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Susan Lankin-Watts in concert. Photo by James Wasserman.
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Philadelphia Folklore Project

Priyadarsini Govind and T. M. Krishna during a rehearsal. Photo by Alaap. Courtesy of Sruti.
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Sruti, the India Music and Dance Society

Digital composite of Eastern State Penitentiary’s Hidden Lives, Illuminated, 2017. Photo courtesy of Greenhouse Media.
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Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site

Barbara Kasten: Stages, 2015, installation view, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), University of Pennsylvania. Photo by Constance Mensh. Courtesy of ICA.
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Institute of Contemporary Art

Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool installation at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
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Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

From left: Sherin Guirguis, Mashrabeya, plywood, 2009. Kianja Strobert, Color Line, sculpture, 2010. Photo courtesy of Vox Populi.
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Vox Populi

Tacita Dean, JG, 2013. Color and black and white anamorphic 35mm film with optical sound, 26 ½ minutes. ©Tacita Dean courtesy Frith Street Gallery, London/Marian Goodman Gallery, New York/Paris.
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Arcadia Exhibitions

Roberto Lugo, 2019 Pew Fellow. Photo by Jewel Leah, courtesy of Wexler Gallery.
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The Clay Studio

The cast of Three Sisters around the table during a reading held in Providence in April, 2013. Photo courtesy of the Arden Theatre Company.
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Arden Theatre Company

Heather Alicia Simms, Oberon K.A. Adjepong, Chandra Thomas, Keona Welch in Ruined. Photo by Mark Garvin.
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Philadelphia Theatre Company

Pig Iron Theatre Company, A Period of Animate Existence. Photo by JJ Tiziou.
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Pig Iron Theatre Company

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Madi Distefano

Audiences take in Liberty To Go To See, 2015, at Cliveden’s Main House, an interactive dramatic event based on the Chew Family Papers, produced by the New Freedom Theatre and featuring a script created through a year-long partnership between Cliveden and the Philadelphia Young Playwrights.
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Cliveden of the National Trust

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

Deshler-Morris, Germantown White House. Courtesy of Historic Germantown.
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Historic Germantown

Love Letter by Steve Powers, produced by Philadelphia Mural Arts Program. Photo by Adam Wallacavage.
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Mural Arts Philadelphia

Installation view of the Better Philadelphia exhibition, 1947. Photo by Ezra Stoller, published in Architectural Forum, reprinted as Philadelphia Plans Again, courtesy of The Architectural Archives of the University of Pennsylvania.
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Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia

Gisela Adisa and Dulé Hill in Lights Out: Nat “King” Cole, presented by People’s Light. Photo by Mark Garvin.
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People’s Light

Settlement Music School students in performance. Photo courtesy of Settlement Music School.
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Settlement Music School

Faustin Linyekula's Philly Files. Photo by Jen Cleary.
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Painted Bride

MAYA 2012: Lords of Time, 2012, installation view, Penn Museum. Photo courtesy of Penn Museum.
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Penn Museum, University of Pennsylvania

Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh, Untitled - I Can’t Draw, a large-scale work that deals with perception, space, and the seamless proximity existing between the ideas of the subject and object—the maker and the made. Courtesy of the artist.
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The Village of Arts and Humanities

Asian Art Initiative's multi-tenant art facility ribbon cutting ceremony on 11/4/11. Photo by Annie Seng.
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Asian Arts Initiative