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February 18, 2022 by Roberta

Talking to Anne Ishii, arts leader and new host of the WHYY-PBS show, ‘Movers and Makers’

Anne Ishii is a writer, editor, translator and the Executive Director of Asian Arts Initiative (AAI). As the leader of an important arts center serving the AAPI community, Anne is a big part of Philadelphia’s arts ecosystem. Roberta talks with Anne about her new role hosting of arts and culture documentary series, “Movers and Makers,” featuring regional artists and arts organizations. Anne and Roberta had a great 35-minute conversation that will introduce you to a fascinating, important and under-known leader in Philadelphia arts.

January 6, 2022 by Susan Isaacs

‘Afro-American Images 1971’ exhibit is restaged by Delaware Art Museum in a museum mea culpa

“To write about the Black presence at the Delaware Art Museum is to recall the absence of curators, exhibitions, and artists,” says art historian and artist Simone Austin in the catalog for the re-staging of the exhibition ‘Afro-American Images 1971,’ now at the Delaware Museum. Our contributor Susan Isaacs gives the story of the current exhibition and its historical predecessor, and says, “The show is very important.”

March 30, 2020 by Naveena Vijayan

Portraits of humanity, an interview with artist Stephen Althouse

Naveena Vijayan had a chance to visit Stephen Althouse’s photography exhibition at the Biggs Museum in Dover, Delaware earlier this month before it closed due to COVID-19. Read further to learn more about Althouse’s work and the Pennsylvania Dutch cultural influences in his imagery.

November 30, 2017 by Andrea Kirsh

Talia Greene uses decorative means to reveal histories of servants and the poor who toiled for the early owners of Glen Foerd on the Delaware

Andrea Kirsh writes about a decorative installation by Talia Greene at Glen Foerd that draws attention to a historic house’s wealthy’s occupants and the hidden story of the poor workers who built it, tended it, and served the owners. She says the historic house’s current caretakers are making some of the hidden histories visible on their website.

April 15, 2016 by Rachel Sitkin

Too Big a Burden – Carried Weight at The Delaware Contemporary

Though varied in media, all the works selected are figurative and highly literal, and contextualize black identity and female identity through the lens of burden, even as a burden unto itself, a trope that can be both stereotypical and empowering.

May 10, 2013 by Maeve Coudrelle

Gertrude Kasebier and Fatimah Tuggar explore new ways of conceptualizing reality at the University of Delaware Museums