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Visitors gather on Eastern State Penitentiary's baseball field for a season reception celebrating its newest site-specific artist installations, 2019. Photo courtesy of Eastern State Penitentiary.
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Mission-focused business model development

Paul Ramírez Jonas, Let Freedom Ring, 2022, Washington, DC. The Association for Public Art is installing the public artwork in Independence National Historical Park. Photo courtesy of the Association for Public Art.
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Let Freedom Ring

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)

Charles Logan's chest of drawers, exhibited in the Blue Lodging Room, 2024, Stenton. Photo by Dennis Pickeral.
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Wrestling with Justice: Quakers and Northern Slavery at Stenton

The Bearded Ladies perform at Laurel Hill Picnic, 2023. Pictured: Josh Machiz, Jarbeaux, and Heath Allen. The Bearded Ladies are performing a weekly series to reflect on artistic sustainability through a queer cabaret lens. Photo by Wide Eyed Studios.
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Shavings

Anna Deavere Smith.
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Black Girls and Guns

Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz, Exodus | Pilgrimage, 2019, Orlando, FL. Photo by Nancy Rosado.
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Vamonos pa'l monte (Let's go to the mountains)

Gabriela Estephanie Solís performing with Tempesta di Mare, 2024. Photo by Sarah Giampietro.
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Hidden Virtuosas: music by and for the extraordinary female musicians of baroque Venice

Pew Fellow Tiona McClodden, I prayed to the wrong god for you, 2019, six-channel multimedia installation. Image courtesy of artist.
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Black Like That: Our Lives as Living Praxis

Three large sculptures shaped like clay vessels that have adult-sized walk-ways cut through them. The sculptures are covered in colorful designs reminiscent of graffiti.
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We Here

Sonya Clark, Reversals rehearsal still, 2019. Photo by Carlos Avendaño.
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Declaration House

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

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

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

Exhibition view of Amalia Pica’s Memorials for Intersections, Kunsthalle Lissabon, 2013. Photo by Bruno Lopes, courtesy of the Institute of Contemporary Art.
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I is for Institute

Yannick Nézet-Séguin with The Philadelphia Orchestra. Photo by Chris Kendig.
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Restoration of Works by William Grant Still

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

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Business Manager

The African American Museum in Philadelphia. Photo by J. Fusco, courtesy of Visit Philly.
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Live from AAMP: digital programming to expand audiences

A segment of the Bartram’s Mile Trail, a 1.55-mile paved recreational trail running throughout Bartram’s Garden. Photo courtesy Bartram’s Garden.
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Travels of William Bartram Reconsidered