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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

Joseph Sweeney, Harbor of Refuge Dunes, oil on museum board, 16 x 19 in.
Continuing Education

Plein Air Painting in Cape May

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Elizabeth Colomba
Continuing Education
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Group Critique with Elizabeth Colomba

Brian Boutwell, Here-There, oil on canvas, 20" x 16"

Insider Art VII

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Anne Bryan Gallery
Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building
Taylor Freeman Installation

Brute Reason

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Frances M. Maguire Gallery
Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building
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

taking space installation view

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…
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Shelf Life of a Memory - Julia McGehean

Personal Belonging

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Alumni Gallery
Historic Landmark Building
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

Side by side image of Mequitta Ahuja's piece, A Real Allegory of Her Studio, 2015, and film still
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New Myths in Black and Indigenous Art and Film: Rites of Passage

Brodsky Center Print
Brodsky Center at PAFA
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Spring Print Sale

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Image pg 125, C. G. Jung. Jung, C. G. (2009). The red book: Liber novus (S. Shamdasani, Ed.). New York, NY: W.W. Norton.
Art At Noon
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Pattern Masters: Decoding Art and Film Through The Mythic Lens

Joan Semmel work

National Endowment for the Arts Awards PAFA $40k Grant for Retrospective Exhibition

PAFA is the recipient of a $40,000 Grant for Arts Project award from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). This grant will support the museum’s upcoming exhibition "Joan Semmel: Skin in the Game," opening October 28, 2021 and remain on view through April 3, 2022.
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Ana Neifeld

Pet Dreams

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Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building
Group Critique with Neysa Grassi and Jan Baltzell
Continuing Education
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Group Critique with Neysa Grassi and Jan Baltzell

7th Floor Wood-shop
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Sculpture Information Session for Undergraduate Students

Faith Ringgold, (b. 1930) Tar Beach 2, 1990 Silkscreen on silk and pieced printed cotton, ed. 13/24 65 3/4 x 65 1/4 in. (167.005 x 165.735 cm.) The Howard A. and Ann R. Sorgenti Collection of Contemporary African-American Art, 1999.17.2
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Making Space: Movement for Change

Marie Watt, Skywalker/Skyscraper (Allegory), 2012. Courtesy of Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
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Making Space: Feminist Urban Visions

Leah Modigliani, (b. 1970) The City in Her Desolation, 2017 Archival pigment print closed: 8 1/2 x 6 1/2 in. (21.59 x 16.51 cm.) Museum Purchase, 2017.32.3
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Making Space: The Man-Made City

Group Critique with Neysa Grassi and Bruce Samuelson
Continuing Education
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Group Critique with Neysa Grassi and Bruce Samuelson

Master Class with Ying Li
Continuing Education
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Master Class with Ying Li: A Picture Journey of Space, Paint & Vision

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Artist Books: Single, Double, and Triple Sewings
Continuing Education
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Artists' Workshop: Artist Books - Single, Double, and Triple Sewings

 

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