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Ceramic Utensil Holder that looks like a cow.

Annual Holiday Sale

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Dr. Brittany Webb Named PAFA's Curator of Twentieth Century Art and the John Rhoden Collection

PAFA is pleased to announce that Dr. Brittany Webb has been named Evelyn and Will Kaplan Curator of Twentieth Century Art. A member of the PAFA community since 2018, Dr. Webb is the Curator of the John Rhoden Collection. With her new curatorial appointment, Dr. Webb becomes the inaugural Evelyn and…
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Art Explorer Holiday Fun Workshop: Wonderland Collage

Lou Laurin-Lam Reindeer print
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Art Explorer Holiday Fun Workshop: Reindeer Sculpture

stained glass detail
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Art Explorer Holiday Fun Workshop: Stained Glass Forest

snowflake ornament
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Art Explorer Holiday Fun Workshop: Let it Snow

Image credits (L to R): María Berrío, The Oracles’ Silence, 2019, PAFA, Museum Purchase, Gilbert Lewis (b.1945), [Untitled], 1988, Gouache on paper, 16 ½ x 15 in., The Collection of Eric Rymshaw and James Fulton, Philadelphia, © Gilbert Lewis, Wadsworth Jarrell (b. 1929), Precious Treasures: Cultivate Them, 1994, Offset lithograph, ed. 48/100, Gift from the collection of Winston and Carolyn Lowe in honor of Brandywine founder, Allan L. Edmunds, 2019.18.13
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Celebrate PAFA's Fall Exhibitions

staircase, historic landmark building

Board Chair Kevin Donohoe Announces Departure of President & CEO Dr. David R. Brigham

Kevin F. Donohoe, Chair of PAFA's Board of Trustees, addresses the PAFA community regarding the departure of President & CEO Dr. David R. Brigham.
Jonathan Lyndon Chase, Soapy Shower, 2020. 24 x 18 inches. Acrylic, marker, watercolor, spray foam on fabric. Courtesy of the artist and Company Gallery, New York.
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Big Wash: A Conversation

Historical Landmark Building interior, mezzanine | Image: Barbara Katus

PAFA and AAMP Receive Major Grants From the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage

PAFA and the African American Museum in Philadelphia (AAMP) are the recipients of two grants of $480K from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. These awards will support an upcoming, transformative, multi-site contemporary art collaboration between the two organizations and additional partners at…
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Joan Semmel, Skin in the Game, 2019

Joan Semmel: Skin in the Game

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Fisher Brooks Gallery
Frances M. Maguire Gallery
Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building
Points of Connection Dedication, 09.30.2020

Points of Connection

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Frances M. Maguire Gallery
Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building
Faith Ringgold, Tar Beach, 1990 © Faith Ringgold/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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Curator Conversation | Taking Space: Contemporary Women Artists and the Politics of Scale

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Family Art Programs Virtual Open House

Marie Watt, "Skywalker/Skyscraper (Allegory)" (2012). © Marie Watt | image: aaron johansen

Philadelphia Inquirer | What To See In Museums

In Thomas Hine's roundup of fall museum exhibitions for the Philadelphia Inquirer, "Taking Space: Contemporary Women Artists and the Politics of Scale" makes the list.
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María Berrío, The Oracles’ Silence (2019). © María Berrío

Discover PHL | Top Can't-Miss Fall/Winter Exhibits

Discover PHL's guide to upcoming exhibitions puts PAFA in the spotlight, with "Only Tony: Portraits by Gilbert Lewis" and "Taking Space: Contemporary Women Artists and the Politics of Scale" making the list.
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Louise Nevelson (1899-1988), Cascades Perpendiculars I, 1980-82. nds of Bernice McIlhenny Wintersteen in honor of her 80th birthday, and the Ware Trust Fund. © 2020 Estate of Louise Nevelson / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Artnet | Fall Museum Preview

Artnet contributors Sarah Cascone and Caroline Goldstein highlight upcoming exhibitions opening this fall across the United States. Among their top picks is PAFA's Taking Space: Contemporary Women Artists and the Politics of Scale, which opens on November 19.
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Fanciful figures argue
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Persuasive Writing Workshop: Rhetorical Tools for Visual Rhetoric

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Reading under a tree
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Short Story Writing Workshop: Flash Fiction

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Books on desk
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Writing Workshop: The Personal Essay

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Betye Saar, Mystic Sky with Self-Portrait, 1992

Roll, Press, Pull: Contemporary Prints from the Brandywine Workshop and Archives

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Walter & Leonore Annenberg Gallery
Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building
Freedman, John Quincy Adams Ward, 1863
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Re-Framing American Art/History: Whose Monument?

What is an American?, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, 2001-2003
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Re-Framing American Art/History: Whose Gaze?

De Soto Raising the Cross on the Banks of the Mississippi, Peter Frederick Rothermel, 1851
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Re-Framing American Art/History: Whose America?

 

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