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Cultural representations in films
Maori amidst foliage
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    • 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.

    Anna Chen

    Grappling with a watershed’s uncertain environmental future
    Several people around a table, one holds a satellite map.

    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.

    Katherine Unger Baillie

    New Arthur Ross Gallery exhibit ‘From Studio to Doorstep’
    two adults and one child look at prints hanging on a very pink wall

    Prints created for middle class Americans from 1934 to 2000 are featured in the current Arthur Ross Gallery exhibition, “From Studio to Doorstep,” through Aug. 21. The 37 signed and numbered Associated American Artists prints are part of the Penn Art Collection, many exhibited for the first time.

    New Arthur Ross Gallery exhibit ‘From Studio to Doorstep’

    Prints from 1934 to 2000 are featured in the current Arthur Ross Gallery exhibition, “From Studio to Doorstep,” through Aug. 21. The 37 Associated American Artists prints are part of the Penn Art Collection.
    More intricate riddles of life on ‘In These Times’
    Fantasy drawing of a human overcoming inner demons.

    Image: Marina Munn

    More intricate riddles of life on ‘In These Times’

    Episodes 4 and 5 of the OMNIA podcast’s fourth season cover how to confront trauma, using words as a coping mechanism, and music and meaning.

    Art museums plant seeds of human flourishing
    A view of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, a long building of orange brick and blue angled roofs. The Schuylkill River flows in the foreground.

    A view of the Philadelphia Museum of Art from the Schuylkill River. A recent review shows the many ways that art museums benefit human flourishing. 

    Art museums plant seeds of human flourishing

    Researchers from the Humanities and Human Flourishing Project in the Positive Psychology Center at Penn have found that art museums are associated with wide-ranging benefits to human health.

    Luis Melecio-Zambrano

    Mural expresses culture and belonging in South Philadelphia
    mural with many illustrations in bright colors on a long wall with a sidewalk and cars

    Mural artist Shira Walinsky of the Stuart Weitzman School of Design and fourth-grade teacher Lisa Yau, a fellow in the Penn-based Teachers Institute of Philadelphia, worked together with students to transform a blank wall across the street from the Francis Scott Key School entrance on 8th Street in South Philadelphia. (Image: Steve Weinik, courtesy of Mural Arts Philadelphia)

    Mural expresses culture and belonging in South Philadelphia

    Shira Walinsky of the Stuart Weitzman School of Design and fourth-grade teacher Lisa Yuk Kuen Yau, a fellow in the Penn-based Teachers Institute of Philadelphia, worked with students to create a mural across from Francis Scott Key School in South Philadelphia.