Allens Lane Art Center Blog

Doriana Diaz

Doriana Diaz is a multidimensional artist, archivist, and memory worker rooted in Philadelphia’s soulful rhythms. She has hosted a wide array of collage and bookmaking workshops around the city in…

Inga Kimberly Brown

Inga Kimberly Brown was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She received an MFA (2014-2016) from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and a BFA (2010-2014) from The Pennsylvania…

Astia Carrega

Astia Carrega is a mixed media artist. Their journey with textiles began in 2008 focusing in batik and continued into ice dying, rust dying, fabric cyanotypes, chemical and natural dying,…

Lucia Alber

Aubrey Carey

Aubrey Carey is a Philadelphia-based film and theatre actor. She has a B.F.A. in Performing Arts from Savannah College of Art and Design, where she acted in the feature film…

Andrea Rose Cardoni

Andrea Rose Cardoni is an actor and teaching artist based out of Philadelphia. She most recently was seen this summer as Jo March in a production of Little Women at…

Sarah McConnell

Sarah is a multi-media artist and teaching artist based out of West Philadelphia. She graduated from Temple University’s Tyler School of Art and Architecture with a degree in Art Therapy…

Zipora Shulz

Zipora is a figurative artist and illustrator who graduated from School of Visual Arts in NYC along with studies in painting, printmaking, and sculpture at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. She…

Josh Hitchens

Josh Hitchens as been associated with Allens Lane Art Center since 2011 and became Theater Artistic Director in 2021. At Allens Lane, he has directed Vinegar Tom, The Seagull, And…

Mariangela Saavedra

Mariangela Saavedra has been working in Theater for 27 years, in cities across the country such as Chicago, Washington DC, Wilmington North Carolina, and Philadelphia. She is the Founder and…