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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 dynamic s...

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, and sell their own works in PAFA's galle...

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 images in this exhibition...

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 fashion and a design ins...

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...

April 27 - July 17, 2016 - This exhibiton is a series of food paintings in which each item is presented in a centrally focused composition, whether hovering in abstract space, on a plate, or wrapped in foil. The foods include nachos, bagels, slices of bread, s'mores, pasta, and popsicles, among other things.

April 21 - August 07, 2016 - In this exhibition Shotz has created a large tapestry-like sculpture composed of thousands of pieces of punched aluminum and stainless steel rings of the artist’s design that are connected by hand. A deep investigation into the work of light and gravity on the way that materials function in space, this new work also reflects upon the repeating patterns found in nature.

April 15, 2016 - November 1, 2016 -Inside Out brings large-scale, high-quality replicas of favorite works from the Museum’s collection to neighborhoods in and around Philadelphia. Head outdoors and experience beautiful images by Vincent van Gogh, Georgia O’Keeffe, Andy Warhol, and other artists right in your community. This exhibition brings masterpieces from the collection to you. Picnic in the p...

April 8 – July 31, 2016 - This exhibition includes 19th century prints, photographs, paintings, architectural drawings, institutional ephemera, and gift books that reveal its remarkable influence.

April 2 - July 31, 2016 - This exhibition presents two types of works on paper that are well represented in Woodmere’s collection: complete series by single artists and portfolios by multiple artists. Series can allow an individual artist to progressively explore a subject from a richer variety of perspectives than a single work, while portfolios often illustrate differing approaches by multiple a...