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Dance Alum Premieres Work at Capezio A.C.E. Awards

January 16, 2020, 3:38 pm

On Friday, Jan. 17, Mary Grace McNally BFA ’15 (Dance) will perform at MOVES at The Montalbán in Los Angeles for the 2020 Capezio A.C.E. Awards.

Book Arts & Printmaking Alum Working in Florence

January 13, 2020, 2:22 pm

International Conference of Blacks in Dance Comes to UArts

January 13, 2020, 10:39 am

From Jan. 14 to 19, UArts will host several classes and workshops on campus during the 32nd Annual International Association of Blacks in Dance (IABD) Conference and Festival of Blacks in Dance in partnership with the Philadelphia Dance Company (PHILADANCO).
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Opportunity for Writers: Art Alliance Writers’ Workshop Poetry Prize

January 7, 2020, 9:33 am

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Modern and Contemporary American Craft: Jennie Hirsh in Conversation with Helen Williams Drutt English

January 3, 2020, 3:38 pm

Thursday, March 19, 2020 at 6 p.m.
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An Evening of Poetry with Professor Daisy Fried and 'Invisible City' Poetry Award Winners

December 12, 2019, 12:27 pm

Thursday, April 2, 2020, 6 p.m. Program, 7:30 p.m. Reception
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Modern Architecture Walking Tour with William Whitaker, Curator of Penn's Architectural Archives

December 12, 2019, 11:49 am

Saturday, Mar. 28, 2020, 2 p.m. Tour; Afternoon Tea immediately following
Meeting on the Southwest corner of Fitler Square
Ending at the Art Alliance at University of the Arts
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Philadelphia, PA 19103
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UArts Exhibit Venerates the City’s Avant-garde Past

December 12, 2019, 10:19 am

Philadelphia has always been a city of innovators, and the postwar climate of the 1950s through the ’70s brought change to the art community that fostered the creation of postmodernism. It was also a time when art institutions were built throughout the city, giving artists room to experiment through cutting-edge art education that placed them in conversations with artists around the world.

Film Program Director Accepted to 2020 Sundance Film Festival

December 11, 2019, 9:07 am

UArts Alum Brittanie Richardson Tackles Sexual Violence in Kenya

December 10, 2019, 10:19 am

We spoke with Brittanie Richardson BFA ’09 (Acting) about her non-profit Art and Abolition, an organization that “exists to heal, empower and protect” girls in Kenya who have been victims of sexual violence. Richardson dreams of a “rape-free world” and believes that the arts can be a part of the solution.

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Alum Featured in Exhibit Celebrating Photography by Cuban Women

December 9, 2019, 4:37 pm

María Martínez-Cañas BFA ’82 (Photography) is one of the artists featured in the Bailey Contemporary Artists (BaCA) exhibit Building a Feminist Archive: Cuban Women Photographers in the U.S. The exhibit features Cuban women artists from the 1970’s onward, a time when, according to BaCA’s website, a “Latino” identity in the U.S.
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'Invisible City: Philadelphia and the Vernacular Avant-garde' Panel Discussion: Women of the Avant-garde

December 9, 2019, 2:44 pm

Thursday, March 26, 2020, 6 p.m. Roundtable Discussion

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People’s Books and Culture Reading Features Creative Writing Program  

December 9, 2019, 10:23 am

Jazz music played in the low light of the newly named People’s Books and Culture (formerly Penn Book Center) on Wednesday, Dec. 4, when UArts Creative Writing Program Director Zach Savich and MeeRee Orlandini BFA ’19 (Creative Writing) were invited to read. People’s Books and Culture is an independent bookstore that has been open and serving the community for 57 years.  
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'Invisible City': Curatorial Visions with Sid Sachs, Curator and Director of Exhibitions

December 6, 2019, 4:45 pm

Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020, 6 p.m. 

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Illustration Alum Wins Silver Medal from Society of Illustrators

December 6, 2019, 2:22 pm

Just a year and a half after graduating, the Society of Illustrators has awarded a silver medal to Shannon Ryan BFA '18 (Illustration) for her work “The Schoolyard.” Founded in 1901, the Society of Illustrators is the oldest nonprofit organization in the U.S. dedicated to the art of illustration.