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Susan Kleckner, SPK Self Portrait, 1976-77, mixed media. 
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Raw Material: The Art and Life of Susan Kleckner

Alaa Eddine Aljem, The Travels of Ibn Jubayr, film still, 2025.
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The Travels of Ibn Jubayr

Rennie Harris Puremovement company, American Street Dancer, 2025. Photo courtesy of Rennie Harris Puremovement. 
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Rennie Harris in Residence

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 (fiscally sponsored by CultureTrust Greater Philadelphia)  

Paul Ramírez Jonas, Let Freedom Ring, 2022, Washington, DC. The Association for Public Art is installing the public artwork in Independence National Historical Park. Photo courtesy of the Association for Public Art.
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Let Freedom Ring

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

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

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)

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 (fiscally sponsored by CultureTrust Greater Philadelphia)