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Family Art Day
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Valentine's Day Pop-Up Card Workshop

Portrait of Marie Sitting in Black and White Mickalene Thomas ARTIST Mickalene Thomas DATE OF BIRTH (b. 1971) DATE 2012 MEDIUM Photogravure with chine-collé on paper, ed. 1/20 DIMENSIONS 21 x 17 in. (53.34 x 43.18 cm.)
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Dangerous Bodies: Resistance

Delicate Line: Corpse She Was Holding Chitra Ganesh ARTIST Chitra Ganesh DATE OF BIRTH (b. 1975) DATE 2010 MEDIUM Silkscreen print with lithography, monotype, relief, and glitter from the portfolio of 11 prints including title page, ed. 2/20
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Dangerous Bodies: Orientation

Ana Mendieta, Untitled (from the Silueta series), 1980 Gelatin silver emulsion print; 39 1/2 x 53 1/4 inches PAFA, Art by Women Collection, Gift of Linda Lee Alter © The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection courtesy Galerie Lelong, New York
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Dangerous Bodies: The Use of the Body

Session 3
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Mindfulness Artist Series: Invisible in the Visible

Session 2
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Mindfulness Artist Series: Distance-less Distance

Session 1
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Mindfulness Artist Series: Fabric of the World

Clarity Hayne's painting, Janie, oil on linen 62" x 58" 2014
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Making Space: Queer Bodies

Rhoden in studio
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Educator's Workshop: Teaching with Primary Sources for 7th-12th Grade Educators

John Rhoden, African King and Queen
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Educator's Workshop: Teaching with Primary Sources for K-6 Educators

Hank Willis Thomas, All Power To All People, 2017
Art At Noon
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Monumental Futures

Image of the Key West
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Summer Views

exhibition in samuel m.v. hamilton building

Philadelphia Inquirer | William Penn & Mellon Foundations Award Grant to PAFA

The William Penn and Mellon Foundations have awarded PAFA $400,000 in funding to support area arts organizations during the pandemic.

The Philadelphia Inquirer's Peter Dobrin reports:

The arts-funding package going to 37 groups is the most recent assembled by William Penn since March, when the…

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Elizabeth Warshawer Named Interim President & CEO of PAFA

Elizabeth Warshawer has been appointed Interim President and Chief Executive Officer of PAFA by the Board of Trustees. Warshawer brings over 30 years experience leading and managing academic, non-profit, and corporate organizations. She begins her role at PAFA on January 4, 2021 as the institution…
Samuel Levi Jones - Sidelined
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Art Therapy Teen Workshop

Brooke Davis Anderson, Edna S. Tuttleman Director of the Museum
Member Program
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Director's Preview

Image credit: Dennis B. Sheahan, Joseph Harrison, Jr.,1874, marble, 23 3/8 x 20 7/8 x 13 1/8 in., Bequest of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr.
Member Program
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President's Picks

Cover for Leslie Kern's Feminist City
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Feminist City

Margaret Foster Richardson (1881-1945) A Motion Picture, 1912

Women in Motion: 150 Years of Women's Artistic Networks at PAFA

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World War II (Vanitas) Audrey Flack, 1978
Art At Noon
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Audrey Flack's Vanitas

Image from the portfolio An Indian from India Annu Palakunnathu Matthew
Art At Noon
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Unseeing Empire: Photography, Representation, South Asian America

Film and Indigenous Perspectives on the Environment Still from Kimi Takesue’s film “That Which Once Was” (2011).
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Film and Indigenous Perspectives on the Environment

View from the Future Still from "A Message from the Future with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez" (2019).
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View from the Future: Women Artists, Writers and Filmmakers Turn to Science Fiction

Art of Antarctica in the Time of Climate Change Joyce Campbell, Lower Wright Glacier, from Last Light. 2006. Silver Gelatin Negative. Courtesy of the artist
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Art of Antarctica in the Time of Climate Change

 

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