At Penn museum’s art of smells exhibit, beauty is in the nose of the beholder Penn In the News PhillyVoice At Penn museum’s art of smells exhibit, beauty is in the nose of the beholder Norwegian-born smell researcher and artist Sissel Tolaas will have her first major U.S. exhibition, where interactable installations elicit sensations through smell, on display in the Institute of Contemporary Art through Dec. 30. Dollars and scents: Follow your nose through this exhibition at ICA Penn In the News WHYY (Philadelphia) Dollars and scents: Follow your nose through this exhibition at ICA Norwegian artist Sissel Tolaas discusses her first major U.S. exhibition, which uses smell as an artistic medium and is hosted at the Institute of Contemporary Art. ICA, WXPN awarded Pew Center for Arts & Heritage project grants WXPN is partnering with the Black Opry collective to support a Black Opry residency for five emerging Black Americana musicians. (Image: Black Opry Revue, 2021, by Gabriel Baretto) WXPN ICA, WXPN awarded Pew Center for Arts & Heritage project grants The Institute of Contemporary Art and WXPN have been awarded 2022 project grants from The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Stuart Weitzman School of Design alumni James Maurelle, now on the faculty, and James Allister Sprang are among 12 Pew Fellows in the Arts named this year. Exploring the depth of smell through art Blocks and stones, imbued with scent, are placed on a concrete step in the ICA gallery, as part of a new exhibit by artist, chemist, and linguist Sissel Tolaas. Exploring the depth of smell through art With “RE_______,” a fall exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Sissel Tolaas, a Norwegian artist, chemist, and linguist, the galleries put smell front and center. Do art museums prioritize visitor well-being enough? Katherine Cotter and James Pawelski (not pictured) surveyed more than 200 curators, educators, researchers, security guards, exhibit designers, and others working at art museums to gauge how museums can impact visitors’ well-being. Do art museums prioritize visitor well-being enough? Research from the Humanities and Human Flourishing Project in Penn’s Positive Psychology Center reveals that the people working in these institutions want to see greater emphasis on human flourishing, but they feel ill-equipped to make it happen. Creating an artist’s book at the Common Press Artist-in-residence Katie Baldwin works with a hand-operated printing press in Penn’s Common Press, located in the Fisher Fine Arts Library, to print pages for her forthcoming book. Creating an artist’s book at the Common Press Artist-in-residence Katie Baldwin is printing a book she wrote and illustrated, inspired by a 400-plus-year-old volume in the Penn Libraries collection, sponsored by a residency with the Philadelphia Center for the Book. Hey Mural Arts, graffiti is art, too. It always was Penn In the News Philadelphia Inquirer Hey Mural Arts, graffiti is art, too. It always was In an op-ed, doctoral candidate Razan Idris of the School of Arts & Sciences writes that Mural Arts Philadelphia’s legacy is mired by a legacy of urban racism, including discrimination against local graffiti artists. Cultural representations in films Q&A Cultural representations in films In partnership with BlackStar Projects, Maori Karmael Holmes of Penn Live Arts curates films to uplift the work of Black, brown, and Indigenous artists. Grappling with a watershed’s uncertain environmental future Grappling with a watershed’s uncertain environmental future Artists supported by the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities created tools for navigating unpredictable ecological challenges, then brought them to life in a series of public workshops at the Independence Seaport Museum. Claes Oldenburg, 93, created giant sculptures that became icons of Philly Penn In the News WHYY (Philadelphia) Claes Oldenburg, 93, created giant sculptures that became icons of Philly University Curator Lynn Marsden-Atlass comments on the Split Button sculpture that dominates the entrance to the Van Pelt Library. Load More
Dollars and scents: Follow your nose through this exhibition at ICA Penn In the News WHYY (Philadelphia) Dollars and scents: Follow your nose through this exhibition at ICA Norwegian artist Sissel Tolaas discusses her first major U.S. exhibition, which uses smell as an artistic medium and is hosted at the Institute of Contemporary Art. ICA, WXPN awarded Pew Center for Arts & Heritage project grants WXPN is partnering with the Black Opry collective to support a Black Opry residency for five emerging Black Americana musicians. (Image: Black Opry Revue, 2021, by Gabriel Baretto) WXPN ICA, WXPN awarded Pew Center for Arts & Heritage project grants The Institute of Contemporary Art and WXPN have been awarded 2022 project grants from The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Stuart Weitzman School of Design alumni James Maurelle, now on the faculty, and James Allister Sprang are among 12 Pew Fellows in the Arts named this year. Exploring the depth of smell through art Blocks and stones, imbued with scent, are placed on a concrete step in the ICA gallery, as part of a new exhibit by artist, chemist, and linguist Sissel Tolaas. Exploring the depth of smell through art With “RE_______,” a fall exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Sissel Tolaas, a Norwegian artist, chemist, and linguist, the galleries put smell front and center. Do art museums prioritize visitor well-being enough? Katherine Cotter and James Pawelski (not pictured) surveyed more than 200 curators, educators, researchers, security guards, exhibit designers, and others working at art museums to gauge how museums can impact visitors’ well-being. Do art museums prioritize visitor well-being enough? Research from the Humanities and Human Flourishing Project in Penn’s Positive Psychology Center reveals that the people working in these institutions want to see greater emphasis on human flourishing, but they feel ill-equipped