News

• September 1, 2022

  Selective Attention: Interventions into the Computational Gaze Opens at Annenberg School

  Sachs Program Grantee Lisa Marie Patzer has opened a new exhibition at the Annenberg School featuring the work of Patzer, Kelsey Halliday Johnson,  and Roopa Vasudevan. It is on view on the 5th floor of the School and a public reception will take place October 18 at 5:30pm.

• August 20, 2022

  Velocity Fund Announces 2022 Grantees

  Chosen from a diverse field of over 155 applicants, this year’s grantees proposed a wide range of projects – a digital community archive by Disabled people, public sculptures exploring Philadelphia’s radical Queer past, a performance art work at a recycling facility, a video synthesis workshop, an immersive theater production, a collaboration with high school students, a storytelling project about Philadelphia’s local fish, an experimental short documentary on the historic Black business corridor in West Philadelphia.

• May 26, 2022

  Human movement: Wolf Undergraduate Humanities forum takes on the topic of migration

  The Wolf Undergraduate Humanities forum takes on the topic of migration, with individual research projects ranging from slavery debates within the Jewish Orthodox community to Southeast Asian refugee youth.

• May 26, 2022

  Engaging in intersectional conversations on race and racism

  In the spring, students engaged with complex topics, both intellectually and civically, as part of American Race: A Philadelphia Story, a Stavros Niarchos Foundation Paideia Program course. Taught by Fariha Khan, co-director of the Asian American Studies Program, the course examined race intellectually and civically through a broad, multidisciplinary lens, with students engaging in this topic with directed readings, guest speaker presentations, and in-depth conversations with their classmates about the city of Philadelphia.

• May 25, 2022

  James Diaz composes ‘works of stark, haunting elegance’

  James Diaz is a Ph.D. student studying composition in the Department of Music. His music has been described as creations as “works of stark, haunting elegance,” by the Washington Post.