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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.
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.
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.
Pictured, from left: Burak Bilgili and Chrystal E. Williams. Photo by Paul Sirochman.
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Musicopia

Kang Wangsheng. Photo by Wenge Wang.
A diverse and engaged audience gathers for a Philly ReACTS event at City Hall. Photo by Michael Perez, courtesy of First Person Arts.
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First Person Arts

Legacy Center project intern Alex Miller, project intern Isabel Parker, and project manager Melissa Mandell research the collection and select documents for a student session in 2011. Image courtesy of Drexel University College of Medicine.
The Wagner Free Institute of Science.
Mark Tribe, The Liberation of Our People: Angela Davis, 1969/2008, Port Huron Project, 5-minute video based on a 10-minute speech.
The Greenhouse Projects installation at the American Philosophical Society Museum, designed by architect and 2010 Pew Fellow Jenny Sabin. Photo courtesy of the American Philosophical Society Museum.
Restoration of two of the last remaining structures from Philadelphia’s 1876 Centennial Exposition in Fairmount Park. Image courtesy of Shofuso, The Friends of the Japanese House and Garden.
Cal Scott and Kevin Burke.
Mother and Twins monument by Henry Dmochowski Saunders, 1857. In Laurel Hill Cemetery's south section, overlooking Philadelphia's Schuylkill River.
Capturing the spring landscape on canvas at the Morris Arboretum. Courtesy of the Morris Arboretum.
The Raga Samay Festival. Photo by JJ Tiziou.
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Crossroads Music

Johnson House Historic Site. Image courtesy of Hidden City Philadelphia.