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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Commonspace: Pitch Events

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Hidden Lives Illuminated: Film Screenings

Eastern State Penitentiary’s Hidden Lives Illuminated offers a rare look inside America’s correctional system through twenty newly commissioned, animated short films created by currently incarcerated artists.

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News

Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Anne d’Harnoncourt Symposium, “Museum as Score”

In September 2016, with Center support, the Philadelphia Museum of Art presented the eighth annual Anne d’Harnoncourt Symposium, “Museum as Score."

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Grants & Grantees

NEW Spit Spreads Death: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918–19 in Philadelphia

An interactive exhibition at the Mütter Museum about the 1918–19 influenza pandemic in Philadelphia explores connections between civic responsibility and public health.

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The Poison Cookie Jar

An interactive, web-based mapping project documents the rich history and contemporary practice of cabaret around the world with artist interviews, video, music, and historical texts.

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Reopening of South Asian Galleries

The Philadelphia Museum of Art reopens its eight South Asian art galleries, featuring nearly 3,000 works spanning over 2,500 years.

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Planning for The Puppet Show

This exhibition examined the imagery of puppets in contemporary art with work by 30 artists.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Farm for the City Participants on What Urban Farming Can Do for a Community

Farm for the City project participants discuss how urban farming can elevate a community’s potential.

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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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Richard Torchia

Richard Torchia is a visual artist and a 1994 Pew Fellow, and the director of the Arcadia University Art Gallery.

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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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Whitman at 200

As part of a region-wide program of cultural events designed to reassess Walt Whitman and his impact on art and society, University of Pennsylvania Libraries presents Whitman at 200 on the occasion of the pivotal literary figure’s 200th birthday.

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Miranda Lash

Miranda Lash is the curator of contemporary art at the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, KY.

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Invisible City: Philadelphia and the Vernacular Avant-garde Exhibitions

Exhibitions at four Philadelphia locations highlight Philadelphia’s significant contributions to visual, literary, and musical culture between 1956 and 1976.

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Kamella Tate

Dr. Kamella Tate is the owner/principal of KTA/LLC, a Los Angeles-based firm that provides research, program design, evaluation, and fund development services to community nonprofits in the arts, healthcare, and education sectors.

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Grants & Grantees

Frankenstein & Dracula: Gothic Monsters, Modern Science

In commemoration of the 200th anniversary of *Frankenstein*, this exhibition will highlight two seminal Gothic works—Mary Shelley's 1818 novel and Bram Stoker's *Dracula*—through a selection of rare books, manuscripts, and artifacts to illustrate how these horror stories reflect ethical and scientific questions that continue to challenge us today.

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Where We Belong: Artists in the Archive

A multidisciplinary cohort of artists will consider how SAADA's materials can inform new works that grapple with questions of identity and belonging, and create a platform for overlooked histories.

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Jeanne van Heeswijk

Jeanne van Heeswijk is a Dutch visual artist whose work centers on the complex relationship between public space and urban renewal.

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Ghost River: The Fall & Rise of the Conestoga Exhibition Opening

As part of its Center-supported Redrawing History: The Fall & Rise of the Conestoga project, the Library Company of Philadelphia presents an exhibition featuring the artwork commissioned for its new graphic novel

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Kyong Park

Kyong Park is an architect, artist, urban theorist, and activist, whose research and artistic practice focus on urban landscapes and contemporary social geography.

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