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Closing April 2: is your final chance to see some beloved works before they temporarily leave PAFA on a national exhibition tour.
With over one hundred of the most acclaimed and iconic pieces in American art on display, Making American Artists: Stories from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1776–1976 takes you on a journey across time, medium, and identity.
Performers interviewed by WHYY before tonight’s MULTITUDES finale!
Join us after hours at the museum, co-presented with .
A concert of poets and musicians showcases new work inspired by PAFA’s exhibition “Making American Artists.”
Visit the Brodsky Center at PAFA for Paper on Glass, at the Broad Street Studio gallery!
Thursday, March 23 - Sunday, March 26
Broad Street Studio Gallery, Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building
128 N. Broad Street
Engage with a range of papermaking and printmaking techniques in epic forms by contemporary artists Zoë Charlton, Willie Cole, Liz Collins, and Pat Steir, among many others!
For a tour, contact Grace Harmer, Art Sales Manager at [email protected]
Image: Willie Cole (American, b. 1955), Por Las Mesa de Mi Abuelita, 2007, pigmented handmade cotton linter cut by water stream with embossing, two parts, 80 x 80 inches overall, edition of 10. Published by the Brodsky Center at PAFA, Philadelphia. Photograph courtesy of the artist and the Brodsky Center at PAFA, Philadelphia, copyright the artist and the Brodsky Center at PAFA, Philadelphia. Photo by Jack Abraham.
Submit now for PAFA Youth Council's Forging Identity pop-up on May 5! Are you in high school (or know someone who is)? Do you make art or perform? Are you interested in investigating identity in America? Share your perspective and art with the PAFA community! Submissions are due March 29th: https://bit.ly/3YIkIpu
*The Youth Council is a free after-school program where teens create and lead their own museum events, meeting weekly and developing their programs all school year!
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"I loved being surrounded by all of [the art] for the first time and creating with other art students who were just as passionate as I was."
Meet Ellie Zahorik, a first year BFA student, and learn how a summer program impacted her path. Read the interview, and get an inside view of the powerful high school programs available this summer at this Saturday's Open House!
Callie Coccia, Pre-College Coordinator and PAFA Alum (PAFA-Penn BFA ’21), sat down with Ellie Zahorik, a first year BFA student at PAFA, to talk about Ellie’s high school experience at Summer Academy in
Don't miss the final evening of MULTITUDES: Music and Poetry Inspired by , in partnership with World Cafe Live! Grab your ticket for this Saturday, March 18: https://bit.ly/3l41gpz
For the first time ever, twenty installations will be exhibited across both PAFA and the African American Museum in Philadelphia, each addressing the themes of equality, free speech, and other tenets of democracy. Opening March 23rd, we invite you to explore Rising Sun: Artists in an Uncertain America at RisingSunPhilly.org
Save the date! The 122nd Annual Student Exhibition Preview Party is Thursday, May 11.
One of the most celebrated student group shows in the country, the Annual Student Exhibition (ASE) is a culminating achievement for PAFA students. The ASE Preview Party, hosted by the Women's Committee of PAFA, kicks off the tradition again this year. Sponsors and attendees support student scholarships and enjoy first access to the artwork sale, along with a host of other benefits.
Support rising artists on the cusp of their professional careers, connect with fellow art lovers, and become the first collectors of tomorrow’s art stars.
Learn more: https://bit.ly/3mqjQbJ
Last weekend was the 22nd year of the college figure painting competition. Organized by faculty Al Gury, students paint from the livel model for a combined ten hours, and an alum adjudicates prizes. This year, Mickayel Thurin selected Hanna Pacitti and Holly Dudley for the awards. Congratulations to Hanna and Holly, and to all who participated!
Meet Kelly Lawler! After 25 years in tech, the graduate student shared her inspiration to return to art in the latest Perspectives blog.
Find out more about her plans for a certain 3-hearted animal: https://bit.ly/3ZzT4Ml
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Join a close-looking tour of still lifes in , including Georgia O'Keeffe's Red Canna, pictured here. Tickets: https://bit.ly/3EMHoxz
Messages and Desires: Evocative Still Life
Saturday, March 4, 11 AM
Image: Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986), Red Canna, 1923, Oil on canvas, framed: 16 1/2 x 14 1/2 x 2 1/2 in. The Vivian O. and Meyer P. Potamkin Collection at PAFA Museum, Bequest of Vivian O. Potamkin, 2003.1.8.
Happy Black History Month! The final feature to share from this series with Black artists in the current exhibition, Making American Artists, is James Brantley.
