn, New York, US
Edgar Orlaineta | Mexico City, Mexico
Artist and Documentation
Asem Kamal | Giza, Cairo, Egypt
Student Artist
Arden Carlson | Fayetteville, Arkansas, US
Scholar
Holly Gore, PhD | Malvern, Pennsylvania, US
Meet the 2025 WARP Wood Fellows! Join us for the WARP Wood Open Studio Day, in memory of Lee Bender, on July 12, 2025, at NextFab North. To RSVP, click HERE.
Opening reception with the Windgate Resident Fellows | Aug 1, 5:30-8 PM | Gallery talk, 6-7 PM
This year’s Windgate Arts Residency Program in Wood and Exhibition is generously supported by the Cambium Circle Members of the Museum for Art in Wood, donors to the Windgate Arts Residency Program in Wood appeal, the Phil F. Brown Fund, Bresler Foundation, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Philadelphia Cultural Fund, the Klorfine Foundation, and Windgate Foundation. The Museum received in-kind support from Boomerang, Inc. Special thanks to the WARP Wood committee, the organizing committee of the Echo Lake Collaborative Conference, the Organic Recycling Center in the Philadelphia Parks & Recreation, and Debbra Soffer in memory of Michael Soffer.
Questions? Please contact Katie Sorenson, Director of Outreach and Communications, at [email protected].