April 30, 2016 - September 25, 2016 - This exhibition offers an in-depth look at three photographers who create powerful pictures of African cities: Cairo, Nairobi, Lagos, Johannesburg, Bamako, and Tombouctou. From Akinbode Akinbiyi’s observation of urban centers and Seydou Camara’s examination of Islamic manuscripts to Ananias Léki Dago’s pictures of offbeat locales, the ...

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April 30, 2016 - January 22, 2017 - This exhibition highlights the company’s classic and new designs, follows the creation of a textile, and showcases a selection of contemporary fashions by African and European makers as well as Vlisco’s in-house design team. Explore how the Dutch company Vlisco became one of the most influential textile brands in West and Central African fashio...

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April 30, 2016 - January 31, 2017 - Threads of Tradition focuses on the time-honored techniques used to create patterns in Central and West African textiles. Among the examples on view are complex strip-woven kente cloths made by the Asante and Ewe of Ghana, an impressive resist-dyed display textile (or ndop) from Cameroon, and raffia skirts that the Kuba of the Democratic Republic of the Congo cr...

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May 13 -  June 05, 2016 - The 115th Annual Student Exhibition (ASE) features works by PAFA's BFA students, third-year and fourth-year Certificate program students and Master of Fine Arts candidates, showcasing artistic styles that fuse traditional skill with contemporary vision. This long-standing tradition offers students the opportunity to curate, install, ...

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May 14, 2016 - September 25, 2016 - From contemporary photography, fashion, and architecture to centuries-old sculpture, Creative Africa presents the visionary work of artists throughout Africa. At the heart of the season is Look Again: Contemporary Perspectives on African Art, a major exhibition drawn from the Penn Museum’s distinguished African collection. Creative Africa also boasts a dy...

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May 22 – June 27, 2016 - This exhibition presents works that are the result of a draw-a-thon – a project organized by Joshua Marsh in partnership with the Social & Studio Practices graduate department – that will engage alumni of Moore's MFA in Studio Art graduate program, as well as current and incoming Social & Studio Practices students and faculty. Over t...

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May 31 - August 14, 2016 - The ICA presents an exhibiton of sketchbooks, miniature paintings, and small sculptures. Not much bigger than two inches by three inches, the miniatures are as completely realized as full-breadth canvases. The sculptures, some cast in bronze from plaster models, have been constructed largely from found objects, are so elemental in form and substance they a...

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May 31 - August 14, 2016 - The works in this exhibition unsettle this passage with forms of heredity that are often undervalued or unconventional: used or surplus possessions, intergenerational collaborations, maternal memories and matter, transatlantic journeys, spoken words, and sound waves.​ Descent animates alternative modes and materials of inheritance across generations of families, artist...

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May 31 - August 14, 2016 - In this exhibition these sculptures, paintings, room-sized constructions, videos, and performances embody our social fabric in patterns cut by class, economic status, culture, race, gender, and history.

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Conference host is Embassy Suites Philadelphia - Airport.  The Embassy Suites features two-room suites, complimentary breakfast and evening cocktail reception, free WiFi through the hotel and guest rooms, free shuttle service for destinations within a five-mile radius of the hotel and free parking. Please be sure to mention that you are attending as a Haviland Collectors International Fo...

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