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Art Alliance News

Installation view of 'Resist Covid Take 6' billboard at Hamilton Hall
The Center for Immersive Media Shares A New ‘Resist Covid Take 6!’ Virtual Experience

The 360-degree documentation includes panoramic video clips created at five installation sites throughout UArts campus using an Insta360 Pro VR camera.

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Photograph of Carrie Mae Weems art installation on Broad Street
Media covers Carrie Mae Weems’ ‘Resist Covid Take 6!,’ Brought to Philly by UArts

Conceived by Carrie Mae Weems and Pierre Loving, Resist Covid Take 6! aims to create an artist-driven public awareness campaign to educate and enlighten Black, Latinx and Native American communities about the impact of COVID-19 on their lives.

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posters from the Resist Covid Take 6 exhibition installed on the windows of the Arts Bank. The poster on the left includes a single figure with the words This must be changed in large red text in the center. The other poster includes a group of people underneath a block of white text not legible in the image
Teaching Creatively Lesson Plans

Engage your students with this social impact project by artist Carrie Mae Weems through lesson plans and teaching resources.

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Invisible City Catalog Now Available for Purchase!

The much-anticipated Invisible City catalog is here! Available now for purchase at the university's online store.

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the text Curated Conversations in black over an image of a gallery wall hung with many framed works of art. There is a multicolored overlay on the photo with a green to yellow gradient.
Curated Conversations: The Art of Running a Gallery open to all UArts Students

Join the University Galleries team members and guests each week to investigate different aspects of what it takes to run an exhibition space. Open to all students, participants will explore a variety of topics and meet artists and curators.

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Front and side view of catalog for Les Amazones du Pop exhibition catalog
UArts Curator Sid Sachs on the Heroines of Pop Art

Sid Sachs, chief curator and director of exhibitions at University of the Arts, contributed an essay to the recently published exhibition catalog accompanying She-Bam Pow POP Wizz! Les Amazones du POP, currently on view at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Nice (MAMAC) in France. 

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Alex Da Corte's reinvention of Alan Kaprow's Chicken performance. The photo was taken in UArts' Gershman Hall and shows a large crowd and performers in a dark exhibition space with sections illuminated with blue lights and various on-going performances including a person in a bright yellow costume inside a glowing cage.
Reviews: Allen Kaprow's 'Chicken'(1962), reinvented by Alex Da Corte

In conjunction with University of the Arts’ exhibition 'Invisible City: Philadelphia and the Vernacular Avant-garde' curated by Sid Sachs with Jennie Hirsh, Alex Da Corte and Kate Watson-Wallace will reinvent Kaprow's 'Chicken' in the same location it was originally performed, now known as the Gershman Hall of University of the Arts.

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Cover image of pamphlet with the words "Notes from The School for Temporary Liveness" printed in white on a black background
'Notes on The School for Temporary Liveness' Now Available!

'Notes on the School for Temporary Liveness' is out now, available either to view online or to purchase in print.

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'Super Sunset' billboard by Roy Lichtenstein in front of Hamilton Hall
Critics Review 'Invisible City: Philadelphia and the Vernacular Avant-garde'

Invisible City: Philadelphia and the Vernacular Avant-garde highlights Philadelphia’s significant contributions to visual, literary, and musical culture between 1956 and 1976.

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UArts & Art Alliance

The boards of trustees of the University of the Arts and Philadelphia Art Alliance announced that the two century-old institutions will join together. Under the agreement, the Art Alliance will become part of the University of the Arts, renamed Philadelphia Art Alliance at the University of the Arts.

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