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Millwood Justice Residence, designed by Minerva Parker Nichols, Narberth, PA. Photo by Elizabeth Felicella.
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Minerva Parker Nichols: The Search for a Forgotten Architect

Sun & Sea (Marina), opera-performance by Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, Vaiva Grainytė, and Lina Lapelytė, La Biennale di Venezia, 2019. Photography by Andrej Vasilenko, courtesy of the artists.
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Sun & Sea

Yesterday Tomorrow, created and directed by Annie Dorsen, presented at La MaMa, New York City, 2016. Photo by Maria Barnova.
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Algorithmic Theater

The Crossing, Farming, 2023, Bucks County. Photo by Peter English.
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Farming

We Have Gone As Far As We Can Together artists, work in process, October 2023. Photo by Malick Welli.
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We Have Gone As Far As We Can Together

Pew Fellow Yolanda Wisher in Be Holding, 2023, Girard College, Philadelphia, PA. Photo by Ryan Collerd.
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Be Holding

Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers founding artistic director Kun-Yang Lin, at the company's Chi Movement Arts Center. Photo by Rob Li.
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WHERE IS MY B-O-D-Y

Once on This Island, 2018, costumes by Clint Ramos, Circle in the Square Theatre. Photo by Joan Marcus.
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The Tattooed Lady

Pew Fellow Jennifer Kidwell, Superterranean, Pig Iron Theatre Company, 2019. Photo by Johanna Austin.
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The Path of Pins or The Path of Needles

TOWN, 2022, Theatre Horizon, Norristown, PA. Photo by John C. Hawthorne.
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TOWN

Wilma Theater HotHouse members during workshop for The Cherry Orchard with Dmitry Krymov, 2018. Photo by Kristin Finger.
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The Cherry Orchard

Alaa Eddine Aljem, The Travels of Ibn Jubayr, film still, 2025.
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The Travels of Ibn Jubayr

Moki Cherry, Title Unknown (Dragon), 1975; textile appliqué tapestry (silk, cotton, mixed fabrics). Photo courtesy of: Anders Sune Berg, Galleri Nicolai Wallner.
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The Living Temple: The World of Moki Cherry

An exhibition of carved stone sculptures on salmon pink pedestals. Painted on the wall in dark green is the exhibition title: "William Edmondson: A Monumental Vision."
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William Edmondson: A Monumental Vision

The 1728 John Bartram House at Bartram’s Garden in Southwest Philadelphia. Photo by Steve Weinik for Mural Arts' Art@Bartram's project.
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A Storied Landscape: New Public Interpretation at America's Oldest Surviving Botanic Garden

Joiri Minaya, Container #4, 2020, 60" x 40". Photo courtesy of the artist.
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Joiri Minaya: Venus Flytrap

Orghast Part II, 1971, Shiraz Arts Festival. Photo courtesy of the Archaeology of the Final Decade Archives.
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Beyond Borders

Composer Evan Williams. Photo by Amurica Photo.
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Recomposing the Past: An African American Perspective

Cliveden of the National Trust, kitchen quarter on the second floor of Cliveden, 2021. Photo by Libbie Hawes.
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Transcending Thresholds

Abak, the giant puppet who loves to hug, created by Papermoon Puppet Theatre. Photo courtesy of Papermoon Puppet Theatre.
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Ramayana

British soldiers firing on the Continental troops during the 2017 re-enactment of the Battle of Germantown. Photo by Garth Herrick. 
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Considering Re-enactments: The Battle of Germantown in the Light of 21st-Century Gun Violence

Archival image at the Kelly Pool, the Fairmount Water Works, 1962. Photo courtesy of the Fairmount Water Works and Philadelphia Water Department Collection.
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Pool: A Social History of Segregation

Doris Salcedo, Noviembre 6 y 7, 2002, New Palace of Justice, Bogotá, Colombia. Photo courtesy of the artist.
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Exploring the ethical dimensions of a project with Doris Salcedo

RAIR, Digging Deeper: Field Studies Made Possible by the Waste Stream, 2017. Photo by Ryan Collerd.
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A Site To Be Seen: Concepts for and from the Superfund