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An on-set reenactment of William Penn working at a desk, shot at the Colonial Preservation Farmstead at the Ridley Creek State Park on September 25, 2025. Photo by Jonathan Kohl, courtesy of History Making Productions. 
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In Pursuit: Philadelphia and the Making of America 

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Business model development for long-term sustainability

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

Dr. Marvin Sapp performs with the Philadelphia Orchestra at \Gospel Meets Symphony
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Philadelphia Freedom Festival

Peter Brötzmann.
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New Paths Festival

David Gordon.
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bb/he and dg/together again

Malavika Sarukkai. Photo courtesy of Deepa Colour Lab, Delhi.
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Malavika Sarukkai in The Eternal River—A Journey in Bharatanatyam

A work-in-progress performance of The Dance Apocalypse at Scratch Night, March 2013. Pictured, from left: Gabrielle Revlock and Nicole Bindler. Photo by Kate Raines.
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The Dance Apocalypse

Tommie Waheed Evans. Photo by Lois Greenfield.
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Bad Blood

Lucinda Childs’ Available Light in performance at the Drexel University Armory as part of the 2015 FringeArts Fringe Festival. Photo © Jacques-Jean Tiziou. Courtesy of FringeArts.
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Available Light

Israel Galván of Nuevo Flamenco: The Galván Legacy, the centerpiece of Pasión y Arte's 2014 Flamenco Festival, performing La Curva. Photo by Felix Vazquez.
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Nuevo Flamenco: The Galván Legacy

Nichole Canuso in Midway Avenue. Photo by Peggy Woolsey.
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Midway Avenue

Pauline Oliveros. Photo by Pieter Kers.
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Exploration of Voice and Choreography with Pauline Oliveros

Tania Isaac performing in 2007.
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open notebook: crazy beautiful

Keith J. Conallen in Don Juan Comes Home from Iraq. Photo by Alexander Iziliaev.
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Don Juan Comes Home from Iraq

Photo courtesy of Aaron Cromie.
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The Body Lautrec

Geoff Sobelle in The Object Lesson at the Kirk Douglas Theatre. Photo by Craig Schwartz, courtesy of Center Theatre Group.
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The Object Lesson

Kristin Baily in WIDE AWAKE: A CIVIL WAR CABARET.
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Wide Awake: A Civil War Cabaret

Mary Tuomanen as Irina in Three Sisters. Photo by Mark Garvin, courtesy of the Arden Theatre Company.
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Three Sisters