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ArtPhilly, Basil Biggs, 2026, The Wilma Theater. Photo by REC Philly.
Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff, and Thom Bell of Philadelphia International Records. Photo courtesy of Gamble-Huff Music.
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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Anna Deavere Smith.
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Anna Deavere Smith

Anna Deavere Smith in Second Stage Theater’s production of Let Me Down Easy at Washington’s Arena Stage, December 31, 2010 to February 13, 2011. Photo by Joan Marcus.
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Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz, Exodus | Pilgrimage, 2019, Orlando, FL. Photo by Nancy Rosado.
Mark Loughney , Pyrrhic Defeat: A Visual Study of Mass Incarceration, 2025, Eastern State, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Photo by Bob Watts, courtesy of Eastern State. 
Teaching at the End of Times (2023), an exhibition by Vox Populi presented at Atelier Gallery, featuring a mobile learning unit and public workshops exploring collective teaching and creative exchange. Photo by Constance Mensh. 
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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.
Indira Allegra on the Delaware River, 2023. Photo by Rob Blackson.
Consuelo Flores, Monarchs and Migration: Children at the Border of Freedom (left), 2026, screenprint, Self Help Graphics & Art, Los Angeles. Sandra Fernández, We...the Gente, 2014, screenprint, Coronado printstudio, Austin. Both prints are featured in America Today, The Print Center, Philadelphia, 2026. Photo by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.
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Chris Forsyth, 2011 Pew Fellow. Photo by Colin Lenton.
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Lucinda Childs’ Available Light in performance at the Drexel University Armory as part of the 2015 FringeArts Fringe Festival. Photo © Jacques-Jean Tiziou. Courtesy of FringeArts.
Reconstruction of Lucinda Childs' Dance. Photo by Sally Cohn.
Lucinda Childs (left) and Judy Hussie-Taylor in conversation at the launch of A Steady Pulse: Restaging Lucinda Childs, 1963–78. Photo courtesy of Troy Herion.