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A mailbox decorated with orange flowers
Arts & Entertainment

Mailing your ballot in Philly? Follow the flowers

A get out the vote campaign dresses up postal boxes in Philadelphia with large-scale flower arrangements.

6 years ago

Listen 1:41
Art students led by Marcy Morris display drawings with a
Arts & Entertainment

Camden IDEA center offers kids an arts oasis during the pandemic

The pandemic delayed, but did not stop, the IDEA center in Camden from offering young people ways to create art.

6 years ago

Ana Mosquera
Arts & Entertainment

Cherry Street Pier opens its largest public art exhibition since pandemic began

An exhibition of artwork by recent MFA graduates experiments with sound, video, performance, and sculpture to engage the public during a pandemic.

6 years ago

D’nae Harrison works on her pop-up
Arts & Entertainment

Murals sprout in LOVE Park urging Philadelphians to vote

The artists of “To the Polls” use hot-button words and images to make their case for the importance of voting.

6 years ago

James “Yaya” Hough, first-ever artist-in-residence at the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office, cuts a ribbon with DA Larry Krasner (left), Mural Arts' Jane Golden, (third from left), Michael “Smokey” Wilson, (third from right) and boxing champion Bernard Hopkins (right). (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Community

Philly DA’s resident artist hopes new exhibition pushes social justice forward

After being sentenced to a life term as a teen, James Hough practiced painting while incarcerated and contributed to over 50 murals in Philadelphia.

6 years ago

Elijah Pierce at the Barnes
Arts & Entertainment

Black folk artist Elijah Pierce is Barnes Foundation’s first new show during pandemic

A show of over 100 works takes a fresh look at the mid-century Black folk artist.

6 years ago

Milford Graves at ICA Philadelphia
Arts & Entertainment

The heart of the matter: Drummer Milford Graves exhibit on the science of heartbeats

The ICA in Philadelphia opens an exhibition of jazz drummer Milford Graves and his lifelong research into the power of heartbeats.

6 years ago

Two billboards set up outside Hamilton Hall at the University of the Arts are part of an outdoor art exhibit that draws attention to the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on people of color. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Health

Resist Covid Take 6!: UArts brings Carrie Mae Weems posters to Philly

The awareness campaign with striking posters has already been in New York, Atlanta, Savannah, Miami, Nashville, Dallas and Chicago.

6 years ago

A troll by artist Kid Hazo under a footbridge at Philadelphia’s Navy Yard. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Street artists from Spain to India featured in Navy Yard’s new outdoor art exhibition

For the third year, the Navy Yard uses public art installations to entice visitors to the bottom of Broad Street.

6 years ago

Listen 1:42
The African American Museum (Kimberly Paynter / WHYY)
Community

CEO leaving African American Museum in Philadelphia

The president and CEO of the African American Museum in Philadelphia, Patricia Wilson Aden, will step down from the museum she has led for eight years.

6 years ago

Autumn Casey, a recent graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, chose not to exhibit her work at the school's annual student exhibit. She and a group of fellow PAFA students are instead exhibiting in galleries on N. 11th Street. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Education

PAFA grads boycott their final art exhibition over school’s stance on Black Lives Matter

Responding to the school’s stance on Black Lives Matter, some students move their final showcase to outside galleries.

6 years ago

Listen 1:31
Mural artist Russell Craig included his own image in the crown-shaped collage of protesters now on Philadelphia’s Municipal Services building, behind where the statue of controversial Mayor Frank Rizzo stood until June. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Community

Black Lives Matter mural now greets visitors at Philly’s Municipal Services Building

A temporary mural above the front door to Philly’s Municipal Services Building depicts the summer of protests that erupted after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

6 years ago

Philadelphia skyline
Arts & Entertainment
Billy Penn

Philly museum reopening guide: All the cultural institutions you can visit in person

Hours, ticketing procedures and safety protocols to help you plan a trip.

6 years ago

Nick Moncy, a young Black man, draws outside in a West Philadelphia park while wearing a mask
PlanPhilly
Arts & Entertainment

Meet the artist who’s recreating a classic French painting — West Philly style

"A Sunday Afternoon at Clark Park" will be built from sketches of different West Philadelphians spending time at the beloved neighborhood green.

6 years ago

Flags that celebrate 100 year anniversary of Marcus Garvey's Pan-African flag created by artist Heather Raquel Phillips hanging outside the Practice Gallery at 319 11th St. in Philadelphia
Arts & Entertainment

Outdoor art exhibition remembers the 100th anniversary of the Pan-African flag

In “Pa’lante,” artist Heather Raquel Phillips uses a series of flags to recall Marcus Garvey’s Pan-African movement.

6 years ago

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