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915 Arts is a 5-story building that was once filled with artists, musicians, designers and arts-related businesses. It closed in September 2015.

In 1909 the Reading Railroad completed construction of the 915 Spring Garden Street train station. During this prosperous era of heavy industrial construction, trains were the primary means of long distant travel, making 915 Spring Garden Street a focal point of commerce for Philadelphia. The 915 Spring Garden stop included a gigantic turn table for trains to switch tracks, it was at the epicenter

of modern transportation here in Philadelphia. In 1981, the 915 Studio Building, as the public had come to know it, was inaugurated with a group of painters, potters, and graphic designers making up the role as tenants. The entire 5 floors and 75,000 square feet of well-lit space provided studios for over 100 artists of brilliant and varied disciplines, from potters, furniture makers and jewelers to painters, photographers and sculptors. Within this extraordinary roster of nationally and internationally known artists, is a visual slice of Philadelphia which may only be seen within these studios. 915 artists have gathered up achievement awards from such organizations as the Leeway Foundation, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Pew Fellowship on the Arts, as well as the National Endowment for the Arts. In September 2015, the city of Philadelphia’s Department of Licenses & Inspections closed the building due to numerous safety violations. This once-bustling building now stands empty awaiting its next purposeful use as the neighborhood transforms the abandoned railway into a highly anticipated Rail Park. All of the artists have relocated to new studios. You can find many of them on Facebook.

09/16/2019

04/23/2019

Buy your tickets now for the 2019 CFEVA Art Party !
Thursday, May 2nd at 6PM

(A few artists from 915 will be selling their work at Cherry Street Pier for the CFEVA Annual Benefit.)

https://www.facebook.com/events/2103157516406018/

10/02/2015

Sadly this is the first Philadelphia Open Studio Tours ever without the 915 Spring Garden Building. Some artists have relocated permanently and some temporarily. Check the POST page to find new locations. Support these artists, they need you now more than ever!

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09/30/2015

As you may know, 915 Spring Garden has been closed indefinitely and will not be open for POST. To follow up with a specific artist, please check their artist website or the POST directory.

09/11/2015

Many artists have moved out of the 915 Building but many are staying and working from other locations in hopes to return to our beloved studios. Let's hope that happens and quickly! The fate of this year's Philadelphia Open Studios Tour at the 915 building is very uncertain.

Moving trucks were triple-parked outside 915 Spring Garden St. in the rain Thursday morning as artists - some of whom had kept studios in the old Reading Railroad building for 30 years - wrapped sculptures, boxed paintings, and wrangled with file cabinets.

09/04/2015

A small, smokey fire quickly put out by firefighters using an extinguisher on Wednesday afternoon has led to the immediate closure of 915 Spring Garden St., a large old Reading Railroad building that has offered about 100 artist studios for more than three decades.

09/04/2015

From Steve Donegan: To friends and artists of 915 spring garden st
On Sept 2 a small fire caused by a refrigerator was subdued in one of the studios on the 4th floor. It was controlled with only a fire extinguisher and determined by the Philadelphia Fire Department that it's cause was a small studio refrigerator, there was no damage to adjacent studios. However an ensuing walk through by the Fire Department and L&I resulted in the buildings closure for an undetermined period. In the 30 years plus I have been involved as artist tenant and rental agent for this community we have never experienced this kind of interruption but it is my hope that all of the tenants will be able to occupy their studios again in a reasonable amount of time. Meanwhile I recommend that for information on our status that people contact me at [email protected] and I will post here and on Twitter as information becomes available. This message will be copied to our building web site

www.915studios.com

09/04/2015

After a small fire earlier this week 915 Arts had been shut down by L & I. Reach out to your artists friends and see if you can lend them a helping hand this week if they need to move some or all of their studio belongings out. Not sure if this is temporary or a long term thing. Updates to follow.

01/30/2015

Very nice article on W/N W/N , our new neighbors coffee/bar neighbors.

Local sourcing and cooperative ownership.

12/22/2014

Please, think before buying bad art at target or any other department store!!! This article is not only good for the holidays...it's good all year round.

There’s no doubt that buying prints and posters is fun (and affordable) — but there’s a lot to be said for saving up for a piece of one-of-a-kind art. If you’ve been sticking with framed prints, let these 10 reasons tempt you into your neighborhood gallery to peruse the paintings instead.

12/18/2014

Please like, share and help find Lola! She was lost in South Philly...

I am searching for Lola, my beloved missing Chihuahua. She escaped from my dog sitter's home at 10th and Snyder in Philadelphia PA on November 19th.

10/24/2014

One more day before the Opening of our studios 915 Arts at 915 Spring Garden. We hope to see you there! Click to see more photos.

10/23/2014

THIS WEEKEND! 915 Spring Garden Artists’ studios open to the public—visit your favorite artists and discover new ones! Unique shopping opportunity!

09/13/2014

08/15/2014

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08/04/2014

Very saddened by the news of the loss last week of Brendan Schrader, president of Hive 76. We were glad to have known him and to have had him as part of our community. http://www.hive76.org/hive76-mourns-the-loss-of-our-friend-and-president-brendan-schrader?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Hive76+%28Hive76+-+A+Philadelphia+Hackerspace%29&utm_content=FaceBook

On Wednesday, July 30, our friend and co-founder Brendan Schrader died of a cardiac issue. Brendan had lived with Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome his whole life with occasional visits to the ER with...

05/31/2014

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