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When Art Meets the World: In Conversation with Student Dara Haskins

BFA Student Dara Haskins talks about her experience creating and exhibiting politically-charged artwork.
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America, I Cant' Breathe by Dara Haskins, 2017

When Art Meets the World: In Conversation with Student Dara Haskins

BFA Student Dara Haskins talks about her experience making and exhibiting politically-charged artwork.
Stories
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A History of PAFA's Cast Hall by Faculty Member Al Gury

Carefully restored, cared for and added to, the cast collection at PAFA is one of the few great collections in the United States. The objects in the collection are superior in craftsmanship, often being first castings from the original sculptures, and are now very rare.
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Vincent Desiderio

Vincent Desiderio

Vincent Desiderio has played a major role in reclaiming painting as a valid and significant medium in late 20th-century art. He started out as an abstract painter before he focused on representational work.
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Barkley L. Hendricks, "J. S. B. III" (1968). PAFA permanent collection.

Barkley L. Hendricks '67: A Pioneer of the Portrait

As a contemporary painter, Barkley L. Hendricks has made pioneering contributions to African American portraiture and conceptualism. He is best known for his striking and provocative life-sized portraits.
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kate samworth

Kate Samworth '10: A Creative Environment

Award-winning illustrator Kate Samworth studied traditional painting and drawing at an atelier, then transferred to PAFA for her BFA. She credits PAFA's printmaking and sculpture facilities as playing an important role in developing her creative voice: “[They] gave me the chance to experiment in new…
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Jon Laidacker

Jon Laidacker

Jon Laidacker was the lead muralist on the 85,000-square-foot "How Philly Moves" image that graces the Philadelphia International Airport parking garage walls near Interstate 95.
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maureen drdak

Maureen Drdak

“As a recent Fulbright Senior Scholar, my latest work in Nepal has inspired a renewed appreciation of my debt owed to PAFA. ... The school was crucial to my development as a global artist."
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Faculty Member Stuart Shils on PAFA’s new Broad Street Studio

Passersby outside the Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building are seeing PAFA in a whole new way: through the windows of the new Broad Street Studio, a permanent space dedicated to demonstrating the creative process that happens every day in studios and classrooms.
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International Wish List: David R. Brigham, PAFA President and CEO

The oldest art museum and art school in the United States, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) is dedicated to training fine artists from around the world and collecting, exhibiting, and researching the history of American art. If we were to borrow one work of art from the vast…
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An Interview with PAFA’s New MFA Chair Didier William

This fall, Didier William will become the new Chair of PAFA’s MFA program. He brings to PAFA’s two-year, interdisciplinary program an accomplished background, having served as Graduate Critic at Columbia University and Yale University, and Visiting Assistant Professor at Vassar College. Hailing from…
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Phebe Hemphill

Phebe Hemphill

Work by PAFA’s accomplished alumni can be found everywhere. You might even have creations by one alumna in your pocket right now.
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About PAFA

Founded in 1805, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is the United States’ first school and museum of fine arts. A recipient of the National Medal of Arts, PAFA offers a world-class collection of American art, innovative exhibitions of historic and contemporary American art, and educational opportunities in the fine arts. The PAFA Museum aims to tell America's diverse story through art, expanding who has been included in the canon of art history through its collections, exhibitions, and public programs, while classes educate artists and appreciators with a deep understanding of traditions and the ability to challenge conventions. PAFA’s esteemed alumni include Mary Cassatt, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, William Glackens, Barkley L. Hendricks, Violet Oakley, Louis Kahn, David Lynch, and Henry Ossawa Tanner.