Art in the Open (AiO) is a citywide event that celebrates artists, their inspirations for creating art, and their relationships with the urban environment. Inspired by, but re-framing, the tradition of painting en plein air, a juried selection of artists working in a variety of media will create art outside, on-site over the four-day period of June 9-12, 2011 along the banks of the tidal Schuylkill River - from the historic Fairmont Park Water Works and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, south to landmark Bartram's Garden.

Carol Philips is participating.

Making art, for me, feels like a jam session among materials, emotions, thoughts, imagination, perceptions, memories, inspirations - and more. The work evolves through opportunities offered by 'mistakes', through roads not taken - and roads retaken and not taken again - through the properties of materials and their interactions, through the demands the pieces place on me - and more. Within me and within the work, and most importantly in the dialogue between us, the wildest of rumpuses rocks on.