News

• November 29, 2018

  At the ICA Philadelphia, Visitors Seek the Insights of a Beloved Security Guard

  Linda 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.

• November 8, 2018

  SP2 and Slought Launch Social Justice & Arts Integration Initiative

  This 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.

• November 8, 2018

  Robert Drake’s Super Sounds of the ’80s at the ICA

  Brandon Baker of Penn Today interviewed XPN DJ Robert Drake ahead of Paint the Dancefloor at the ICA, which he'll be DJing this Friday, November 9. The gathering follows a panel at the Arthur Ross Gallery that marks the 10th anniversary of Arts at Homecoming, and is co-organized by The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation, PennDesign, and the Institute of Contemporary Art.

• October 26, 2018

  ICA Announces the Appointment of Stephanie Garcia as the 2018-2019 Van Doren Fellow

  ICA announced the appointment of Stephanie Garcia as the 2018-2019 Van Doren Fellow. The Van Doren Fellow works within both the ICA and the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania to implement collaborative interdisciplinary projects for students between the two organizations as well as on new initiatives to increase student [...]

• October 25, 2018

  Rachel Zolf Offers New Community Writing Course

  Community Writing combines theory with practice: students will first study critical and creative writing pedagogy, and then visit a range of Philadelphia communities to write creatively together and form new kinds of community through writing. Students will have the opportunity to work and write with community members from Sayre High School, the FreeWrite Prison Writing [...]