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The Bearded Ladies perform at Laurel Hill Picnic, 2023. Pictured: Josh Machiz, Jarbeaux, and Heath Allen. The Bearded Ladies are performing a weekly series to reflect on artistic sustainability through a queer cabaret lens. Photo by Wide Eyed Studios.
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Shavings

Pew Fellow Tiona McClodden, I prayed to the wrong god for you, 2019, six-channel multimedia installation. Image courtesy of artist.
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Black Like That: Our Lives as Living Praxis

Sonya Clark, Reversals rehearsal still, 2019. Photo by Carlos Avendaño.
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Declaration House

Asian Arts Initiative, The Body You Want, 2024, installation view. Photo by Constance Mensh.
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Facilities plan for a multidisciplinary arts center

Historic Germantown, Black Lives in Germantown Tour at the Black Writers Museum, Vernon Park. Photo by John Faller.
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Resource-sharing to support historical organizations

Inis Nua Theatre Company, Hymn, 2023. Pictured: Garrick Vaughan and Dwayne Alistair Thomas. Photo by Ashley Smith, Wide Eyed Studios.
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Strategic partnership to strengthen contemporary theater companies

People’s Light, Flight Night, Farmhouse Pavilion. Photo by Eve Trojanov.
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Development of a live arts center to expand audiences

The Wilma Theater, Hilma, 2024. Photo by Johanna Austin. 
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Co-production model for audience and income growth

Exhibition view of Amalia Pica’s Memorials for Intersections, Kunsthalle Lissabon, 2013. Photo by Bruno Lopes, courtesy of the Institute of Contemporary Art.
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I is for Institute

Yannick Nézet-Séguin with The Philadelphia Orchestra. Photo by Chris Kendig.
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Restoration of Works by William Grant Still

The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage 2024 Grantee Celebration, Science History Institute, Philadelphia, PA. Photo by Constance Mensh.
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Photos: Celebrating Our 2024 Grantees

Enrique Bostelmann, Autoretrato: Mi Ceguera (My Blindness), 2000.
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Enrique Bostelmann: Apertures and Borderscapes

Michelle Lopez, Ballast & Barricades solo exhibition, 2019-20. Photo by Constance Mensh, courtesy of the artist. 
Front & Center

Must-See Cultural Events in Philadelphia for Your 2025 Calendar

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Business Manager

Jenny Gersten. Photo by Liz Ligdon.
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Jenny Gersten

Slavs and Tatars, Not Moscow Not Mecca, 2012, installation view at Secession, Vienna. Photo by Otto Ottenschläger.
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Hurford Center for the Arts and Humanities

US performs at The Bearded Ladies’ Late Night Snacks. Photo by Johanna Austin
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The Bearded Ladies Cabaret

Museum of the American Revolution. Photo by Justin Mayer/JPG Photography.
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Museum of the American Revolution

2012 Pew Fellow jumatatu poe. Photo by Colin Lenton.
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Deshler-Morris, Germantown White House. Courtesy of Historic Germantown.
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Historic Germantown

The African American Museum in Philadelphia. Photo by J. Fusco, courtesy of Visit Philly.
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Live from AAMP: digital programming to expand audiences

A segment of the Bartram’s Mile Trail, a 1.55-mile paved recreational trail running throughout Bartram’s Garden. Photo courtesy Bartram’s Garden.
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Travels of William Bartram Reconsidered

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Trial Exhibitions at Mount Pleasant

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Bearing Witness