Chester Springs Studio was founded in 1978 to bring important contemporary visual art to the community and maintain the presence of artists in an historic village that had once been the site of The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts' Country School. Programs include support for emerging and recognized artists through teaching, exhibition, or residency opportunities and an educational program which encourages persons of all ages to enjoy art and the artistic process. "Reenactment/Rapprochement" will commission eight visual artists—Eleanor Antin, Mike Bidlo, Thomas Dan, Tom Marioni, Stuart Netsky, Alan Scarritt, Suzanne Wheeling, and William Williams—to install new or re-created work at Chester Springs. The objective of the project is to bring artists together who use similar artistic strategies—they each engage in a process which begins with creative imaging to survey the past. They build their work within an historic timeline which allows them to manipulate, sample, archive, and uncover their artwork as any other form of information. Exhibition components include three newsletters, a website, artists' joint residencies, an exhibition, and an opening performance event of Antin's Help I'm in Seattle. Exhibition Dates: June 6th through June 30th, 1999 For more information: e-mail chesstudio@aol.com