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World premiere of Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel Performance Group’s "...they stood shaking while others began to shout," 2018. Pictured: Hadar Ahuvia and Gabriela Silva. Photo by Ian Douglas.
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Grounds That Shout! (And Others Merely Shaking)

Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Brooklyn Rider, photo by Sarah Small.
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Emerging Voices: Art Song and Social Connection

Arturo O’Farrill in performance. Photo by David Garten.
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Mending Wall

Rafael Ferrer, Fuegian House with Harpy Eagle, 1971, leaves, ice, tarp, branches, paint, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Photo by Marcia Tucker.
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Invisible City: Philadelphia and the Vernacular Avant-garde

Bury Our Weapons, Not Our Bodies!, Yael Bartana. Photo courtesy of Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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Yael Bartana: And Europe Will be Stunned

Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, The Women's Mobile Museum, 2018, installation view, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Photo courtesy of Philadelphia Photo Arts Center.
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The Women's Mobile Museum with Zanele Muholi

Please Touch Museum, American to Zanzibar, musical instruments popular in Muslim cultures. Photo courtesy of Please Touch Museum.
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America to Zanzibar: Muslim Cultures Near and Far

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

Wambui Ippolito, Etherea, 2021, PHS Flower Show, Philadelphia, PA. Pennsylvania Horticultural Society is exploring Philadelphia gardening culture through an exhibition, demonstration garden, and a city-wide garden celebration. Image courtesy of the PHS. 
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Unearthing the Stories of Philadelphia Gardening

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