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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.
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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

Dissection, from the Drexel Archives, Women's Medical College of PA. Source material for The Woman Question at People's Light.
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The Woman Question

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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Lunar Retreat

Birthplace of Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, c. 1690. Photo courtesy of the Historic American Buildings Survey, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
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Poquessing Creek Trail of History: The Land, The People, The Stories

Jerrell Gibbs, Trees, 2019, oil on canvas, 36" x 48", The Margaux and Raphael Blavy Collection, Saint Epain, France. Brandywine Museum of Art is presenting the first monographic exhibition of Gibbs’ work.
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Jerrell Gibbs: No Solace in the Shade

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

Odean Pope, Coltrane Celebration, 2017. Photo courtesy of the artist.
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RECESS

Anna Deavere Smith.
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The Basil Biggs Project

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Wrestling with Justice: Quakers and Northern Slavery at Stenton

Cindy Gosselin, Untitled, 2022; mixed media sculpture with acrylic thread, wood, tinsel, foam, ping pong racket, plastic doll hand. Image courtesy of the Hurford Center for the Arts and Humanities.
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LOOK HERE

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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

Moki Cherry, Title Unknown (Dragon), 1975; textile appliqué tapestry (silk, cotton, mixed fabrics). Photo courtesy of: Anders Sune Berg, Galleri Nicolai Wallner.
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The Living Temple: The World of Moki Cherry

Pew Fellow Adebunmi Gbadebo works in her studio at The Clay Studio.
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Clay as Care

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

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)