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SUMMARY:Community Exhibit
DESCRIPTION:Community\, as defined in the Oxford Dictionary\, is “a feeling of fellowship with others\, as \na result of sharing common attitudes and interests”. A sense of community can lead to \nempowerment and foster change in one’s life. My intention with this installation is to \nsuggest and comment on the urgency in our world these days of people coming \ntogether regardless of their physicality or ethnicity. I hope to inspire introspection and \nunity as we move forward during this challenging global time. \nThese storefront exhibitions are viewable 24/7 from the outside.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/community-exhibit/2026-06-24/
LOCATION:Old City Publishing\, 628 N 2nd St\, Philadelphia\, 19123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:UnOrthodox Yoga  at BORSKI PARK - All Ages!
DESCRIPTION:UnOrthodox Yoga has landed at it’s final location at Borski Park.  All ages\, gentle flow class led by local instructor\,  Violet Vines.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/unorthodox-yoga-at-borski-park-all-ages-12/
LOCATION:Robert A. Borski\, Jr. Park\, 3150 Orthodox Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19137\, United States
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SUMMARY:Wednesday Volunteer Evenings with Riverfront North - Borski Park
DESCRIPTION:Spring Volunteer Opportunities!
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/wednesday-volunteer-evenings-with-riverfront-north-borski-park-4/
LOCATION:Robert A. Borski\, Jr. Park\, 3150 Orthodox Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19137\, United States
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SUMMARY:Community Exhibit
DESCRIPTION:Community\, as defined in the Oxford Dictionary\, is “a feeling of fellowship with others\, as \na result of sharing common attitudes and interests”. A sense of community can lead to \nempowerment and foster change in one’s life. My intention with this installation is to \nsuggest and comment on the urgency in our world these days of people coming \ntogether regardless of their physicality or ethnicity. I hope to inspire introspection and \nunity as we move forward during this challenging global time. \nThese storefront exhibitions are viewable 24/7 from the outside.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/community-exhibit/2026-06-25/
LOCATION:Old City Publishing\, 628 N 2nd St\, Philadelphia\, 19123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Native Planters
DESCRIPTION:Embark on a rewarding journey as a Volunteer Native Planter\, where you’ll connect with like-minded individuals\, refine your gardening expertise\, and delve into the world of native plants. By tending to the Courtyard Garden and Front Entrance Garden at the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education\, you’ll enhance beauty and biodiversity of this important landscape.\nTools are provided\, but feel free to bring your own. Remember your water bottle\, to wear sturdy shoes\, and clothes you don’t mind getting dirty! Volunteer Native Planters meet every Thursday\, April 9 to October 29\, from 10am-12pm.\nRegistration recommended to stay connected with weather updates. Walk-ins welcome!\nSign Up
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/native-planters-42/
LOCATION:The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education\, 8480 Hagys Mill Rd\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,Volunteer
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SUMMARY:Bodies and Souls
DESCRIPTION:“My concern is with humanity. I want to confront the viewer with life and with what we are doing to each other. I hope to awaken in the viewer a sense of compassion . . . without compassion there is nothing.”\n—Luis Cruz Azaceta \nBodies and Souls examines the liberatory power of figurative art. Though often treated as conservative in the second half of the 20th century\, artists used representational and realist methods to assert presence for those omitted from dominant narratives or harmfully depicted by those outside their communities. Realism and representation remain powerful means to show embodied human experience\, encompassing gender\, sexuality\, interpersonal relationships\, psychological states\, and connections to home. \nThese methods can help us imagine the world we want to live in. Representational art has been critical for artists who want to make themselves and their communities visible on their own terms. It provides the agency to see and be seen\, to show relationships\, pleasure\, and autonomy. Representing ourselves is a powerful means of celebrating our full humanity. \nThis is the throughline of an eclectic collection formed by Philadelphians Robert and Frances Coulborn Kohler. Bodies and Souls celebrates their devotion to artists and immense generosity towards PAFA. Featuring over 120 works given and promised to the museum\, the exhibition will examine prominent themes in the collection\, integrating artists who are often seen independently or as part of regional communities. \nBodies and Souls is presented concurrently with an exhibition of the same title featuring the Kohlers’ personal collection at Woodmere\, Charles Knox Smith Hall\, 9201 Germantown Ave. Bodies & Souls – Woodmere. \nFeatured Artwork: Rafael Ferrer (born 1933) El Bolero\, 1983–84. Oil on canvas; 60 × 72 in. © Rafael Ferrer\, courtesy of the artist \nThe exhibition will include works by Robert Arneson\, Luis Cruz Azaceta\, Joan Brown\, Roy DeForest\, Rafael Ferrer\, Viola Frey\, Gregory Gillespie\, Juan Gonzalez\, Red Grooms\, Anne Minich\, Gladys Nilsson\, Ed Paschke\, Christina Ramberg\, Winfred Rembert\, Tabitha Vevers\, John Wilde\, Didier William\, Karl Wirsum\, and many others.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/bodies-and-souls/2026-06-25/
LOCATION:Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts\, 118-128 North Broad Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19102\, United States
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SUMMARY:Kati Gegenheimer: We've Only Just Begun
