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Actor Lee Ann Etzold and aspiring actor Erin McNulty after reading a of A Fierce Kind of Love. Photo by Christy Beck.
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Institute on Disabilities at Temple University

Jackie Brookner, Veden Taika (The Magic of Water), 2007, earth and plantings. Image courtesy of the artist.
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Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education

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Mary Tuomanen and Aaron Cromie

Available Light at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1983. Photo by Tom Vinetz. Performers: Lucinda Childs, Nan Friedman, Meg Harper, Janet Kaufman, Priscilla Newell, Steve Bromer, Michael Ing, Erin Matthiessen, Daniel McCusker, Ande Peck, and Garry Reigenborn.
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FringeArts

Arturo O’Farrill in performance. Photo by David Garten.
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PRISM Quartet

Bill Stewart.
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William Way LGBT Community Center

James Welling, Olsen House in Snow, 2010. Photo courtesy of James Welling.
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Brandywine Museum of Art

Yinka Shonibare MBE, Planets in My Head, Philosophy, 2011. Mannequin, Dutch wax printed cotton, leather and fiberglass, 16 x 16 x 45 inches. Photo by Darryl W. Moran, courtesy of The Barnes Foundation.
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The Barnes Foundation

Johnson House Historic Site. Image courtesy of Hidden City Philadelphia.
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Johnson House Historic Site

David Lang, Symphony for a Broken Orchestra, 2017, presented by Temple Contemporary. Photo by Karl Seifert.
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Temple Contemporary

Pablo de Ocampo.
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Pablo de Ocampo

Paul Rucker. Photo by Wendy Johnson.
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Paul Rucker

Night render of The Ronald O. Perelman Center for Performing Arts at the World Trade Center © LUXIGON.
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Questions of Practice: Performing Arts Producer Jenny Gersten on Art as an “Agent of Hope”

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