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Yannick Nézet-Séguin and The Philadelphia Orchestra, Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts. Photo by Jessica Griffin.
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The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Announces 2019 Grants for Philadelphia Artists, Organizations

Christ Church, Philadelphia. Photo by Tom Crane. 
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The Philadelphia Matter - 1972/2020

Curtis students Abigail Fayette and Jean Kim in a Curtis 20/21 performance. Photo by Pete Checchia.
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Rehearsing Philadelphia, new commission by Ari Benjamin Meyers

Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley, Rand/Goop, 2019, painted wood, found objects, embedded video. Photo courtesy of The Fabric Workshop and Museum. 
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Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley: Blood Moon

Nichole Canuso, The Garden, 2013. Photo by Yi Zhao.
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Being/With: Live

Mushroom playwright Eisa Davis with a community stakeholder in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, mushroom growing house. Photo by Bobby Plasencia.
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Mushroom

Yannick Nézet-Séguin and The Philadelphia Orchestra, Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts. Photo by Jessica Griffin.
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Beethoven: Missa solemnis 2.0

Haitian band Lakou Mizik, part of WXPN's Kanaval: Haitian Rhythms and the Music of New Orleans project. Photo by Maxence Bradley.
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Kanaval: Haitian Rhythms and the Music of New Orleans

Polly Apfelbaum, Waiting for the UFOs (a space between a landscape and a bunch of flowers), 2019, installation view at Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri. Courtesy of the artist; Alexander Gray Associates, New York; Frith Street Gallery, London, England; and Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria. Photo by E.G. Schempf.
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Polly Apfelbaum: For the Love of Una Hale

Jeffrey Cheung, Untitled.
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Unity at the Initiative

Douglas Dunn (left), Carolyn Brown (rear), and Merce Cunningham (far right), Persepolis Event, Shiraz Arts Festival, 1972. Photo courtesy Cunningham Dance Foundation archive.
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Beyond Borders research and development

Rendering of The Clay Studio's new building, exterior. Image courtesy of The Clay Studio.
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Making Place Matter

British soldiers firing on the Continental troops during the 2017 re-enactment of the Battle of Germantown. Photo by Garth Herrick. 
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Considering Re-enactments: The Battle of Germantown in the Light of 21st-Century Gun Violence

Archival image at the Kelly Pool, the Fairmount Water Works, 1962. Photo courtesy of the Fairmount Water Works and Philadelphia Water Department Collection.
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Pool: A Social History of Segregation

Doris Salcedo, Noviembre 6 y 7, 2002, New Palace of Justice, Bogotá, Colombia. Photo courtesy of the artist.
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Exploring the ethical dimensions of a project with Doris Salcedo

RAIR, Digging Deeper: Field Studies Made Possible by the Waste Stream, 2017. Photo by Ryan Collerd.
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A Site To Be Seen: Concepts for and from the Superfund

1982 protest against the Warren County Landfill in Afton, North Carolina. Photo by Jerome Friar/UNC Libraries,
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The Ongoing Revolution

Ebony G. Patterson, ...called up, 2018, installation in abandoned pool, part of Open Spaces festival in Kansas City. Photo courtesy of The Village of Arts and Humanities.
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Staying Power

Pride and Progress mural, William Way LGBT Community Center. Photo courtesy of William Way LGBT Community Center.
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Remembrance

Broad Street Ministry dining hall. Photo courtesy of Broad Street Ministry.
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Broad Street Ministry

Mercer Museum. Photo by Kevin Crawford.
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Bucks County Historical Society

Shofuso Japanese House and Garden. Photo courtesy of the Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia.
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Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia

Designing Motherhood: Things That Make and Break Our Births, 2021, installation view, The Mütter Museum of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA. Photo by Constance Mensh, image courtesy of the Mütter Museum.
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Maternity Care Coalition

Schoolyard garden at William Cramp Elementary School, renovated by The Trust for Public Land in 2016. Photo by Jenna Stamm.
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The Trust for Public Land