DESCRIPTION:Rooted in painting but extending into architecture and social space\, the exhibition positions love not as a private or sentimental subject\, but as a serious aesthetic\, political\, and communal structure. \nTo reinaugurate the newly renovated Morris Gallery\, PAFA presents Kati Gegenheimer: We’ve Only Just Begun\, an immersive monographic exhibition exploring love–familial\, romantic\, or brotherly–at this moment of profound social division. Anchored by a symbol-laden painted musical score of the titular line from the Carpenters’ 1970 song\, the exhibition presents works surveying how love is a necessary choice to be cultivated\, measured\, sustained\, or dismissed\, over time. \nRooted in painting but extending into architecture and social space\, the exhibition positions love not as a private or sentimental subject\, but as a serious aesthetic\, political\, and communal structure. Gegenheimer’s markmaking\, symbolism\, and vibrant use of color reclaim emblems of care and tenderness (hearts\, love notes\, hinges\, calendars\, keyholes\, to-do lists)\, and ponder how love is practiced over time rather than experienced in a singular instance. In an era driven by speed\, extraction\, and instant gratification\, the exhibition insists on return and continuity. \nGegenheimer’s paintings are devoted expressions of love\, luck\, and time\, drawing inspiration from art history\, architecture\, popular culture\, and craft. Her works embrace the decorative and diaristic\, each an altar to a fleeting moment. Reliant on color\, tempo\, and composition\, each of her paintings is a sign\, symbol\, and record all at once.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/kati-gegenheimer-weve-only-just-begun/2026-06-25/
LOCATION:Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts\, 118-128 North Broad Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19102\, United States
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SUMMARY:FRED WILSON: THE MASTER PLAN or In Between the Big Bang and Modern Art Is the Restroom
DESCRIPTION:THE MASTER PLAN or In Between the Big Bang and Modern Art Is the Restroom is a suite of twenty-two photogravures commissioned in 2004 by the Brodsky Center at PAFA and completed in 2009. They are on view for the first time at PAFA in the Works on Paper Gallery of the Historic Landmark Building\, for one year\, in conjunction with the exhibition A Nation of Artists. \nAs an artist living and working in New York City\, I had to support myself one way or another. Working simultaneously in the educational department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, the American Museum of Natural History\, and the American Crafts Museum made me wonder about how the environment in which cultural production is placed affects the way the viewer feels about the artwork and the artist who made these things. \n—Fred Wilson \nThe prints reproduce floor outlines from visitor orientation maps of eighteen major art\, cultural\, and natural history museums in North America and Europe. The succession of diagrammatic images\, precisely etched in off-white and black inks\, encourage viewers to revisit memories of time spent in museums and recapture the sense of adventure sparked by picking up a map. \nAs one of the most influential American artists of this century\, Fred Wilson has set in motion a profound transformation prompting museums to reconsider how they engage viewers’ learning experiences through art and artifacts. Two hundred and fifty years after Charles Willson Peale (1741–1827) established the American museum at the nation’s birth as the destination for educational advancement—commemorated in his painting The Artist in His Museum (1822)\, on view in the rotunda—Wilson examines the consequential role museums have played since. \nWilson’s conceptual inquiry challenges museums as neutral repositories of knowledge. His groundbreaking 1992 installation at the Maryland Historical Society\, Mining the Museum\, exhumed omitted histories of colonized and enslaved people and shifted attention to the authority embedded in institutional architecture\, furniture\, labels\, and registration systems through his creative retooling of the display apparatus. His subsequent work in glass\, sculpture\, painting\, drawing\, and print addresses the cross-continental history central to the Black experience\, including themes of race\, diaspora\, liberation\, and mourning.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/fred-wilson-the-master-plan-or-in-between-the-big-bang-and-modern-art-is-the-restroom/2026-06-25/
LOCATION:Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts\, 118-128 North Broad Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19102\, United States
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SUMMARY:Nature-Inspired Family Yoga
DESCRIPTION:All ages Yoga at Borski Park led by Family-Yoga professional and founder of Heartwell Yoga\, Jana Gunby.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/nature-inspired-family-yoga-3/
LOCATION:Robert A. Borski\, Jr. Park\, 3150 Orthodox Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19137\, United States
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SUMMARY:Community Exhibit
DESCRIPTION:Community\, as defined in the Oxford Dictionary\, is “a feeling of fellowship with others\, as \na result of sharing common attitudes and interests”. A sense of community can lead to \nempowerment and foster change in one’s life. My intention with this installation is to \nsuggest and comment on the urgency in our world these days of people coming \ntogether regardless of their physicality or ethnicity. I hope to inspire introspection and \nunity as we move forward during this challenging global time. \nThese storefront exhibitions are viewable 24/7 from the outside.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/community-exhibit/2026-06-26/
LOCATION:Old City Publishing\, 628 N 2nd St\, Philadelphia\, 19123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Kati Gegenheimer: We've Only Just Begun
