Museum Education

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Family Programs

Family Art Day

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Family Programs

2026 Family Art Festival

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Youth & Family Programs
Online

Summer Art Camp Virtual Open House

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Family Art Day

Spring Festival

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Family Art Day

Artistic Discoveries - Special event

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Family Art Day
Sold Out

Sculptural Experiments

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Family Art Day

Art Warm up

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Collaborative Exhibition “Rising Sun: Artists in an Uncertain America” Extended Beyond October 2023

To commemorate the exhibition, the African American Museum in Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts have published an exhibition catalogue that will be released September 2023.

PHILADELPHIA – The African American Museum in Philadelphia (AAMP) and the Pennsylvania Academy of the…

Press Release
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Family Art Day

Celebrate Community

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Family Art Day

Spooky Art Adventures

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Family Art Day

Welcome Back!

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The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Opens Determined To Be: The Sculpture of John Rhoden, the First Comprehensive Retrospective of African American Sculptor John Rhoden

PHILADELPHIA – Aug 29, 2023 - The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) celebrates 20th century African American sculptor John Rhoden (1916-2001) with the exhibition, Determined To Be: The Sculpture of John Rhoden, the first comprehensive retrospective of the artist’s work. The exhibition…

Press Release
Taylor Pate (MFA), Mystic Milk, oil on linen, 30 x 38 inches, 2023
Art At Noon
Online

Celebrate the ASE: Graduate Students

Grace Meredith
Art At Noon
Online

Celebrate the ASE: Undergraduate Students

Painting of two women admiring a rose bush by Violet Oakley entitled "June", 1902
Special Tours

Trailblazing Women Artists at PAFA

Painting of two women admiring a rose bush by Violet Oakley entitled "June", 1902
Special Tours

Trailblazing Women Artists at PAFA

Mixed media painting by Nina Chanel Abney entitles, "Potato, Potata"
Special Tours

Legacies of Black American Artists

Oil painting by Horace Pippin entitled, "John Brown Going to His Hanging"
Special Tours

Legacies of Black American Artists

"Potato, Potata" a mixed media painting by Nina Chanel Abney
Special Tours

Legacies of Black American Artists

Painting by Barkley L. Hendricks, J.B.S. III, 1968
Special Tours

Legacies of Black American Artists

Image of painting by Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986), Red Canna, 1923, Oil on canvas
Art on Broad

Messages and Desires: Evocative Still Life

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Art on Broad

Dynamizing the Portrait with Misty Sol

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Art on Broad

Dynamizing the Portrait with Misty Sol

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Art on Broad

Sketching in the Galleries

 

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