Preservation Plan and Historic Resources Survey

Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia

2008

$100,000

The Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia engaged in a planning process for a major preservation plan and historic resources survey for the city of Philadelphia. Prior to this project, the Preservation Alliance estimated that only 4% of properties in Philadelphia had been evaluated in terms of their historical, architectural, and/or cultural significance. Center support enabled a team of historians to develop historical context statements for the sites' histories and physical developments.

Grants & Grantees

Planning for The Puppet Show

This exhibition examined the imagery of puppets in contemporary art with work by 30 artists.

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Grants & Grantees

Commonspace

Journalism and first-person storytelling intersected in a multi-media project featuring a series of public radio broadcasts and podcasts, presented in collaboration with First Person Arts.

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David Hartt: The Histories (Le Mancenillier) Performances

Beth Sholom Synagogue Preservation Foundation presents a series of live programs featuring Caribbean, African American, and Jewish music.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

David Allison

David Allison is manager of onsite programs at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, where his most recent projects include writing and developing a multimodal show on the science of flight.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Artist Cai Guo-Qiang on Public Art and Ephemerality

Artist Cai Guo-Qiang describes how he considers the idea of ephemerality in the context of his temporary public art projects.

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Making/Breaking the Binary: Suzanne Ciani in Concert

Curator Kelsey Halliday Johnson presents a concert by electronic music pioneer Suzanne Ciani.

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Pearl S. Buck House Restoration Work

Support for the preservation of the Pearl S. Buck House, a National Historic Landmark.

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Spit Spreads Death: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918–19 in Philadelphia: Exhibition

The Mütter Museum of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia presents Spit Spreads Death, an exhibition about the 1918–19 influenza pandemic in Philadelphia.

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Philadelphia Assembled Opening Celebration

The Philadelphia Museum of Art presents an opening celebration for its Philadelphia Assembled exhibition.

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Civic Practice: Crank It Up

OACCE presents the culminating event of its yearlong discovery project Civic Practice.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Visual Artist Jeanne van Heeswijk on Collective Authorship

Jeanne van Heeswijk on why we must “let go of this unholy marriage between authorship and autonomy.”

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Grants & Grantees

Building Empathy Through the Arts

Artists, medical students, and people living with dementia and their caregivers engage in an arts-based process of empathy-building and storytelling that culminates in a performance about what it means to heal and be healed.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Jeanne van Heeswijk

Jeanne van Heeswijk is a Dutch visual artist whose work centers on the complex relationship between public space and urban renewal.

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Black Lives Always Mattered!: Hidden African American Philadelphia of the Twentieth Century

A new graphic novel depicts underrepresented stories of talent, courage, and achievement from 20th-century African American Philadelphians and encourages conversations about race in America.

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Erin Carlson Mast

Erin Carlson Mast is CEO and executive director of President Lincoln’s Cottage in Washington, DC.

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(Dis)placed: Music & Tales of Home

Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture presents a concert of Syrian music and stories of displacement in Philadelphia.

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Moundverse Infants

Newly commissioned work by visual artist Trenton Doyle Hancock examines the representation of race in material culture, inspired by toy dolls from the artist’s own collection and from Philadelphia’s African American Doll Museum.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Alan W. Moore

Alan W. Moore is an art historian and activist whose work addresses cultural economies and groups and the politics of collectivity.

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News

2018’s Cultural Highlights: Our Year in Review

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Colored People Time: Screening and Conversation with Kevin Jerome Everson and Maori Karmael Holmes

The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) hosts a screening and conversation with documentary filmmaker Kevin Jerome Everson and director, producer, and curator Maori Karmael Holmes.

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