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Hayden Stern, Self Portrait. Graphite, 2021.
Online

More Than Life Drawing: Objectification and the Gaze

Book cover detail
Art At Noon
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The Fruits of Empire: Art, Food, and Racism

Ariadne Asleep on the Island of Naxos John Vanderlyn
Art At Noon
Online

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

Portrait of a Student, Laura Wheeler Waring
Art At Noon
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Laura Wheeler Waring: Her Best Face Forward 

Camp Still Life

New Partnership with the Satell Institute

PAFA has partnered with the Satell Institute – a Philadelphia-based Think and Do Tank dedicated to Corporate Social Responsibility - in their YES (Youth Enrichment Series) Initiative in 2021, to provide free scholarships to any student who wanted to learn safely and socially online over the summer…

winter tree postcard
Family Art Day
Online

Virtual Family Arts Academy - Winter Special

drawing of trees
Family Art Day
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Virtual Family Arts Academy - Tree of Thanks Sculpture

Cornelia Van Auken Chapin, Giant Frog, carved 1937, photographed ca. 1939. Marion Sanford and Cornelia Chapin papers, 1929-1988. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Art At Noon
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Cornelia Van Auken Chapin and her Giant Frog

Center, Joan Semmel, 2002
Art At Noon
Online

Skin In the Game

Flower Diary: Mary Hiester Reid Paints, Travels, Marries & Opens a Door
Art At Noon
Online

The Determined Life of Mary Hiester Reid

Over Flow (#1392) Emmi Whitehorse
Special Tours

Linger and Flow

Frank Furness and George Wattson Hewitt, (1839-1912)/(1841-1916) [Elevation on Broad Street], 1873-76 Black ink, watercolor wash, and pencil on white paper on mount 25 1/2 x 34 1/2 in. (64.77 x 87.63 cm.) Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1876.

Making a Landmark

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Historic Landmark Building
hallowing craft
Family Art Day
Online

Virtual Family Arts Academy - Trick or Treat Extravaganza!

child showing his artwork
Family Art Day
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Virtual Family Arts Academy - Welcome Back

Bascove, (b. 1946) Harlem River Bridges II, 1996 Oil on canvas 30 x 30 in. (76.2 x 76.2 cm.) Art by Women Collection, Gift of Linda Lee Alter, 2011.1.33

From the Ground Up: Artists and the Built Environment

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Historic Landmark Building
Ree Morton, (1936 1977) Let Us Celebrate While Youth Lingers and Ideas Flow, 1975 Celastic and oil on canvas, wood 96 x 72 x 6 in. (243.84 x 182.88 x 15.24 cm.) Pennsylvania Academy Purchase Fund, 1988.13

Linger and Flow

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Tuttleman Sculpture Gallery
Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building
Emily Sartain, "Study"
Special Tours

Private Tour of Women in Motion: 150 Years of Women's Artistic Networks at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Emily Sartain, "Study"
Special Tours

Private Tour of Women in Motion: 150 Years of Women's Artistic Networks at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Elena Peteva, Turmoil and Silence charcoal on paper 30" x 28" 2021
Online

Creativity, Collectives, and PAFA

two heads
Online

Philadelphia Animation Ensemble

Image of Anna Russel Jones
Art At Noon
Online

Anna Russell Jones: The Art of Design

Shoog McDaniel
Visiting Artist Program
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Shoog McDaniel

Brie Ruais
Visiting Artist Program
Online

Brie Ruais

Eloisa Guanlao
Visiting Artist Program
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Eloisa Guanlao

 

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