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Who, What, Why: Jo Tiongson-Perez
Jo Perez smiles and poses in Asia Gallery in museum.

Jo Tiongson-Perez inside the Asia section of the Penn Museum. 

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Who, What, Why: Jo Tiongson-Perez

Through a Sachs Arts grant, Jo Tiongson-Perez of the Penn Museum co-authored a compilation of mostly Indigenous folktales from the Philippines. 
Dedicating time to side gigs for good in the community
Paul Best performs at Penn Museum.

Paul Best performs at a Keepers of the Culture event at the Penn Museum in the fall of 2019.

(Image: Courtesy of Paul Best)

Dedicating time to side gigs for good in the community

The 11th piece in this series highlights a museum educator who also teaches people through an Afrocentric storytelling group, a research coordinator volunteering with an LGBTQ+ band, a nurse collecting children’s books, and a Spanish lecturer picking up trash.
Mummified baboons point to the direction of the fabled land of Punt
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Mummified baboons point to the direction of the fabled land of Punt

Josef Wegner of the School of Arts & Sciences and Penn Museum says that archaeologists have long entertained theories on the locale of ancient Egyptian trading partner Punt, despite the lack of precise directions.

Art Matters: Hand-coiled clay jar by Pueblo artist Les Namingha
clay jar in museum case surrounded by other clay works

The clay jar by artist Les Namingha is on view in the Penn Museum’s long-term exhibition, Native American Voices: The People. Here and Now.

(Image: J. DiSanto, Penn Museum)

  • Art Matters

    • Art Matters: Hand-coiled clay jar by Pueblo artist Les Namingha

    A hand-coiled clay jar by pueblo artist Les Namingha is on view in the Penn Museum’s Native American Voices gallery. The abstract surface design references water and its use in the U.S. Southwest.
    This new wellness series at Penn Museum will be the best thing you do all winter
    Philadelphia Magazine

    This new wellness series at Penn Museum will be the best thing you do all winter

    Penn Medicine and the Penn Museum have partnered to provide a happy healthy hour this winter, turning the Museum’s galleries into self-care sanctuaries with a rotating schedule of holistic health services.

    Your Food Story: A Sayre High School internship collaboration
    A group of students from Sayre with Latifah Wright in the hallway at TILT. Images from other teens are tacked on the drywall.

    Latifah Wright, far left, teaches photography to teens at TILT in a Fishtown, Philadelphia building that first served as horse stables, then a fish-packing plant, and now offers modular space for artists. Mounted on the white drywall are images from other teen photographers. 

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    Your Food Story: A Sayre High School internship collaboration

    With support from the Sachs Program for Arts Innovation, a Netter Center and Penn Museum internship encourages and displays the art and vision of Sayre High School students.

    Kristina García

    Becoming American: A ceremony for new citizens
    Newly naturalized U.S. citizens raise their right hands to take the oath of citizenship in the Harrison Auditorium at the Penn Museum, with officials on a stage in front of them and an American flag on the right side of the stage.

    The naturalization ceremony at the Penn Museum’s Harrison Auditorium featured 37 new American citizens.

    (Image: Courtesy of Penn Global)

    Becoming American: A ceremony for new citizens

    In keeping with its motto of “bringing the world to Penn and Penn to the world,” Penn Global hosted a naturalization ceremony on campus for 37 new citizens.

    Kristen de Groot

    Is alcohol a stimulant or depressant? Here’s how it affects your body.
    USA Today

    Is alcohol a stimulant or depressant? Here’s how it affects your body.

    A collaborative study including researchers with the Penn Museum is referenced, in which the earliest trace of alcohol residue was found in pottery from 7000–6600 BC. The pottery was from Jiahu, which was a Neolithic village in China.