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Trisha Brown Dance Company, Set and Reset, Bryn Mawr College, 2015. Photo by Johanna Austin.
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Trisha Brown: In the New Body

Cardell Dance Theater in performance for Supper, People on the Move. Photo by Josh McIlvain.
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Supper, People on the Move

The Crossing, Seven Responses. Photo by Chip Colson.
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Seven Responses

Janine Antoni in collaboration with Anna Halprin, Paper Dance, 2013. April 26, 2016 performance view from Ally, produced in collaboration with The Fabric Workshop and Museum. Photo by Carlos Avendaño. Courtesy of the artists and The Fabric Workshop and Museum.
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Ally

action is primary, Meg Foley, 2016. Photo by Tasha Doremus.
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action is primary

After the Rehearsal/Persona by Toneelgroep Amsterdam. Photo © Jan Versweyveld.
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After the Rehearsal/Persona by Toneelgroep Amsterdam

The Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia performing St. Matthew Passion. Photo by Sharon Torello.
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The Bach-Mendelssohn Project

Faustin Linyekula's Philly Files. Photo by Jen Cleary.
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Re-Place-ing Philadelphia

PRISM Quartet performs with So Percussion in a Color Theory concert in June 2016. Photo by Scott Friedlander, courtesy of PRISM Quartet.
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Color Theory

On the set of Colombian telenovela Alias El Mexicano. Photo by Thaddeus Phillips.
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ALIAS

Dance Iquail. Photo by Rachel Neville. Pictured: Iquail Shaheed and Allison Sale.
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Pushers

Artists N Muralikrishnan (Keyboard), Shruthi Rajasekar (Tambura), Kiranavali Vidyasankar (Voice & Chitravina), V V S Murari (Violin), and Nirmala Rajasekar (Vina) during rehearsals for Tradition – An Evolving Continuum. Photo by Nan Melville. 
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Tradition – An Evolving Continuum

Creole United performs at a Zydeco Crossroads event for WXPN. Photo by John Vettese.
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Zydeco Crossroads

Pati Hill, Alphabet of Common Objects, c. 1975-79, 45 black and white copier prints, each 11” x 8.5,″ part of Arcadia University Art Gallery's 2015 exhibition Pati Hill: Photocopier. Courtesy Estate of Pati Hill and Arcadia.
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Pati Hill: Photocopier

Kimberly and Jonathan Stemler, Little Red String, 2009. Courtesy of Asian Arts Initiative. 
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Home – A Community-engaged Exhibition Planning Model

Installation view of Prisons Today: Questions in the Age of Mass Incarceration. Photo by Darryl W. Moran.
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Prisons Today: Questions in the Age of Mass Incarceration

Ann Hamilton, habitus, 2016. Installation at Municipal Pier 9, made in collaboration with The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia. Photo by Thibault Jeanson. 
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Ann Hamilton: habitus

Bob and Roberta Smith, Art Makes People Powerful (2013), installed at the Free Library of Philadelphia for Framing Fraktur. Fabric with applique and embroidery. Courtesy of the Free Library of Philadelphia.
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Framing Fraktur

Melanie Smith, Orange Lush, 1995/2015, installation view of Strange Currencies, The Galleries at Moore. Photo by Kait Privitera.
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Strange Currencies

The Historical Society of Pennsylvania's digital display wall and exhibition cases. Photo by Vincent Fraley, Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
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An Artist Embedded in History

Barbara Kasten: Stages, 2015, installation view, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), University of Pennsylvania. Photo by Constance Mensh. Courtesy of ICA.
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Barbara Kasten: Stages

A Fierce Kind of Love. Photo by Jacques-Jean Tiziou.
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A Fierce Kind of Love: Connecting Communities through Story and Dialogue

Installation view of Common Touch at the Library Company of Philadelphia. Photo by Concetta Barbera.
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Common Touch: The Art of the Senses in the History of the Blind

Lydia’s Seat, featured in Morris Arboretum’s Then and Now online experience, in which historic images of garden locations are contrasted with contemporary images of the same spot. Each featured location has an accompanying audio recording, which places the location in historical context. Photo courtesy of Morris Arboretum.
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Awakening the Senses: New Interpretive Approaches at the Morris Arboretum