Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University

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1 Dec 2016

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The Academy of Natural Sciences.

The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University is the oldest natural history museum in North America. Founded in 1812, the museum is known for both its extraordinary collections of natural specimens and its active research faculty. Center support allowed the Academy to upgrade its financial accounting software, giving staff members a more efficient tool for monitoring their internal and external activity.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Anna Halprin

Anna Halprin is a pioneering choreographer whose work has led to a reconsideration of dance as an art form.

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Philly Block Project Archive Collective: South Kensington 19122 Opening Reception

Philadelphia Photo Arts Center presents a community exhibition comprised of crowd-sourced photographs from residents of Philadelphia's South Kensington neighborhood.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Francis Kéré on Creating Architecture that “Serves Humanity”

Francis Kéré on why the purpose of architecture is to “serve humanity.”

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(Dis)placed Arts Workshop

Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture presents a multi-disciplinary workshop exploring the theme of displacement through art, poetry, and music.

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Questions of Practice: Cliveden's Libbie Hawes on Historical Interpretation for Contemporary Audiences

Preservation director Libbie Hawes on the process of making historical sites meaningful to contemporary audiences.

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Aux Performance Space Presents: an evening of lectures by Ingrid Schaffner and Anthony Romero

The first in a series of events organized by AUX's fourth Curatorial Fellow, Anthony Romero, the evening will consist of lectures by Romero and ICA curator Ingrid Schaffner, followed by a screening of Marlon T. Riggs' Tongues Untied from 1989.

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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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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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Collaborators & Colleagues

Elisabeth Sussman

Elisabeth Sussman is curator and Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Most recently, she co-curated the 2012 Whitney Biennial.

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Arun Ramamurthy

Arun Ramamurthy is a violinist, composer, and artistic director of Brooklyn Raga Massive, a collective of forward-thinking musicians rooted in and inspired by the classical music of India.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Crossroads Music

Crossroads Music organizes public performances by accomplished musicians with roots in cultures from around the world.

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Jerome Chou

Jerome Chou is an urban planner, landscape architect, community organizer, and senior manager of international projects at Van Alen Institute.

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Grants & Grantees

Grounds That Shout! (And Others Merely Shaking)

A series of performances curated by award-winning choreographer Reggie Wilson explores the African American religious experience and Philadelphia’s historic religious sites, in a collaboration between Partners for Sacred Places and Philadelphia Contemporary.

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The Print Center

One of the first venues in the United States dedicated to the appreciation of limited edition prints, the Print Center has expanded its purview to include photography and ephemera.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Ellen Lauren

Ellen Lauren is a founding member and co-artistic director of Saratoga International Theater Institute (SITI) Company, an ensemble-based theater group in New York City.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Benjamin Filene

Benjamin Filene is associate professor and director of public history at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, and co-editor of Letting Go? Historical Authority in a User-Generated World.

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Grants & Grantees

Organize Your Own: The Politics and Poetics of Self-Determination Movements

This exhibition and event series invited contemporary artists to respond to archival materials and poetry relating to the history of white southerners who migrated to northern cities in the 1960s and 70s and organized cross-racial social movements, while addressing historical and contemporary questions of equity, justice, and race relations.

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Master Class with Israel Galván

The Philadelphia Flamenco Festival offers a free master class with flamenco master Israel Galván at the Kimmel Center's Innovation Studio on March 12.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Jenny Sabin

"Looking to nature for design inspiration is not a new idea," says architect and designer Jenny Sabin.

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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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