Please join The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation, The Penn Art Collection, and Penn Libraries on Wednesday, October 15, 2025, for a public reception celebrating the opening of the exhibition We the People: Sam Maitin, on view in the Arts Lounge at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Pennsylvania.
The reception will be held from 5:00 to 7:00 PM in the Annenberg Center, with brief remarks at 5:30 PM by the artist’s daughter, Ani Maitin, and the exhibition curators, Lynn Smith Dolby, Director of The Penn Art Collection, and Lynne Farrington, Director of Programs and Senior Curator in the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts at Penn.
This program is free and open to the public.
- Wednesday, October 15, 2025
5:00–7:00 PM - Arts Lounge at the Annenberg Center
3680 Walnut Street (enter from the South Plaza)
University of Pennsylvania
About the Exhibition
The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation, The Penn Art Collection, and Penn Libraries are pleased to present We the People: Sam Maitin, an exhibition of selected works by the celebrated Philadelphia artist, on view at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Pennsylvania, October 15, 2025, through February 21, 2026.
We the People: Sam Maitin features a diverse collection of works by the artist, beloved teacher, political activist, and champion of cultural life in Philadelphia. A life-long resident of the city, and a Penn alumnus (FA’51, 1928–2004), Sam Maitin’s joyful work dominated the Philadelphia landscape for decades, on bus shelters, walls of hospitals and educational institutions, and across the city promoting various arts organizations and social causes.
Acknowledgments
We the People: Sam Maitin was produced by The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation, The Penn Art Collection, and Penn Libraries, in partnership with Penn Live Arts.
Exhibition graphic design by Elaine Lopez.
