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A prototype The Magic Flute, a unique user interface created by Don Buchla in 1965. Photo by MMT/EMEAPP. 
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Museum of Music Technology / EMEAPP

Installation view, A Certain Slant of Light. Pearlstein Gallery. 2025. Photo by Jaime Alvarez. 
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Leonard Pearlstein Gallery, Drexel University

Spruce Street Harbor Park, 2025. Photo courtesy of the Delaware River Waterfront Corporation.
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Delaware River Waterfront Corporation

Jeri Lynne Johnson conducts Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra at Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral, July 25, 2025. Photo courtesy of Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra.  
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Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra

Allison Janae Hamilton, still from A House Called Florida. Photo courtesy of the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York and Aspen.  
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A Slow Drag for the Conjure Women (working title)

Judah Burke performing at Monument Lab's Declaration House Block Party, curated by Yolanda Wisher for the opening of Sonya Clark’s The Descendants of Monticello, 2024, Philadelphia, PA. Photo by Steve Weinik.  
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[birdsong]

misael soto, Reflecting Pools, 2019. Two performer-operators, one musician, two industrial gas-powered water pumps, approximately 400 filled sandbags, two recycled billboard vinyl tarps, and water. Photo by by Natalia Molina, courtesy of misael soto. 
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New Deals: Artists Commune with Infrastructure

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

Performances, Exhibitions, & Events
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The Print Center

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

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

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

Carmen Mardonez, I dare, textile installation, 30 discarded bed sheets hand embroidered, 2022. Photo by Carmen Mardonez. 
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Held Within

Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff, and Thom Bell of Philadelphia International Records. Photo courtesy of Gamble-Huff Music.
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For the Love of Philly

Dance Lab New York rehearsal with Tommie-Waheed Evans. Photo by Jenna Maslechko. 
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SERMON

Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra as they perform Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 6 on April 10, 2025. Photo by Allie Ippolito. 
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The Party

Arturo O’Farrill in performance. Photo by David Garten.
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PRISM Quartet

Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, directed by Blanka Zizka, The Wilma Theater, 2012. Photo by Alexander Iziliaev.
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Wilma Theater

"Old City Arts History Project," poster for Old City Arts, fall 1978. Photo courtesy of Philadelphia Dance Projects.
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Philadelphia Dance Projects

Pew Fellow José Ortiz-Pagán, El Vínculo (ceremonial suit), 2020, Solitary Procession, South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Photo by Gustavo García.
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José Ortiz-Pagán

George Rodriguez, 2025 Pew Fellow. Photo by Robertsen Ashman.
Pew Fellow

George Rodriguez

Sosena Solomon, 2025 Pew Fellow. Photo by Argenis Apolinario.
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Sosena Solomon

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Omar Tate

Pew Fellow Rose Jarboe, The Rose Garden: Dear Mom, Fabric Workshop and Museum, 2024. Photo by Christopher Ash.
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Rose Jarboe