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Wambui Ippolito, Etherea, 2021, PHS Flower Show, Philadelphia, PA. Pennsylvania Horticultural Society is exploring Philadelphia gardening culture through an exhibition, demonstration garden, and a city-wide garden celebration. Image courtesy of the PHS. 
Tia Fuller, saxophonist, composer, and educator. Photo by Jerris Madison.
Artist El Anatsui signing prints made with Brandywine Workshop and Archives staff and affiliated master printer Alexis Nutini. Brandywine’s PrintLab supports eight artists in a creative residency to explore emerging printmaking techniques and technologies. Photo by Gustavo Garcia.
Pew Fellow Zoe Strauss, color photographs, 2000-2009, on view at The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Courtesy of the artist and Bruce Silverstein Gallery.
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Pew Fellow Rachel Blau DuPlessis.  
Omar Tate, 2025 Pew Fellow. Photo by David Evan McDowell.
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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.
El Anatsui, When I last wrote to you...II, 1986, aquatint on paper, 19 1/2" x 15 1/8." Edition of 8. Collection of El Anatsui, courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.
Mendelssohn Chorus of Philadelphia, A Feast of Carols. Photo by Torello Productions. 
SAADA's staff at the Archives Month Philly event at the Free Library's Parkway Central Branch. Photo courtesy of SAADA. 
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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Moki Cherry, Title Unknown (Dragon), 1975; textile appliqué tapestry (silk, cotton, mixed fabrics). Photo courtesy of: Anders Sune Berg, Galleri Nicolai Wallner.
A white woman in a pink flight attendant's dress and hat holding an unzipped suitcase sits in front of a wall of vintage suitcases
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Camas Root as depicted in Edwards's Botanical Register v.18, London, 1832. Image courtesy of the Academy of Natural Sciences. 
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. 
Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz, Exodus | Pilgrimage, 2019, Orlando, FL. Photo by Nancy Rosado.
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