DESCRIPTION:Rooted in painting but extending into architecture and social space\, the exhibition positions love not as a private or sentimental subject\, but as a serious aesthetic\, political\, and communal structure. \nTo reinaugurate the newly renovated Morris Gallery\, PAFA presents Kati Gegenheimer: We’ve Only Just Begun\, an immersive monographic exhibition exploring love–familial\, romantic\, or brotherly–at this moment of profound social division. Anchored by a symbol-laden painted musical score of the titular line from the Carpenters’ 1970 song\, the exhibition presents works surveying how love is a necessary choice to be cultivated\, measured\, sustained\, or dismissed\, over time. \nRooted in painting but extending into architecture and social space\, the exhibition positions love not as a private or sentimental subject\, but as a serious aesthetic\, political\, and communal structure. Gegenheimer’s markmaking\, symbolism\, and vibrant use of color reclaim emblems of care and tenderness (hearts\, love notes\, hinges\, calendars\, keyholes\, to-do lists)\, and ponder how love is practiced over time rather than experienced in a singular instance. In an era driven by speed\, extraction\, and instant gratification\, the exhibition insists on return and continuity. \nGegenheimer’s paintings are devoted expressions of love\, luck\, and time\, drawing inspiration from art history\, architecture\, popular culture\, and craft. Her works embrace the decorative and diaristic\, each an altar to a fleeting moment. Reliant on color\, tempo\, and composition\, each of her paintings is a sign\, symbol\, and record all at once.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/kati-gegenheimer-weve-only-just-begun/2026-06-26/
LOCATION:Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts\, 118-128 North Broad Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19102\, United States
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SUMMARY:Storytime + Design
DESCRIPTION:Warm-up to the concept of design and it’s many disciplines with Storytime + Design. This weekly creative experience diving into a book and fun design exercises to grow your creativity and design process. We welcome all ages and identities on the designer journey. \nThe age range of books will vary\, and design exercises are adaptable for all ages. **Please follow us on our social channels\, or visit our website\, for schedule changes/closures at: https://www.designgym.co/events** \nDesign Gym is where everyone is a designer. Demystifying design and exercising your design thinking skills and creativity that you’re born with.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/storytime-design-3/2026-06-26/
LOCATION:Design Gym @ Colorspace Labs\, 1714 N Mascher St\, Philadelphia\, 19122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes & Workshops,Classes and Workshops,Education/Lecture,Event,Family,Family Activities,family and kid friendly,Family Fun,Free
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SUMMARY:FRED WILSON: THE MASTER PLAN or In Between the Big Bang and Modern Art Is the Restroom
DESCRIPTION:THE MASTER PLAN or In Between the Big Bang and Modern Art Is the Restroom is a suite of twenty-two photogravures commissioned in 2004 by the Brodsky Center at PAFA and completed in 2009. They are on view for the first time at PAFA in the Works on Paper Gallery of the Historic Landmark Building\, for one year\, in conjunction with the exhibition A Nation of Artists. \nAs an artist living and working in New York City\, I had to support myself one way or another. Working simultaneously in the educational department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, the American Museum of Natural History\, and the American Crafts Museum made me wonder about how the environment in which cultural production is placed affects the way the viewer feels about the artwork and the artist who made these things. \n—Fred Wilson \nThe prints reproduce floor outlines from visitor orientation maps of eighteen major art\, cultural\, and natural history museums in North America and Europe. The succession of diagrammatic images\, precisely etched in off-white and black inks\, encourage viewers to revisit memories of time spent in museums and recapture the sense of adventure sparked by picking up a map. \nAs one of the most influential American artists of this century\, Fred Wilson has set in motion a profound transformation prompting museums to reconsider how they engage viewers’ learning experiences through art and artifacts. Two hundred and fifty years after Charles Willson Peale (1741–1827) established the American museum at the nation’s birth as the destination for educational advancement—commemorated in his painting The Artist in His Museum (1822)\, on view in the rotunda—Wilson examines the consequential role museums have played since. \nWilson’s conceptual inquiry challenges museums as neutral repositories of knowledge. His groundbreaking 1992 installation at the Maryland Historical Society\, Mining the Museum\, exhumed omitted histories of colonized and enslaved people and shifted attention to the authority embedded in institutional architecture\, furniture\, labels\, and registration systems through his creative retooling of the display apparatus. His subsequent work in glass\, sculpture\, painting\, drawing\, and print addresses the cross-continental history central to the Black experience\, including themes of race\, diaspora\, liberation\, and mourning.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/fred-wilson-the-master-plan-or-in-between-the-big-bang-and-modern-art-is-the-restroom/2026-06-27/
LOCATION:Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts\, 118-128 North Broad Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19102\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260627T110000
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SUMMARY:The 37th Annual Manayunk Arts Festival
DESCRIPTION:Manayunk is celebrating the 37th Annual Manayunk Arts Festival this year! Since 1990\, the show has built itself into being the tri-state area’s largest outdoor juried art festival featuring approximately 300 different local and nationally known artists and crafters. The show is free to the public and features artists from eight different disciplines: fiber\, glass\, ceramics\, jewelry\, mixed media\, painting & drawing\, photography\, and wood & sculpture. The show also hosts The Emerging Artist Tent which features local and up-and-coming talent. Throughout the weekend\, visitors can take in the art\, enjoy food and beverages from Manayunk’s renowned restaurants\, and cool off by shopping at Manayunk’s unique boutiques and stores. \nCome check out the 37th Annual Manayunk Arts Festival for a weekend of art\, food\, and fun!
