Arts & Culture
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Jared Murphy
August Wilson House secures $500,000 grant
The August Wilson House will include a restoration of the two-room apartment the Wilson family occupied, plus artists’ studios and gallery space, with a focus on arts education.
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Nov03See Pablo Cruise at the Luhrs Center
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Emily Cohen for WHYY
Philly native Stephen Talasnik brings his work home for Seaport’s floating art exhibit
From Oct. 12 through Dec. 7, Stephen Talasnik’s latest sculpture will live on the Delaware River.
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Mhari Shaw
The lasting legacy of Bob Ross and his colorful world of ‘happy accidents’
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Nov06Art in the Atrium with Marti Yeager
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Peter Crimmins
At Girard College, ‘Back and Song’ showcases forgotten history of African healing arts
The film project by Bradford Young and Elissa Blount Moorhead folds spiritual and physical healing into the same acts.
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Rochelle Hoi-Yiu Kwan
Before he animated for Disney, he sketched cartoons in an internment camp
Despite his barren surroundings, Willie Ito managed to develop his skills as an artist. He would doodle on the margins of catalogs to make flipbooks of his drawings.
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Former Penn State research VP pens children’s book
After working at Penn State for 36 years and then retiring as undersecretary for science at the Smithsonian Institution, Eva Pell is writing children’s books.
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Niko Tavernise
Composer Hildur Guðnadóttir finds the humanity in ‘Joker’
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October pick of the month: “Imaginary Friend” by Stephen Chbosky
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Katie Blackley
Access to books as a youngster inspired Andrew Carnegie
Free to the People. The words are etched above the entrance to the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh’s main branch in Oakland. It’s a concept that was once considered radical, but has become an essential part of American communities.
