Press Release | 01/18/19

Philadelphia Inquirer, Philly.com, and Philadelphia Style magazine Join as Sponsors. Powerful Media Network to Bolster Attendance.

Philly’s Leading Magazine, Website and Newspaper Join Forces to Endorse City’s First Contemporary Fair.

Three leading and widely read media brands, Philadelphia Style magazine, Philly.com and the Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper, are teaming up to invite their readers and subscribers. This powerful network of local media support will help bolster attendance of art enthusiasts from throughout the region.

Exhibiting Galleries Invited to Elite and Exclusive Collector Tour

Several of the city’s most renowned and elite collectors are opening their estates to our fair exhibitors for a private breath-taking tour. Exhibitors will witness world-class collections of museum-level contemporary art that ranks among the most impressive found anywhere.

A Growing Collectors Circle Embrace the Fair

A cross section of the region’s elite art collectors and patrons are supporting and promoting the fair. They include, Barbara Eberlain, Lisa Frigand, Mark Ham, Brigette Mayer, Debbie Morton, Babette Snyder, Lee Stoetzel, Mari Shaw, Paige West, Boo and Morris Stroud, John Wind, Jerry (Yoram) Wind.

Plus renowned collectors Mari and Peter Shaw will present Cecily Sherman with the 2019 Art Collector of the Year Award. The late sculptor Dina Wind, will receive the Philadelphia Outstanding Arts Award.

Over 5,000 art enthusiasts, collectors, patrons, philanthropists, curators, and interior designers are expected to carefully peruse the galleries over the weekend.

Teaming up with the City

Our silent auction event, SculptCare, raises funds for the restoration and conservation of the City of Philadelphia massive public sculpture collection, over 1,100 pieces, the nation’s largest. Additionally, PFAF is celebrating and saluting the Philadelphia Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy, including the memorable 60th anniversary of the Percent for Art Program, of which 1% of development dollars is allocated to public art. You will discover why Philadelphia is known as “The Museum Without Walls”.