In the 1960s, James Brantley was part of a contingent of Black artists who were students at PAFA, including his friend Barkley L. Hendricks and Moe Brooker. He painted this stoic self-portrait, wrapped in a fabric resembling the American flag, after he returned to Philadelphia from military service in Vietnam.
“‘Brother James’ is at once a painter, an American, and part of a brotherhood of Black men.”
-- Dana E. Byrd, Associate Professor of Art History at Bowdoin College Byrd, in her essay for the exhibition catalogue.
James Brantley (b. 1945) Brother James, 1968.
Oil on canvas, 60 7/16 x 40 1/4 in. John Lambert Fund, 1970.1
Celebrating Black History Month! Throughout February, we're sharing the stories of Black artists featured in our current exhibition, Making American Artists.
The painter Dox Thrash focused mainly on portraiture and urban or industrial landscapes. He also headed the Graphic Arts division of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in Philadelphia from 1935 to 1942, during which time he invented the carborundum printmaking process.
Image: Dox Thrash (1893-1965), Self Portrait, ca. 1938.
Oil on masonite panel, 18 x 15 3/4 in. Paris Haldeman Fund, 2008.24
Join us this Thursday evening for History is Always Present! A conversation with artists recently in residence at the Brodsky Center at PAFA: Zoë Charlton, Nell Painter, and Kukuli Velarde, moderated by former artist-in-residence Pepón Osorio.
More information and tickets:
https://www.pafa.org/events/history-always-present-030223
The Brodsky Center at PAFA brings emerging and established artists to create new work with collaborative print and papermakers. The residency program has enabled more than 650 fine art print and handmade paper editions.
📸 Images:
Artist Nell Painter in residence at the Brodsky Center at PAFA with collaborative printer Justine Ditto, working on William Still Triptych, published by the Brodsky Center 2022.
Artist Kukuli Velarde in residence at the Brodsky Center at PAFA, December 2022, working on her new edition to be published in April 2023.
Artist Zoë Charlton in residence at the Brodsky Center at PAFA, working on struldbrugs, published by the Brodsky Center 2022.
Artist Pepón Osorio, image courtesy of Temple University
Celebrate Black History Month with us! We're sharing the stories of Black artists featured in our current exhibition, Making American Artists. Today’s spotlight: May Howard Jackson, the first Black American woman to receive a scholarship at PAFA.
After beginning her artistic education at J. Liberty Tadd’s School of Art, May Howard Jackson was granted a scholarship in 1895 to attend PAFA, becoming the first Black American woman to do so. At PAFA, she studied with the painter William Merritt Chase and learned to work from the live model with sculptor Charles Grafly. As a biracial woman who was often mistaken for white, and whose career was negatively impacted by anti-Black racism, Jackson’s work often addressed issues of race and class. In 1922, she became an instructor at Howard University, where she taught sculpture.
This sculpture was likely completed while Jackson was a student. The figure’s firm gaze demonstrates the artist’s deft handling of the bronze form, even early in her career. With the title, Slave Boy, the artist instructs us not to read this as a portrait, but as a reminder of the U.S.’s recent history of Black enslavement.
Image 1: Attributed to May Howard Jackson (1877-1931), Slave Boy, 1899. Bronze, 17 x 12 x 9 in. Gift of Dr. Constance E. Clayton in loving memory of her mother Mrs. Williabell Clayton, 2019.3.66.
Image 2: May Howard Jackson (1877-1931), Morris Heights, N.Y. City, 1912. Oil on linen canvas, mounted to wood panel, 12 1/4 x 16 in. Museum Purchase, 2018.14
Celebrating Black History Month with Raymond Saunders (Cert. '57). Throughout February, we're sharing the stories of Black artists featured in our current exhibition, Making American Artists.
Saunders’s La Chambre is an homage to Henri Matisse’s Red Studio, from 1911, abandoning the realistic illusions of earlier American trompe l’oeil still lifes. Saunders draws on modernist art historical styles like the intense color saturation of California color field painting. La Chambre acts as a gallery within a gallery with monochromatic posters, paintings, and sketches pasted onto the bright red wall. A severely flattened table piled with slim books creates a dramatic vertical division of the composition.
Raymond Saunders (b. 1934) La Chambre, 1961.
Oil on canvas, 42 1/4 x 64 1/4 in. John Lambert Fund, 1962.11.
For Black History Month we're sharing the stories of Black artists featured in our current exhibition, Making American Artists.
