Gravers Lane Gallery Has A New Look!

8405 Germantown Ave, Historic Chestnut Hill, PA 19118

215.247.1603 graverslanegallery.com

NEW LOOK

Our doors are open

for the Fall Season

Come and see our new look!

Special thank you to David Mercuris, Ryan Kuck and Ken Goldenberg for all of your help and support during the renovations

NEW HOURS

Tuesdays-Sundays 11am-5pm

Just In

Work by Katherine Glover

Wave Form, paper and acrylic paint, 53″ x 48.5″

FALL for the ARTS

Join us during Chestnut Hill Fall for the Arts event

Sunday October 8th 2023

11am-5pm

Gravers Lane Gallery Hosting

Two National Art Exhibitions

Opening October 6, 2023

Immerse yourself in two vibrant art exhibitions, PLAN-B and Fiber Reimagined, both running from Friday, October 6 through Friday, November 12, 2023

We are pleased to announce that 25% of all sales from the

PLAN-B exhibition will go directly to

Planned Parenthood Southeastern Pennsylvania.

Tribute to Adela Akers

(ADELA AKERS 1933-2023) The Art World lost a very special person on August 9 th of this year. I lost a wonderful friend. Adela’s work never ceased to astound and inspire me. Turning 90 years young, she would call to chat and let me know about a piece that had recently sold or had been placed in a museums collection, only to immediately turn the conversation checking on how I was feeling.

How does one respond to such a sentence? Alas it was Adela and I laughed and assured her I was doing just fine.

To know that people she cared for were well was an elixir for her. She rattled off names of mutual friends, inquiring about their health and then commanding me to pass

on her love to them, which I dutifully respond that I would. At this point she says “my nurse just arrived, I’ll speak with you soon “and she always ended with I love you. That was our last conversation. That’s sums up Adela. Her love is everywhere. It is woven into every warp and weft. It can be found in the permanent collections of more than 20 national museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the de Young, the Smithsonian and Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Museum of Arts and Design. Her oral history can be found in the Smithsonian archives.

(https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-adela-akers-13680) She was a Fellow of the American Craft Council, a Pollack-Krasner Foundation recipient, two Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, 4 National Endowments for the Arts Individual Arts Grant to name but a few.

“Cloth, as it is being woven, is rolled onto a beam at the front of

the loom. The finished work can only be seen in its entirety, as it is unrolled from this beam. There is an almost mournful squeaking from my loom as the roller is turned to reveal the cloth as if it is reluctant

to give up its secrets.”

– Mary Burgess, Hand-weaver, Australia