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Allison Janae Hamilton, still from A House Called Florida. Photo courtesy of the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York and Aspen.  
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A Slow Drag for the Conjure Women (working title)

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You Caught Me on Your Shoulders by Kinetic Light

Judah Burke performing at Monument Lab's Declaration House Block Party, curated by Yolanda Wisher for the opening of Sonya Clark’s The Descendants of Monticello, 2024, Philadelphia, PA. Photo by Steve Weinik.  
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[birdsong]

misael soto, Reflecting Pools, 2019. Two performer-operators, one musician, two industrial gas-powered water pumps, approximately 400 filled sandbags, two recycled billboard vinyl tarps, and water. Photo by by Natalia Molina, courtesy of misael soto. 
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New Deals: Artists Commune with Infrastructure

Dance Lab New York rehearsal with Tommie-Waheed Evans. Photo by Jenna Maslechko. 
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SERMON

Carmen Mardonez, I dare, textile installation, 30 discarded bed sheets hand embroidered, 2022. Photo by Carmen Mardonez. 
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Held Within

PRISM Quartet. Photo by Office of Development. 
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Roots and Branches

Lenape items from the Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center collection. Photo by L. Allen Viehmeyer.
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Cultural Exchange with Delaware Tribe Cultural Education Department

We Are the Seeds' 2021 arts and culture festival at Cherry Street Pier in Philadelphia, where they shared Lenape culture through dance, song, and storytelling. Pictured: Red Blanket Singers highlighting Chief Urie Ridgeway’s family. Photo by Max McDonald.
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this situation: an examination of myth and memory

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

An exhibition of carved stone sculptures on salmon pink pedestals. Painted on the wall in dark green is the exhibition title: "William Edmondson: A Monumental Vision."
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William Edmondson: A Monumental Vision

Cai Guo-Qiang: Fireflies, 2017. Photo by Jeff Fusco, courtesy of Association for Public Art.
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Cai Guo-Qiang: Fireflies

Suzanne Valadon, Nude Sitting on a Sofa, 1916, oil on canvas, 32” x 23”. Courtesy of the Weisman & Michel Collection, © 2021 Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York.
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Suzanne Valadon: Model, Painter, Rebel

James Claypoole Jr., "The German Bleeds & Bears ye Furs Of Quaker Lords & Savage Curs ...," 1964, etching, Philadelphia. Image courtesy of The Library Company of Philadelphia.
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Redrawing History: Indigenous Perspectives on Colonial America

Displacement performance by Tania Bruguera as part of Person of the Crowd: The Contemporary Art of Flânerie at the Barnes Foundation, May 4, 2017. Photo by Greenhouse Media.
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Person of the Crowd: The Contemporary Art of Flânerie

Radio Silence, by Michael Rakowitz and Mural Arts Philadelphia. Photo by Steve Weinik, courtesy of Mural Arts Philadelphia.
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Radio Silence