Editor’s Award: Artistic Rebuttal

Amy Scheidegger - Philadelphia, PA

An upsetting conversation between a group of Philadelphia youth inspired Amy Scheidegger, an arts advocate, painter, and designer, to open a dialog with one goal in mind: prove them wrong. Now, as Creator and Director of the Artistic Rebuttal Project, Amy is bringing together artists and art advocates “to illustrate the importance of creative practices…Continue »

Handmade Gifts for the Impossibles

Gift Wrap © KGarnerDesigns

We all know at least one ‘impossible.’ You know the type: you dread shopping for them every year when their birthday or the holidays roll around. Perhaps you’ve run out of ideas and are fighting the urge to stick cash in a card in lieu of a unique gift. We’ve been there more often than…Continue »

Shop Locally: There’s More to Love

Love: Philadelphia

Whether you’re heading out while it’s still dark for Black Friday deals, or waiting until Cyber Monday to finish (or begin) your holiday shopping, we’d like to encourage you to shop locally. We’ve put together a very basic guide to local shopping / giving that we hope will help you down the path to…well, Main…Continue »

Getting Better All the Time

An Old Friend

After a long silence that can only be explained (or excused?) by one word: life, we have returned to IndiePA – a project we hold very near and dear to our hearts. As we approach our 11th wedding anniversary (October 20th), we also approach the anniversary of our largest failure: the death of a fine…Continue »

Help!

Sisyphus

Originally, when we started building our dream, we thought we could do it on our own. Well, life has a way of humbling folks such as ourselves and we’ve realized we can’t be everywhere at once. That realization is also full of gratitude and excitement because it means that we have to ask for help…Continue »

Editor’s Award: Gwyn Michael

Gwyn Michael - Mending Fences 2

It’s artists like Gwyn Michael that help us remember the infinite possibility of the human spirit and it’s ability to manifest itself through art. Join us in celebrating a woman with an invisible cape and a camera with a rare super power we like to call truth… We understand you’re raising funds for a new…Continue »

Excited? So Are We!

Smile. You're In Pennsylvania.

It is so exciting to see other creatives embracing and participating in our dream. Allison Ostertag’s enthusiasm for this project is infectious (it’s also instant gratification for two very impatient people.) Believe it or not, IndiePA has been a dream of ours for the past ten years, but for one reason or another it has…Continue »