OUR BLOGS



This page will offer brief introductions to the current blogs that are on our Wordpress blog sites.  The blog for Hidden River Arts covers information about all our arts programs, our awards, our recent book launches.  The blog for Hidden
​River Writers, which we are currently redesigning and reframing, will cover issues of writing, publishing, craft, the business of books.   We hope that you will consider following both our blogs.  That is where the news and updates of our events, our activities, our awards, our writers can be found.  It is also where we have guest blogs, interviews, and our discussions of craft, of the business of art and any other information about how to be an artist in this time and place.  
A sampling of our blog posts from Hidden River Arts blog can be found below, but our most recent blogs will be found on the blog site itself.
​Check them out! 

The Artist's Dilemma:  Refuse the Addiction of Social Media or  Fail at Self-Promotion?

The common belief these days is that, without constant presence and self-promotion on social media platforms, an artist is doomed to obscurity. It can’t be denied that the platforms themselves have encouraged this thinking. But how much success can you expect? Does a constant promotional presence on Facebook, for instance, guarantee that you and your work become more recognizable, and most important, that your posts reach those who want to engage with your artwork or your activities?  Read more. 

Tuan Phan Receives the Inaugural Panther Creek Award for Non-Fiction

Hidden River Arts, the inter-disciplinary independent arts organization located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is pleased to announce Tuan Phan of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam as the inaugural winner of The Panther Creek Award from Hidden River Arts, for his memoir, Remembering Water.  Read more.

Justine Dymond Receives the 2018 Eludia Award

Hidden River Arts, the inter-disciplinary independent arts organization located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is pleased to announce Justine Dymond of Belchertown, Massachusetts, as the 2018 winner of The Eludia Award, for her collections of stories, The Emigrant and Other Stories. Read more. 

Arts for Assets Sake

It is long known that the “art market” is filled with speculators and asset hounds who are hoovering up the “hot” artists not for aethestic purposes but as investment. The horror stories of what that has done to the art world abound. But I confess, I had to read Georgina Adam’s article, “In Debt We Trust” in The Art Newspaper several times before it began to sink in and I started to realize, with horror…..My God…..this is really happening.

Those same investors who have been turning the art world into a kind of Thunderdome are now part of an increasing trend: Art-secured lending. What does this mean? It means that the owners of art-as-asset are now borrowing against that art in yet another layer of frenzy – creating a bourgeoning market for lenders smokin’ hot to get in on the action. Read more.