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/the-37th-annual-manayunk-arts-festival/
LOCATION:Main Street Manayunk\, Main Street\, Philadelphia\, PA 19127\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19127\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260628T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260628T170000
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SUMMARY:Bodies and Souls
DESCRIPTION:“My concern is with humanity. I want to confront the viewer with life and with what we are doing to each other. I hope to awaken in the viewer a sense of compassion . . . without compassion there is nothing.”\n—Luis Cruz Azaceta \nBodies and Souls examines the liberatory power of figurative art. Though often treated as conservative in the second half of the 20th century\, artists used representational and realist methods to assert presence for those omitted from dominant narratives or harmfully depicted by those outside their communities. Realism and representation remain powerful means to show embodied human experience\, encompassing gender\, sexuality\, interpersonal relationships\, psychological states\, and connections to home. \nThese methods can help us imagine the world we want to live in. Representational art has been critical for artists who want to make themselves and their communities visible on their own terms. It provides the agency to see and be seen\, to show relationships\, pleasure\, and autonomy. Representing ourselves is a powerful means of celebrating our full humanity. \nThis is the throughline of an eclectic collection formed by Philadelphians Robert and Frances Coulborn Kohler. Bodies and Souls celebrates their devotion to artists and immense generosity towards PAFA. Featuring over 120 works given and promised to the museum\, the exhibition will examine prominent themes in the collection\, integrating artists who are often seen independently or as part of regional communities. \nBodies and Souls is presented concurrently with an exhibition of the same title featuring the Kohlers’ personal collection at Woodmere\, Charles Knox Smith Hall\, 9201 Germantown Ave. Bodies & Souls – Woodmere. \nFeatured Artwork: Rafael Ferrer (born 1933) El Bolero\, 1983–84. Oil on canvas; 60 × 72 in. © Rafael Ferrer\, courtesy of the artist \nThe exhibition will include works by Robert Arneson\, Luis Cruz Azaceta\, Joan Brown\, Roy DeForest\, Rafael Ferrer\, Viola Frey\, Gregory Gillespie\, Juan Gonzalez\, Red Grooms\, Anne Minich\, Gladys Nilsson\, Ed Paschke\, Christina Ramberg\, Winfred Rembert\, Tabitha Vevers\, John Wilde\, Didier William\, Karl Wirsum\, and many others.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/bodies-and-souls/2026-06-28/
LOCATION:Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts\, 118-128 North Broad Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19102\, United States
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SUMMARY:Kati Gegenheimer: We've Only Just Begun
DESCRIPTION:Rooted in painting but extending into architecture and social space\, the exhibition positions love not as a private or sentimental subject\, but as a serious aesthetic\, political\, and communal structure. \nTo reinaugurate the newly renovated Morris Gallery\, PAFA presents Kati Gegenheimer: We’ve Only Just Begun\, an immersive monographic exhibition exploring love–familial\, romantic\, or brotherly–at this moment of profound social division. Anchored by a symbol-laden painted musical score of the titular line from the Carpenters’ 1970 song\, the exhibition presents works surveying how love is a necessary choice to be cultivated\, measured\, sustained\, or dismissed\, over time. \nRooted in painting but extending into architecture and social space\, the exhibition positions love not as a private or sentimental subject\, but as a serious aesthetic\, political\, and communal structure. Gegenheimer’s markmaking\, symbolism\, and vibrant use of color reclaim emblems of care and tenderness (hearts\, love notes\, hinges\, calendars\, keyholes\, to-do lists)\, and ponder how love is practiced over time rather than experienced in a singular instance. In an era driven by speed\, extraction\, and instant gratification\, the exhibition insists on return and continuity. \nGegenheimer’s paintings are devoted expressions of love\, luck\, and time\, drawing inspiration from art history\, architecture\, popular culture\, and craft. Her works embrace the decorative and diaristic\, each an altar to a fleeting moment. Reliant on color\, tempo\, and composition\, each of her paintings is a sign\, symbol\, and record all at once.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/kati-gegenheimer-weve-only-just-begun/2026-06-28/
LOCATION:Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts\, 118-128 North Broad Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19102\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260629
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260630
DTSTAMP:20260428T073616
CREATED:20260316T164215Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260316T164215Z
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SUMMARY:Community Exhibit
DESCRIPTION:Community\, as defined in the Oxford Dictionary\, is “a feeling of fellowship with others\, as \na result of sharing common attitudes and interests”. A sense of community can lead to \nempowerment and foster change in one’s life. My intention with this installation is to \nsuggest and comment on the urgency in our world these days of people coming \ntogether regardless of their physicality or ethnicity. I hope to inspire introspection and \nunity as we move forward during this challenging global time. \nThese storefront exhibitions are viewable 24/7 from the outside.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/community-exhibit/2026-06-29/
