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The Cherry Street Pier creative community is excited to share that 2025 cohort member Caroline Stoughton will present her first solo exhibition in Brooklyn, New York, this month.

Get to know the artists a little more through Studio Sessions. Studio Sessions is a multi-part social media video series featuring vignettes of each member of the 2025 Cherry Street Pier artist cohort at work in their studios

Athena Astraea joins Art Outside host Conrad Benner to talk about her journey from the 9-5 office life to portrait painting in a shipping container. Athena Astraea is featured in the Cherry Street Pier Artist-in-Residence program, where the visitors can see and communicate with artists in publicly accessible studios.

Painter Athena Scott’s winding path as an artist has brought her through many of Philly’s famous arts schools and institutions – Temple’s Tyler School of Art, the University of the Arts, PAFA, and more. We meet her in September of 2024 at her studio in Cherry Street Pier where she tells us the ups and downs of an artist’s life, the fate of Philly’s art world, and how she got hand-picked by Abbott Elementary’s Quinta Brunson to make a mural.

Irv’s Ice Cream, the Pier’s ice cream trolley, will be offering delicious pies that can be pre-ordered in time for Thanksgiving.

We’re excited to share that resident artist Caroline Stoughton will host a solo exhibition at Side Street Gallery in November.

On Tuesday, September 10, 2024, a presidential debate watch party was held at Cherry Street Pier. Vice President Kamala Harris stopped by post-debate to address nearly 1,100 people from all walks of life and political backgrounds who gathered to watch the debate alongside Gov. Josh Shapiro and Lt. Gov. Austin Davis.

Studio artist Caroline Stoughton shares about how her childhood inspires her vibrant, floral paintings. Her excellent interview starts off the episode.