Joshua Johnson, or Johnston, was one of the first professional Black American fine artists. The names “Joshua Johnston” or “Johnston” appear in Baltimore directories from 1796–1824, where he is identified as a “portrait painter.”
Johnson worked in a “limner” tradition appealing to middle-class patrons. His subjects often hold objects to show their prosperity and learning, and often sit in fashionable chairs studded with brass tacks.
Images: Attributed to Joshua Johnson (active 1796-1824)
Unidentified Man, ca. 1810. Oil on canvas, 26 1/8 x 22 1/16 in. Gift of Mrs. Edgar L. Smith, 1980.5.2.
Unidentified Woman, ca. 1810. Oil on canvas, 30 1/2 x 24 in. Gift of Mrs. Edgar L. Smith, 1980.5.1.
Join us in celebrating Black History Month, with stories of Black artists featured in our current exhibition, Making American Artists.
At the Centennial Exposition of 1876, a painting entitled 'Under the Oaks' by an emerging but little-known painter from New England, was selected for the first prize.
When Edward Mitchell Bannister heard that his painting had won the prestigious medal and went to claim it, he related that the judges became indignant upon discovering that he was a Black American, and wanted to "reconsider" the award. His fellow competitors, however, upheld the decision, and Bannister was awarded the medal.
While we don’t know today the location of this famed painting, three of Bannister’s landscape paintings are in the PAFA Museum collection.
Image: Edward Bannister (1828-1901), Newport, Rhode Island, 1890.
Oil on canvas, 24 x 34 x 3 1/4 in. Museum Purchase, 2014.7
PAFA is pleased to announce a call for works for a Juried Alumni Exhibition, July 20, 2023 – April 7, 2024!
Juror Hallie Ringle is the Daniel and Brett Sundheim Chief Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania.
Submissions are due March 15. Alumni, view the full prospectus here:
https://buff.ly/3kaFcsP
Today’s spotlight for Black History Month is Edward Loper! Throughout February, we're sharing the stories of Black artists featured in the exhibition, Making American Artists.
Edward Loper was born on the East Side of Wilmington, Delaware. His mother saw his artistic talent early and encouraged him to copy the illustrations of N.C. Wyeth. He received his first formal training during the Great Depression as a draftsman for the Works Progress Administration. By the 1940s he was having regional and national success painting landscapes, cityscapes and genre scenes of everyday life in his neighborhood. Through tenacity, drive, and talent Loper became the first African American artist to win a prize from the Delaware Art Museum. In the 1960s he began studying at the Barnes Foundation and became an influential and beloved art teacher in Wilmington, DE.
Sunday Afternoon, a portrait of his second wife reading the Sunday paper, shows the influence of the paintings of Vincent Van Gogh, whose work Loper saw on his weekly Saturday visits to the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Join Anna O. Marley, who curated a retrospective on Loper for the University of Delaware before his death, for a discussion on the artist’s important legacy and art.
Art at Noon: Art of Edward L. Loper Sr.: On the Path of the Masters
Wednesday, February 22
Free and online, register in advance for the Zoom link.
Dr. Anna O. Marley will present on The Art of Edward L. Loper Sr.: On the Path of the Masters. Edward L. Loper Sr. (1916-2011) was born into the racially segregated world of Northern Delaware and received his first professional art training working as a draftsman for the Works Progress Administratio...
Throughout February, we're sharing the stories of Black artists featured in our current exhibition, Making American Artists. Today we celebrate Horace Pippin, recognized as one of the premier self-taught artists of the twentieth century. A native of West Chester, Pennsylvania, he depicted his local environment and was a master of history paintings.
One of the artist’s most famous works, ‘John Brown Going to His Hanging’ pictures the abolitionist on the way to his death. A crowd has gathered to watch Brown’s ex*****on, including the Black woman at lower right who, scowling, refuses to participate in the event.
By including her—the only Black figure in any of the artist’s history paintings—Pippin emphasized his personal connection to Brown’s legacy of Black liberation.
Image 1: Horace Pippin (1888-1946), John Brown Going to His Hanging, 1942.
Oil on canvas, 24 1/8 x 30 1/4 in. John Lambert Fund, 1943.11. The work was exhibited in and purchased from PAFA’s 1943 Annual Exhibition.
Image 2: Julius T. Bloch’s portrait of the artist. Horace Pippin, 1943.
Oil on canvas, 24 x 20 1/16 in. Bequest of the artist in memory of Emma and Nathan Bloch, 1967.8.2
Celebrate Black History Month with us! We're sharing the stories of Black artists featured in our current exhibition, Making American Artists.
