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Louisa Shepard
Senior News Officer
lshepard@upenn.edu
A new exhibition at Penn’s Institute of Contemporary Art is the first in-depth museum survey of the six-decade career of California artist Carl Cheng, on view through April 6.
Richard Lichter, a member of the Penn Vet Board of Advisors, commissioned a piece of his late golden retriever, made up of photos of nearly 500 shelter dogs who received lifesaving care from Penn Vet.
As part of an undergraduate course, Penn faculty and students curated an Arthur Ross Gallery exhibition of works from the Neumann family’s extensive collection of modern and contemporary art.
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.
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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