LOCATION:Old City Publishing\, 628 N 2nd St\, Philadelphia\, 19123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art Exhibitions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260629T070000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260629T080000
DTSTAMP:20260428T073616
CREATED:20251226T200807Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260104T231748Z
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SUMMARY:Morning Wellness Walks at Awbury
DESCRIPTION:Awbury’s 56-acre landscape tucked away in Germantown is a serene escape from the fast pace of the city of Philadelphia. Join us on our Wellness Walks and immerse yourself in nature as we take a moderately paced stroll through gardens\, woodlands\, roam around the farm\, and our ponds and meadows. \nJoin us Mondays & Thursdays from 7:00 am – 8:00 am at The Farm at Awbury for our Wellness Walks led by wellness coordinator Megan Do Nascimento! Questions? Contact our Wellness Walk coordinate Megan Do Nascimento at wellness@awbury.org.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/morning-wellness-walks-at-awbury/2026-06-29/
LOCATION:The Farm at Awbury Arboretum\, 6336 Ardleigh Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19138\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260629T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260629T170000
DTSTAMP:20260428T073616
CREATED:20260407T190629Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260407T190629Z
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SUMMARY:Bodies and Souls
DESCRIPTION:“My concern is with humanity. I want to confront the viewer with life and with what we are doing to each other. I hope to awaken in the viewer a sense of compassion . . . without compassion there is nothing.”\n—Luis Cruz Azaceta \nBodies and Souls examines the liberatory power of figurative art. Though often treated as conservative in the second half of the 20th century\, artists used representational and realist methods to assert presence for those omitted from dominant narratives or harmfully depicted by those outside their communities. Realism and representation remain powerful means to show embodied human experience\, encompassing gender\, sexuality\, interpersonal relationships\, psychological states\, and connections to home. \nThese methods can help us imagine the world we want to live in. Representational art has been critical for artists who want to make themselves and their communities visible on their own terms. It provides the agency to see and be seen\, to show relationships\, pleasure\, and autonomy. Representing ourselves is a powerful means of celebrating our full humanity. \nThis is the throughline of an eclectic collection formed by Philadelphians Robert and Frances Coulborn Kohler. Bodies and Souls celebrates their devotion to artists and immense generosity towards PAFA. Featuring over 120 works given and promised to the museum\, the exhibition will examine prominent themes in the collection\, integrating artists who are often seen independently or as part of regional communities. \nBodies and Souls is presented concurrently with an exhibition of the same title featuring the Kohlers’ personal collection at Woodmere\, Charles Knox Smith Hall\, 9201 Germantown Ave. Bodies & Souls – Woodmere. \nFeatured Artwork: Rafael Ferrer (born 1933) El Bolero\, 1983–84. Oil on canvas; 60 × 72 in. © Rafael Ferrer\, courtesy of the artist \nThe exhibition will include works by Robert Arneson\, Luis Cruz Azaceta\, Joan Brown\, Roy DeForest\, Rafael Ferrer\, Viola Frey\, Gregory Gillespie\, Juan Gonzalez\, Red Grooms\, Anne Minich\, Gladys Nilsson\, Ed Paschke\, Christina Ramberg\, Winfred Rembert\, Tabitha Vevers\, John Wilde\, Didier William\, Karl Wirsum\, and many others.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/bodies-and-souls/2026-06-29/
LOCATION:Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts\, 118-128 North Broad Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19102\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260629T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260629T170000
DTSTAMP:20260428T073617
CREATED:20260407T190822Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260407T190822Z
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SUMMARY:Kati Gegenheimer: We've Only Just Begun
DESCRIPTION:Rooted in painting but extending into architecture and social space\, the exhibition positions love not as a private or sentimental subject\, but as a serious aesthetic\, political\, and communal structure. \nTo reinaugurate the newly renovated Morris Gallery\, PAFA presents Kati Gegenheimer: We’ve Only Just Begun\, an immersive monographic exhibition exploring love–familial\, romantic\, or brotherly–at this moment of profound social division. Anchored by a symbol-laden painted musical score of the titular line from the Carpenters’ 1970 song\, the exhibition presents works surveying how love is a necessary choice to be cultivated\, measured\, sustained\, or dismissed\, over time. \nRooted in painting but extending into architecture and social space\, the exhibition positions love not as a private or sentimental subject\, but as a serious aesthetic\, political\, and communal structure. Gegenheimer’s markmaking\, symbolism\, and vibrant use of color reclaim emblems of care and tenderness (hearts\, love notes\, hinges\, calendars\, keyholes\, to-do lists)\, and ponder how love is practiced over time rather than experienced in a singular instance. In an era driven by speed\, extraction\, and instant gratification\, the exhibition insists on return and continuity. \nGegenheimer’s paintings are devoted expressions of love\, luck\, and time\, drawing inspiration from art history\, architecture\, popular culture\, and craft. Her works embrace the decorative and diaristic\, each an altar to a fleeting moment. Reliant on color\, tempo\, and composition\, each of her paintings is a sign\, symbol\, and record all at once.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/kati-gegenheimer-weve-only-just-begun/2026-06-29/
