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Louisa Shepard
Senior News Officer
lshepard@upenn.edu
Literature of Care, a course offered every fall in the School of Arts & Sciences, explores medical humanities and the role storytelling plays in patient care.
Revisit some of the stories that highlighted the events, breakthroughs, people, and research across the University this year.
As the director of the Penn Art Collection in charge of nearly 9,000 artworks, Lynn Smith Dolby manages the conservation, registration, and display of all University-owned art, indoors and outdoors across campus.
In the second year of the Equity in Action Visiting Scholars program, the Office of Social Equity & Community will host Kemba Smith Pradia, a criminal justice advocate, and artist Makoto Fujimura and lawyer Haejin Fujimura for the 2024-25 academic year.
A kinetic sculpture positioned on a hillside at Morris Arboretum & Gardens is designed to move with the wind.
Two Penn faculty -- installation artist and sculptor Michelle Lopez, and composer and musician Tyshawn Sorey -- each have been awarded one of 12 arts fellowships by the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage in Philadelphia.
In a summer internship at the Barnes Foundation, Devdyuti Paul makes the arts accessible.
Drawn by their interests in art, design, and support for children in Philadelphia, two Penn students in the College of Arts and Sciences, Natalie Cheng and Aled Dillabough, are working as interns this summer at the nonprofit ArtWell.
During these hot days of summer, the cool of a garden water feature depicted in “In the Garden” by artist Jennifer Bartlett could provide some respite. Made of 270 one-foot-square steel plates painted with enamel, sections of the mural are installed in five locations in Van Pelt Library.
A new exhibition at the Arthur Ross Gallery, on view through Sept. 15, explores the work and legacy of David Driskell, a leading American artist, scholar, and curator who was central to establishing African American art as a field of study.
Louisa Shepard
Senior News Officer
lshepard@upenn.edu
“Klump,” an exhibit by Ken Lum of the Weitzman School of Design, will display photos of people in urban settings at the Philadelphia art bookstore Ulises.
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The Institute of Contemporary Art has partnered with Taller Puertorriqueño to offer free bus service for residents of Fairhill to an ICA exhibition by North Philly native and artist David Antonio Cruz.
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A review examines the group show “Movables” at the Institute of Contemporary Art, including pieces by Ken Lum of the Weitzman School of Design.
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Penn professors, including James Pawelski and Katherine Cotter of the School of Arts & Sciences, are teaching an online class about art therapy with support from the Barnes Foundation.
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Catherine Bartch of the School of Arts & Sciences, who first encountered Roberto Mamani Mamani’s art in Bolivia, is noted for encouraging the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies and Mural Arts to fund Mamani Mamani’s mural in Philadelphia.
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Paul Farber of the Weitzman School of Design is helping to curate “Pulling Together,” an open-air exhibition at the National Mall that will address some of the stories neglected by past monument makers.
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