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Louisa Shepard
Senior News Officer
lshepard@upenn.edu
A new installment in the “Art Matters” series examines “Ava” by photographer and filmmaker Shirin Neshat, on view at Perry World House.
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.
In the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts’ Arts Lounge, the mixed-media, Afro-futurism work of Mikel Elam is on display through Feb. 18.
The Penn Chinese Calligraphy Club, formed during the pandemic, endures as a meeting ground for amateur calligraphers who value the practice as meditation and art.
The Arthur Ross Gallery celebrates its 40th anniversary with the opening of an exhibition featuring rare first-edition prints by Spanish artist Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes.
A ceramic vase with the face of the artist’s father on one side and Benjamin Franklin’s on the other is on view in the Van-Pelt Dietrich Library Center.
Two other project grants to area cultural institutions involve Michelle Lopez of the Weitzman School of Design and alum Kiyoshi Kuromiya.
“Moveables” and “When the Children Come Home” are the latest exhibits on display at the Institute of Contemporary Art, which remains free to all.
For third-year Olivia Kim, a PURM research experience with Penn neuroscientist Anjan Chatterjee allowed her to combine her love of neuroscience and art in a working lab.
An exhibition of 50 artworks by 34 undergraduate students in six Philadelphia colleges and universities, “Let Me Know You Are Alright,” is on view at the Charles Addams Gallery on campus through Aug. 18.
Louisa Shepard
Senior News Officer
lshepard@upenn.edu
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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Philadelphia-based artist Adebunmi Gbadebo’s work, which sources materials directly from her enslaved ancestors, is on display at the Arthur Ross Gallery as part of the group exhibition “Songs for Ritual Remembrance.”
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