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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.
Gabriela Estephanie Solís performing with Tempesta di Mare, 2024. Photo by Sarah Giampietro.
Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz, Exodus | Pilgrimage, 2019, Orlando, FL. Photo by Nancy Rosado.
Museum of the American Revolution's Declaration of Independence gallery. Image courtesy of the museum.
ENGOMA ENTEERA: Classical Music from Uganda performed at Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul. Photo by Adam Lesnick.
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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

Larry W. Cook, Horizons, 2022. Photo by the artist.
Joiri Minaya, Container #4, 2020, 60" x 40". Photo courtesy of the artist.
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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Susan Kleckner, SPK Self Portrait, 1976-77, mixed media. 
Michelle Lopez: Pandemonium work in progress. Image courtesy of the artist.
A hot mid-morning lunch in school, Ashwood Plantations, South Carolina, 1939. Science History Institute’s Lunchtime examines the history and contemporary implications of the US School Lunch Program. Photo from the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
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

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

Carmen Arteaga demonstrates the intricate bobbin lace-making technique called mundillo, or “little world.” Guatemalan and Puerto Rican designers are leading textile workshops for Taller Puertorriqueño’s Tramando. Photo by Xavier Garcia, courtesy of Taller Puertorriqueño.
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Tramando

TOWN, 2022, Theatre Horizon, Norristown, PA. Pictured: Cassidy Gabrielle-Elise Peay. Photo by John C. Hawthorne.
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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Pew Fellow Syd Carpenter, 3 Mother Pins on a Vine, 2021; Clay, mixed media, 18" x 37" x 26". Photo courtesy of the artist.