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Spring 2024 ICA exhibitions interrogate histories, imagine futures
Vibrantly colored paintings on display in a gallery.

A gallery view of “Tomashi Jackson: Across the Universe,” on display at the Institute of Contemporary Art through June 2.

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Spring 2024 ICA exhibitions interrogate histories, imagine futures

“Tomashi Jackson: Across the Universe,” “Entryways: Nontsikelelo Mutiti,” and “Dominique White and Alberta Whittle: Sargasso Sea” make up the Spring 2024 lineup in the galleries of the Institute of Contemporary Art.
Civil Rights photography at the Penn Libraries
Time of Change Civil Rights Photography of Bruce Davidson with two photos

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Civil Rights photography at the Penn Libraries

A new collaboration between the Penn Art Collection and the Penn Libraries has mounted its first exhibition on the fifth floor of the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center. “Time of Change: Civil Rights Photography of Bruce Davidson” is on view through May 20.
Art Matters: ‘Fields of Transformation’ by Claudy Jongstra
A close-up of fields of transformation, showing wool in grey, cream, indigo, and gold

A close-up of “Fields of Transformation.” The wool was hand-dyed using natural materials, including onion skin and indigo.

(Image: Brian Hogan)

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    • Art Matters: ‘Fields of Transformation’ by Claudy Jongstra

    “Fields of Transformation,” a monumental textile mural in the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, symbolizes knowledge evolving into wisdom.

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    Who, What, Why: Jo Tiongson-Perez
    Jo Perez smiles and poses in Asia Gallery in museum.

    Jo Tiongson-Perez inside the Asia section of the Penn Museum. 

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    Who, What, Why: Jo Tiongson-Perez

    Through a Sachs Arts grant, Jo Tiongson-Perez of the Penn Museum co-authored a compilation of mostly Indigenous folktales from the Philippines. 
    Bringing museum filmmaking into the classroom
    Claire Elliot watches her film.

    Claire Elliot watches the short film she made on existential dread for Sosena Solomon’s Documentary Ethnography for Museums and Exhibitions class.

    (Image: Courtesy of Alissa Jordan)

    Bringing museum filmmaking into the classroom

    Filmmaker Sosena Solomon, who has been filming in Africa for a major Metropolitan Museum of Art redesign, taught Documentary Ethnography for Museums and Exhibitions to graduate students this fall.
    Art Matters: A monumental steel sculpture on Shoemaker Green 
    steel sculpture under construction

    The sculpture “Atmosphere and Environment XII” was reassembled cube by cube as part of the move to Penn’s campus from the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2019. 

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    • Art Matters: A monumental steel sculpture on Shoemaker Green 

    “Atmosphere and Environment XII” by Louise Nevelson, an 18-foot-high geometric steel structure, was moved to Penn’s campus from the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2019.
    Art Matters: Hand-coiled clay jar by Pueblo artist Les Namingha
    clay jar in museum case surrounded by other clay works

    The clay jar by artist Les Namingha is on view in the Penn Museum’s long-term exhibition, Native American Voices: The People. Here and Now.

    (Image: J. DiSanto, Penn Museum)

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    • Art Matters: Hand-coiled clay jar by Pueblo artist Les Namingha

    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.
    Slipping into ‘Bliss Consciousness’ at the Arts Lounge
    Mikel Elam poses in front of artwork.

    Mikel Elam is a Germantown-based artist whose work is on display at the Arts Lounge at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.

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    Slipping into ‘Bliss Consciousness’ at the Arts Lounge

    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.
    Chinese Calligraphy Club makes an old art new again
    Hands holding calligraphy brush as they paint.

    The Penn Chinese Calligraphy Club features drop-in sessions from 6-7 p.m. on Fridays at the ARCH Fireside Lounge.

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    Chinese Calligraphy Club makes an old art new again

    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.