By Majda Kallab Whitaker

Working at her country studio in upstate New York, Czech-American artist Anna VA Polesny creates attention-getting “wearable art” in a revival of the art form that swept America over 50 years ago. An early work, her International Levi’s, embellished with embroidered iconography from her travels, won a prize in the Levi’s Denim Art Contest in 1974. Now they are one of the highlights of an upcoming survey exhibition presented by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Off the Wall: American Art to Wear.