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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

Camas Root as depicted in Edwards's Botanical Register v.18, London, 1832. Image courtesy of the Academy of Natural Sciences. 
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Botany of Nations: Indigenous Ecological Knowledge and the Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery

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

Artist El Anatsui signing prints made with Brandywine Workshop and Archives staff and affiliated master printer Alexis Nutini. Brandywine’s PrintLab supports eight artists in a creative residency to explore emerging printmaking techniques and technologies. Photo by Gustavo Garcia.
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PrintLab

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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

Artist jackie sumell working in the Solitary Gardens on Andry Street, New Orleans, Louisiana. Photo by Maiwenn Raoult. sumell will plant and tend a new Solitary Garden as part of the Michener Museum's Behind These Walls: Reckoning with Incarceration.
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Behind These Walls: Reckoning with Incarceration

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

Philadelphia Fife and Drum. Photo by James Winston.
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A More Perfect Union: Musical Reflections on Six Amendments to the U.S. Constitution

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

Devon Gilfillian, collaborator on WXPN's Declarations of Independents, in performance at the Brooklyn Bowl, Philadelphia, September 2023 . Photo by Melissa Simpson.  
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Declarations of Independents: Philly Anthems

Melanie Julian, Dane Eissler, Eric Kramer, Kristin Quinn, Ed Swidey, and Stephanie Leeann perform in EgoPo Classic Theater's Seagull, Latvian Society, February 2017. Photo by Dave Sarrafian.
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Building EgoPo’s Future: Strategic Planning for a Permanent Home Theater

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

Mendelssohn Chorus of Philadelphia, A Feast of Carols. Photo by Torello Productions. 
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Philadelphia Choral Collective

SAADA's staff at the Archives Month Philly event at the Free Library's Parkway Central Branch. Photo courtesy of SAADA. 
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Beyond Boundaries: Expanding SAADA's Business Model for America's Immigrant Communities

Jeri Lynne Johnson conducts Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra at Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral, July 25, 2025. Photo courtesy of Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra.  
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Black Women Composers Initiative

Indira Allegra on the Delaware River, 2023. Photo by Rob Blackson.
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Sail Through This To That