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RAIR, Filthy Rich, 2016, installation view, The Galleries at Moore. Photo by Joseph Hu.
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Digging Deeper: Field Studies Made Possible by the Waste Stream

Bidoun Library installation at the Carnegie International, 2013. Image courtesy the Carnegie Museum.
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Publishing As Practice

An image from Daniel Heyman’s Bearing Witness, an artist’s book about the Iraq War. Photo courtesy of Swarthmore Library.
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Friends, Peace, and Sanctuary

Composite image of dolls by artist Trenton Doyle Hancock. Photo courtesy of Temple Contemporary.
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Moundverse Infants

Carl D., who is living with dementia, comforts Nadine F., the care partner of another participant, during a creative workshop led by artist Teya Sepinuck. Photo by Raymond W. Holman, Jr.
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Building Empathy Through the Arts

Inis Nua Theatre Company, Hymn, 2023. Pictured: Garrick Vaughan and Dwayne Alistair Thomas. Photo by Ashley Smith, Wide Eyed Studios.
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Strategic partnership to strengthen contemporary theater companies

Opera Philadelphia, Charlie Parker’s Yardbird, 2016, the Apollo Theater, New York City. Opera Philadelphia is developing partnerships to co-create new operas with other organizations. Photo by Sofia Negron, courtesy of Opera Philadelphia.
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Business model evolution to foster organizational alliances

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New building plan to create an arts hub

People’s Light, Flight Night, Farmhouse Pavilion. Photo by Eve Trojanov.
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Development of a live arts center to expand audiences

The Wilma Theater, Hilma, 2024. Photo by Johanna Austin. 
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Co-production model for audience and income growth

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A View from Inside: David Tudor at 100

errell Gibbs, Trees, 2019, oil on canvas, 36" x 48", The Margaux and Raphael Blavy Collection, Saint Epain, France. Brandywine Museum of Art is presenting the first monographic exhibition of Gibbs’ work. 
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Jerrell Gibbs: No Solace in the Shade

Cindy Gosselin, Untitled, 2022; mixed media sculpture with acrylic thread, wood, tinsel, foam, ping pong racket, plastic doll hand. Image courtesy of the Hurford Center for the Arts and Humanities.
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LOOK HERE

Museum of the American Revolution's Declaration of Independence gallery. Image courtesy of the museum.
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The Declaration’s Journey

El Anatsui, When I last wrote to you...II, 1986, aquatint on paper, 19 1/2" x 15 1/8." Edition of 8. Collection of El Anatsui, courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.
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El Anatsui: Prints and Paper Works (working title)

Birthplace of Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, c. 1690. Photo courtesy of the Historic American Buildings Survey, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
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Poquessing Creek Trail of History: The Land, The People, The Stories

BalletX company performs choreographer Jennifer Archibald’s Maslow’s Peak, 2024. Photo by Whitney Browne, courtesy of BalletX. 
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Maslow’s Peak

Muyu Ruba performs in Bodies and Territories, directed and choreographed by Silvana Cardell, Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education. The Schuylkill Center is presenting the site-specific dance performance. Photo by Paula Meninato.
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TERRA: Bodies & Territories

Gabriela Estephanie Solís performing with Tempesta di Mare, 2024. Photo by Sarah Giampietro.
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Hidden Virtuosas: music by and for the extraordinary female musicians of baroque Venice

King Britt, seen from above, sits at a table filled with synthesizers, samplers, and a microphone.
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Tangible : Blacktronika Artifacts & Archives

James Ijames on a research trip to Eatonville, FL, the hometown of Zora Neale Hurston, with the Arden’s Producing Artistic Director and the artistic leadership of Orlando Shakes. Photo by Jim Helsinger / Orlando Shakes. 
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Their Eyes Were Watching God

Installation view, Vera X Diary, 2023, eight channels video, 12:25, dimensions variable. Photo by Goway Lu. 
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Joyce Ho: Coffee Protocol

A hot mid-morning lunch in school, Ashwood Plantations, South Carolina, 1939. Science History Institute’s Lunchtime examines the history and contemporary implications of the US School Lunch Program. Photo from the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
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Lunchtime: The History of Science on the School Food Tray

Pepón Osorio, My Beating Heart/Mi corazón latiente, 2023, installation view, New Museum,New York. Photo by Liz Ligon, courtesy of New Museum.  
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Convalescence