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December 13, 2018
Romantic Prints on the Move: Call for ParticipationStudents, apply to participate in Romantic Prints on the Move: a conference to be held at the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts in Van Pelt Library and at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, on February 1-2, 2019. The conference includes two focused study sessions with 10 slots reserved for graduate students and advanced undergraduates. Applications from all fields are encouraged. The deadline is December 21, 2018! Accepted students will receive a small stipend of $250.
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December 4, 2018
This Year’s Spiegel-Wilks Curatorial Seminar has Taken Students Inside the World of the Barnes Foundation"Ars moriendi: Life and death in early photography,” is designed to introduce students to the history of photography—focusing on the 1800s—while offering them access to the Barnes Foundation’s curatorial, operational, and administrative team.
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November 30, 2018
Citizen Salon Exhibition Opening At The Arthur Ross GalleryThe Citizen Salon exhibition at the Arthur Ross Gallery (housed within the Fisher Fine Arts Library) will open on December 1st, featuring works of art chosen by members of the university and local community during a voting period that ran from May to September.
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November 29, 2018
At the ICA Philadelphia, Visitors Seek the Insights of a Beloved Security GuardLinda Harris represents the position that you don’t need to know everything about a work of art to comment on what it’s doing or how it makes you feel.
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November 8, 2018
SP2 and Slought Launch Social Justice & Arts Integration InitiativeThis Initiative makes the bold claim that the arts are an indispensable means and method of imagining justice and making democracy. Through public programming and educational opportunities, the Initiative aims to harness the power of university and community collaboration and elevate stories and histories of the struggle for justice in Philadelphia and beyond.