Preview Reception THANK YOU!

Above: Karen Young and I excited to greet the many attendees to the Preview Reception. We were delighted to welcome artists, collectors, the Fund for the Water Works board members, family and friends to We the People!

If you wish to return or see this wonderful fine art exhibition please stop in the Fairmount Water Works Interpretive Center from Wednesday through Saturday 10am to 5pm. Admission is free to all.

The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania proclaims people ‘have the right to clean air and water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and aesthetic values of the environment.’ WE THE PEOPLE: Preserve Our Right to Clean Water, encapsulates these ideas and invites visitors to engage in thought and discussion sparked by a series of events at the Fairmount Water Works celebrating “The Rights and Ways of Water,” including two multi-media art exhibitions by twenty local artists, dance performances by The Naked Stark, and interactive displays throughout the National Historic Landmark site set below the Philadelphia Museum of Art on the Schuylkill River.



We invite visitors to register for these select Saturday Talks to join Thom Duffy, Curator and a few of the participating artists of this special fine art exhibition. The Talk sessions center on the exhibition theme and the artists share personal insights relating to the theme and their work. Sessions are lively engagements with Curator, Artists and all the visitors. Please Join Us!  

The exhibition, is curated by Thom Duffy under the direction of Karen Young, FWWIC Director, and brought to you in part by the Fund for the Water Works and the Edward F. Grusheski Water Literacy Foundation.

Robert Reinhardt engaging with visitors on Grand Opening Day during Curator/Artists Talks.

Fairmount Water Works Interpretive Center

640 Water Works Drive,Philadelphia PA, 19130

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CURATOR/ARTISTS TALKS

Saturday, May 30th

Two one hour sessions

at 11am and 1pm

UPCOMING: June 13th and 27th, July 11th and 18th & CLOSING DAY: Augusts 1st 

SELECTED ARTISTS

Keith Breitfeller , *Emily Brown, Brian David Dennis, Thom Duffy, **Benjamin Passione, Rinal Parikh , Amie Potsic , Ana Vizcarra Rankin, Robert Reinhardt and Michael Williamson.

COURTESY OF GALLERIES

*Avery Galleries and **Gross McCleaf Gallery

RUN OF SHOW

Saturday, May 16th through Saturday, August 1st

VISITOR HOURS & ADMISSION

Wednesday through Saturday 10am to 5pm

Admission is FREE to all visitors

Robert Reinhardt

With A Little Help From My Friends #1

Mono-print collage, 12”x12”

Emily Brown

Detail: Blue Ripples, Sumi ink on paper, 23” x 30”

Amie Potsic

INSTALLATION - Rising Tides, 2026

Archival Pigment Print on Silk, 180 Linear feet

Amie Potsic

Rising Tides

Rising Tides – An Immersive Installation

Rising Tides is designed with 180 linear feet of silk imprinted with photographic imagery I created on location on the Mendocino Coast in Northern California. I have annually traversed the iconic Route 1 along the California Coast for seven years on self-directed artist residencies, where I have created images and impressions of the rare and unique Pacific Coastal Redwood ecosystem. I have borne witness to the rugged and powerful Pacific Ocean with its remote bluff trails, redwood forests, and jagged cliffs as I chased the tides, sun, and moon. Rising Tides transforms images I created of the sea to highlight shared rights and desires to have clean water coast to coast. Our oceans, rivers, and streams are integral to our communities, our health, and our connection to the environment. We, the people, have the gift of being nurtured by our seas as we are called to protect and steward their future.



My work invites the sensory experience of being on the Northern California coast while encouraging us to appreciate and preserve the future of our treasured oceans. Incarnate environmental explorations, my photographs and installations invite you to connect with your own perception of nature in a manner that is both intimate and enchanting. Personal experience underscoring the urgency of climate change, I focus on the power and dynamism of the coastal landscape to conjure emotional connections to our ocean environment. I draw attention to ocean endangerment through visceral and cerebral connections to the magnificent life force of the aquatic world.

Amie Potsic

Rising Tides Installation at the

Fairmount Water Works Interpretive Center, 2026

Archival Pigment Print on Silk, 180 Linear feet

Amie Potsic

Spring Ranch Wildflowers - Mendocino Coast, California, 2026

Archival Pigment Print, 14” x 22”

Brian David Dennis

Format 60 Mo.4095, Mixed media, 60” x 20”

Michael Williamson

Untitled Diptych, Acrylic and mixed media, 12” x 24”

Rinal Parikh

Heron, 2015, Mixed media on handmade paper, 36” x 28”

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