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Features Makeba Rainey on Gentrification, Collaboration and Embracing Diaspora By Janyce Denise GlasperAugust 14, 2018

Join the Citizen Salon and help curate Arthur Ross Gallery show, Plus, Opportunity at Center for Creative Works Oops! Our Picks correction, Plus, Betty Leacraft lunch talk at African American Museum in Philadelphia, feature on the Redcross’s October Gallery in Germantown, and Opportunity at Delaware State University Welcome, Anne Ishii, New Executive Director, Asian Arts Initiative, Imani Roach speaks at Institute of Contemporary Art, and two good reads! News brief! Live cam feed of bears in waterfall and Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority Percent for Art open call for West Philadelphia

Sponsored Post Velocity Fund inaugural awards announced! By RobertaAugust 13, 2018

Features The 3:00 Book By Beth HeinlyAugust 7, 2018

Community Space 1026 not closing but moving on after building sold By RobertaAugust 13, 2018

Reviews Newsreel ‘68 and the histories we repeat at Lightbox Film Center By Imani RoachAugust 10, 2018

Features Many facets of the South Asian diaspora at Mustard Seed Film Festival By Carl(os) RoaAugust 13, 2018

Features Taíno Art lives at the National Museum of the American Indian By Jennifer ZarroAugust 6, 2018

Blue Note Salon at Icebox reflects on art, jazz and activism in North Philadelphia

Frances Beaver on world building and being Frances all the time

Zanele Muholi and the women of the Women’s Mobile Museum talk portraiture, self-love and fighting the patriarchy

Byron Au Yong and Aaron Jafferis write useful protest music for the day after tomorrow

Sueyeun Juliette Lee lights the way and bridges the great divide

Martha Stuckey invades her own privacy

Lucia Alber and Katie Rauth on auto repair, gossip benches and processing trauma

Lauren NeFesha on mosaics, music and doing it all

Reviews Fired Up! Ready to Go! epitomizes the feisty spirit of the art collector, Peggy Cooper Cafritz By RobertaAugust 5, 2018

Community Afrofuturism and disaster preparedness in the classroom? We talk with Li Sumpter, Charlie McGeehan and Sam Reed By Matt KalaskyAugust 2, 2018

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