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Opening Reception at Rising Sun in the Historic Landmark Building
Member Program

Member Preview Hour: Artists as Cultivators

Opening Reception at Rising Sun in the Historic Landmark Building
Member Program

Member Preview Hour: Artists as Cultivators

Opening Reception at Rising Sun in the Historic Landmark Building
Member Program

Member Preview Hour: Artists as Cultivators

Group photo of the Modero company. There are nine dancers, three kneeling and six standing, holding a dance pose. All the dancers are wearing intricate and colorful costumes. The photo was taken outdoors, with trees and cars in the background.

Passport Dance: Discover West Java and Bali

Oil painting by Jane Peterson titled "Spring Bouquet" circa 1912. The painting is vertical, with a single figure walking down a path in a field of white flowering plants. The figure is wearing a summer print blouse, and a full length white skirt, holding a white and blue parasol. She is reaching to pick one flower.
Art At Noon
Online

The Artist's Garden

Image of a color serigraph by Jacob Lawrence (1917 - 2000), "Revolt on the Amistad", Abstract figures of many colors, arms tangled together .
Art At Noon
Online

Black Orpheus: Jacob Lawrence & the Mbari Club

image of collaged old and discolored newspaper clippings and an old typewritten note.
Art At Noon
Online

Arts Criticism and John Rhoden

students in studio with easels
Online

Pre College Summer Programs - Virtual Open House

Air: 5 a. m. by Jennifer Bartlett
Member Program

President's Preview

parents and children looking at art work on a table
Youth & Family Programs
Online

Summer Art Camp Virtual Open House

composite graphic is a photo with a detail of a John Rhoden wood sculpture showing a profile of an woman's face with her eyes closed. Also in the graphic is a photo of the Rhoden catalogue.

John Rhoden Catalogue Symposium

Photograph of one person's hands above a light table, wearing black archival gloves. The right hand is holding a lupe and the left hand is holding a color slide with a red paper border and the word "India" hand written on the paper. Just under the hands are nine more slides with handwritten lables, and with both white and red paper borders.
Art on Broad

PAFA's Archives: Rhoden's Legacy Tour

Peale House Gallery Exhibition: Peter Miller: Paintings (Exhibition dates: January 30, 1969 - March 9, 1969)

Mystical Brushstrokes: Peter Miller’s Surrealist Life

“I would rather fail at painting than succeed at anything else in life” writes Peter Miller on her 1933 application to study at The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA. 

The next time you visit Center City, be warned - a visit to Morton Contemporary will leave you deeply…

Stories
Photo of at least 14 people, most appear to be in their 20s, wearing casual clothes dancing in a room with wooden floors.
Museum After Hours

Electric Boogie Too Workshop

photo of Misty Sol smiling and handing a piece of paper to someone not seen in the photo. There are three people sitting on stools visible in the background. There are large painted portraits on red walls in the far back.
Art on Broad

Dynamize the Figure

graphic with title and date of the program and a photo of a bronze scultpure, Eve, by John Rhoden.
Art on Broad

The Feminine and the Gaze

image of a person sitting a top of a rock on a hill holding a wood and metal kilimba (thumb piano) over their face.
Art on Broad

Kalimbrrd Sonic Tour

photo of two women sitting in art gallery sketching on small pads of paper. A tall wood figurative sculpture is on the right side of the frame.
Art on Broad
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Sketching Sculpture

photo of four people sitting and two people standing in an art gallery sketching on small pads of paper. A small bronze sculpture is in the background.
Art on Broad

Sketching Sculpture

Peter Miller's painting Abstract Figure and Tabletop Still Life
Member Program

Peter Miller: Forgotten Woman of American Modernism

Shiva Ahmadi - Red Light, 2020, Acrylic on canvas, 56 x 72 in. Commissioned by PAFA for Rising Sun: Artists in an Uncertain America, courtesy Haines Gallery, San Francisco

Closing Soon: Rising Sun | A Reflective Exploration of American Democracy through Art

Rising Sun: Artists in an Uncertain America will be closing soon at PAFA. Featured here are a selection from all the amazing artists who contributed to the exhibition.
Stories
event graphic with bio photos of Renee Stout and Brittany Webb

Renée Stout and Brittany Webb

composite image of three artworks in the Rising Sun
Special Tours

Last Chance Rising Sun Tour

A composite of three images of artwork in Rising Sun exhibition featuring sculpture floral bouquets hanging upside down, a marble carving of a duck, and a figurative sculpture of a person with no arms carrying lots of gourd-like containers.
Special Tours

Last Chance Rising Sun Tour

 

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