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Installation view, A Certain Slant of Light. Pearlstein Gallery. 2025. Photo by Jaime Alvarez. 
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Leonard Pearlstein Gallery, Drexel University

A prototype The Magic Flute, a unique user interface created by Don Buchla in 1965. Photo by MMT/EMEAPP. 
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Museum of Music Technology / EMEAPP

Vijay Iyer performs at The Clef Club in 2025. Photo by Tim Koen.
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Philadelphia Clef Club of Jazz & Performing Arts 

Interior view, Philadelphia's Magic Gardens, moasic by Isaiah Zagar, chandeliers by Warren Muller. Photo courtesy of Philadelphia's Magic Gardens.
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Philadelphia's Magic Gardens

The Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center, including its largest agricultural artifact, the 1826 Seipt Family Barn. Photo by L. Allen Viehmeyer. 
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Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center

We Are the Seeds' 2021 arts and culture festival at Cherry Street Pier in Philadelphia, where they shared Lenape culture through dance, song, and storytelling. Pictured: Red Blanket Singers highlighting Chief Urie Ridgeway’s family. Photo by Max McDonald.
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We Are the Seeds

The exterior of the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History. Photo courtesy of The Weitzman.  
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Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History

Jeri Lynne Johnson conducts Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra at Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral, July 25, 2025. Photo courtesy of Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra.  
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Black Women Composers Initiative

Indira Allegra on the Delaware River, 2023. Photo by Rob Blackson.
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Sail Through This To That 

An on-set reenactment of William Penn working at a desk, shot at the Colonial Preservation Farmstead at the Ridley Creek State Park on September 25, 2025. Photo by Jonathan Kohl, courtesy of History Making Productions. 
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In Pursuit: Philadelphia and the Making of America 

Tshay, 2024 Pew Fellow. Photo by David Evan McDowell. 
Questions of Practice

Pew Fellow & Filmmaker Tshay on the Stories Images Tell and the Necessity of Mystery

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Recent grantee publications. Photo by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.
Front & Center

What’s New in Center-funded Books, Albums, and Media

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Front & Center

Spring Arts Guide: America 250 Events, Performances, Exhibitions, and Films to Fill Your Calendar

Maisha Elonai. Photo by Heide Mojica.; Scarlett McCahill. Photo by Kris Eden.; John Vettese. Photo by Lucy Briggs.
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Meet the Newest Members of our Team

Diana Abouali. Photo courtesy of Diana Abouali.
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Diana Abouali

Mino Lora. Photo courtesy of Mino Lora.
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Mino Lora

Sarah Montross. Photo courtesy of Sarah Montross.
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Sarah Montross

Leigh Arnold. Photo courtesy of Leigh Arnold.
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Leigh Arnold

Terri Lee Freeman. Photo courtesy of Terri Lee Freeman.
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Terri Lee Freeman

Rujeko Hockley. Photo by Steven Molina Contreras.
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Rujeko Hockley

Joel Aalberts. Photo courtesy of Joel Aalberts.
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Joel Aalberts

Benjamin Akio Kimitch. Photo by Da Ping Luo.
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Benjamin Akio Kimitch