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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

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

Leonard Pearlstein Gallery's 2025 project grant will feature the work of installation artist Tabitha Nikolai, pictured here at the Liquid Dungeon Byproduct group exhibition, Holding Contemporary, Portland, OR, October 2020. Photo by Mario Gallucci.
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Escape->Control->Play

SAADA's staff at the Archives Month Philly event at the Free Library's Parkway Central Branch. Photo courtesy of SAADA. 
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Beyond Boundaries: Expanding SAADA's Business Model for America's Immigrant Communities

Mendelssohn Chorus of Philadelphia, A Feast of Carols. Photo by Torello Productions. 
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Philadelphia Choral Collective

The Fabric Workshop and Museum's Print Project Manager Jill Adler (at right), screenprints Mary Heilmann’s Serape yardage with Studio Assistant Andrea Arts and Senior Project Technician Allen West (at right). Photo by Carlos Avendaño.
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FWM Forward: Evolving the Fabric Workshop at 50

Melanie Julian, Dane Eissler, Eric Kramer, Kristin Quinn, Ed Swidey, and Stephanie Leeann perform in EgoPo Classic Theater's Seagull, Latvian Society, February 2017. Photo by Dave Sarrafian.
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Building EgoPo’s Future: Strategic Planning for a Permanent Home Theater

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You Caught Me on Your Shoulders by Kinetic Light

Tshay, 2024 Pew Fellow. Photo by David Evan McDowell. 
Questions of Practice

Pew Fellow & Filmmaker Tshay on the Stories Images Tell and the Necessity of Mystery

Interview
Tshay, 2024 Pew Fellow. Photo by David Evan McDowell.
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Tshay

Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz, Exodus | Pilgrimage, 2019, Orlando, FL. Photo by Nancy Rosado.
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Vámonos pa'l monte (Let's go to the mountains)

Music director Madeline Benson and composer Daniel Lazour at a developmental workshop for Night Side Songs, Northwestern University. 
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Night Side Songs

Mendelssohn Club at Trinity. Photo by John L. Shipman.
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Mendelssohn Chorus of Philadelphia

Pavi Jaisankar speaks at a SAADA Community Forum at the Asian Arts Initiative in front of a photograph of Dr. Anandibai Joshee, the first South Asian woman in the world to earn a degree in medicine, 2013. Photo by Vivek G. Bharathan.
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South Asian American Digital Archive

Pew Fellow Jonathan González, De La Preference Du Corps (Body Preferences), 2024. Performance view, David Zwirner, New York, NY, August 29, 2024. Duet Performer, Alexis De La Rosa. Photo by Julieta Cervantes.
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Jonathan González

Emma Copley Eisenberg, 2025 Pew Fellow. Photo by Kenzi Crash.
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Emma Copley Eisenberg

Jos Duncan Asé, 2025 Pew Fellow. Photo by Ronald Gray.
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Jos Duncan-Asé

Film series director Andrew Ferrett and key crew preparing to film copy of the Declaration of Independence printed in 1776 at American Philosophical Society; May 12, 2025. Photo by Jonathan Kohl, courtesy of History Making Productions. 
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History Making Productions

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

The exterior of the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History. Photo courtesy of The Weitzman.  
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Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History

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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We Are the Seeds

The Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center, including its largest agricultural artifact, the 1826 Seipt Family Barn. Photo by L. Allen Viehmeyer. 
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Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center

Interior view, Philadelphia's Magic Gardens, moasic by Isaiah Zagar, chandeliers by Warren Muller. Photo courtesy of Philadelphia's Magic Gardens.
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Philadelphia's Magic Gardens

Vijay Iyer performs at The Clef Club in 2025. Photo by Tim Koen.
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Philadelphia Clef Club of Jazz & Performing Arts