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With Noon to Noon, seniors Emmett Huiskamp and Ellie Baron turn finals week into a performance art piece.
Bringing together a range of Restorative Justice (RJ) practitioners from across the Philadelphia region, the 2025 Mellon symposium explores where restorative justice comes from (its roots), how it has been developing in our city (its branches), and what it might look like in the future (its seeds), all in the hopes of clarifying what alternatives RJ makes possible.
Jan 24 – Mar 7, 2025 Gary Kuehn: In Situ, curated by Sid Sachs, marks one of the largest survey exhibitions in the United States of the renowned American sculptor. Showcasing a range of works by the artist, In Situ sites the work of Kuehn in its rightful place at the center of postminimalist sculpture.
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Strange Truth 2022/2023 explores the non-fiction imagination in films by Lisa Rovner, So Yun Um, Brett Story, Nia Dacosta, and Helena de Llanos.
All Events held at Haverford College, Lightbox Theater at University of the Arts, & Bryn Mawr Film Institute
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Imagining Abolitionist Futures is a year-long Hurford Center initiative exploring the role of the arts and humanities in the struggle to dismantle the carceral state and build reparative practices and institutions in the place of a system driven by racism, retribution, and violence.
The series will include: talks and panel discussions with scholars, activists, and artists; performances; film screenings; a reading group; a major art exhibition; a two-day symposium; and more.
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In partnership with the Asian American Documentary Network, five students worked to spread the stories of Asian Americans through film as part of VCAM’s annual collaborative program.
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September 2 – October 7, 2022: Hee Sook Kim’s survey exhibition Surfacing explores the richly painted and encrusted surfaces of her canvases and how these techniques and painterly strategies express the artist’s personal history, nostalgia, cultural affiliation, and moments of rebellion and resistance against systems that restrict reflection, growth, and healing.