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May 18, 2021
Celebrating The ‘incomparable’ Class of 2021Penn’s 265th Commencement honored students who are defined by their inspiring growth, unrivaled resilience, gracious appreciation, and undoubted ability to create a better future for us all. “Every Commencement at Penn is historic, but none quite like this,” Penn President Amy Gutmann said to the crowd. “To each graduate on the field, and to every graduate joining us online: You have done it. Here, at the turning of the tides, you make history.”
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May 17, 2021
Season Two, Episode Four, of The OMNIA Podcast: National Myths and MonumentsSeason two, episode four, of the OMNIA podcast ‘In These Times’ features three faculty members, Associate professor of anthropology and coordinator of Native American and Indigenous studies, Margaret Bruchac; Class of 1940 Bicentennial Term Associate Professor of History of Art, Lasry Professor of Race Relations in the Departments of Sociology and Africana Studies, Tukufu Zuberi will all discuss the movement to reexamine monuments and the history and myths they symbolize
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May 11, 2021
Announcing the Sachs Program 2021 Grant AwardsThe Sachs Program for Arts Innovation is thrilled to announce its fourth annual round of grant awards, providing $177,000 to support 25 ambitious and creative projects in the arts and humanities at Penn. We are also happy to announce that we are re-opening our Ben Art Bucks program, which provides up to $250 in funding to students and student groups.
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May 8, 2021
Curator Meg Onli Wins Inaugural Prize Aimed at Advancing Racial Equity in the ArtsThe inaugural Figure Skating Prize, aimed at Black artists, curators and contemporary art scholars who are advancing equity and racial justice within the arts, has been awarded to Meg Onli, the Andrea B. Laporte Associate Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania.
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May 7, 2021
Penn Libraries Receives Gift of Works by Renowned Photographer Arthur TressThe University of Pennsylvania Libraries recently announced the gift of works by the renowned American contemporary photographer Arthur Tress (b. 1940, Brooklyn). Generously given by an anonymous donor, this outstanding collection – part of which has already been appraised at $4.2M – joins another recent gift of Tress photography given to the Penn Libraries by J. Patrick Kennedy, PAR’97, and Patricia Kennedy, PAR’97, for a combined 2,500 photographic prints.