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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

Derrick Hodge, Grammy Award winner, bass guitarist, and music director. Photo by Kevin Mohatt.
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Soundscapes for Tomorrow: Stage One Residencies

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

A Photograph of Don Buchla with an assortment of his creations from across his career. Photo courtesy of BuchlaUSA.
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Instruments That Talk Back: Celebrating the Legacy of Don Buchla

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

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

Devon Gilfillian, collaborator on WXPN's Declarations of Independents, in performance at the Brooklyn Bowl, Philadelphia, September 2023 . Photo by Melissa Simpson.  
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Declarations of Independents: Philly Anthems

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

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

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

Philadelphia Fife and Drum. Photo by James Winston.
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A More Perfect Union: Musical Reflections on Six Amendments to the U.S. Constitution

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A Hundred Years On

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Wrestling with Justice: Quakers and Northern Slavery at Stenton

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

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How to Survive

A guest at The Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History's exhibition The First Salute. Photo by Christopher Brown / Shoot From Within Photography. 
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The First Salute: An Untold Story of the American Revolution