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BalletX company performs choreographer Jennifer Archibald’s Maslow’s Peak, 2024. Photo by Whitney Browne, courtesy of BalletX. 
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Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz, Exodus | Pilgrimage, 2019, Orlando, FL. Photo by Nancy Rosado.
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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.
Gabriela Estephanie Solís performing with Tempesta di Mare, 2024. Photo by Sarah Giampietro.
King Britt, seen from above, sits at a table filled with synthesizers, samplers, and a microphone.
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. 
Installation view, Vera X Diary, 2023, eight channels video, 12:25, dimensions variable. Photo by Goway Lu. 
Mark Loughney , Pyrrhic Defeat: A Visual Study of Mass Incarceration, 2025, Eastern State, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Photo by Bob Watts, courtesy of Eastern State. 
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.
Carmen Arteaga demonstrates the intricate bobbin lace-making technique called mundillo, or “little world.” Guatemalan and Puerto Rican designers are leading textile workshops for Taller Puertorriqueño’s Tramando. Photo by Xavier Garcia, courtesy of Taller Puertorriqueño.
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Tramando

Pepón Osorio, My Beating Heart/Mi corazón latiente, 2023, installation view, New Museum,New York. Photo by Liz Ligon, courtesy of New Museum.  
Susan Kleckner, SPK Self Portrait, 1976-77, mixed media. 
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Pew Fellow Syd Carpenter, 3 Mother Pins on a Vine, 2021; Clay, mixed media, 18" x 37" x 26". Photo courtesy of the artist.
Odean Pope, Coltrane Celebration, 2017. Photo courtesy of the artist.
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RECESS

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Shayla-Vie Jenkins, lead artist for Christ Church Preservation Trust’s On Buried Ground. Photo by Anna M. Maynard.
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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Painted Bride, Blood Baby: Carpet Womb. Photo by Erin Johnson.
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Blood Baby