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CANCELED: HUDDLE LIVE featuring Team Sunshine Performance Corporation

Happiness, Liberty, Life? American Art and Politics

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Mia Rosenthal: Paper Lens

Mia Rosenthal: Paper Lens

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A man and a young boy engaging in a common children's art activity: balloon painting.
Family Programs

Family Art Day

A child engaging in an art activity that involves sand and a roller. The person is wearing a long-sleeved shirt with the word "BROOKLYN" written across a heart graphic.
Family Programs

Family Art Day

A child is using paint and a brush on a canvas, indicating a guided painting session or an open studio time.
Family Programs

Family Art Day

This image shows a child crafting with small wooden blocks and gold-colored glue.
Family Programs

Family Art Day

A mother and daughter stand smiling in front of a metallic backdrop, with the young girl sporting a rainbow painted on her forehead, suggesting they’re enjoying a fun face-painting event.
Family Programs

Family Art Day

Parent helping child with art activity
Family Programs

Family Art Day

holiday display in the museum store

The Fine Art of Giving: PAFA’s Holiday Guide

It’s hard to believe the 2025 Holiday Season has arrived, and gift lists are growing fast! This season, skip the big-box stores and choose something truly unique and meaningful. By giving through the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)—the very first art school and museum in the United…

Perspectives
Graphic for the Brodsky Print Sale
Brodsky Center at PAFA

Holiday Pop-Up Print Sale

Peter Van Dyck painting
Exhibition Closing Day

Why this Academy: An Exhibition of Artwork by PAFA Faculty

A figure in a hat holds grapes beside a goat, surrounded by colorful fruits and flowers in a vibrant acrylic painting by Miné Okubo.
Exhibition Closing Day

Pictures of Belonging: Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo

Jasper Johns' "Flag" (1960–66), an encaustic and printed collage on paper laid down on canvas, from the Middleton Family Collection.
Exhibition Opening Day

A Nation of Artists

A butterdish.

30% Cyber Monday Sale at PAFA's Museum Store

Buck Race Car

30% Black Friday Sale at PAFA's Museum Store

Acrylic on canvas painting in various bright colors depicting a boy holding grapes, a goat, flowers, and the fruit that the boy is weighing.

PAFA Showcases Groundbreaking Exhibition on Japanese American Women in Art

Philadelphia, PA — The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) presents Pictures of Belonging: Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo, a groundbreaking exhibition that, for the first time, brings together the work of three pioneering Japanese American artists whose lives and careers…

Press Release
Acrylic on canvas painting in various bright colors depicting a boy holding grapes, a goat, flowers, and the fruit that the boy is weighing.
Member Program

Member Preview Hour: Pictures of Belonging

Acrylic on canvas painting in various bright colors depicting a boy holding grapes, a goat, flowers, and the fruit that the boy is weighing.
Member Program

Member Preview Hour: Pictures of Belonging

Acrylic on canvas painting in various bright colors depicting a boy holding grapes, a goat, flowers, and the fruit that the boy is weighing.
Member Program

Member Preview Hour: Pictures of Belonging

A figure in a hat holds grapes beside a goat, surrounded by colorful fruits and flowers in a vibrant acrylic painting by Miné Okubo.
Exhibition Opening Day

Pictures of Belonging: Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo

Hamilton exterior

PAFA and Temple University’s Tyler School of Art and Architecture Announce New Partnership

Philadelphia, PA — September 12, 2025 — The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) is pleased to announce a new partnership with Temple University’s Tyler School of Art and Architecture. Beginning October 15, Tyler will lease space in PAFA’s Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building, expanding academic…

Press Release
People standing in an art gallery talking.
Special Events

Art After Dark Happy Hour 

Oil painting titled Garden Before Nancy’s House by Rose Naftulin

PAFA Celebrates 75 Years of Leadership and Legacy: Honoring the Women’s Committee at the 2025 Diamond Jubilee

PHILADELPHIA, PA — September 2, 2025 — The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) proudly announces the Diamond Jubilee Celebration honoring the 75th Anniversary of the Women’s Committee, held on September 28, 2025. Since its founding in 1950 the Women’s Committee has played a transformative…

Press Release

 

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