Today's spotlight is on Barkley Hendricks, who has rightly been called the master of Black postmodern portraiture. After studying at PAFA in the 1960s, Hendricks built a career around life-sized, realistic figure paintings that center contemporary Black fashion and culture, often representative of the Philadelphia community he grew up in.
Hendricks specialized in depicting his friends and neighbors, including this portrait of his fellow PAFA student and friend James Brantley. An accomplished photographer as well as painter, his work created a foundational shift in American portraiture.
Barkley L. Hendricks (1945-2017). J. S. B. III, 1968.
Oil on canvas, 48 x 34 3/8 in. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Richardson Dilworth to the PAFA Museum, 1969.17.
Know a creative teen thinking about Art School? Start learning how to make it a reality! Bring your questions to this free virtual session. All are welcome, whether they wish to attend PAFA or another school.
How to Apply to Art School with
February 20 at 7 PM
Register in advance for the Zoom link.
Calling all creative teens (and their parents) who are thinking about art school, but don't know where to start! Begin the process of learning how to: Apply to art school Research differences between art schools Consider what you want from art school Pay for art school Have a successful career with....
Handmade cards are our favorite part of any holiday. Here's some inspo, whatever yours looks like this Valentine's Day.
Une Bouchée d'Amour, 2013. Audrey Flack (b. 1931)
Digital pigment and serigraph, PP 2/4, 15 3/4 x 13 in. (40.005 x 33.02 cm.) Donated by the Experimental Printmaking Institute, Lafayette College, Founding Director Curlee Raven Holton, 2016.42.47.
Philip Hanson (b. 1943) False Image Decal ("Hearts Desire"), 1969.
Color silkscreen on off-white wove paper; double-sided decal printed by Chicago Decal Company from stencils cut by Roger Brown based on an original drawing by Hanson, 6 x 9 1/2 in. Gift of the Roger Brown Study Collection, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2006.30.2.3.
Two Friends, 1923. Wharton Esherick (1887-1970)
Woodblock print on Japanese paper, 7 7/8 x 5 3/4 in. John S. Phillips Fund, 1987.35.
Let's get moving in the galleries this weekend! Don't miss Dynamizing the Portrait with Misty Sol. Become an empowered model inspired by Augosto Boal's Image Theatre techniques, and find new ways to deepen your understanding of the exhibition . Learn more:
https://buff.ly/3ImdoLi
Deepen your appreciation and discover new ways to engage with art in at the new event series, Art on Broad: Saturdays are for Art Lovers! Through March 11:
https://buff.ly/3lsDF1r
It's a good day to pull out some Eagles from Christine McGinnis. Go birds 🦅
Christine McGinnis (1937-2019)
American Bald Eagle, 19 3/4 x 13 3/4 in.
Martial Eagle, 23 5/8 x 17 5/8 in.
Eagle Owl, 17 7/8 x 17 5/8 in.
Sea Eagle, 17 1/8 x 23 in.
All engravings on off-white wove paper, late 20th century, gifts of Rodger LaPelle, husband of the artist.
Spotlight on Laura Wheeler Waring for Black History Month! Throughout February, we're sharing the stories of Black artists featured in our current exhibition, Making American Artists.
Laura Wheeler Waring was the first Black American to win PAFA’s Cresson Memorial Travel student prize, sponsoring her to study in Paris. When she returned to the U.S., she became head of the art and music department of Cheyney University of Pennsylvania, the first Historically Black College and University (HBCU). She was commissioned for portraits of well-known contemporaries like W.E.B. DuBois, George Washington Carver, and Marian Anderson. This intimate half-length portrait is of one of her students.
Laura Wheeler Waring (1887-1948). The Study of a Student, ca. 1940s.
Oil on canvas board, 20 x 16 in. Gift of Dr. Constance E. Clayton in loving memory of her mother Mrs. Williabell Clayton, 2019.3.69.
“I was at the tip of the iceberg and now I’m under the surface.”
We spoke with Makenna Glessner about her artistic evolution from a 2016 high school student at PAFA Summer Academy, to undergrad and now graduate candidate. Check out the full interview, What I've Always Been Chasing: https://bit.ly/3JXM07K
Image 1: Glessner (BFA '21, MFA '23), No-Man’s-Land, 2022.
Mixed media on canvas, 34 x 48 in.
