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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Martha McDonald

Martha McDonald is an interdisciplinary artist whose performances and installations feature handcrafted costumes and objects.

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Barbara Kasten: Stages Opening Celebration

The opening celebration for "Barbara Kasten: Stages*, at the Institute of Contemporary Art.

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STUDIO CONVERSATIONS: MINERVA CUEVAS AND NATO THOMPSON

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Strange Currencies, The Galleries at Moore host a conversation between Mexico City-based artist and activist Minerva Cuevas and Creative Time Chief Curator Nato Thompson about the effects of socially engaged art practices.

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Carin Kuoni

Carin Kuoni is director/chief curator of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School. 

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reFORM Installation Opening

Join Temple Contemporary for the opening of reFORM, a major installation by artist and Pew Fellow Pepón Osorio that pays tribute to Philadelphia school closings.

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Sarah Sze Catalog Launch and Conversation with Hal Foster and Carlos Basualdo

Sze, artist-in-residence at the Fabric Workshop and Museum, will speak about her work in conversation with Hal Foster and Philadelphia Museum of Art curator Carlos Basualdo, followed by a Q&A session.

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Chorus for Change Pop-up Concert at the New Liberia FM Radio Honors Awards

Liberian Women's Chorus for Change performs a pop-up concert as part of the New Liberia FM Radio Honors Awards.

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Colored People Time: Mundane Futures, Quotidian Pasts, and Banal Presents at MIT List Visual Arts Center

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Joy Bivins

Joy Bivins is director of curatorial affairs at the Chicago History Museum.

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psychylustro: Ride the Rails and Opening Reception

A special opening reception in honor of artist Katharina Grosse and the world premiere of her public artwork for Philadelphia's rail gateway, psychylustro.

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Grants & Grantees

Commonspace

Journalism and first-person storytelling intersected in a multi-media project featuring a series of public radio broadcasts and podcasts, presented in collaboration with First Person Arts.

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reFORM

Temple Contemporary commissioned 2006 Pew Fellow and MacArthur Fellow Pepón Osorio to create a new installation that responds to recent closings of Philadelphia public schools.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Dr. Vishakha N. Desai

Dr. Vishakha N. Desai is senior advisor for global affairs to the president of Columbia University, where she is also vice chair of the university’s Committee on Global Thought and a senior research scholar in global studies at its School of International and Public Affairs.

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Making/Breaking the Binary: Suzanne Ciani in Concert

Curator Kelsey Halliday Johnson presents a concert by electronic music pioneer Suzanne Ciani.

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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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Grants & Grantees

An Exploration of Interpretive Approaches to the Arch Street Meeting House

A series of pilot projects will evaluate which interpretive stories, themes, and methods most successfully engage today's audiences with the Arch Street Meeting House—a National Historic Landmark and Philadelphia's first burial ground—and will offer participants a unique opportunity to learn about Quaker history.

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Colored People Time: Mundane Futures

The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) presents Mundane Futures, the first chapter of a three-part project examining the history, present, and future of blackness in America.

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Jason Rhoades, Four Roads Book Launch and Curator Talk

Ingrid Schaffner, curator of Jason Rhoades, Four Roads, will deliver a public lecture on Jason Rhoades at The Kitchen, in New York, to launch the exhibition catalog, Jason Rhoades, Four Roads, published this summer.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Art Historian Kristina Van Dyke on How Technology Can Introduce New Perspectives to Ancient Artifacts

Art historian Kristina Van Dyke discusses the potential for technology to foster new perspectives on old works.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Laurie Zierer

Laurie Zierer is executive director of Pennsylvania Humanities Council.

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