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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Milford Graves: A Mind-Body Deal Virtual Curator-Led Tour

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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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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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Questions of Practice

Inside Pennsylvania Humanities Council: Q&A with Executive Director Laurie Zierer

Zierer talks with us about the story-gathering processes involved in the Chester Made project, PHC’s embrace of mobile technology and socially-engaged practice, and her vision for the future.

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Tangles in Time

Tangles in Time, presented by Thomas Jefferson University, is the culmination of a two-year collaborative project to foster conversation about the lived experience of dementia.

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Liberian Women's Chorus for Change Perform at Philadelphia Folklore Project's 27th Birthday Bash

The Liberian Women's Chorus for Change will perform a pop-up concert at the Philadelphia Folklore Project's 27th Birthday Bash.

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Frankenstein & Dracula: Screening of Nosferatu, a symphony of horror, Accompanied by Live Organ

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Grants & Grantees

DEEP DIVE

An immersive new media exhibition will animate the research of six scientists from the Academy of Natural Sciences’ Patrick Center for Environmental Research and highlight the scientific, historical, and social contexts of water in the Philadelphia area.

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Pew Fellows News: Kate Watson-Wallace Premieres Work at LA’s REDCAT, Tayarisha Poe’s Film to be Adapted by Amazon Studios, Benjamin Volta’s Mural Honored by Americans for the Arts

Catch up on this month’s Pew Fellows news, including the latest recognition, new works, and press coverage.

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(Dis)placed: Expressions of Identity in Transition

Four artists of Arab heritage came together in an international collaboration to create new poetry, music, and visual art works grappling with notions of displacement.

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Milford Graves Full Mantis Online Discussion with Director Jake Meginsky

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Slavs & Tatars: Transliterative Tease Lecture Performance

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Unity at the Initiative Public Exhibitions

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Frankenstein & Dracula: Performance of Stoker’s Dracula

The Rosenbach presents a performance of Bram Stoker’s Dracula by Josh Hitchens of Going Dark Theatre.

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Staying Power

In a participatory art-making process and multi-site exhibition, residents of Philadelphia’s Fairhill-Hartranft neighborhood work with local and visiting artists and public art and history studio Monument Lab to reflect on the notion of community “staying power.”

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The Pursuit: 50 Years In The Fight for LGBT Rights

This documentary film project, produced in collaboration with WHYY and Equality Forum, will illuminate the 50-year history and progress of the LGBTQ civil rights movement by highlighting the powerful experiences of Gay Rights movement pioneers and documenting a planned reenactment of the 1965–69 peaceful demonstrations at Independence Hall.

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The Contest in Context: Noodlin’ Around

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The Rosenbach Sheds Light on Literature’s Most Memorable Monsters with Frankenstein & Dracula: Gothic Monsters, Modern Science, opening October 13

The Rosenbach sheds new light on two seminal Gothic works with a dynamic exhibition on view October 13, 2017 through February 11, 2018.

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Chester Made: Archaeology and Identity: Connecting People and Things

Chester Made historians and residents will come together for a lecture and workshop about the Chester community and its stories

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Cathy Stanton

Cathy Stanton is a Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at Tufts University and an active public historian. She served as a 2015 LOI panelist in Exhibitions & Public Interpretation.

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