School of Fine Arts

Portrait of Halima Taha
Art At Noon

Collecting African American Art

Invisible City: Philadelphia and the Vernacular Avant-garde
Art At Noon

Invisible City

Mary McGinn, PAFA’s Paintings Conservator, working on Charles Wilson Peale's The Artist in His Museum.
Art At Noon

Art Conservation at PAFA

students at work in the print shop
Canceled

Philadelphia Print Collaborative: Conversations and Community

IMAGE CREDIT: TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PHOTOGRAPHY / JOSEPH V. LABOLITO

Art and Access: David Herman Jr

Searching for Home, 2016-17 Pine wood, carved; red wood stain

Searching for Home: Humaira Abid

Lenka Clayton

Lenka Clayton

osn
Open Studio Night

Open Studio Night 2020

Claudia Valenti

Shaping Conversation

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Anne Bryan Gallery
Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building
Shengyi Liu, Agnes Scott, Implore and Imprison, 2019

Crosscurrents

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Walter & Leonore Annenberg Gallery
Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building
Shona McAndrew
Visiting Artist Program
Canceled

Shona McAndrew

Micah Danges
Visiting Artist Program
Canceled

Micah Danges

Oscar Rene Cornejo
Visiting Artist Program
Canceled

Oscar Rene Cornejo

Keiran Brennan Hinton
Visiting Artist Program
Canceled

Keiran Brennan Hinton

Pat Phillips
Visiting Artist Program

Pat Phillips

Emma Kolhman
Visiting Artist Program

Emma Kohlmann

Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze
Visiting Artist Program

Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze

Jennie Jieun Lee
Visiting Artist Program

Jennie Jieun Lee

Camp Candle
Open Studio Night

OSN 2020 After Party featuring Camp Candle

Wharton Chalking out Dannenberg Table

Wharton Esherick: An Artistic Legacy Through Necessity

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School of Fine Arts Gallery: Gift of the Women’s Board
Tuttleman Sculpture Gallery
Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building
David Lynch | Image: Josh Telles for Vogue Magazine

Vogue | The Expanded Consciousness of David Lynch’s Squeaky Flies in the Mud

"David Lynch, the artist and master director behind such macabre, Surrealist films as Mulholland Drive, The Elephant Man, and Blue Velvet—not to mention the cult favorite television series Twin Peaks—has made a career out of leaning into the world’s discomfort, or at least of exposing it."

David…

In the News
Jonathan Lyndon Chase / Image: Angal Field (GQ)

GQ | New Masculinity Issue: Jonathan Lyndon Chase '16

Philadelphia-based Jonathan Lyndon Chase is giving black men back to themselves with his sought-after, still-evolving work.

In the News
Shengyi Liu
Exhibition Reception

Crosscurrents Opening Reception

Njideka Akunyili Crosby '06 (Image: Time Magazine / T.J. Kirkpatrick—Redux)

Time Magazine | "100 Next" List: Njideka Akunyili Crosby '06

Visual artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby completed her Post-Baccalaureate Certificate at PAFA in 2006 after graduating from Swarthmore College.

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