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Public Treasures/Private Visions is a rare opportunity to see paintings that seldom travel outside of New York City, as well as paintings from superlative select private collections of Hudson River School art.  The exhibition includes works by Thomas Cole, Albert Bierstadt, Asher Durand, Frederic Church, Jasper F. Cropsey, Frederick Kensett, Martin Johnson Heade, William Stanley Haseltine, Sanford R. Gifford and Thomas Moran.

An exhibition highlighting PAFA's extensive print collection including works by Robert Motherwell, Jim Dine, Robert Rauschenberg, Mark Tobey, Sue Coe, among others.

As part of the Philagrafika Festival this exhibition brings together collaborative works by notable artists Bill Scott, David Fertig, Ceilia Reisman and Neil Welliver, among others, and Master Printer Cindi Royce Ettinger.

Docent-led tour of the permanent collection featuring some of American art's finest paintings and sculptures.We recommend you call on the day of to confirm these times.

Docent-led tour of the permanent collection featuring some of American art's finest paintings and sculptures. We recommend you call on the day of to confirm these times.

Deconstruction” is touted in every visual area from architecture to fashion, yet few really understand what Jacques Derrida's notorious concept means. Now, PAFA’s own Dr. Kevin Richards has written Derrida Reframed: A Guide for the Arts Student, a concise and accessible illustration of Derrida’s ideas in practice for the art lover. Dr. Richards talks about this new book and situates the ideas in terms of his own artistic process and creative projects.

Gallery 128 displays rotating exhibitions of student, faculty and alumni works.

There will be no Art-at-Lunch program today due to Spring Break.

The Opera Company Presents: A Taste of Opera, Antony & Cleopatra.
Sunday, March 14, 2 p.m.,
The Annenberg Gallery, Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building

Bill Scott, an abstract painter and printmaker, speaks about the influence his painting process had on his first attempts at printmaking over a decade ago, and of how the process of printmaking has inspired his more recent paintings. Scott, who teaches in PAFA’s certificate program, is represented by Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York. His intaglio prints are included in PAFA’s current exhibition, C. R. Ettinger Studio Selections from 2000 to 2010.

As the arts address multiple intelligences, they provide a gateway for students to enter into academic subjects they might have otherwise found difficult. From Ecology to American History to Language Arts, learn about our many educational tours and how incorporating art into you curriculum is easier than you may think!

Free with rsvp or $5 at the door.
Call 215-972-2069 for a reservation.

Using a sharp knife and enormous blocks of wood, renowned German artist Christiane Baumgartner spends weeks, months, sometimes even a year, translating images from her own film and video cameras into astonishing woodblock prints.

In July 1805, even before land for the first building had been secured, the founders of PAFA wrote to France asking for a collection of plaster casts from Paris. Ever since, drawing from the cast has been an integral part of the education of artists attending PAFA. Cheryl Leibold, esteemed Senior Archivist, narrates the history of collecting, exhibiting and studying from the historic cast collection at PAFA over the last two hundred years.

Carefully manipulating fragile sheets of Nepalese paper sparkling with silver leaf and mica, Kiki Smith installed two walls of PAFA’s gallery with an array of small and large-scale works, building a frieze at once intimate and also universal.

Michael Gallagher, exhibiting artist at Schmidt-Dean Gallery and assistant professor at PAFA, discusses the visual languages employed in painting as an art form, examining particularly the complicated conversation between representation and abstraction on canvas. Using still-life as his major motif, Gallagher pulls from both art historical and contemporary works, as well as his own painting practice, to illuminate the painting’s continued relevance in a modern age.