LOCATION:Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts\, 118-128 North Broad Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19102\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260630
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260701
DTSTAMP:20260428T073617
CREATED:20260316T164215Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260316T164215Z
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SUMMARY:Community Exhibit
DESCRIPTION:Community\, as defined in the Oxford Dictionary\, is “a feeling of fellowship with others\, as \na result of sharing common attitudes and interests”. A sense of community can lead to \nempowerment and foster change in one’s life. My intention with this installation is to \nsuggest and comment on the urgency in our world these days of people coming \ntogether regardless of their physicality or ethnicity. I hope to inspire introspection and \nunity as we move forward during this challenging global time. \nThese storefront exhibitions are viewable 24/7 from the outside.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/community-exhibit/2026-06-30/
LOCATION:Old City Publishing\, 628 N 2nd St\, Philadelphia\, 19123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art Exhibitions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260630T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260630T210000
DTSTAMP:20260428T073617
CREATED:20251227T160858Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251227T160858Z
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SUMMARY:Intro to Ceramic Sculpture
DESCRIPTION:Students will create one of a kind ceramic sculptures that can be functional or decorative.\nIn this sculptural hand building class\, we will harness the power of our imaginations. Students will learn foundational handbuilding skills\, sculptural techniques\, and a variety of surface treatments & decorations. Students will create one of a kind ceramic sculptures that can be functional or decorative. Projects may include sculptural vessels\, animal sculpture and figure sculpture. Students are welcome and encouraged to bring their own project ideas to class. This class is appropriate for a range of skill levels\, from beginner to advanced. Whether you are looking to establish fundamental techniques or explore the bounds of your creativity and imagination\, this class is for you! \nClass will run Tuesday nights January 20th – February 24th 6pm – 9pm \n—— \nPlease note that this workshop takes place in the Utility Works basement\, which is only accessible via stairs. The class requires participants to be able to sit and/or stand for at least three hours and use their hands for two hours. You must be able to lift 25lbs. There are two gender-neutral bathrooms available for students\, including one that is ADA accessible. If you have specific accessibility needs or questions\, please contact us in advance so we can discuss potential accommodations.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/intro-to-ceramic-sculpture/2026-06-30/
LOCATION:Utility Works – Art Studios & Maker Space\, 32 East Baltimore Avenue\, Lansdowne\, PA\, 19050\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artists' Workshop Series,Arts & Culture,Classes & Workshops,Classes and Workshops
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260701
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260702
DTSTAMP:20260428T073617
CREATED:20260316T164215Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260316T164215Z
UID:10030312-1782864000-1782950399@gridphilly.com
SUMMARY:Community Exhibit
DESCRIPTION:Community\, as defined in the Oxford Dictionary\, is “a feeling of fellowship with others\, as \na result of sharing common attitudes and interests”. A sense of community can lead to \nempowerment and foster change in one’s life. My intention with this installation is to \nsuggest and comment on the urgency in our world these days of people coming \ntogether regardless of their physicality or ethnicity. I hope to inspire introspection and \nunity as we move forward during this challenging global time. \nThese storefront exhibitions are viewable 24/7 from the outside.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/community-exhibit/2026-07-01/
LOCATION:Old City Publishing\, 628 N 2nd St\, Philadelphia\, 19123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art Exhibitions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260701T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260701T190000
DTSTAMP:20260428T073617
CREATED:20260418T180529Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260418T180529Z
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SUMMARY:UnOrthodox Yoga  at BORSKI PARK - All Ages!
