Kev Filmore is honored to have four of her images from 21 Magnolia Rd. included in this book published in 2024.

Memory Orchards presents a broad survey of family experience, through highs and lows, lust and loss, creating a survey of work which reflects our understanding of ‘family’ in this moment. The work is derived from long term documentary projects to archive-based explorations, noting mundane interactions, moments of intimacy, family snapshots, and artful portraits. Some artists write of their desire to remember and document their own peculiar and beautiful realities. Others share their experience in hopes of adding to larger conversations about representation or identity. Taken as a whole, this engaging collection of work is complex and personal but deeply relatable.

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Kev Filmore began her lifelong love of exploring processes that mix media while earning a BFA from University of the Arts in 1976 for illustration. She was featured in the New York Times, PDNEDU and PDN’s 2010 Annual for her work and teaching. Her Dreamers series received a 2005 Golden Light Award and her Abandoned series earned second place Portfolio from PIEA in 2009. Ms. Filmore was a Nationally Honored Educator in 2016, and was awarded a Vivian Pomex Sabbatical for 2017-2018.

Limited edition handmade book, 21 Magnolia Rd. is included in the 9th Annual Self-Published Photobook Exhibition at Davis Orton Gallery and Griffin Museum, April 11 – June 2, 2019

Kev Filmore's solo exhibit of 21 Magnolia Rd. was at Davis Orton Gallery in April 2018. This installation of artifacts and mixed media work showcased her story of growing up in an unstable environment in the1960s.

Images from her current series, 21 Magnolia Rd. have been selected by jurors Marvin Heiferman, Cig Harvey, Hamidah Glasgow, Gordon Stettinius, Ashby Nickerson, J.Sybylla Smith, Paula Tognarelli and Brian Paul Clamp to be included in exhibitions at Center Forward, Garrison Art Center, Tilt Gallery, The Griffin Museum, Candela Gallery, Soho Gallery, PhotoPlace Gallery and on The Curated Fridge 2018 and 2019. The project was featured in October 2017 issue #18 of The HAND Magazine and is in the PhotoPlace Online Gallery for Myths, Legends, and Dreams, juror Amy Holmes-George. PHOTO-EMPHASIS included "Gallagher Family Swim" from the series in their exhibition, FAMILIAR/FAMILIAL, juried by Rachel Jump.

Juror, Paula Tognarelli  selected "Gallagher Family Swim" from 21 Magnolia Rd. for inclusion in the 2018 Soho Photo Gallery National Competition and Exhibition, summer 2018. This One of a Kind Collage was one of forty artworks chosen from two thousand.

Gallagher Family Swim from 21 Magnolia Rd.

The Center’s Executive Director and Curator Hamidah Glasgow in collaboration with Kris Graves juried CENTER FORWARD 2018 and selected "Big Nana Posed Too" from 21 Magnolia Rd. for inclusion in the exhibit which for seven years has featured the best images in contemporary photography and photo-based work.                                              

Big Nana Posed Too from 21 Magnolia Rd.

Juror Elizabeth Avedon selected "Say Cheese Dad" from nearly two thousand images to be included in an exhibition of "Environmental Portraits" at PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury Vermont August 1 through September 1 2018

Say Cheese Dad from 21 Magnolia Rd.