Image 2: Glessner in undergraduate studio
Honor Black History Month with us at Special Tours: Legacies of Black American Artists. Look closely at the legacies of historical and contemporary artists in two current exhibitions. Artists featured will include Henry O. Tanner, Barkley L. Hendricks, Horace Pippin, Edward L. Loper, Laura Wheeler Waring, and Nina Chanel Abney.
Register for the first tour this Saturday, February 11: https://bit.ly/3DO1W8w
Image: Nina Chanel Abney (1b. 1982), Potato, Potata, 2015, Unique ultrachrome pigmented print, spray paint, acrylic on canvas, 86 x 112 in. (218.44 x 284.48 cm.), Museum Purchase, 2016.
See you this Friday for Open Studio Night! Meet the next generation of emerging artists when PAFA college students open their studios to the public to show and discuss their works in progress.
Check out over 200 individual studios of paintings, sculpture, prints, animations, and drawings.
Friday, February 10, 5-8 PM
Hamilton Building at 128 N. Broad Street
Join us for a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the creative process of a new generation of emerging artists! One of the most anticipated events on the School of Fine Art’s calendar, Open Studio Night is the one time each year when PAFA's graduate and undergraduate students open their studios to the ...
"In a Houdini-esque stroke, the two enormous canvases long resident on either side of the grand central staircase will remain in place, but hidden."
Read "Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts closes historic building to reimagine permanent collection" in the Philadelphia Inquirer, about preparations for Rising Sun: Artists in an Uncertain America with African American Museum in Philadelphia, and beyond:
https://bit.ly/3YungYw
At this week's Art at Noon, Nika Elder shares insights on the re-emergence of still life painting after the Civil War.
As photographs of Black soldiers and amputees complicated understandings of the heroic male body, PAFA-trained painter William Michael Harnett transformed the genre of still life to assume the role that history painting had once played.
Nika Elder is Assistant Professor of Art History at American University in Washington, D.C.
Through the lens of PAFA-trained painter William Harnett, this talk addresses the re-emergence and popularity of still-life painting in the post-Civil War era.
“I graduated from PAFA 25 years ago. I was 17 when I entered.” Art educator Sonya Smith (‘98) recently returned to PAFA during a teaching sabbatical.
“Over the years I never stopped creating art, even getting into the Annual Woodmere Museum Juried Exhibition. However, teaching art to children became a priority!”
Sonya used her sabbatical to take several classes with Charles Muldowney and Kassem Amoudi, discovering a love of abstract painting. Here she is with her daughter and her piece shown in the Annual Continuing Education Student Juried Exhibition in 2022 🤗
Check out and find a welcoming community of dedicated artists. A new series of 6-week courses has just been announced for this spring. https://bit.ly/3YkH3JV
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Step into the galleries of #WomeninMotion: 150 Years of Women's Artistic Networks at PAFA. See how these women busted through doors that were meant to be shut to them, and then made the choice to hold them open for others. The exhibition closes Sunday, June 24: https://bit.ly/3Pdt5Wc
The creation of “Shedding Fear” — a 7-foot sculpture of handmade paper by Zofia Chamera! @zchamera_art on IG It’s closing weekend of the 121st Annual Student Exhibition. Visit the PAFA museum by June 5 to see the incredible works of nearly 100 students. #pafaannualstudentexhibition #pafaase2022
Ready to look behind the scenes at installing ASE? Students have been hard at work curating and installing in the PAFA museum for the 121st Annual Student Exhibition, opening May 13! The School of Fine Art capstone event features work by third- and fourth-year undergraduate students and second-year graduate students. Each artist takes over a wall section, like BFA illustrator, Emily McLaughlin here! #PAFAase2022 https://bit.ly/3OFEPkt
Aimee Liriano is at work on a large-scale illustration exploring the roots of her ancestry for the 121st Annual Student Exhibition. "In the past couple of years, I grew more and more curious about my ancestry and what it means to live in my body as somebody from the Caribbean. I wanted to represent each and every part of me that comes up in my DNA, using the idea of native flora and fauna from each region, while also highlighting the most important of them for me." Be the first to see finished student work at the ASE Preview Party on May 12! Attendees support student scholarships and enjoy first access to the sale of our rising artists’ work, along with a host of other benefits. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3k7feCW #PAFAase2022 #PAFAannualstudentexhibition Find more of Aimee's work at @aimeeliriano on Instagram or https://bit.ly/389FGcq.
