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Ulysses Jenkins, Ulysses Jenkins: Without Your Interpretation, 2021, installation view, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania. Photo by Constance Mensh.
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Ulysses Jenkins: Without Your Interpretation

A man wearing headphones stand in front of a wooden display that features framed embroidery, archival imagery and contemporary photos. The words Mae & Anna / Danielle appear on the display. Adjacent to the display is a larger than life-sized archival portrait of a middle-aged Black woman.
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File/Life: We Remember Stories of Pennhurst

A map of Philadelphia's Historic 7th Ward. Photo courtesy of Philadelphia City Archives.
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7th Ward Tribute

Betsy Casañas with Ian Pierce, Sanctuary City, Sanctuary Neighborhood, 5th and Huntingdon Streets, Philadelphia, 2019. Photo by Kimberly Paynter for WHYY.
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Arte pa’l Barrio

Artist Nathan Young records sounds along the Delaware River for the sound installation nkwiluntàmën at Pennsbury Manor. Photo by Ryan Strand Greenberg. 
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nkwiluntàmën: I long for it; I am lonesome for it (such as the sound of a drum)

Futurefarmers in collaboration with local builders, Flatbread Society Bakehouse, 2017; wood, rammed earth, glass. Photo by Monica Løvdahl, courtesy of Futurefarmers.
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S(tree)twork

Maeng Wookjae, Secret Forest, 2019; porcelain, gold, paper, wire frame, elastic band, light, sound; 110" x 67" x 67". Photo courtesy of Korea Ceramic Foundation.
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The Shape of Time: Korean Art After 1989

Carmen Winant, Billboard from the series ZYX-SOB-ABC, 2019, installed for the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, Canada.
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A Brand New End: Survival and Its Pictures

Susan Dreher, composite photograph of Mira Sharpless Townsend over her papers. Courtesy of the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College.
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Rosine Association 2.0

Millwood Justice Residence, designed by Minerva Parker Nichols, Narberth, PA. Photo by Elizabeth Felicella.
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Minerva Parker Nichols: The Search for a Forgotten Architect

Sun & Sea (Marina), opera-performance by Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, Vaiva Grainytė, and Lina Lapelytė, La Biennale di Venezia, 2019. Photography by Andrej Vasilenko, courtesy of the artists.
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Sun & Sea

Yesterday Tomorrow, created and directed by Annie Dorsen, presented at La MaMa, New York City, 2016. Photo by Maria Barnova.
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Algorithmic Theater

Pew Fellow Yolanda Wisher in Be Holding, 2023, Girard College, Philadelphia, PA. Photo by Ryan Collerd.
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Be Holding

Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers founding artistic director Kun-Yang Lin, at the company's Chi Movement Arts Center. Photo by Rob Li.
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WHERE IS MY B-O-D-Y

Once on This Island, 2018, costumes by Clint Ramos, Circle in the Square Theatre. Photo by Joan Marcus.
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The Tattooed Lady

Pew Fellow Jennifer Kidwell, Superterranean, Pig Iron Theatre Company, 2019. Photo by Johanna Austin.
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The Path of Pins or The Path of Needles

TOWN, 2022, Theatre Horizon, Norristown, PA. Photo by John C. Hawthorne.
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TOWN

Wilma Theater HotHouse members during workshop for The Cherry Orchard with Dmitry Krymov, 2018. Photo by Kristin Finger.
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The Cherry Orchard

When Attitudes Become Form: Bern 1969/Venice 2013, 2013, installation view, Fondazione Prada, Venice. Photo by Attilio Maranzano, courtesy Fondazione Prada, Milan.
Questions of Practice

Site Read: Innovating Sites by Bruce Altshuler

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Site Read: Seven Curators on Their Landmark Exhibitions, interior pages.
Questions of Practice

Site Read: Seth Siegelaub in Conversation with Teresa Gleadowe

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