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Shad nets used by workers to catch shad as they swam in from the Atlantic Ocean to their breeding ground in the Upper Delaware. Courtesy of Independence Seaport Museum.
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Breaking Uncommon Ground on the Delaware River

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Business model development for long-term sustainability

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PURE LUCIA: The life and work of Lucia Dlugoszewski

Susan Kleckner, SPK Self Portrait, 1976-77, mixed media. 
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Raw Material: The Art and Life of Susan Kleckner

Head Over Heels, 2023, Theatre Horizon. Photo by John C. Hawthorne. 
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Wishing to Grow Up Brightly

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

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

Joiri Minaya, Container #4, 2020, 60" x 40". Photo courtesy of the artist.
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Joiri Minaya: Venus Flytrap

The Association for Public Art's Museum Without Walls AUDIO launch event at Philadelphia's LOVE Park, June 10, 2010. Pictured: Robert Indiana, LOVE, 1976. Photo by Albert Yee. 
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Museum Without Walls: AUDIO

Music director Madeline Benson and composer Daniel Lazour at a developmental workshop for Night Side Songs, Northwestern University. 
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Night Side Songs

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Eight Eight Time

Group sculpture created at Clay Fest 2023, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA. Photo by CJ Lewis. 
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Clay as Care

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

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A Hundred Years On

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

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Lunar Retreat

To All The Kings Who Have No Crowns installation view, 2022, Carl Freedman Gallery, Kent, UK. Photo courtesy of the Jennifer Lauren Gallery and Carl Freedman Gallery.
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LOOK HERE

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

Larry W. Cook, Horizons, 2022. Photo by the artist.
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Wherever There is Light

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

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

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The Kiyoshi Project

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