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

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

Michelle Lopez: Pandemonium work in progress. Image courtesy of the artist.
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Michelle Lopez: Pandemonium

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.
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Lunchtime: The History of Science on the School Food Tray

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

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

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Eight Eight Time

Pew Fellow Syd Carpenter, 3 Mother Pins on a Vine, 2021; Clay, mixed media, 18" x 37" x 26". Photo courtesy of the artist.
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Syd Carpenter: Planting in Place, Time, and Memory

Artist El Anatsui signing prints made with Brandywine Workshop and Archives staff and affiliated master printer Alexis Nutini. Brandywine’s PrintLab supports eight artists in a creative residency to explore emerging printmaking techniques and technologies. Photo by Gustavo Garcia.
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PrintLab

John W. Mosley Photograph Collection, Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection, Temple University Libraries.
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The Tenants of Lenapehocking in the Age of Magnets

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Wrestling with Justice: Quakers and Northern Slavery at Stenton

Camas Root as depicted in Edwards's Botanical Register v.18, London, 1832. Image courtesy of the Academy of Natural Sciences. 
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Botany of Nations: Indigenous Ecological Knowledge and the Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery

errell 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

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

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

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

Leonard Pearlstein Gallery's 2025 project grant will feature the work of installation artist Tabitha Nikolai, pictured here at the Liquid Dungeon Byproduct group exhibition, Holding Contemporary, Portland, OR, October 2020. Photo by Mario Gallucci.
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Escape->Control->Play

SAADA's staff at the Archives Month Philly event at the Free Library's Parkway Central Branch. Photo courtesy of SAADA. 
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Beyond Boundaries: Expanding SAADA's Business Model for America's Immigrant Communities

Mendelssohn Chorus of Philadelphia, A Feast of Carols. Photo by Torello Productions. 
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Philadelphia Choral Collective

The Fabric Workshop and Museum's Print Project Manager Jill Adler (at right), screenprints Mary Heilmann’s Serape yardage with Studio Assistant Andrea Arts and Senior Project Technician Allen West (at right). Photo by Carlos Avendaño.
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FWM Forward: Evolving the Fabric Workshop at 50

Melanie Julian, Dane Eissler, Eric Kramer, Kristin Quinn, Ed Swidey, and Stephanie Leeann perform in EgoPo Classic Theater's Seagull, Latvian Society, February 2017. Photo by Dave Sarrafian.
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Building EgoPo’s Future: Strategic Planning for a Permanent Home Theater

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You Caught Me on Your Shoulders by Kinetic Light

Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz, Exodus | Pilgrimage, 2019, Orlando, FL. Photo by Nancy Rosado.
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Vámonos pa'l monte (Let's go to the mountains)