The art installations and shipping containers that dotted Philadelphia’s iconic public squares and neighborhood parks in recent months have gone into storage. But Monument Lab, the citywide art and history project conceived by Ken Lum, professor and chair of fine arts at PennDesign, and Paul Farber, managing director of the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities, is a work in progress.
MFA alum, Heather Raquel Phillips has been selected to receive a Leeway Foundation 2017 Art and Change Grant! The Art and Change Gran
Coinciding with the Chicago Architecture Biennial's four-month run, the Graham Foundation is exhibiting photographs by Professor David Hartt, in addition to his film in the forest, that depict some tropical ruins designed by Moshe Safdie.
Fine Arts Professor Jackie Tileston has been featured in Maake Magazine, an artist-run online gallery and print publication. The article includes a Q&A with Prof.
PennDesign faculty members Deirdre Murphy and Scott White, who are wife-husband collaborators, recently completed a 5 by 25 foot sculpture that was installed last month in the burgeoning Silicon Valley city of Dublin, California.
A new kind of interdisciplinary artistic collaboration is happening in Philadelphia this fall. The University City Science Center has partnered with biotech company and uCity Square resident Integral Molecular to host an artist-in-residence program focused on biotechnology.
MFA alum, Kelsey Halliday Johnson was featured in Hyperallergic for her curatorial work with the exhibition
The eighth iteration of the Incubation Series, Loose Ends is open now through November 17th at Seraphin Gallery featuring the work of MFA candidates Lauren Altman, Erlin Geffrar
End of Life, a nonfiction film that Professor Matt Freedman collaborated in the development of, will premiere at both Doclisboa International Film Festival in October and the Montreal International Documentary Festival RIDM in November.
Making/Breaking the Binary: Women, Art, & Technology 1968-1985, curated by MFA Alum, Kelsey Halliday Johnson, surveys a generation of pioneering female new media artists and relates their work to the technology innovators who help
Mural Arts Philadelphia’s citywide Monument Lab, co-curated by Fine Arts Chair and Professor Ken Lum, kicks off at the center of the city with a Saturday Spotlight event at City Hall, with music and food from 1:00- 4:00pm.
Professor Orkan Telhan and fellow members of Biorealize won honorable mention with their project Microbial Design Studio: 30-day Simit Diet at the