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Pew Fellow Tiona McClodden, I prayed to the wrong god for you, 2019, six-channel multimedia installation. Image courtesy of artist.
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Black Like That: Our Lives as Living Praxis

Larry W. Cook, Horizons, 2022. Photo by the artist.
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Wherever There is Light

Pew Fellow angel shanel edwards, untitled collage.
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What is West?

Mikael Owunna, Infinite Essence: Uche, 2019. Image courtesy of the artist. Owunna is a collaborating artist on University City Science Center’s Futures Without Guns.
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Futures Without Guns

Vox Populi, Collective Visioning Screenprinting Workshop, 2021. Photo courtesy of Vox Populi.
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Teaching at the End of Times

The Wilma Theater, The Cherry Orchard workshop, 2021. Pictured: Krista Apple (center) with the Wilma HotHouse Company. Photo by Johanna Austin. 
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HILMA: An Opera

WXPN’s Black Opry Residency Showcase featuring (l to r) Grace Givertz, Denitia, Kentucky Gentlemen’s Brandon and Derek Campbell, Tylar Bryant, and Samantha Rise. Photo by Senia Lopez for WXPN.
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Black Opry Residency

Scientists from the Patrick Center for Environmental Research at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University collecting samples. Photo by John Hutelmyer, ANS.
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Watershed Moment

Rising Sun: Artists in an Uncertain America, 2023, installation view, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA. Photo by Constance Mensh.
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Rising Sun: Artists in an Uncertain America

Suzanne Valadon, Nude Sitting on a Sofa, 1916, oil on canvas, 32” x 23”. Courtesy of the Weisman & Michel Collection, © 2021 Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York.
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Suzanne Valadon: Model, Painter, Rebel

Terence Nance, Swimming In Your Skin Again, 2015; video, two-channel projection, water, mirror, plants, sound system; installation view at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA. Photo by Constance Mensh.   
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Swarm: Terence Nance, 2012-2022

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