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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Questions of Practice: Barnes Foundation’s Thom Collins on Unpacking the Museum’s Collection Through Performance

Thom Collins on the Barnes Foundation’s efforts to “unpack” the museum’s collection and history through performance.

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Jane Golden

Jane Golden is the founder and executive director of the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program.

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Monument Lab Live Events

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Donna Graves

Donna Graves is a historian and cultural planner with over 20 years experience developing public history projects that document and interpret unrecognized histories.

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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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Mondays with Milford Film Screenings

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Kemi Ilesanmi

Kemi Ilesanmi is executive director of The Laundromat Project, which advances artists and neighbors as change agents in their own communities.

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Cecilia Fajardo-Hill

Cecilia Fajardo-Hill is an art historian and curator in modern and contemporary art specializing in Latin American art.

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

The Mütter Museum of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia presents Spit Spreads Death, an exhibition about the 1918–19 influenza pandemic in Philadelphia.

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Black Lives Always Mattered: Hidden African American Philadelphia of the Twentieth Century Unveiling

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ALTERNATIVE CURRENCIES: TACTICS FOR STAYING RELEVANT AND RADICAL

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Strange Currencies, this forum of independent contemporary art groups and spaces from around the country will explore what it means to be (and stay) "alternative."

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Grants & Grantees

Black Lives Always Mattered!: Hidden African American Philadelphians in the Twentieth Century

A new graphic novel depicts underrepresented stories of talent, courage, and achievement from 20th-century African American Philadelphians and encourages conversations about race in America.

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The Ongoing Revolution Virtual Public Forum

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The Poison Cookie Jar

The Poison Cookie Jar, the culmination of a multi-year study by John Jarboe and Sally Ollove, is a web project that documents the rich history and contemporary practice of cabaret around the world.

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A Brand New End: Survival and Its Pictures

A solo exhibition of photo-based work by Carmen Winant will reflect on historic and contemporary visual representations of women’s oppression, liberation, and self-expression.

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Person of the Crowd: The Contemporary Art of Flânerie

The Barnes presents a multi-part project that captures city life through a gallery exhibition, newly commissioned public installations and performances, and citizen-created photos and videos.

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Unity at the Initiative Connects Skate Culture and the Work of Queer Artists of Color

Asian Arts Initiative’s Center-funded Unity at the Initiative offers a number of ways to experience diverse representations of queer and trans BIPOC artists and skateboarding communities through both indoor and outdoor exhibitions, and from home.

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Charles Sheeler: Fashion, Photography, and Sculptural Form

An untapped aspect of the Philadelphia region's artistic heritage will be brought to light in an exhibition of painter and photographer Charles Sheeler's little-known fashion photography created for Condé Nast between 1926 and 1931—a body of work that significantly informed the aesthetic vision of one of American modernism's founding figures.

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Revolution Remix Concert

South Asian American Digital Archive’s Revolution Remix concert brings together South Asian musicians from across the country.

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(ex)CHANGE: History, Place, Presence: Shahzia Sikander Artist Talk

In conjunction with the Center-supported project (ex)CHANGE: History, Place, Presence, Asian Arts Initiative will unveil The Perennial Gaze, a new work by Pakistani-born visual artist Shahzia Sikander.

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