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Voloshky Ukrainian Dance Ensemble performing Ukrainian Gypsies, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, June 2017. Photo by Hayim Heron, courtesy of Jacob’s Pillow Dance.
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Crimean Tatar Cultural Recovery

Arresting Patterns, African American Museum in Philadelphia. Photo by M.Edlow.
Organization

African American Museum in Philadelphia

Shawn Theodore, Church of Broken Pieces, African American Museum in Philadelphia. Photo by M.Edlow.
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AAMP Residency for Art and Social Change

Shahzia Sikander, Parallax, 2013, 3 channel HD video animation with 5.1 surround sound, Fondazione MAXXI, Rome, Italy. Photo courtesy of Asian Arts Initiative.
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(ex)CHANGE: History Place Presence

Bowerbird, Sound Machines: Kagel's Zwei Mann Orchester, 2018. Pictured: Ashley Tini. Photo by Bob Sweeney.
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Sound Machines: Kagel's Zwei Mann Orchester

Roberto Lugo, 2019 Pew Fellow. Photo by Jewel Leah, courtesy of Wexler Gallery.
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Discovery Grant: Planning for Making Place Matter

Digital composite of Eastern State Penitentiary’s Hidden Lives, Illuminated, 2017. Photo courtesy of Greenhouse Media.
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Hidden Lives Illuminated

Terracotta Warriors of the First Emperor, The Franklin Institute, installation view. Photo courtesy of The Franklin Institute.
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Enhancing Views of History: Terracotta Warriors and Augmented Reality

Photograph ca. 1991 depicting the Estampas Colombianas dance company, from the Estampas Colombianas photographs (PG380). Photo courtesy of Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
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Audience Embedded

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

Egungun procession, 2014. Photographer: Toni Shapiro-Phim.
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Journey Arts

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.
Organization

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

Martha McDonald and Billy Dufala in Songs of Memory and Forgetting. Photo by Ryan Collerd.
Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Artists Martha McDonald and Billy Dufala on Ephemerality

Video
Maria Urrutia, Jumatatu Poe, and Kristel Baldoz in rehearsal for Reggie Wilson’s Stamped Stomped Stumped. Photo by Maureen Wellner.
Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Choreographers Reggie Wilson and Faustin Linyekula on the Concept of Place

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Walking with Trane, Urban Bush Women. Photo by Gennia Cui.
Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar on Artistic Evolution and Risk

Video
Room 21 at The Barnes Foundation. Photo by Ryan Collerd.
Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Curator Lee Tusman on Curating Performance

Video
Heidi Saman, 2016 Pew Fellow. Photo by Ryan Collerd.
Questions of Practice

Fellows Friday: Q&A with Filmmaker Heidi Saman

Interview