DESCRIPTION:UnOrthodox Yoga has landed at it’s final location at Borski Park.  All ages\, gentle flow class led by local instructor\,  Violet Vines.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/unorthodox-yoga-at-borski-park-all-ages-13/
LOCATION:Robert A. Borski\, Jr. Park\, 3150 Orthodox Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19137\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260701T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260701T210000
DTSTAMP:20260428T073617
CREATED:20260304T220454Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260304T220454Z
UID:10029981-1782932400-1782939600@gridphilly.com
SUMMARY:INTENSIVE SCREENWRITING WORKSHOP
DESCRIPTION:SIFTMedia Collective presents a 4 week Intensive Screenwriting Workshop with Stephanie Malson – this Workshop is designed to support filmmakers\, whether starting with an initial concept or refining a short or feature-length screenplay. Through deep analysis and communal feedback\, you’ll see your idea or draft develop into a screenplay.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/intensive-screenwriting-workshop/2026-07-01/
LOCATION:PA
CATEGORIES:Classes & Workshops,Clean-ups,Film,Food & Drink
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ORGANIZER;CN="SIFTMedia 215":MAILTO:siftmedia215@gmail.com
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260702
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260703
DTSTAMP:20260428T073617
CREATED:20260316T164215Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260316T164215Z
UID:10030313-1782950400-1783036799@gridphilly.com
SUMMARY:Community Exhibit
DESCRIPTION:Community\, as defined in the Oxford Dictionary\, is “a feeling of fellowship with others\, as \na result of sharing common attitudes and interests”. A sense of community can lead to \nempowerment and foster change in one’s life. My intention with this installation is to \nsuggest and comment on the urgency in our world these days of people coming \ntogether regardless of their physicality or ethnicity. I hope to inspire introspection and \nunity as we move forward during this challenging global time. \nThese storefront exhibitions are viewable 24/7 from the outside.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/community-exhibit/2026-07-02/
LOCATION:Old City Publishing\, 628 N 2nd St\, Philadelphia\, 19123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art Exhibitions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260702T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260702T120000
DTSTAMP:20260428T073617
CREATED:20260427T015006Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260427T015006Z
UID:10032597-1782986400-1782993600@gridphilly.com
SUMMARY:Native Planters
DESCRIPTION:Embark on a rewarding journey as a Volunteer Native Planter\, where you’ll connect with like-minded individuals\, refine your gardening expertise\, and delve into the world of native plants. By tending to the Courtyard Garden and Front Entrance Garden at the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education\, you’ll enhance beauty and biodiversity of this important landscape.\nTools are provided\, but feel free to bring your own. Remember your water bottle\, to wear sturdy shoes\, and clothes you don’t mind getting dirty! Volunteer Native Planters meet every Thursday\, April 9 to October 29\, from 10am-12pm.\nRegistration recommended to stay connected with weather updates. Walk-ins welcome!\nSign Up
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/native-planters-43/
LOCATION:The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education\, 8480 Hagys Mill Rd\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,Volunteer
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260702T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260702T170000
DTSTAMP:20260428T073617
CREATED:20260407T190629Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260407T190629Z
UID:10031216-1782986400-1783011600@gridphilly.com
SUMMARY:Bodies and Souls
DESCRIPTION:“My concern is with humanity. I want to confront the viewer with life and with what we are doing to each other. I hope to awaken in the viewer a sense of compassion . . . without compassion there is nothing.”\n—Luis Cruz Azaceta \nBodies and Souls examines the liberatory power of figurative art. Though often treated as conservative in the second half of the 20th century\, artists used representational and realist methods to assert presence for those omitted from dominant narratives or harmfully depicted by those outside their communities. Realism and representation remain powerful means to show embodied human experience\, encompassing gender\, sexuality\, interpersonal relationships\, psychological states\, and connections to home. \nThese methods can help us imagine the world we want to live in. Representational art has been critical for artists who want to make themselves and their communities visible on their own terms. It provides the agency to see and be seen\, to show relationships\, pleasure\, and autonomy. Representing ourselves is a powerful means of celebrating our full humanity. \nThis is the throughline of an eclectic collection formed by Philadelphians Robert and Frances Coulborn Kohler. Bodies and Souls celebrates their devotion to artists and immense generosity towards PAFA. Featuring over 120 works given and promised to the museum\, the exhibition will examine prominent themes in the collection\, integrating artists who are often seen independently or as part of regional communities. \nBodies and Souls is presented concurrently with an exhibition of the same title featuring the Kohlers’ personal collection at Woodmere\, Charles Knox Smith Hall\, 9201 Germantown Ave. Bodies & Souls – Woodmere. \nFeatured Artwork: Rafael Ferrer (born 1933) El Bolero\, 1983–84. Oil on canvas; 60 × 72 in. © Rafael Ferrer\, courtesy of the artist \nThe exhibition will include works by Robert Arneson\, Luis Cruz Azaceta\, Joan Brown\, Roy DeForest\, Rafael Ferrer\, Viola Frey\, Gregory Gillespie\, Juan Gonzalez\, Red Grooms\, Anne Minich\, Gladys Nilsson\, Ed Paschke\, Christina Ramberg\, Winfred Rembert\, Tabitha Vevers\, John Wilde\, Didier William\, Karl Wirsum\, and many others.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/bodies-and-souls/2026-07-02/
