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Caroline Lathan-Stiefel, 2015 Pew Fellow. Photo by Ryan Collerd.
New Paradise Laboratories’ (NPL) Chance Workshops, exploring contingency with Bhob Rainey, Whit MacLaughlin, NPL ensemble, Tassos Stevens, guest artist Elie Ayache, and John Collins. Photo by Plate 3 Photography.
The Laundromat Project's annual Field Day celebrates neighborhood culture. Photo by Emilee Ramsier.
David Scott Kessler, 2015 Pew Fellow. Photo by Ryan Collerd.
Mifflin Square Alliance Festival in September 2015, part of Mural Art Program’s Playgrounds for Useful Knowledge. Photo by Steve Weinik.
The crowd gathers at the late Terry Adkins' temporary monument in City Hall Courtyard, on the opening day of Monument Lab. Photo by Lisa Boughter.
Lauren Mabry, 2015 Pew Fellow. Photo by Ryan Collerd.
Chopin Without Piano at FringeArts, produced by Centrala, Warsaw, conceived and written by Michał Zadara and Barbara Wysocka, directed by Michał Zadara. Chopin performed by Barbara Wysocka. Photo by JJ Tiziou. Courtesy of Swarthmore College.
Micah Danges, 2015 Pew Fellow. Photo by Ryan Collerd.
Al-Bustan Takht Ensemble in concert with The Crossing choir and soloist Dalal Abu Amneh, 2015. Photo by Chip Colson.
Merián Soto, 2015 Pew Fellow. Photo by Ryan Collerd. 
Installation view of Temple Contemporary's reFORM exhibition, 2015. Photo by Tim Gibbon.
Shantell and Kathy. Photo by JJ Tiziou, courtesy of the Institute on Disabilities at Temple University.
Benjamin Volta, 2015 Pew Fellow. Photo by Ryan Collerd.
Audiences take in Liberty To Go To See, 2015, at Cliveden’s Main House, an interactive dramatic event based on the Chew Family Papers, produced by the New Freedom Theatre and featuring a script created through a year-long partnership between Cliveden and the Philadelphia Young Playwrights.
Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh, Six and Fours, Prison Anxieties, interactive, public installation created for the 2013 Chale Wote Street Arts Festival in Jamestown, Accra. Courtesy of the artist.
Chopin Without Piano at FringeArts, produced by Centrala, Warsaw, conceived and written by Michał Zadara and Barbara Wysocka, directed by Michał Zadara. Chopin performed by Barbara Wysocka. Photo by JJ Tiziou. Courtesy of Swarthmore College.
Rea Tajiri, 2015 Pew Fellow. Photo by Ryan Collerd.
Holding It Down, Harlem Stage. Photo by Mark Millman Photography. Courtesy of Kimmel Center, Inc.
Holding It Down, Harlem Stage. Photo by Mark Millman Photography. Courtesy of Kimmel Center, Inc.
Dr. Anonymous at the American Psychiatric Association annual meeting in 1972. Photo by Kay Tobin, courtesy New York Public Library Collections.
Nouvelle Histoire collection, 2011, by Vlisco. Photograph by Carmen Kemmink.
Artists of Pennsylvania Ballet in Trisha Brown’s O zlozony/O composite. Photo by Alexander Iziliaev, courtesy of Pennsylvania Ballet.
Teresa Jaynes, Gift #4, 2016, silkscreen prints and cherry. Photo by Jennifer McTague.