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.

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Pop Up Garden: An Exploration of the Philadelphia Rail Park

An array of imaginative public installations and creative community programs led by local artists and historians introduced audiences to the rich architectural heritage of the three-mile Philadelphia Rail Park, and culminated in a summer 2016 installment of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's popular Pop Up Garden.

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Lace in Translation

Three international designers created new works that reconceptualized conventional notions of lace.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Andrea Grover

Andrea Grover is the Century Arts Foundation Curator of Special Projects at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, NY, where she is initiating new models for temporary and off-site exhibitions.

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Sound Machines: Kagel’s Zwei Mann Orchester Exhibition

Bowerbird presents an exhibition in conjunction with its Center-supported project, Sound Machines: Mauricio Kagel's Zwei Mann Orchester (Two Man Orchestra).

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Grants & Grantees

The Poison Cookie Jar

An interactive, web-based mapping project documents the rich history and contemporary practice of cabaret around the world with artist interviews, video, music, and historical texts.

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The Women’s Mobile Museum with Zanele Muholi: Opening Reception

Philadelphia Photo Arts Center hosts an opening reception for The Women’s Mobile Museum, featuring an opening lecture with Renée Mussai and Zanele Muholi.

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Farm for the City: Closing Harvest Celebration

The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (PHS) hosts a Closing Harvest Celebration at Thomas Paine Plaza to dismantle the 2,000-square-foot Farm for the City installation.

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Barbara Kasten: Stages

This exhibition, the first major survey of Kasten's work, broadly situates her legacy in relationship to contemporary art, beyond a strictly photographic history.

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Philadelphia Mural Arts Program Presents "Not My Outside World" with Curator Elizabeth Thomas

A conversation with psychylustro curator Elizabeth Thomas and artist and writer Douglas Ashford, associate professor at Cooper Union and former member of Group Material.

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Asian Arts Initiative

Located in Philadelphia’s Chinatown North neighborhood, Asian Arts Initiative (AAI) uses art as a vehicle to explore the experiences of Asian Americans and the diverse communities of which they are a part.

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In Plain Air: Science & Music

Christ Church Preservation Trust brings together members of International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Franklin Institute science educators, and organ builders to explore the science of Christ Church's newly installed pipe organ.

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Milford Graves Full Mantis Online Discussion with Director Jake Meginsky

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Playgrounds for Useful Knowledge Urban Ecology / Gardening Workshops

Mural Arts, through their work with Cohabitation Strategies on the Restored Spaces Initiative, is hosting a series of Saturday workshops at their newly-opened, temporary community space and a strategic hub in South Philadelphia.

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C3 Initiative "Chester Made" Story Corners

Supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, the *Chester Cultural Corridor Initiative* takes a novel approach to city planning, using theater and community dialogue to inform the revitalization of the Chester Cultural Corridor (C3). For each of the three informal Story Corner sessions, residents will share their stories one-on-one with a member of the Ensemble.

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*An Artist Embedded*: "Their Story, Our Story: African American Women and the Fight for Equality"

The Historical Society of Pennsylvania invites the public to learn more about African American women of the early 1800s who worked to end slavery, and to consider how this history illuminates our lives today. This lecture is part of An Artist Embedded, which explores, via a series of public events with visiting artists and scholars, how historical events are related to contemporary issues in the United States.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Eric Fredericksen

Eric Fredericksen is a Seattle-based curator and writer and the Art Program Manager for Waterfront Seattle, a project to rebuild the Seattle central waterfront. In 2015, Fredericksen served as an LOI panelist in Exhibitions & Public Interpretation.

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An Introduction to The Women’s Mobile Museum with Zanele Muholi

Philadelphia Photo Arts Center (PPAC) will introduce The Women's Mobile Museum to the public with a panel discussion.

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America to Zanzibar: Exhibition

Young children and their families learn about modern and historic Muslim communities in Please Touch Museum’s new featured exhibition America to Zanzibar: Muslim Cultures Near and Far.

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Person of the Crowd Symposium: Flânerie and the Politics of Public Space

The Barnes Foundation presents a day-long symposium on the history of flânerie and the contemporary race and gender politics enmeshed in the act of walking.

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Breath Beneath

PRISM Quartet presents a pilot performance for its discovery project Breath Beneath—an investigation of the artistic possibilities that arise at the intersection of saxophone music, technology, and durational visual art.

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