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Composer Evan Williams. Photo by Amurica Photo.
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Recomposing the Past: An African American Perspective

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

Carl Cheng/John Doe Co., Erosion Machine No. 4, 1969; plexiglass, metal racks and fittings, plastic, water pump, LED lights, black light, pebbles, erosion rocks, wood base; 15" x 25" x 9". Photo by Jeff McClane, courtesy of Carl Cheng and Philip Martin Gallery.
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Carl Cheng: Nature Never Loses

BalletX company performs choreographer Jennifer Archibald’s Maslow’s Peak, 2024. Photo by Whitney Browne, courtesy of BalletX. 
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Maslow’s Peak

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How to Survive

The Crossing, Farming, 2023, Bucks County. Photo by Peter English.
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Farming

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New building plan to create an arts hub

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

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

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.
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TERRA: Bodies & Territories

Pew Fellow angel shanel edwards, untitled collage.
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What is West?

Philadelphia Orchestra musicians Julia Li (violin), Che-Hung Chen (viola), and Yumi Kendall (assistant principal cello) perform during a naturalization ceremony in West Philadelphia, part of the Orchestra's free concert series Our City, Your Orchestra, 2021. Photo by Jeff Fusco.
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Audience research and technology expansion

ICA staff gather for a training on “Creating Affirming Spaces"
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Mission realignment to center welcoming broad audiences

Opera Philadelphia, Charlie Parker’s Yardbird, 2016, the Apollo Theater, New York City. Opera Philadelphia is developing partnerships to co-create new operas with other organizations. Photo by Sofia Negron, courtesy of Opera Philadelphia.
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Business model evolution to foster organizational alliances

Cliveden of the National Trust, kitchen quarter on the second floor of Cliveden, 2021. Photo by Libbie Hawes.
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Transcending Thresholds

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The Kiyoshi Project

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Postmortem: Mütter Museum

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PURE LUCIA: The life and work of Lucia Dlugoszewski

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Franklin’s Key

Designing Motherhood: Things That Make and Break Our Births, 2021, installation view, The Mütter Museum of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA. Photo by Constance Mensh, image courtesy of the Mütter Museum.
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Designing Motherhood: Things That Make and Break Our Births

Museum of the American Revolution's Declaration of Independence gallery. Image courtesy of the museum.
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The Declaration’s Journey

ENGOMA ENTEERA: Classical Music from Uganda performed at Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul. Photo by Adam Lesnick.
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ENGOMA ENTEERA: Classical Music from Uganda

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Beyond Glass Cases

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