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.

Event

Cliveden's Living Kitchens: The Food Axis: Cooking, Eating, and 1950s Domestic Architecture

Dr. Elizabeth Cromely leads participants through Cliveden's 1950s-era kitchen and discuss the historical context of 1950s architecture.

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David Young

Executive director of Cliveden of the National Trust, a National Historic Landmark located in the Germantown section of Philadelphia.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Thomas Jefferson University

Since 1824, Thomas Jefferson University has offered the highest level of education to students pursuing careers in bioscience and medicine.

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Mark Beasley

Mark Beasley is a curator and writer from the United Kingdom who is currently curator-at-large at Performa in New York.

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Ruth Estévez

Ruth Estévez is a curator, writer, and stage designer. She is currently gallery director and curator of REDCAT at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.

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News

News: 2017 Year in Review

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Grants & Grantees

Hidden Lives Illuminated

Stories from inside America’s correctional system are brought to light through twenty newly commissioned, animated short films, projected onto Eastern State Penitentiary’s 30-foot facade.

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Demetrius Oliver: Canicular

Demetrius Oliver: Canicular is an innovative exhibition of newly commissioned works that will transform the Print Center's galleries, including a live telescope projection of Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky.

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Not Your Typical 18th Century Gentleman

This research project will examine the unknown biography of aristocrat and eminent botanist William Hamilton and his role as a "bachelor gentleman" in 18th-century Philadelphia, with the goal of creating new interpretive programs that will enable visitors to connect to contemporary discourse on family, class, gender, and race.

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Modupúe | Ibaye: The Philadelphia Yoruba Performance Project: Awilda Sterling Duprey Workshop

Intercultural Journeys’ Modupúe | Ibaye: The Philadelphia Yoruba Performance Project presents a dance and culture workshop with Awilda Sterling Duprey

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African American Museum in Philadelphia

Founded in 1976, the African American Museum in Philadelphia is the first institution funded and built by a major municipality to preserve, interpret, and exhibit the heritage of African Americans.

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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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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Francis Kéré on Architecture and Community Collaboration

Francis Kéré on why every architecture project is “a product of collaboration.”

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Kamau Ware

Kamau Ware is a multidimensional creative blending complementary yet disparate disciplines as an artist/historian, and he is best known for his flagship storytelling project, Black Gotham Experience (BGX).

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Bob and Roberta Smith

Bob and Roberta Smith, also known as Patrick Brill, is a British contemporary artist working in text, persona, and public space.

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Deborah Schwartz

Deborah Schwartz is president of the Brooklyn Historical Society, a nationally renowned urban history center founded in 1863. Most recently, she served as an LOI panelist in Exhibitions & Public Interpretation in 2014 and 2015.

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South Asian Art: Experimentation, Interpretation, and Evaluation

For the first time in 40 years, the Philadelphia Museum of Art will reinstall and reinterpret its eight galleries of South Asian art, which include nearly 3,000 works spanning over 2,500 years.

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Questions of Practice

The Paradox of Dancing in a Museum

For the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s 2016 “Museum as Score” symposium, philosopher Marie Bardet reflects on the presumed “paradoxical” idea of dancing in a museum.

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Asian Arts Initiative's Pearl Street Clean-up and Community Day

As an extension of its Pearl Street and Social Practice Lab programming, Asian Arts Initiative invites volunteers to work with Chinatown North and Callowhill residents and neighbors, in maintaining cleanliness in the Pearl Street alleyway.

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News

Coming in 2020: Center-Funded Projects Featuring the Work of Philip Glass, Bill T. Jones, George Nakashima, Refik Anadol, and More

Browse a preview of the performances, exhibitions, and programs that will inspire audiences in the coming year, and sign up for our monthly newsletter to stay in the know about events, announcements, and more.

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