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Shayla-Vie Jenkins, lead artist for Christ Church Preservation Trust’s On Buried Ground. Photo by Anna M. Maynard.
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On Buried Ground

Garrick Vaughan and Dwayne Alistair Thomas in Hymn, 2023, Inis Nua Theatre Company. Photo by Ashley Smith of Wide Eyed Studios. 
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The Playboy of the Western World: a new adaptation

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Eight Eight Time

Painted Bride, Blood Baby: Carpet Womb. Photo by Erin Johnson.
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Blood Baby

Rennie Harris Puremovement company, American Street Dancer, 2025. Photo courtesy of Rennie Harris Puremovement. 
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Rennie Harris in Residence

Music director Madeline Benson and composer Daniel Lazour at a developmental workshop for Night Side Songs, Northwestern University. 
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Night Side Songs

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Franklin’s Key

TOWN, 2022, Theatre Horizon, Norristown, PA. Pictured: Cassidy Gabrielle-Elise Peay. Photo by John C. Hawthorne.
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Wishing to Grow Up Brightly

Barbara Earl Thomas, A Joyful Noise, 2022, paper cut with hand-printed color. Photo by Spike Mafford / Zocalo Studios, courtesy of Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, and the artist. 
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Barbara Earl Thomas: The Illuminated Body

Pew Fellow Adebunmi Gbadebo works in her studio at The Clay Studio.
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Clay as Care

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Postmortem: Mütter Museum

Atwater Kent Collection material on display at the Philadelphia History Museum, c. 2018. Drexel University’s Reshaping Historical Narratives through the Atwater Kent Collection presents overlooked artifacts and narratives from the collection. Photo courtesy of Drexel University.
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Reshaping Historical Narratives through the Atwater Kent Collection

Shad nets used by workers to catch shad as they swam in from the Atlantic Ocean to their breeding ground in the Upper Delaware. Courtesy of Independence Seaport Museum.
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Breaking Uncommon Ground on the Delaware River

Michelle Lopez: Pandemonium work in progress. Image courtesy of the artist.
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Michelle Lopez: Pandemonium

Enrique Bostelmann, Autoretrato: Mi Ceguera (My Blindness), 2000.
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Enrique Bostelmann: Apertures and Borderscapes

Artist Guadalupe Maravilla. Photo courtesy of RAIR.
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Fellowship with Guadalupe Maravilla

Lindsay Smiling in Inua Ellams’ The Half God of Rainfall, The Wilma Theater, 2025. Photo by Johanna Austin.
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The Animal Farm Project

The Fabric Workshop and Museum's Print Project Manager Jill Adler (at right), screenprints Mary Heilmann’s Serape yardage with Studio Assistant Andrea Arts and Senior Project Technician Allen West (at right). Photo by Carlos Avendaño.
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FWM Forward: Evolving the Fabric Workshop at 50

Asian Arts Initiative, The Body You Want, 2024, installation view. Photo by Constance Mensh.
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Facilities plan for a multidisciplinary arts center

Open gallery rendering, Calder Gardens, 2022. Image courtesy of The Barnes Foundation, Herzog & de Meuron, and Calder Foundation, New York. Photo courtesy of Calder Foundation, New York / Art Resource, New York; photo © Calder Foundation, New York; work by Alexander Calder © Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; rendering © Herzog & de Meuron.
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Operational partnership for Calder Gardens opening

Historic Germantown, Black Lives in Germantown Tour at the Black Writers Museum, Vernon Park. Photo by John Faller.
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Resource-sharing to support historical organizations

David Liebman. Photo by Sune Andersson.
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Music for Saxophones: Heritage/Evolution

So Percussion. Photo by David Andrako.
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So Percussion's Where (we) Live

Poncho Sanchez and band. Image courtesy of Montgomery County Community College.
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Then and Now: Jazz Cubano