A Virtual Tour narrated by Joan Semmel of the first retrospective of this groundbreaking artist, on view through April 3. This video is made possible through the support of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. pafa.org/museum/exhibitions/joan-semmel
Ran a test: Stand outside the building for 60 seconds, see how many of the people walking by on the busy N. Broad Street are coming inside for #PAFAOpenStudio. Results: 19 of every 20 pedestrians! 😲 Open til 8 pm, check out IG Stories for what’s happening now!
Priority deadline for scholarships—especially FULL scholarships—is February 1! A School of Fine Arts education at PAFA gives you the tools and knowledge for creating a successful, rewarding, and lifelong career in the arts. Learn more and apply at pafa.edu!
This is the time for student creativity, for gallery inspiration, and for access to the visual arts. By giving to PAFA today, you join us in telling the story of American art. Your end of year gift supports us now—and in the future—in the areas we need it most. Make a gift to PAFA today: https://bit.ly/3dKKvZ0
Yesterday was so exciting! Thanks to the almost 500 young artists who came through National Portfolio Day over the course of the day; their parents, grandparents, counselors, and other supporters who got them here (and helped carry the large works 💪); artists and reps from 45 art schools who came from around the country; and a special shout out to PAFA faculty Deon Robinson and Doug Martenson for speaking with the students about their work. Congrats to the students who took that important step and put their work out there! We hope there were lots of helpful seeds of inspiration. 💫
Ana Vizcarra Rankin, Artist (MFA '12) speaks about her work "Global Optimization Diagram," on view in “Taking Space: Contemporary Women Artists and the Politics of Scale." Watch the full video here: https://bit.ly/2UIjNdI "Global Optimization Diagram" was purchased by the PAFA museum for the Judith McGregor Caldwell Purchase Prize at the Annual Student Exhibition in May 2012, and is now featured as part of the PAFA permanent collection alongside multiple generations of important artists in this exhibition. "Taking Space" invites viewers to consider how size and repetition can be interpreted as political gestures in the practices of many women artists.
Driving towards city hall down North Broad is looking different these summer nights... PAFA is proud to present Picture Consequences, a summer-long outdoor screening of animations by the Philadelphia Animation Ensemble. During the winter of 2020 in the wake of the pandemic, a group of animation artists began meeting virtually with the mission of cultivating an independent animation community in Philadelphia. They are drawn together by a common passion for animation as a medium for experimentation. The Philadelphia Animation Ensemble consists of artists residing in the Philadelphia area. Members are involved with other art groups including Marginal Utility, Krissy Talking Pictures, Spiral Q, and Tiger Strikes Asteroid as well as various institutions such as the University of Pennsylvania, PAFA, University of the Arts, and Moore College of Art. Among the collective are puppeteers, motion graphics artists, UX designers, professors, and doulas.
Tonight is the night! At the 120th Annual Student Exhibition Preview, art collectors and art lovers have the first chance to view and acquire works created by PAFA's BFA and MFA candidates, all on the verge of their professional careers. The event directly supports student scholarships. Then the exhibit opens to all tomorrow! Click here to reserve your timed tickets for this weekend: https://bit.ly/3uP9TDV Video: Installation in process for wall of Taylor Larsen, Website: https://bit.ly/3bplmSO | Instagram: https://bit.ly/3huHvTX
As we come to the end of the school year, we pause to reflect on the creativity and resilience of our PAFA students during COVID-19. This video with Majo and Taylor was originally made in November 2020. Rewatching it now and seeing how you adapted, developed, and (to use Taylor's word) evolved, we honor all that you brought forth this year in your art and in our community to keep each other safe. Video produced by Joo Kno Media
It's almost time... the Annual Student Exhibition opens to visitors this weekend! We cannot wait to fill the galleries in support of PAFA students, May 14 to June 6. Visit https://bit.ly/33EFuwd. Installation wall of Marcus Gonzalo Bañuelos, Fellowship Mary Butler Trust Prize from the Pennsylvania Academy Annual Student Exhibition. @azelf on Instagram #buyfromartists #artcollector #artcollection #startyourartcollection #pafase #pafase120 #pafaase #pafaase120 #pafase2021 #pafaase2021
"It's a sacred place to be. A place I want to come to every day." Hear from students Callie, Majo, and Taylor about how formative their PAFA studios have been. Whether in the certificate, BFA, or MFA programs, students access communal or private spaces to pursue their work. Apply today! https://bit.ly/3ercrCw Video produced by Joo Kno Media #artschool #artstudent #artstudentlife #PAFAcademy #PAFAacademy #artstudio #artstudiolife
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