Philadelphia Art Hotel moves to its new Kenzo digs

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Philadelphia Art Hotel moves to its new Kenzo digs

POSTED: Thursday, September 24, 2009, 9:18 PM

Filed Under: Arts Visual Art

Jessica Kourkounis

Krista Peel and Zak Starer of the Philadelphia Art Hotel, a super quirky artist residency that I wrote about earlier this summer, are one step closer to creating that golf course they've been dreaming about. (To fund their operation, they're planning on doing all sorts of unconventional things, like running a store, gallery, lecture space, an actual artists-only hotel, and the said golf course ' which would be created by artists.) Since its opening, they've been working out of their West Philly home, which means that resident artists took over their living quarters while Peel and Starer slept somewhere else temporarily. Today, though, they've officially relocated to their new Kenzo headquarters, where they'll have their own floor and the resident artists will have another. Here's what the couple had to say:

We have officially moved into our new home in the East Kensington section of the city. The change of location will allow us to expand our programming as we wind down our first year and head into our second. We will have more opportunities for resident artists, a more diverse program of public events, and a hotel room geared specifically for artists visiting Philadelphia for either work and/or pleasure.

We anxiously await the golf course, PAH.

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