LOCATION:Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts\, 118-128 North Broad Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19102\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260702T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260702T170000
DTSTAMP:20260428T073617
CREATED:20260407T190822Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260407T190822Z
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SUMMARY:Kati Gegenheimer: We've Only Just Begun
DESCRIPTION:Rooted in painting but extending into architecture and social space\, the exhibition positions love not as a private or sentimental subject\, but as a serious aesthetic\, political\, and communal structure. \nTo reinaugurate the newly renovated Morris Gallery\, PAFA presents Kati Gegenheimer: We’ve Only Just Begun\, an immersive monographic exhibition exploring love–familial\, romantic\, or brotherly–at this moment of profound social division. Anchored by a symbol-laden painted musical score of the titular line from the Carpenters’ 1970 song\, the exhibition presents works surveying how love is a necessary choice to be cultivated\, measured\, sustained\, or dismissed\, over time. \nRooted in painting but extending into architecture and social space\, the exhibition positions love not as a private or sentimental subject\, but as a serious aesthetic\, political\, and communal structure. Gegenheimer’s markmaking\, symbolism\, and vibrant use of color reclaim emblems of care and tenderness (hearts\, love notes\, hinges\, calendars\, keyholes\, to-do lists)\, and ponder how love is practiced over time rather than experienced in a singular instance. In an era driven by speed\, extraction\, and instant gratification\, the exhibition insists on return and continuity. \nGegenheimer’s paintings are devoted expressions of love\, luck\, and time\, drawing inspiration from art history\, architecture\, popular culture\, and craft. Her works embrace the decorative and diaristic\, each an altar to a fleeting moment. Reliant on color\, tempo\, and composition\, each of her paintings is a sign\, symbol\, and record all at once.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/kati-gegenheimer-weve-only-just-begun/2026-07-02/
LOCATION:Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts\, 118-128 North Broad Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19102\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260702T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260702T170000
DTSTAMP:20260428T073617
CREATED:20260409T021546Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260418T183529Z
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SUMMARY:FRED WILSON: THE MASTER PLAN or In Between the Big Bang and Modern Art Is the Restroom
DESCRIPTION:THE MASTER PLAN or In Between the Big Bang and Modern Art Is the Restroom is a suite of twenty-two photogravures commissioned in 2004 by the Brodsky Center at PAFA and completed in 2009. They are on view for the first time at PAFA in the Works on Paper Gallery of the Historic Landmark Building\, for one year\, in conjunction with the exhibition A Nation of Artists. \nAs an artist living and working in New York City\, I had to support myself one way or another. Working simultaneously in the educational department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, the American Museum of Natural History\, and the American Crafts Museum made me wonder about how the environment in which cultural production is placed affects the way the viewer feels about the artwork and the artist who made these things. \n—Fred Wilson \nThe prints reproduce floor outlines from visitor orientation maps of eighteen major art\, cultural\, and natural history museums in North America and Europe. The succession of diagrammatic images\, precisely etched in off-white and black inks\, encourage viewers to revisit memories of time spent in museums and recapture the sense of adventure sparked by picking up a map. \nAs one of the most influential American artists of this century\, Fred Wilson has set in motion a profound transformation prompting museums to reconsider how they engage viewers’ learning experiences through art and artifacts. Two hundred and fifty years after Charles Willson Peale (1741–1827) established the American museum at the nation’s birth as the destination for educational advancement—commemorated in his painting The Artist in His Museum (1822)\, on view in the rotunda—Wilson examines the consequential role museums have played since. \nWilson’s conceptual inquiry challenges museums as neutral repositories of knowledge. His groundbreaking 1992 installation at the Maryland Historical Society\, Mining the Museum\, exhumed omitted histories of colonized and enslaved people and shifted attention to the authority embedded in institutional architecture\, furniture\, labels\, and registration systems through his creative retooling of the display apparatus. His subsequent work in glass\, sculpture\, painting\, drawing\, and print addresses the cross-continental history central to the Black experience\, including themes of race\, diaspora\, liberation\, and mourning.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/fred-wilson-the-master-plan-or-in-between-the-big-bang-and-modern-art-is-the-restroom/2026-07-02/
LOCATION:Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts\, 118-128 North Broad Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19102\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts":MAILTO:info@pafa.org
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