The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University

Updated
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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News

Ebook for "What Makes a Great Exhibition"

The Center publication, What Makes a Great Exhibition?, is now available as an eBook through Amazon.

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June Premieres: Performance Inspired by Immigration, Film, and Collaboration

This month, Center-funded projects from Silvana Cardell and Anna Drozdowski culminate in live performances and workshops, while FringeArts looks forward to a fall theater presentation by hosting a discussion with Obie Award-winning Belgian theater director Ivo van Hove.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Ed Bing Lee

Working with colored thread and thousands upon thousands of knots, 2007 Pew Fellow Ed Bing Lee transforms a simple material and a common technique into a unique form of contemporary fiber art.

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News

Media Mentions for Pasión y Arte's 2014 Flamenco Festival

Pasión y Arte's 2014 Flamenco Festival was featured in the Philadelphia Inquirer, the CBS Philly website, and on WRTI.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Rob Blackson

Rob Blackson has been the director of exhibitions at Temple Contemporary at Temple University's Tyler School of Art since 2011.

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Event

Close Music for Bodies

Michael Kiley presents an immersive, participatory vocal performance, developed from the sounds and movements of eight individual bodies.

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Grants & Grantees

The Dance Apocalypse

Gabrielle Revlock will developed a new dance-theater work with past collaborator Nicole Bindler that explored the nature of creative collaboration, as well as themes of gender, competition, and spectacle.

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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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Awakening the Senses: New Interpretive Approaches at the Morris Arboretum

In an effort to deepen visitors' curiosity about the arboretum's plants, architecture, and history, the Morris Arboretum will develop mobile technology that provides instant access to a wide variety of content.

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Event

The End of the Way It Was Open Salon

New Paradise Laboratories continues its Center-funded investigation into improvisational structures, audience interactivity, and games of chance through the ongoing project An Investigation of Contingency and the Uses of Data Streams.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Writer and Dancer Wendy Perron on Trisha Brown and the Body

Wendy Perron discusses Trisha Brown's fascination with "wanting to see the body horizontal in space."

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Questions of Practice: Aaron Cromie on Artistic Responsibility

We asked Philadelphia multidisciplinary theater artist Aaron Cromie to comment on the artistic responsibilities he considers as a director. "I think it's the director's job to create an environment and a world," Cromie responded. "The director is an arbiter of great ideas."

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Grants & Grantees

Branch Dance Series

Merián Soto continued to develop the Branch Dance Series, a deeply meditative, multimedia performative process that became the basis for her piece in the 2009 FringeArts Festival.

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Questions of Practice

Fellows Friday: Q&A with Visual Artist Micah Danges

Visual artist and Pew Fellow Micah Danges on artistic influence, the potential of images, and more.

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Event

Directors Gathering Dialogue: The Women of Adapt!

The Wilma will present an audience-led conversation with Adapt! playwright and director Blanka Zizka, composer and music director Mariana Sadovska, and choreographer Silvana Cardell.

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Publishing As Practice: Film Screening at ICA Philadelphia

Reza Abdoh: Showtapes and Short Films is the second of three film screenings presented by Bidoun in conjunction with Kayla Romberger’s Publishing As Practice.

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Questions of Practice

No Idea Is Too Ridiculous

A workshop and small grant opportunity, No Idea Is Too Ridiculous allows Center constituents to explore creativity and risk-taking.

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News

Video: Looking Ahead with our Newest Grantees 

As we consider the year ahead, we look forward with hope and optimism to the exciting work on the horizon from our newest grantees: the artists and cultural organizations that make Philadelphia’s civic life dynamic and invigorating.

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Grants & Grantees

Izu House Project

Roko Kawai and a team of collaborators traveled to Japan to develop the dance/sound piece Izu House.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Daniel Bernard Roumain

Daniel Bernard Roumain is a composer, violinist, and bandleader who combines his classical training with hip-hop and Haitian influences.

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