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

The Great Migration: A City Transformed (1916-1930)

Scribe Video Center will explore the history and impact of the Great Migration (1916–30) on Philadelphia, when blacks fled the South for economic opportunities in the Northern states, giving rise to new African-American neighborhoods.

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Enduring Exile

An exploration of the Shiraz Arts Festival, a significant yet under-recognized event held annually in Iran from 1967 to 1977, informs future exhibitions and programs examining the festival’s history and artistic legacy.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Farm for the City Participants on What Urban Farming Can Do for a Community

Farm for the City project participants discuss how urban farming can elevate a community’s potential.

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Grants & Grantees

Unity at the Initiative

An exhibition, pop-up performances, and workshops underscore the intersections of art, sport, and queer identity in the work of print artist and professional skateboarder Jeffrey Cheung.

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Black Lives Always Mattered! Behind the Scenes

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Considering Re-enactments Roundtable

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Colored People Time: SCRAAATCH Performance

In conjunction with Colored People Time: Mundane Futures, Quotidian Pasts, and Banal Presents, the Institute of Contemporary Art presents a sound and performance art piece by SCRAAATCH.

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Chester Cultural Corridor Initiative: Preview of "Putting Chester Arts and Culture on the Map" Performance and Presentation

An exclusive preview of the "Putting Chester Arts and Culture on the Map" performance and presentation.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Nette Compton

Nette Compton is deputy director of Parks for People for the Trust for Public Land in New York City.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Pennsylvania Horticultural Society

PHS is a nonprofit membership organization, founded in 1827, that connects people to horticulture to create beautiful, healthy, sustainable communities.

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News

Ten Publications from Center-Funded Projects Reflect on Monuments, American History, and More

Ten books preserve, extend, and elevate the ideas embedded in projects that explore Black Americans’ experiences, environmental design, the graphic novel format, and more.

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Farm for the City: Special Events

The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society’s (PHS) Farm for the City hosts a number of family-frinedly events and activities focused on the value of food and resources.

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Liberian Women's Chorus for Change

The members of the Liberian Women's Chorus for Change will adapt existing folk songs and write new ones in traditional styles, in the hopes of subverting historical narratives in which women are blamed, stigmatized, or victimized.

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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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Auditus Natura Terminale at the PHS Pop Up Garden

A new site-specific sound work by research-based artist Abby Sohn at the PHS Pop Up Garden.

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Swarm: Terence Nance

Black filmmaker, writer, actor, and musician Terence Nance’s first solo exhibition will shed light on his interdisciplinary film and media work.

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Yael Bartana: And Europe Will be Stunned

A newly commissioned site-specific performance and an exhibition showcase Israeli filmmaker and installation artist Yael Bartana, whose work addresses the complexities of migration, memory, and identity.

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Invisible City: Philadelphia and the Vernacular Avant-garde

Philadelphia’s significant contributions to visual culture in the 1950s through the 1970s are highlighted and explored in an exhibition, a publication, and performances.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Visual Artist Trenton Doyle Hancock on the Social Connotations of Dolls

Visual artist Trenton Doyle Hancock discusses the power dolls have to create and subvert expectations.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Mark Beasley

Mark Beasley is a curator and writer from the United Kingdom who is currently curator-at-large at Performa in New York.

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