Wednesday, October 29, 2025
5:30pm VIP reception • 6:30-9:00 Main Event
1610 S. 8th St. • Philadelphia, PA 19148
Tickets required
Enjoy an exciting evening of art, chef-curated treats, bartender tricks and Halloween revelry (costumes encouraged!) Come explore Caitlin McCormack’s garden of crocheted oddities and enjoy sumptuous vegan offerings from Miss Rachel's Pantry all while supporting the Dina Wind Art Foundation’s mission.
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About the Artist:
Caitlin McCormack is a Philadelphia-based fiber artist and educator who utilizes textiles to explore queerness, isolation, loss, and existential dread through an uncanny, occasionally humorous lens. Their sculptures contemplate societal reluctance to view gendered craft as art and regard crochet as a behavioral response to apocalyptic conditions. Drawing inspiration from folklore, medieval botanical imagery, institutional osteological displays, science fiction and cinematic body horror, each object is an artifact of a memory, tethered to a surface and made viewable from a distance.
McCormack has contributed works to solo and group exhibitions at Elijah Wheat Showroom, Hashimoto Contemporary, The Mütter Museum, Museum Rijswijk, The Mesa Contemporary Art Museum, The Taubman Museum of Art, The Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Feinkünst Krüger, Field Projects, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Future Fair, and a site-specific installation with BravinLee Programs in NYC. Their sculptures have appeared in publications including The New York Times, Hyperallergic, Juxtapoz, Whitehot Magazine, Smithsonian, and Bust Magazine. In addition to holding teaching positions at The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Hussian College of Art and Design, McCormack has participated in artist residencies at Vermont Studio Center (VT), The Peter Bullough Foundation (VA), The Wassaic Project (NY), Kimmel Harding Nelson (NE), Byrdcliffe Artist Colony (NY), Monson Arts (ME), ChaNorth (NY), and The C-Scape Dune Shack Residency in Provincetown, MA. McCormack was the recipient of a Joseph Robert Foundation grant in 2021 and received the Woodmere Art Museum’s Maurice Freed Memorial Prize in 2023.
