A Conversation with Peter Paone: Snowpeople and Beyond

With artist Peter Paone and Woodmere's associate curator, Amy Gillette "As a child, snowmen were not part of my life," Peter Paone writes. "I grew up in the narrow streets of South Philadelphia, with shoveled sidewalks. The thirty gouaches in this exhibition are my effort to give birth to what never was." The artist calls this series Snowpeople. He remarks, "The snowpeople are a community—they rep...