Public Education & Engagement

Painting called "Study" by Emily Sartain

Tour of Women in Motion

February 3, 2022

Barbara Kruger's image You Construct Intricate Rituals Which Allow You to Touch the Skins of Other Men

I Know It When I See It Series: Erotic Art in Popular Culture

February 22, 2022

Image of Joan Semmel, photographing her naked body in a mirror

I Know It When I See It Series: Codpieces and Fig Leaves

February 15, 2022

Red Canna by Georgia O'Keeffe

I Know It When I See It Series: Flowers, Abstractions, or Vulvas?

February 8, 2022

Image of Claudia Bach Pregnant by Alice Neel

I Know It When I See It Series: Why Is It So Difficult to Define “Erotic Art”?

February 1, 2022

Louis Sloan, Self-Portrait in Landscape, 1970

Youth & Family Programs

Virtual Homeschool Program: Art, Science, and the Environment

February 15, 2022

Edna Andrade, Geometric 5-65, 1965 print

Youth & Family Programs

Virtual Homeschool Program: Math in Art

January 11, 2022

Al Gury stands in front of group of students, leading in-studio lecture

Painting Faculty Al Gury Finds Reward in Advocacy

Al Gury wears many hats, to say the least. At PAFA alone he chairs the painting department, teaching at the undergraduate, high school, and continuing education levels, and directs the After-School Studio Art Program for young people in the city. He also works with Mural Arts Philadelphia, people…

Perspectives

September 15, 2021

Kids in the cast hall

Youth & Family Programs

Art Camp Virtual Open House

February 24, 2022

Drawing by Jordan - Hand-tree

Virtual FAA - The Taste of Summer

child drawing at her desk

Virtual FAA- Celebrating Women's History Month

Kids in virtual program smiling

Virtual FAA - Valentine's Day Sunday

February 13, 2022

children showing their portraits

Virtual FAA- Year of the Tiger Celebration

January 23, 2022

Historic Landmark Building Foyer

Special Tour: The Making of Furness and Hewitt’s Historic Landmark Building

December 3, 2021

Joan Semmel's Centered Oil on canvas 48 x 53 in

"Joan Semmel: Skin in the Game" is First-ever Career Retrospective of Iconic Painter

The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) presents the first-ever retrospective of iconic painter Joan Semmel in a career-spanning exhibition, Joan Semmel: Skin in the Game, October 28, 2021 through April 3, 2022. With over 50 works that will trace the artist’s career from early abstract…

Press Release

October 27, 2021

children in zoom class

Youth & Family Programs

Virtual Homeschool Days at PAFA: Art Encounters

November 16, 2021

Children looking at the painting in museum gallery

Youth & Family Programs

Homeschool Days at PAFA: Art Encounters

November 18, 2021

Intersections of Art, Feminism, and Digital Technology

Intersections of Art, Feminism, and Digital Technology

November 9, 2021

Yuka Tanaka. 2021.

More Than Life Drawing: Agency and the Creative Process

December 14, 2021

Luticha Andre Doucette, Erica Jae, and Pookie. 2020.

More Than Life Drawing: Advocacy and Representation

November 17, 2021

Hayden Stern, Self Portrait. Graphite, 2021.

More Than Life Drawing: Objectification and the Gaze

October 21, 2021

Book cover detail

The Fruits of Empire: Art, Food, and Racism

December 15, 2021

Ariadne Asleep on the Island of Naxos John Vanderlyn

Dirty Pictures: A 21st-Century Feminist Introduction to the Nude in Visual Art

December 8, 2021

Portrait of a Student, Laura Wheeler Waring

Laura Wheeler Waring: Her Best Face Forward

December 1, 2021

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