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a portrait of Florence Price
History
Music
Race & Ethnicity

‘Why have I never heard of this?’: Phila Orchestra revives America’s first Black woman composer

Florence Price had one of her pieces performed in 1933, by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Since then, she has disappeared from the classical canon.

5 years ago

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The creators say the sticker has even spread beyond Philadelphia INSTAGRAM / @ANTIFLOWERSHOWMOVEMENT
Philadelphia
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Visual Arts
Billy Penn

The ‘Anti Flower Show Movement’ and the black-and-white photo sticker all over Philly streets

Who’s behind the viral image, and are they trolling for a reason?

5 years ago

Camae Ayewa and Rasheedah Phillips
Race & Ethnicity
Social Justice
Technology
Visual Arts

Black Quantum Futurism receives the Knight Foundation’s new art and technology fellowship

The Knight Foundation has launched a $50,000 art and technology fellowship. Its first class includes a Philly duo making science fiction a reality.

5 years ago

Anne Ishii holds up a poster at an exhibit
LGBTQ
Race & Ethnicity
Visual Arts

Skate park installation and printmaking exhibition bring queer and trans artists together

The Asian Arts Initiative now has a ‘skate room,’ wheat-pasted with original posters by Philadelphia artists of color who identify as queer and/or trans.

5 years ago

Composer Tyshawn Sorey (John Rogers)
History
Music
Race & Ethnicity

‘Save the Boys,’ a 134 year-old poem made fresh for 2021

Opera Philadelphia commissioned the composer to use the 1887 Frances Harper poem “Save the Boys” as opera for the Black Lives Matter movement.

5 years ago

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A portrait of Marian Anderson by artist Jeffery McNutt. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Radio Times

Marian Anderson: Voice of Freedom

Over 80 years ago, Marian Anderson was barred from performing at Constitution Hall because she was Black. So she sang for thousands in front of the Lincoln Memorial instead.

Air Date: February 10, 2021

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Singer Mary Wilson, from The Supremes
NPR
Music

Mary Wilson, founding member of The Supremes, dies at 76

The Supremes was Motown's most successful group in the 1960s, reaching 12 number one hits.

5 years ago

Quiara Alegría Hudes
Economy
Performing Arts
Philadelphia

24-hour online performance art marathon rallies support for city arts funding

This will be the second online marathon rally. The first happened last June in response to a city budget proposal that eliminated arts funding.

5 years ago

Philadelphia artist Leroy Johnson
Philadelphia
Race & Ethnicity
Visual Arts
Billy Penn

‘Love In Isolation’ portrait series celebrates the beauty of Black Philadelphia creators

Grounded by the pandemic, the world-famous fashion designer behind Ikiré Jones went searching for inspiration at home.

5 years ago

Gilbert Lewis portrait painting of model Anthony Rullo
LGBTQ
Visual Arts

Gilbert Lewis remembered as artist, mentor to Philly’s gay ’80s

“Only Tony” features 25 portraits that Gilbert Lewis painted of a single model during the height of the AIDS epidemic.

5 years ago

(YouTube/Fiverr Super Bowl teaser)
Philadelphia
Sports
TV
Billy Penn

Four Seasons Total Landscaping stars in a Super Bowl commercial

Thanks to a Fiverr ad, the Northeast Philly small biz will shine on the global stage.

6 years ago

A life-size hologram tells the story of 2,300-year-old Egyptian mummy Nefrina in the Ancient Civilizations Gallery at the Reading Public Museum
History
Pennsylvania
Technology

Reading Public Museum brings its mummy back to life, as a hologram

The Reading Public Museum knows what the Ancient Egyptian woman named Nefrina looked like in 300 B.C., so it recreated her as a hologram.

6 years ago

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A detail of artist Ebony G. Patterson's mixed media work
Philadelphia
Visual Arts

PAFA invites women to take up space in new feminist exhibition

The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts has reopened in a big way, with big art on big walls that take your breath away with their sheer size.

6 years ago

Tchin, an internationally showcased jewelry maker who lives in New Jersey, speaks with visitors at the We Are the Seeds festival (Angela Gervasi for WHYY)
Classes
Philadelphia
Race & Ethnicity
Visual Arts

Native American artists offer hope and craft in online workshops

We Are The Seeds, based in Philadelphia, is asking Native American artists from around the country to teach digital workshops open to the public.

6 years ago

The 28th annual African American Children's Book Fair at the Community College of Philadelphia was held pre-pandemic on Feb. 8, 2020
Books
Community Events
Race & Ethnicity

‘Their stories matter’: The nation’s oldest Black children’s book fair goes virtual for 2021

On Feb. 6, the usually Philly-based African American Children's Book Fair, will be online, interactive, and feature more than 30 authors and illustrators.

6 years ago

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