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Martha McDonald performs Songs of Memory and Forgetting as part of RAIR: Live at the Dump. Photo by Mike Persico.
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RAIR: Live at the Dump

Pete Brandt. Photo courtesy of Raphael Xavier.
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Raphstravaganza: An Urban Kinetic Experience

Priyadarsini Govind and T. M. Krishna during a rehearsal. Photo by Alaap. Courtesy of Sruti.
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Saayujya (The Merging)

Chopin Without Piano, produced by Centrala, Warsaw, conceived and written by Michał Zadara and Barbara Wysocka, directed by Michał Zadara, Chopin performed by Barbara Wysocka. Photo by Natalia Kabanow.
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Chopin Without Piano

The Rosenbach of the Free Library of Philadelphia, Frankenstein & Dracula: Gothic Monsters, Modern Science, 2017, installation view. Photo by Kelly & Mass Photography.
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Frankenstein & Dracula: Gothic Monsters, Modern Science

Community collaborators working on Olanre Tejuoso’s Material Memory. Photo by Breanne Furlong.
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SPACES: International Artist Residency Initiative at The Village of Arts and Humanities

The Woodlands grounds during a summer event. Photo by Molly Dixon.
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Not Your Typical 18th Century Gentleman

1812 Productions’ *This is the Week That Is: Political Humor for the Holidays*. Photo by Jacque-Jean Tiziou.
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This Is the Week That Is: Political Humor for the Holidays

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Sweetie Pie

Sara Felder’s Out of Sight. Photo by Robert Corwin.
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Out of Sight: A Blind Comedy about God, Israel, and My Mom

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The Emperor Jones

Seeing Through Space installation view, 2023, part of The Mashrabiya Project, Museum for Art in Wood, Philadelphia, PA. Photo by John Carlano.
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The Mashrabiya Project

Jayson Musson as “Jay” with “Ollie.” Jayson Musson, in collaboration with The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, His History of Art, 2022. Photo by Carlos Avendaño.
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Jayson Musson: His History of Art

Dance troupe from Modero Dance, founded by Indonesian dance artist Sinta Penyami Storms. Photo courtesy of Modero Dance.
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360 Culture Lab

Archival documents from Chronicling Resistance, Enabling Resistance, Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries, 2018. Photo by Mariam Williams and Zoe Jeka.
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Chronicling Resistance

Ulysses Jenkins, Ulysses Jenkins: Without Your Interpretation, 2021, installation view, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania. Photo by Constance Mensh.
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Ulysses Jenkins: Without Your Interpretation

A man wearing headphones stand in front of a wooden display that features framed embroidery, archival imagery and contemporary photos. The words Mae & Anna / Danielle appear on the display. Adjacent to the display is a larger than life-sized archival portrait of a middle-aged Black woman.
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File/Life: We Remember Stories of Pennhurst

A map of Philadelphia's Historic 7th Ward. Photo courtesy of Philadelphia City Archives.
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7th Ward Tribute

Betsy Casañas with Ian Pierce, Sanctuary City, Sanctuary Neighborhood, 5th and Huntingdon Streets, Philadelphia, 2019. Photo by Kimberly Paynter for WHYY.
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Arte pa’l Barrio

Artist Nathan Young records sounds along the Delaware River for the sound installation nkwiluntàmën at Pennsbury Manor. Photo by Ryan Strand Greenberg. 
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nkwiluntàmën: I long for it; I am lonesome for it (such as the sound of a drum)

Futurefarmers in collaboration with local builders, Flatbread Society Bakehouse, 2017; wood, rammed earth, glass. Photo by Monica Løvdahl, courtesy of Futurefarmers.
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S(tree)twork

Maeng Wookjae, Secret Forest, 2019; porcelain, gold, paper, wire frame, elastic band, light, sound; 110" x 67" x 67". Photo courtesy of Korea Ceramic Foundation.
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The Shape of Time: Korean Art After 1989

Carmen Winant, Billboard from the series ZYX-SOB-ABC, 2019, installed for the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, Canada.
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A Brand New End: Survival and Its Pictures

Susan Dreher, composite photograph of Mira Sharpless Townsend over her papers. Courtesy of the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College.
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Rosine Association 2.0