call for artists!

Submissions due July 6, 2007

The project:
You permanently install your original artwork on a wall, door, ceiling, staircase, or in a bathroom.

The Theme:
Your vision of a more just world.

Please send submissions including your name, contact info, description of your proposal, media, and a photo, sketch, or digital image of your proposal or of your previous work to either
Harmony: hamonrye88@hotmail.com
or Zoe: zoeart@gmail.com
or mail to: Harmony Thompson, 4823 Kingsessing Ave, Philadelphia, PA, 19143


The LAVA Installation Project will be participating in POST 2007:
Philadelphia Open Studio Tours, October 27 & 28, Noon-6pm.

current images of installations

Images of completed installations from the first round of artists, in no particular order...


bilwa's bathroom installation:



zoe cohen navel impressions installation on the 2nd floor stairs:





HAAK collective installation in the solarium ( detail):




Sarah Phillips, " Vermicompost"- solar-powered installation in the solarium:








Mary Tasillo's work in progess:



Jodi Netzer and Street Art Workers- wheat-pasted posters:






eian's poster mural:










michael schwartz's mural (details):














harmony thompson and beth uzwiak- tile and collage mural:

images from the first opening

We presented the first round of artists' installations in LAVA with an opening reception
on Saturday November 4, 2006.

We received some press:

The Philadelphia City Paper
Philadelphia Weekly

see also this other blog entry for more photos.





images of zoe cohen's " show someone how you feel about something" drawing project: