Artist Talk

Tea and Gallery Talk with Lisa Alvarado

September 26, 2025
11:00 am to 1:00 pm

Artist Lisa Alvarado is standing in a studio with shelves of art and fabric materials in the background. She is holding a spool of colorful fabric wrapped around a cone.
Lisa Alvarado working in the FWM Studio. Photo credit: Carlos Avendaño.

Spend the morning with Artist in Residence Lisa Alvarado, an acclaimed American visual artist and musician celebrated for her free-hanging abstract paintings. During a guided walkthrough of her solo exhibition, Talismans for a Theater of Resilience, Lisa will share insights into her creative process and the themes that shape her work. After the tour, continue the conversation with Lisa in the studio over tea and light refreshments.

Organized in conjunction with the exhibition, Talismans for a Theater of Resilience.

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Event Information

September 26, 2025
11:00 am to 1:00 pm

The Fabric Workshop and Museum
1214 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107

Free (suggested donation of $5) | RSVP required

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About the Participants

A photo of the artist Lisa Alvarado, a woman with long dark hair and glasses. She leans against a wall outdoors while wearing a sun hat and a long scarf.Lisa Alvarado is a visual artist and musician that bridges vibrational forms and reimagines collective space. She works with painting, wall murals, light, sand, sound and musical performance, creating works that engage with abstraction as an ancient and global tradition that precedes European modernism. Her pulsating works draw on her Mexican American perspective as well as her interests in vibration and the cyclic rhythms within music, nature, and the body. Alvarado plays harmonium in the band Natural Information Society and uses her free-hanging paintings as mobile stage sets in their performances.

Learn more at lisaalvarado.biz and naturalinformationsociety.com.