Collaborators & Colleagues

Justina Barrett

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30 Nov 2016

Justina Barrett is the Philadelphia Museum of Art's Site Manager for its History Houses, and Museum Educator for American Art. From 2011 to 2013, she participated in the Dance and History Research Project, a Center-led interdisciplinary research project between dancers and historians that explored alternative ways of interpreting historic sites.

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Philly Block Project: Arts Carnival

The Philadelphia Photo Arts Center presents an arts carnival including artmaking workshops, carnival rides and games, and performances.

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Grants & Grantees

Reconstruction and the Fourteenth Amendment Project

An original theater work sheds new light on the Reconstruction era in the United States, the constitutional legacy of the Civil War, and the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment.

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Common Touch: The Art of the Senses in the History of the Blind

Artist-in-residence Teresa Jaynes will curate a multisensory exhibition based on the Library Company's extraordinary collection of pre-Braille texts for the visually impaired.

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habitus: Gallery Talk with Dr. Linda Eaton

The Fabric Workshop and Museum presents a gallery talk by textile scholar Dr. Linda Eaton, the John L. & Marjorie P. McGraw Director of Collections and Senior Curator of Textiles at the Winterthur Museum.

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Aux Performance Space Presents "Mentor to Mentee: Legacy"

The first event in a seven-part series organized by AUX Performance Space's fifth Curatorial Fellow, Katya Grokhovsky.

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Charles Sheeler: Fashion, Photography, and Sculptural Form

The Michener Art Museum presents an exhibition of painter and photographer Charles Sheeler's little-known fashion photography created for Condé Nast between 1926 and 1931.

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News

Augmented Reality Brings 2,200 Year-Old Chinese Terracotta Warriors to Life in The Franklin Institute’s Latest Exhibition

The Franklin Institute’s a new immersive adaptation of one of the most significant archaeological discoveries in modern time recently made its debut in Philadelphia.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Kemi Ilesanmi

Kemi Ilesanmi is executive director of New York's The Laundromat Project, which brings art, artists, and arts programming into local coin-operated laundromats and other community spaces to amplify the creativity that already exists within communities.

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Trevor Jones

Trevor Jones is director/CEO of History Nebraska.

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Kate Fowle

Kate Fowle is the chief curator for the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture in Moscow and director-at-large at Independent Curators International in New York.

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Grants & Grantees

Cai Guo-Qiang: Fireflies

Internationally recognized artist Cai Guo-Qiang energized the Benjamin Franklin Parkway with an interactive public artwork of 27 "fireflies"—luminous, kinetic sculptures inspired by Chinese pedicycles—which thousands of Parkway visitors experienced in motion as carriage passengers, pedestrians, and motorists.

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The Women’s Mobile Museum with Zanele Muholi: Exhibition at PAFA

Philadelphia Photo Arts Center brings The Women’s Mobile Museum to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

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Cliveden's Living Kitchens: They Lived Where They Worked

Joseph McGill, founder of The Slave Dwelling Project, Inc., discusses his research findings based on sleeping in extant slave dwellings, as part of the "Kitchen Conversations" series hosted by Cliveden of the National Trust.

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(ex)CHANGE: History Place Presence

Six temporary public artworks across Philadelphia, created by a multidisciplinary group of Asian American artists, reflect on the city’s diverse narratives and changing neighborhoods.

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Beth Sholom Synagogue Preservation Foundation

Located in Elkins Park, Beth Sholom is the only synagogue ever designed by the architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

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Jesse Mintz-Roth

Jesse Mintz-Roth is senior advisor for transportation improvements at the New York City Department of City Planning.

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I is for Institute: Local Context

The Institute of Contemporary Art holds a roundtable discussion on the state of the local cultural ecology with representatives from a range of Philadelphia-area contemporary art organizations.

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Documenting & Interpreting the Philly Jazz Legacy

A discovery process brings together the region’s three major jazz organizations—Jazz Bridge, Philadelphia Jazz Project, and Philadelphia Clef Club—to explore how to meaningfully preserve, interpret, and share Philadelphia’s expansive jazz history.

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Koyo Kouoh

Koyo Kouoh is the founding artistic director of RAW Material Company, a center for art, knowledge, and society in Dakar, Senegal.

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Carlos Basualdo

Carlos Basualdo is the Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Curator of Contemporary Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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