PHILADELPHIA (July 7, 2008) – Part two of “Jann Haworth (Pop Innovator),” the newest Vlog entry chronicling the staging of “Beyond the Surface: Women and Pop Art 1958-1968,”a first-of-its-kind exhibition to be staged at the Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery at The University of the Arts in January 2010, has been posted to womenandpopart.blogspot.com and womenandpopart.blip.tv.

In the second of a two-part interview, Jann Haworth, one of at least five living artists whose work will be included in “Beyond the Surface,” tells of her experience of attending the Slade School of Art in the 1960s that led to her establishing a style and career at the height of the burgeoning Pop Art scene in London. She colorfully outlines her participation in co-creating one of the most iconic images of the era – the Grammy Award-winning album art for the Beatles’ 1967 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band release. She discusses her work and working methods and concludes with her thoughts on motherhood, feminism and the future of art.

Scheduled for September, episode five features an interview with Kalliopi Minioudaki, an art history graduate degree candidate at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts, exhibition collaborator and catalog contributor.

Previous Vlog installments have included interviews with “Beyond the Surface” curator Sid Sachs; Dr. Sarah Wilson, art historian at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London; and artist, novelist, playwright and erstwhile wrestler Rosalyn Drexler.

Including works by Chryssa, Niki de Saint Phalle, Drexler, Marisol, Dorothy Grebenak, Haworth, Kay Kurt, Lee Lozano, Marjorie Strider, Idelle Weber and Joyce Weiland, the exhibition will examine the impact women have had on the traditionally male-dominated field of Pop Art, expand the narrowly defined Pop Art movement and reevaluate its critical reception. In uncovering important female artists, the show will enlarge the canon to reflect more accurately the women working internationally during this period.

Scheduled to travel to Tufts University in the spring of 2010, with other venues pending, the exhibition is supported by funding from the Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative (PEI), a program of the Philadelphia Center for Arts and Heritage, funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts and administered by The University of the Arts. The Philadelphia Cultural Management Initiative supports the Vlog.

The University of the Arts is the nation’s first and only university dedicated to the visual, performing and communication arts. Its 2,300 students are enrolled in undergraduate and graduate programs on its campus in the heart of Philadelphia’s Avenue of the Arts. The institution’s roots as a leader in educating creative individuals date back to 1868.

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