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Visit the Brodsky Center at PAFA for Paper on Glass, at the Broad Street Studio gallery! Thursday, March 23 - Sunday, Ma...
03/18/2023

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)? D...
03/17/2023

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!

"I loved being surrounded by all of [the art] for the first time and creating with other art students who were just as p...
03/14/2023
Ellie Zahorik's Journey from Pre-College Summer Academy to BFA candidate | PAFA - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

"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 you...
03/13/2023

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 Phil...
03/09/2023

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...
03/03/2023

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 ...
03/02/2023

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 Pe...
03/01/2023

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://bi...
03/01/2023

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, Mak...
02/28/2023

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...
02/27/2023

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 Br...
02/27/2023

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, Ma...
02/26/2023

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 Bla...
02/25/2023

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 A...
02/24/2023

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 Ame...
02/22/2023

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...
02/21/2023

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 artis...
02/18/2023
Art At Noon: Art of Edward L. Loper Sr: On the Path of the Masters | February 22, 2023 | PAFA - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

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 Arti...
02/17/2023

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, Ma...
02/16/2023

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 fr...
02/15/2023
Pre-College Programs: How to Apply to Art School | February 20, 2023 | PAFA - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

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.U...
02/14/2023

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 m...
02/13/2023

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...
02/12/2023

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 artis...
02/10/2023

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 evol...
02/09/2023

“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 ...
02/08/2023

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 ...
02/07/2023
Open Studio Night: Open Studio Night | February 10, 2023 | PAFA - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

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 r...
02/06/2023

"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.  ...
02/05/2023
Art At Noon: William Harnett and the Reinvention of Still-Life Painting | February 8, 2023 | PAFA - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

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 ...
02/03/2023

“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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Unsure of your next step in your studio practice? Join acclaimed artists and Neysa Grassi and Bruce Samuelson for supportive, non-judgmental feedback on your artwork while helping you to dispel feelings of self-criticism or discouragement.
Woody Gwyn's painting "Potrero" (2001) confines its view to the essentials of its subject: a mown pasture, a foreground waterway, a distant treeline defining the border of the pasture, and a more distant wooded hillside. The result is a striking, unique composition reflecting on the stillness of open space.

See this work on view in the exhibition "Linger and Flow" curated by Juan Omar Rodriguez and Kristina Murray, closing April 3. https://bit.ly/3pAGwVu
"Summer Academy gave me a glance of how college probably will be...it helped me see, like, yeah, I can do this." - Simona, Summer Academy Student 2020.
Join staff at the Open House on March 26, at 1:00 PM to learn about Summer Academy, PAFA's most rigorous Pre-College program. Visit the studios and facilities where students will learn in a college environment. Stay and explore the Museum after the tour! https://bit.ly/3sXYFhZ
The Passing of the Seasons: Winter into Spring, 1908
Emily Clayton Bishop (1883-1912)
On view in the exhibition “Women in Motion”
Bronze with green patina; lost-wax cast about 1913
12 x 24 3/8 x 13 1/4 in.
Gift of Marjorie D. Martinet and Beatrice Fenton, 1969.10.6. https://bit.ly/3qhTzvm
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Join us on March 26th, 1:00 PM, to learn about Summer Academy, the most rigorous and immersive program. Visit the studios and facilities where teenage students will learn to bring their art to the next level and prepare a college portfolio. Stay and explore the Museum after the tour! https://bit.ly/367zmRI
This week's "6abc Loves the Arts" reports on two PAFA exhibitions celebrating women artists. Check out the video with an inside look at the galleries and interview with one of the curators, Anna O. Marley!

"Women in Motion: 150 Years of Women's Artist Networks at PAFA" charts the untold stories of women artists' networking, innovating and collaborating. "Joan Semmel: Skin in the Game" is the first retrospective of the iconic artist, bringing together 60 years of groundbreaking paintings.
Lien Truong creates paintings that examine social, cultural, and political history, exploring influences that form contemporary identity and belief systems in a transcultural context. In “Family Sitting #2” (2005), a group of figures sits for a portrait, but only their clothing is depicted. The absent bodies invite speculation on the identities of the sitters and the circumstances of their gathering.

View this work in the exhibition "Linger and Flow," curated by Juan Omar Rodriguez and Kristina Murray: https://bit.ly/3pAGwVu
You can feel confident signing your youngster up for Art Camp after visiting an Open House. See camp spaces, meet museum education staff, learn more about the weekly themes and activities, plus all the ins and outs of the daily schedule.
Highly esteemed teacher and painter, John Moore creates beautifully rendered composite images that are derived from drawings, live observation, sketchbook notations, photographs, and other source materials. His paintings brilliantly merge things that are real with things that are imagined. This work, "Summer" (1972), is on view in "Linger and Flow" through April 3. https://bit.ly/3pAGwVu
Learn about a high-schooler's options this summer at the Summer Open House. Between Summer Academy—the four-week, college-level art-making immersion program—and One-Week Intensives, there is a perfect fit at PAFA for every creative teen.
Purim Sameach! Finally have a fun reason to wear a mask.
Masked Children, 1964
Seymour Rosofsky (1924-1981)
Oil on canvas, 13 x 16 in. (33.02 x 40.64 cm.)
Gift of the Estate of Seymour Rosofsky, 2013.17.185
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