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Calder Gardens An oasis where Calder’s art moves with nature, architecture, and activations that shift how we see and feel. Now .

The landscapes around us hold stories, some familiar, others waiting to be brought into the conversation. 🌿On October 23...
10/15/2026

The landscapes around us hold stories, some familiar, others waiting to be brought into the conversation. 🌿

On October 23, join us for our Fall Listening Circle, an evening exploring the histories, memories, and connections embedded in the land around us.

Led by Denise Dunkley, master artisan, educator, and member of the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation, this gathering welcomes Ciara Williams, a Harvard University PhD candidate and Lenape Research Fellow at Bartram's Garden.

Together, they’ll explore how rivers and landscapes have shaped the history of Lenapehoking and how Indigenous perspectives can deepen our understanding of the places we inhabit.

Inspired by Indigenous talking circles, the evening invites reflection, shared learning, and meaningful conversation.

Fall Listening Circle
📅 Friday, October 23
🕕 6–7:30pm ET
📍 Calder Gardens
🎟️ Free; capacity is limited, and registration is encouraged

Reserve your spot ➡️ https://bit.ly/4hWE5H7

Calder’s Red Panel is newly installed in the Curve Gallery at Calder Gardens.On public view for the first time, the wall...
10/15/2026

Calder’s Red Panel is newly installed in the Curve Gallery at Calder Gardens.

On public view for the first time, the wall sculpture features three hanging elements in front of a painted plywood panel. Alexander S. C. Rower writes of Calder’s frames and panels, “Viewed head-on, these spirited sculptures appear to be paintings whose compositions flash form and color, blurring the line between fixedness and circumstance and activating a complex choreography of nonobjective forms."

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Image: Red Panel (c. 1936), plywood, wood, sheet metal, rod, wire, string, and paint. © 2026 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Calder’s standing mobile "Tree" has been installed in the Small Gallery at Calder Gardens.In this remarkable work, a del...
10/06/2026

Calder’s standing mobile "Tree" has been installed in the Small Gallery at Calder Gardens.

In this remarkable work, a delicate mobile of wood, glass, mirror, and plastic elements is suspended from an eight-foot-tall sheet metal base. Calder often incorporated everyday materials into his sculptures, and in a 1950s interview he reflected: “[A found object] only works if you find something as good as the shape you were about to invent.” Calder collected one of the mobile’s hanging elements, a red plastic shard, from a shattered car taillight.

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Image: Tree (1941), sheet metal, wood, glass, mirror, plastic, wire, string, and paint. © 2026 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Something new has arrived at Calder Gardens. 🌀Three works by Alexander Calder, "Red Panel", "Tree", and “Tines", are now...
10/01/2026

Something new has arrived at Calder Gardens. 🌀

Three works by Alexander Calder, "Red Panel", "Tree", and “Tines", are now on view as part of the latest rotation of works throughout the galleries.

Rotating installations are part of the experience at Calder Gardens, bringing different works from across Calder’s career into the spaces and creating new relationships with the architecture, gardens, and other works around them. With each change, there’s another reason to return and experience the galleries differently.

Over the coming weeks, we’ll take a closer look at each of these newly installed works and share more about their stories.

For now, come experience the new rotation for yourself.
Plan your visit to Calder Gardens in Philly ➡️ https://bit.ly/4e0AWUC

© 2026 Calder Gardens. All works by Calder © 2026 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Garden Walks offer a closer look at the landscape of Calder Gardens and everything that goes into bringing Piet Oudolf’s...
09/24/2026

Garden Walks offer a closer look at the landscape of Calder Gardens and everything that goes into bringing Piet Oudolf’s vision to life. 🌿

Led through the gardens, these 45-minute walks explore more than what’s currently in bloom. You’ll discover the ideas behind Oudolf’s planting philosophy, the structure and texture that shape the landscape throughout the seasons, and the practical layers of planning and care happening beneath the surface.

Along the way, you’ll also consider how the living landscape interacts with Calder’s art and the architecture of Calder Gardens, creating relationships that continue to change throughout the year.

Whether you’re visiting for the first time or returning to see what has changed, Garden Walks offer a deeper way to experience the garden and the intentionality woven throughout it.

