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Temple Contemporary Temple Contemporary’s mission is to creatively re-imagine the social function of art through quest to 6 p.m. The gallery will be closed on Saturday, September 4.

Temple Contemporary is open Wednesday through Saturday, 11 a.m.

💭 What can a city built from bottle caps and pipe cleaners teach us about the block we actually live on? This architect-...
08/23/2026

💭 What can a city built from bottle caps and pipe cleaners teach us about the block we actually live on? This architect-artist/planner duo has a method to share with you.

James Rojas is an urban planner, artist, and community activist whose interactive model-building workshops — over 400 of them, across the U.S., Mexico, Canada, Europe, and South America — have made him one of the few nationally recognized planners examining Latino cultural influence on urban design. Founder of the Latino Urban Forum, he’s lectured at MIT, Harvard, Berkeley, and Cornell, with installations at MOCA Los Angeles, the ICA Boston, and the Venice Biennale. Most recently, he was a TEDx speaker for LEGO foundation in 2026. John Kamp is an urban and landscape designer with twenty years translating community engagement into actionable design through Prairieform and their method called Place It!

Together, Rojas and Kamp co-authored Dream, Play, Build (Island Press, 2022) based off their practice PLACE IT! which began in 2007. In Dream Different exhibition, they invite you to build your own city, one found object at a time.

Come see and engage with the Philly of your dreams, starting on August 25! Link in bio.

What if a painting isn’t an escape from the world, but a doorway back outside? This artist’s landscapes are portals that...
08/21/2026

What if a painting isn’t an escape from the world, but a doorway back outside? This artist’s landscapes are portals that ask you to not only go touch grass but invent a mythology while you’re at it.

Nick Autiello is a painter whose surreal landscapes form an ongoing body of work he calls Anthrocadia — an inquiry into humanity’s contradictory relationship with the natural world and our recurring longing for lost Arcadias. His paintings act as windows onto these landscapes, echoing a very present-day ache: the need to step outside and touch grass. Drawing on Nicolas Poussin’s patient compositions and the metaphysical painters of the early twentieth century, Autiello — who built his studio practice after a prior career in environmental advocacy and climate finance — makes the case that the sustained attention oil painting demands is newly urgent in an era of fragmented focus. He lives and works in Providence, Rhode Island.

Come dream with his works starting August 25! RSVP in our bio. 🖼️

Find the wonder right in your own backyard. In only 4 days, you can come see DREAM DIFFERENT! Image: John Kamp and James...
08/21/2026

Find the wonder right in your own backyard. In only 4 days, you can come see DREAM DIFFERENT!

Image: John Kamp and James Rojas, “5 Models Afloat,” Place It, Los Angeles River Canoga Park, 2007.

💈What happens when a hair accessory becomes a cultural flashpoint — and history becomes a gift shop? How might hair chan...
08/20/2026

💈What happens when a hair accessory becomes a cultural flashpoint — and history becomes a gift shop? How might hair channel our most cherished memories and be a sacred medium for appreciating the present moment? 🪮➰

Magnus Juliano (he/him) is a multidisciplinary artist and creative director working across photography, mixed media, fashion design, and installation. In 2019, his Louis Vuitton hair accessory concept went viral, earning coverage in Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar. In 2022, his installation A Journey to Motherland: Black Panther Gift Shop — spanning graphic design, sculpture, animation, painting, and interactive digital components — was featured in a Cincinnati Art Museum exhibition honoring Black and Brown creatives, garnering national attention. His work sits at the intersection of race, culture, identity, and history, always pushing toward the next paradigm-shifting conversation.

Come see his answer to these questions in DREAM DIFFERENT: A Wonder Rebellion building from these prior works. 🟩🟦🟥🟨

🎈🧱🌙What does it mean to dream? And how might we reclaim our wonder in a world that seeks to rob us of our ability to be ...
08/18/2026

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What does it mean to dream? And how might we reclaim our wonder in a world that seeks to rob us of our ability to be present, to be in touch, and to touch?

We think you’ll enjoy the answers we built from artists, architects and educators and invite you to witness DREAM DIFFERENT: A Wonder Rebellion, opening next week August 25th at Temple Contemporary.

The show explores craft and play as resistance to our digital world, and it traces a hidden photographic history of desegregating play right here in Philadelphia.

