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Since we started Bodega in July of 2010, we have hosted 14 exhibitions, 31 performances, 4 lectures, 1 residency, and published 10 titles through Bodega Press. Bodega houses an artist book viewing library that is free and open to the public, boasting over 150 volumes. This spring Bodega was included in First Among Equals, an exhibition at the Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art that considered the various modes contemporary artists have developed to work with their peers. For the exhibition, Bodega organized a group of performances and a series of texts that offered various perspectives on the social, political, and economic relationships that inform contemporary artistic practice.

In the past 2 years Bodega has worked directly with over 220 artists! 

But we need your help to continue and to improve upon the ways in which we support artists and their work. Bodega is an artist-run and artist-funded space and our projects are not commercially-driven. In order to make all of our events accessible, our doors are open to the public, free-of-charge. Our aim has always been to provide reasonable financial support for the projects that we host and in this upcoming year we hope to make this a reality.Your contribution will not only help the directors of Bodega continue to host exciting exhibitions and events, but it will go also go towards transportation costs, project development, and artists stipends. 

Thank you for your support, past and present!

Love,                                                                                              Bodega (Elyse Derosia, Ariela Kuh, Lydia Okrent, James Pettengill, and Eric Veit)

To learn more about Bodega visit http://bodegaphiladelphia.org/ or read what others have to say. Below is a selection of reviews and articles from the past two years:

Fükengrüven, by Nicolas Linnert for Artforum.com, July 5, 2012

STOP BY Philadelphia's Performance and Exhibition Space Bodega, by David Everitt Howe for Kaleidoscope, April 4, 2012

1867, 1881, 1981, by Daniel Gerwin for Title Magazine, March 9, 2012

When We Eat The Way We Do It: Jen Rosenblit's Last Supper at Bodega, by Lauren Bakst for Bomblog, February 13, 2012

Bodega and it's Baffling Bounty, by Chip Schwartz for the Knight Arts Blog, September 20, 2011

Bodega, by Rachel Reese for Bomblog, July 26, 2011

Alex DaCorte's "The Island Beautiful/Mortal Mirror", by Daniel Gerwin for Machete Zine, May 2011

Bodega Revives Old City, by Roberta Fallon for the Philadelphia Weekly, March 23, 2011

A huge THANK YOU to all artists who donated to this fundraiser:

Ppl Sft

Joel Evey

Alexandra Segreti and Kelly Rakowski / New Friends

Lauren Manoogian 

New Hands (Carson Fisk-Vittori and Michael Hunter)

Absolute Classic Masterpieces

Nicholas Gottlund

Alex DaCorte

Robin Cameron

Strauss Bourque LaFrance