Artists Studio, Gallery and Globe Dye Works Factory Building Tour
Guests will tour artists Stacey Lee Webber and Joseph Leroux's live-in studio space composed inside 3500 square foot factory space. Guests will tour their welding shop, jewelry studio, woodshop, warehouse apartment and their recently established emerging artist gallery titled Bertrand Productions. The current exhibition, Body Double, will feature the artwork of New York based artist Katarina Riesing. After getting a full art studio and gallery tour, guests will be lead by Joseph Leroux on a comprehensive walk-through of the factory building, Globe Dye Works. Globe is a 150,000 square foot building in the Frankford neighborhood on Philadelphia's northeast side. The reinvented 150 year old thread dye factory is an amazing remnant from the industrial revolution. Guests will see beautifully reimagined factory rooms converted into incubator spaces for growing entrepreneurs, including Philadelphia own Weckerly's Ice Cream and Rival Brothers Coffee