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Camper showing her work
Family Programs
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Open House: Summer Art Camps

Yellow Roses #2 Barbara Takenaga, 2005
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Begin Again Again: Koru Mindfulness Series

Ashley Garner, MFA Installation in the Historic Landmark Building, 2020
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Toast to ASE: Graduate Students

Rebecca Segall, Carol, mixed media, 2020
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Toast to ASE: Undergraduate Students

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Student Life
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Velocity Fund Information Session

RBG by Hope Hummingbird
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PAFA Youth Council Presents a Workshop for Teens: Street Art and Social Justice

Hilda Belcher (American, 1881–1963),The Checkered Dress (Portrait of O'Keeffe), 1907
Art At Noon
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Women Picturing Women

Casa Blanca, Evening 16x20 oil on linen 2020
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The View From Here

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Philadelphia’s National Historic Landmarks Celebrate International Day for Monuments 2021

The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) is excited to celebrate International Day for Monuments and Sites on April 18th. Global Philadelphia Association is partnering with twenty-one historic sites and museums to present "Reopen House Day" and encourage in-person and virtual exploration of…

Aids won't wait, the enemy is here not in Kuwait by Sue Coe
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PAFA Youth Council Presents a Workshop for Teens: Health and Humanity in Visual Art

Teen drawing in PAFA's Cast Hall
Online

Pre-College Summer Program Open House for High School Teachers

Photograph of a teen drawing from a cast at PAFA
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Pre-College Summer Program Open House

Students draw in cast hall

Summer Academy Open House

Dyani White Hawk

PAFA Announces New Additions to the Permanent Collection

PAFA announces the latest acquisitions of a wide range of artworks to its renowned American art collection. Ranging in date from 1869 to 2020, the museum acquired 168 works of art through purchase and gift.
Press Release
Image of the artist with her paintings, photo from Vogue magazine (Photographed by Anton Corbijn, Vogue, October 2018 / Painting: Elizabeth Colomba. Winter, 2017. Oil)
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Representations In Paint

Image by Roberto Osti, a figure transforms from a line drawing, skeletal structure, to full realized human figure.
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Dynamic Human Anatomy

Interior of the Historic Landmark building
Special Tours

The Making of Furness and Hewitt’s Historic Landmark Building

Dream Series #5: The Library Jacob Lawrence. 1967. Tempera on board.24 x 35 7/8 in. Funds provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Collectors' Circle, the Henry D. Gilpin and John Lambert Funds, and the Pennsylvania Academy Women's Committee
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Rediscovering Jacob Lawrence

camp online
Youth & Family Programs
Online

Virtual Summer Art Camp Open House

Edmonia Lewis, The Death of Cleopatra, carved 1876, marble, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Historical Society of Forest Park, Illinois, 1994.17
Art At Noon
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Animated by Hope and Desire: 3 Black Artists at the Nation's Centennial

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NPR | In One Art Exhibition, Women Are 'Taking Space' They've Long Deserved

NPR's Susan Stamberg recently sat down with PAFA Museum Director Brooke Davis Anderson and "Taking Space" exhibition curators Jodi Throckmorton and Dr. Brittany Webb to discuss the ways women are taking up space in our galleries and more. Our curators discuss the work of Elizabeth Colomba, Judy…
In the News
Still from Beasts of the Southern Wild with Emily Brown, (b. 1943) At the River's Edge, 1998 Oil on canvas 24 x 18 in. (60.96 x 45.72 cm.)
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New Myths in Black and Indigenous Art and Film: Feminine Paths to Becoming

Still from Crooklyn and Judy Gelles, (1944-2020) "Bathroom" May 23, 1978
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New Myths in Black and Indigenous Art and Film: Feminine Archetypes and Aesthetics, Part 2

Still from the File Whale Rider with Alice Neel, (1900-1984) Claudia Bach Pregnant, 1975
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New Myths in Black and Indigenous Art and Film: Feminine Archetypes and Aesthetics, Part 1

 

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