to make it happen. Creating an artist’s book at the Common Press Artist-in-residence Katie Baldwin works with a hand-operated printing press in Penn’s Common Press, located in the Fisher Fine Arts Library, to print pages for her forthcoming book. Creating an artist’s book at the Common Press Artist-in-residence Katie Baldwin is printing a book she wrote and illustrated, inspired by a 400-plus-year-old volume in the Penn Libraries collection, sponsored by a residency with the Philadelphia Center for the Book. Hey Mural Arts, graffiti is art, too. It always was Penn In the News Philadelphia Inquirer Hey Mural Arts, graffiti is art, too. It always was In an op-ed, doctoral candidate Razan Idris of the School of Arts & Sciences writes that Mural Arts Philadelphia’s legacy is mired by a legacy of urban racism, including discrimination against local graffiti artists. Cultural representations in films Q&A Cultural representations in films In partnership with BlackStar Projects, Maori Karmael Holmes of Penn Live Arts curates films to uplift the work of Black, brown, and Indigenous artists. Grappling with a watershed’s uncertain environmental future Grappling with a watershed’s uncertain environmental future Artists supported by the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities created tools for navigating unpredictable ecological challenges, then brought them to life in a series of public workshops at the Independence Seaport Museum. Claes Oldenburg, 93, created giant sculptures that became icons of Philly Penn In the News WHYY (Philadelphia) Claes Oldenburg, 93, created giant sculptures that became icons of Philly University Curator Lynn Marsden-Atlass comments on the Split Button sculpture that dominates the entrance to the Van Pelt Library. Load More
ICA, WXPN awarded Pew Center for Arts & Heritage project grants WXPN is partnering with the Black Opry collective to support a Black Opry residency for five emerging Black Americana musicians. (Image: Black Opry Revue, 2021, by Gabriel Baretto) WXPN ICA, WXPN awarded Pew Center for Arts & Heritage project grants The Institute of Contemporary Art and WXPN have been awarded 2022 project grants from The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Stuart Weitzman School of Design alumni James Maurelle, now on the faculty, and James Allister Sprang are among 12 Pew Fellows in the Arts named this year.
Exploring the depth of smell through art Blocks and stones, imbued with scent, are placed on a concrete step in the ICA gallery, as part of a new exhibit by artist, chemist, and linguist Sissel Tolaas. Exploring the depth of smell through art With “RE_______,” a fall exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Sissel Tolaas, a Norwegian artist, chemist, and linguist, the galleries put smell front and center.
Do art museums prioritize visitor well-being enough? Katherine Cotter and James Pawelski (not pictured) surveyed more than 200 curators, educators, researchers, security guards, exhibit designers, and others working at art museums to gauge how museums can impact visitors’ well-being. Do art museums prioritize visitor well-being enough? Research from the Humanities and Human Flourishing Project in Penn’s Positive Psychology Center reveals that the people working in these institutions want to see greater emphasis on human flourishing, but they feel ill-equipped to make it happen.
Creating an artist’s book at the Common Press Artist-in-residence Katie Baldwin works with a hand-operated printing press in Penn’s Common Press, located in the Fisher Fine Arts Library, to print pages for her forthcoming book. Creating an artist’s book at the Common Press Artist-in-residence Katie Baldwin is printing a book she wrote and illustrated, inspired by a 400-plus-year-old volume in the Penn Libraries collection, sponsored by a residency with the Philadelphia Center for the Book.
Hey Mural Arts, graffiti is art, too. It always was Penn In the News Philadelphia Inquirer Hey Mural Arts, graffiti is art, too. It always was In an op-ed, doctoral candidate Razan Idris of the School of Arts & Sciences writes that Mural Arts Philadelphia’s legacy is mired by a legacy of urban racism, including discrimination against local graffiti artists. Cultural representations in films Q&A Cultural representations in films In partnership with BlackStar Projects, Maori Karmael Holmes of Penn Live Arts curates films to uplift the work of Black, brown, and Indigenous artists. Grappling with a watershed’s uncertain environmental future Grappling with a watershed’s uncertain environmental future Artists supported by the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities created tools for navigating unpredictable ecological challenges, then brought them to life in a series of public workshops at the Independence Seaport Museum. Claes Oldenburg, 93, created giant sculptures that became icons of Philly Penn In the News WHYY (Philadelphia) Claes Oldenburg, 93, created giant sculptures that became icons of Philly University Curator Lynn Marsden-Atlass comments on the Split Button sculpture that dominates the entrance to the Van Pelt Library. Load More
Cultural representations in films Q&A Cultural representations in films In partnership with BlackStar Projects, Maori Karmael Holmes of Penn Live Arts curates films to uplift the work of Black, brown, and Indigenous artists.
Grappling with a watershed’s uncertain environmental future Grappling with a watershed’s uncertain environmental future Artists supported by the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities created tools for navigating unpredictable ecological challenges, then brought them to life in a series of public workshops at the Independence Seaport Museum.
Claes Oldenburg, 93, created giant sculptures that became icons of Philly Penn In the News WHYY (Philadelphia) Claes Oldenburg, 93, created giant sculptures that became icons of Philly University Curator Lynn Marsden-Atlass comments on the Split Button sculpture that dominates the entrance to the Van Pelt Library.