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Visitors enjoying the Delaware River through Independence Seaport Museum’s Paddle Penn’s Landing boat rental program. Photo courtesy of Independence Seaport Museum.
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Independence Seaport Museum

Mary Mattingly, Wetland, 2014, a six-week long interactive installation on the Delaware River at Penn’s Landing, presented by Independence Seaport Museum and FringeArts. Photo courtesy of Independence Seaport Museum.
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Engaging Contemporary Artists at Independence Seaport Museum

Selinsgrove Center resident. Photo by JJ Tiziou.
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Discovering the Selinsgrove Center

Kùlú Mèlé African Dance and Drum Ensemble performing Yemaya, 2014. Photo by Jaci Downs.
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Modupúe | Ibaye: The Philadelphia Yoruba Performance Project

John Jarboe. Photo by Malgorzata Kasprzycka.
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John Jarboe

John Jarboe with ensemble members of the Bearded Ladies Cabaret in Marlene and the Machine. Photo by Kevin Chick and Plate 3 Photography.
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The Poison Cookie Jar

Church of the Holy Apostles and the Mediator in West Philadelphia. Photo by Joe Elliot.
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Partners for Sacred Places

Church of the Holy Apostles and the Mediator in West Philadelphia. Photo by Joe Elliot.
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Playing and Preserving

Farm for the City. Photo courtesy of Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. 
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Farm for the City: Growing for Greater Good

Bury Our Weapons, Not Our Bodies!, Yael Bartana. Photo courtesy of Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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Yael Bartana: And Europe Will be Stunned

Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, The Women's Mobile Museum, 2018, installation view, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Photo courtesy of Philadelphia Photo Arts Center.
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The Women's Mobile Museum with Zanele Muholi

Please Touch Museum, American to Zanzibar, musical instruments popular in Muslim cultures. Photo courtesy of Please Touch Museum.
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America to Zanzibar: Muslim Cultures Near and Far

RAIR, Filthy Rich, 2016, installation view, The Galleries at Moore. Photo by Joseph Hu.
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Digging Deeper: Field Studies Made Possible by the Waste Stream

Publications at Ulises’s "Read-Room @ Reading Terminal," September 18, 2016. Photo by Ricky Yanas.
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Kayla Romberger

Bidoun Library installation at the Carnegie International, 2013. Image courtesy the Carnegie Museum.
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Publishing As Practice

An image from Daniel Heyman’s Bearing Witness, an artist’s book about the Iraq War. Photo courtesy of Swarthmore Library.
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Friends, Peace, and Sanctuary

Composite image of dolls by artist Trenton Doyle Hancock. Photo courtesy of Temple Contemporary.
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Moundverse Infants

Thomas Jefferson University, established in 1824. Photo courtesy of Thomas Jefferson University Photography Services.
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Thomas Jefferson University

Carl D., who is living with dementia, comforts Nadine F., the care partner of another participant, during a creative workshop led by artist Teya Sepinuck. Photo by Raymond W. Holman, Jr.
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Building Empathy Through the Arts

Rafael Ferrer, Fuegian House with Harpy Eagle, 1971, leaves, ice, tarp, branches, paint, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Photo by Marcia Tucker.
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Invisible City: Philadelphia and the Vernacular Avant-garde

Taylor Mac, A 24-DECADE HISTORY OF POPULAR MUSIC, “Decade 3 (1796-1806).” Photo by Teddy Wolff.
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The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Announces 2017 Grants for Philadelphia Artists, Organizations

Rehearsal photograph of DUO by William Forsythe at the Philadelphia Museum of Art on September 12, 2016. Performance by Brigel Gjoka and Riley Watts.
Questions of Practice

What if an Art Collection Were Treated Like a Choreographic or Musical Score?

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