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Through comics, profs draw path to visual literacy
Robert Berry and JC Cloutier read comics in Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Adjunct Professor Robert Berry, left, and Assistant Professor of English Jean-Christophe Cloutier, who teach the undergraduate course Making Comics, enjoy two comics that are part of Van Pelt-Dietrich's collection, available to students, faculty, and staff.

Through comics, profs draw path to visual literacy

In Making Comics, an English course for undergraduates, students learn the theory of comic books while working with others to make them—all in the name of visual literacy.
Engaging citizen curators
Wide view of art gallery showing many paintings on the walls and about ten people looking at them

The Arthur Ross Gallery's “Citizen Salon” exhibition features 50 works from Penn’s art collection, chosen by the public in an innovative crowdsourcing curation project. 

Engaging citizen curators

An innovative exhibition at the Arthur Ross Gallery features 50 works from Penn’s art collection chosen by the public in a crowdsourced exhibition. More than 600 people voted for their favorite to be included in “Citizen Salon,” on display through March 24.
A walk through history
closeup of granite bench and curbing with text

A walk through history

Jenny Holzer’s landscape installation “125 Years” celebrates its 15th anniversary as an interactive text-based tribute to women’s legacies at Penn.
Penn Museum programming revamped
Bumpin' Uglies DJs at a Crawl Out Thursday party

Members of the Bumpin' Uglies DJ group pose for a photo at the inaugural “Crawl Out Thursday” event at Penn Museum. (Photo: Penn Museum)

Penn Museum programming revamped

With building renovations underway, the Penn Museum has freshened up its roster of fun things to do.
She did it herself
Penn-Libraries-Regan-Klastrup-with-Annie-Oakley-trunk-and-gloves-in-exhibition-on-women-in-the-American-wilderness

Penn Libraries' exhibition “Ok, I’ll Do It Myself: Narratives of Intrepid Women in the American Wilderness” features 145 items from the vast collection by alumna Caroline Schimmel, including Annie Oakley’s trunk. Regan Kladstrup (above) has worked with Schimmel on her donation of 7,000 volumes of fiction to the Kislak Center. 

She did it herself

The Penn Libraries exhibition “OK, I’ll Do It Myself” with selections from the collection of alumna Caroline Schimmel features 145 books, photographs, manuscripts, artwork, and memorabilia on women in the American wilderness, even Annie Oakley’s trunk.
Collective grief over loss from Brazil’s National Museum fire
Fire at the National Museum of Brazil, in Rio de Janeiro, on September 2, 2018. Photo by Felipe Milanez

Fire at the National Museum of Brazil, in Rio de Janeiro, on September 2, 2018. Photo by Felipe Milanez

Collective grief over loss from Brazil’s National Museum fire

Members of the Penn Museum’s archeological community discuss the devastation felt over the destruction of an invaluable piece of world history.

Michele W. Berger

Floating art installation brings Schuylkill River history to life
Floating Archives

On three Saturday evenings in September, Jacob Rivkin, an artist-in-residence with the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities, will be floating on the Schuylkill River, displaying hand-drawn animations on a screen suspended between two canoes. His work reflects past and present narratives about the waterway. (Photo: Aidan Un)

Floating art installation brings Schuylkill River history to life

Jacob Rivkin, an artist-in-residence for the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities and an instructor in the School of Design, will present a public art installation on the Schuylkill River called “Floating Archives,” starting this weekend. (Video)

Katherine Unger Baillie

A chance to be an art curator
Citizen Salon crowdsourcing exhibition by Penn’s Arthur Ross Gallery

The Arthur Ross Gallery is offering 125 artworks in the University of Pennsylvania’s collection for the public to choose from in its first crowdsourced exhibit, “Citizen Salon.”

A chance to be an art curator

In a creative approach to curating its next art exhibition, the Arthur Ross Gallery is opening the choice of artworks to the public through its first-ever crowdsourcing effort.