🎪 RSVP now!

This exhibition is generously supported by the General Activities Fund and Philadelphia Cultural Fund.

Image credit: Jan Vormann, dispatchwork, Zagreb Croatia, 2007–present, Plastic construction bricks, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.

08/06/2026

💭What does it mean to dream? And how might we reclaim our wonder in a world that seeks to rob us of our ability to be present, to be in touch, and to touch?

Starting Aug 25, “DREAM DIFFERENT: A Wonder Rebellion,” is a group exhibition curated by Matthew JM Kenyatta that considers how play, imagination and wonder can offer meaningful alternatives to the distractions and pressures of contemporary digital life.

Bringing together artists, architects, educators and designers working across a range of media from across the world and within Philadelphia, the exhibition invites visitors to reconsider the everyday spaces and practices that shape how we connect with one another and the world around us… starting in your own backyards.

RSVP now for our opening reception! 💭🛝🧩🖼️🧱

Starting August 25, Temple Contemporary is proud to present…“INDIGENOUS IRREGULARITIES: Anna Tsouhlarakis,” the second a...
08/06/2026

Starting August 25, Temple Contemporary is proud to present…“INDIGENOUS IRREGULARITIES: Anna Tsouhlarakis,” the second annual exhibition presenting works created by the Edgar Heap of Birds Family Artist-in-Residence at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture. Curated by Matthew JM Kenyatta, it presents new sculptures alongside previous text collages that continue Anna Tsouhlarakis’s ongoing engagement with Indigenous identity, humor, and material experimentation.

This project was made possible through the generous support of the Edgar Heap of Birds Family Endowment the Fleischner Famıly Charitable Foundation, and Sandy Cadwalader. We also thank the Tyler Glass Program and Jessica Jane Julius for their special role in realizing the artist’s vision.

Images courtesy of Jack Tilton Gallery and Tyler School and the artist.

Artwork: SHE DARES YOU TO STEAL HER HAIR, 2026.
26” × 19” x 16”

FYI: We didn’t stay inside the gallery this year. Our JOY RIDE partnered with Temple University Tyler Art + Architecture...
08/02/2026

FYI: We didn’t stay inside the gallery this year. Our JOY RIDE partnered with Temple University Tyler Art + Architecture Alumni and took 40+ riders through Germantown’s creative landscape — Ubuntu Gallery, The Colored Girls Museum, Our House Culture Center - in a beautifully led tour with leaders Nina Lyrispect Ball and Representative Andre Carroll and Matthew JM Kenyatta .

Meanwhile, quietly in the 19133 communities nearby, EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD IS A STAR began asking a simple question: what has made your neighborhood proud? Emilio Jose Maldonado Rosario Clancy Philbrick The Village of Arts and Humanities

Six courses. Five departments. One replicable model for what a teaching gallery can be. PYRAMID CLUB: OUR CONTINUUM hand...
07/31/2026

Six courses. Five departments. One replicable model for what a teaching gallery can be. PYRAMID CLUB: OUR CONTINUUM handed the exhibition to Tyler’s students and faculty: architectural dioramas, Z-fold books, original board games, archival research from Club yearbooks, VR, and community-sewn flags like this one. This impact was not a single moment but a chain of awareness, conversation, inspiration, and creative action. This we show our moments where young scholars began to practice art in conversation with ours.

What happens when a place like the historic Pyramid Club closes — and what would’ve happened if it hadn’t? What does it ...
07/28/2026

What happens when a place like the historic Pyramid Club closes — and what would’ve happened if it hadn’t? What does it mean to keep its spirit with us in the cultural DNA of our neighborhoods?

PYRAMID CLUB: 1937–2035 asked that question with 30+ fine artworks from the Dr. William A. Dodd collection, archival treasures from Temple University Blockson Collection, and an “Afromythology” series of images and environmental graphics by Shawn Theodore. Nearly 200 of you came out on opening night. Fifty national civic leaders visited during Next City’s Vanguard conference. Top architects convened for a national conference called Atlas for Postdisciplinary Design in our space. And the families — the Dodds, the Howards — came home to see their legacy on our walls. Luminaries like Governor Tom Wolf also joined the energy of the club.

Beyond nostalgia, it was an invitation for community world-building. Thank you to everyone who walked through the portal.

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