Garden Walks
📅 Thursday–Monday, April–October
🕛 Noon weekdays; noon + 2pm weekends
📍 Calder Gardens
🎟️ $25; members $12, includes admission

Reserve your Garden Walk ➡️ https://bit.ly/4hgMNzF

© 2026 Calder Gardens.

09/21/2026

One year of Calder Gardens! 🌀

A year ago, we opened our doors and invited you to experience a new home for Calder’s work in Philadelphia. Since then, Calder Gardens has continued to change with every visit.

Across the galleries, rotating installations have placed works from throughout Calder’s 50-year career in conversation with one another and with the architecture of Herzog & de Meuron. Outside, Piet Oudolf’s gardens have moved through their first full cycle of seasons, from new growth and summer color to autumn seed heads, winter structure, and growth beginning again. Through programs like Moon Alignment and Artists as Gardens, artists, musicians, thinkers, and visitors have gathered here for concerts, conversations, meditation, and moments of reflection.

Thank you to everyone who visited, returned, brought someone new, attended a program, became a member, or simply spent time with us during this first year!

There is still so much to come, and so much left open to interpretation.
Plan your visit ➡️ https://bit.ly/4e0AWUC

© 2026 Calder Gardens. All works by Calder © 2026 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

There’s often more than one thing in motion at Calder Gardens.A mobile shifts overhead, responding to the air around it....
09/03/2026

There’s often more than one thing in motion at Calder Gardens.

A mobile shifts overhead, responding to the air around it. Its shadow moves across the wall, becoming another composition alongside the sculpture itself. Nearby, “Sword Plant” holds a very different kind of balance in red and black.

Together, the works offer two expressions of Calder’s ongoing experiments with movement, equilibrium, space, and chance. Spend a little time here and the relationships between them keep changing, especially as you move through the gallery.

Next week, the installation at Calder Gardens will shift. The current installation of works will be on view until Monday, 7 September.

Plan your visit to Calder Gardens in Philadelphia ➡️ https://bit.ly/4e0AWUC

© 2026 Calder Gardens. All works by Calder © 2026 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Some conversations with art begin with a question.Walks at Calder Gardens offer a closer way to spend time with Calder’s...
08/31/2026

Some conversations with art begin with a question.

Walks at Calder Gardens offer a closer way to spend time with Calder’s work, the architecture, and the gardens. In small groups of no more than 10, specially trained guides lead 45-minute experiences through the galleries and landscape, making space for close-looking, conversation, and the perspectives everyone brings with them.

Rather than a traditional tour, each walk is shaped by what unfolds along the way. A mobile might shift overhead. A view into Piet Oudolf’s gardens might change the conversation. A work you’ve passed before might hold your attention differently this time.

Whether it’s your first visit or you’re returning, Walks at Calder Gardens offer another way into the relationship between art, architecture, nature, and well-being.

Walks at Calder Gardens
📅 Thursday–Monday
🕦 11:30am + 1:30pm
⏱ 45 minutes
👥 Limited to 10 visitors
🎟 Reserve your walk ➡️ https://bit.ly/4vP4lc0

Private walks are also available. Call 215.278.7250 for more information.

© 2026 Calder Gardens. All works by Calder © 2026 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Sometimes the best way to understand the scale of Calder’s work is to stand beside it.In the galleries, towering sheet m...
08/29/2026

Sometimes the best way to understand the scale of Calder’s work is to stand beside it.

In the galleries, towering sheet metal forms share space with mobiles suspended overhead, with architecture and visitors moving between them. From one vantage point, a sculpture can fill your entire field of view. From another, it becomes part of a much larger composition unfolding across the space.

Plan your visit to Calder Gardens in Philadelphia ➡️ https://bit.ly/4e0AWUC

© 2026 Calder Gardens. All works by Calder © 2026 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Out in the Vestige Garden, Calder’s sculptures share space with shifting sunlight, passing clouds, and plantings that lo...
08/24/2026

Out in the Vestige Garden, Calder’s sculptures share space with shifting sunlight, passing clouds, and plantings that look different from week to week. The work stays put, but everything around it keeps moving.

On a summer afternoon, that means blue skies overhead, shadows stretching across the ground, and Piet Oudolf’s landscape growing in every direction. Plan your visit to Calder Gardens in Philadelphia ➡️ https://bit.ly/4e0AWUC

© 2026 Calder Gardens. All works by Calder © 2026 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

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