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Strategic Planning

ANSP Archives Coll. 779 © J. D. Weintraub/ANSP Entomology.
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Public Funding Platform

Jackie Brookner, Veden Taika (The Magic of Water), 2007, earth and plantings. Image courtesy of the artist.
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Urban Equilibrium—Planning for New Environmental Art

Demetrius Oliver, Deutan, 2014, green flood lights and infrared heat lamps; and Heliometric, 2014, buckets, steel, slide projector, and single slide as part of Demetrius Oliver: Canicular at The Print Center. Photo by Andrew Pinkham Photography. 
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Demetrius Oliver: Canicular

Brandon Collwes, a former member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, performs on the Main Stage of Dancing around the Bride. The bicycle wheel and chairs are by Robert Rauschenberg (in homage to Marcel Duchamp’s Bicycle Wheel of 1913) for Merce Cunningham’s Travelogue production of 1977. Dancers appear courtesy of the Merce Cunningham Trust. Photo by Constance Mensh, courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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Dancing around the Bride: Cage, Cunningham, Johns, Rauschenberg, and Duchamp

Left to right: Song Dong, Song ErRui, and Yin Xiuzhen. Image courtesy of the Philadelphia Art Alliance.
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Song Dong and Yin Xiuzhen: The Way of Chopsticks

Installation shot from Paul Evans: Crossing Boundaries and Crafting Modernism at the James A. Michener Art Museum. Photo by Sean Wells.
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Paul Evans: Crossing Boundaries and Crafting Modernism

Jason Rhoades, UNTITLED (FROM MY MEDINAH: IN PURSUIT OF MY ERMITAGE…), 2004, installation view, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania. Photo: Aaron Igler/Greenhouse Media.
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Jason Rhoades, Four Roads

Han Bennink, Untitled (1970) [ICP 006], album cover. Image courtesy of Susanna von Canon.
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Han Bennink and Peter Brötzmann: Drawings, Paintings & Objects

Dance performed by Lee Ann Etzold and Erin McNulty. Photo by Christy Beck.
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Exploration of Public Performance for Dialogue Around Disability Issues

Masjidullah filming for Muslim Voices of Philadelphia. Courtesy of Scribe Video Center.
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Muslim Voices of Philadelphia

The John Coltrane House in West Philadelphia.
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Programming at the John Coltrane House

A site visit to Clemson Winding as part of Mural Arts' Structure and Surface project, 2012. Photo by Katie Winkler.
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Structure and Surface

Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania students with skeletons, circa 1895. Courtesy of Drexel University College of Medicine Legacy Center Archives and Special Collections, Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania Photograph Collection.
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Playing with the Past: A Digital History Toolkit

Palisades High School students during their second round debate. Photo by Conrad Erb, courtesy of the Chemical Heritage Foundation.
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Conflicts in Chemistry: The Case of Plastics

Anthony \Big A\" Sherrod. Photo by John Vettese/WXPN."
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Mississippi Blues Project

Photo by Ram Narayanan.
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Sounds of India: Influences and Integration of Folk Melodies in Carnatic Music

Scottish troops gather around Lieutenant Gordon (Gabriel Preisser) in Opera Philadelphia’s East Coast premiere of the Pulitzer Prize-winning opera Silent Night. Photo by Dominic M. Mercier.
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Silent Night

Network for New Music. Photo by Jacques-Jean Tiziou.
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The Harbison Project

Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia performing Julia Wolfe's Anthracite Fields at the Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral. Photo by Derek Smythe.
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Julia Wolfe's Anthracite Fields

The Raga Samay Festival. Photo by JJ Tiziou.
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Raga Samay Festival

Musicians perform at Christ Church on November 30, 2012, as part of Bowerbird's Cage: Beyond Silence. Photo by Eric Ashleigh. Courtesy of Bowerbird.
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Cage: Beyond Silence

The Al-Bustan Takht Ensemble. Photo by JJ Tiziou.
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Arab Music Concert Series

Raphael Xavier. Photo by Steven Gunther.
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The Unofficial Guide to Audience Watching Performance