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Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA)

Founded in 1805, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) is America's first school of fine arts and museum. A recipient of the 2005 National Medal of Arts presented by the President of the United States, PAFA is a recognized leader in fine arts education. Nearly every major American artist has taught, studied, or exhibited at the Academy, from the Peale Family, Thomas Eakins and Mary Cassatt, to Maxfield Parrish, Cecelia Beaux and many, many more. The institution's world-class collection of American art continues to grow and provides what only a few other art institutions in the world offer: the rare combination of an outstanding museum and an extraordinary faculty known for its commitment to students and for the stature and quality of its artistic work.

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• Contact Info

  Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA)

  118 & 128 N. Broad Street
  Philadelphia, PA 19102

  Phone: 215-972-7600

  Official Website

• Locations

  Center City

• Video & Image Gallery

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• Current Events

  01/29/10- 04/18/10	C. R. Ettinger Studio Selections from 2000 to 2010 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  01/29/10- 04/11/10	Philagrafika 2010: The Graphic Unconscious Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  12/18/09- 04/11/10	Push, Press, and Pull: Prints Since the 1960s Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  06/15/09- 05/30/10	Public Treasures/Private Visions: Hudson River School Masterworks from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Private Collections Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)

• Upcoming Events

  03/17/10	Art-at-Lunch: Interchange: Bill Scott’s Paintings and Prints Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  03/20/10	Family Arts Academy: Flying Prints Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  03/24/10	Artist Talk on Time, Motion, Space: An Illustrated Talk with Artist Christiane Baumgartner Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  03/24/10	Art-at-Lunch: Drawing from the Past: The Historic Cast Collection at PAFA Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  03/27/10	Family Arts Academy: Leather Jewelry and Accessories Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  03/30/10	Artist Talk on In Conversation: Kiki Smith and the Curators of Philagrafika Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  03/31/10	Art-at-Lunch: The Seen and The Imagined Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  04/03/10	Family Arts Academy: What's Up Doc Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  04/07/10	Art-at-Lunch: Demuth, Duchamp and…Delay Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  04/10/10	Family Arts Academy: Trash to Treasure - Found Object Art Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  04/11/10	PAFA Presents: Pig Iron Theater Company Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  04/14/10	Art-at-Lunch: Arthur Dove Paints the Weather Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  04/17/10	Family Arts Academy: Animation Toys Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  04/21/10	Art-at-Lunch: Thomas Eakins and the Uses of History Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  04/24/10	Family Arts Academy: Poetic Portraits Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  04/28/10	Art-at-Lunch: PAFA Certificate Students Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  05/01/10	Family Arts Academy: Bag It with The Handwork Studio Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  05/02/10	The Opera Company Presents: A Taste of Opera, La Traviata Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  05/05/10	Art-at-Lunch: PAFA Grad Students Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  05/08/10	Family Arts Academy: A Leaping Lizard and a Wise Old Owl - Animal Drawing Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  05/08/10	Family Arts Academy: Family Portraits Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  05/15/10- 06/06/10	109th Annual Student Exhibition Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  05/16/10	PAFA Presents: The Greater Philadelphia Chorale Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  05/22/10	Family Arts Academy: Life in the City Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  06/26/10- 09/12/10	The Vogel Collection Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  06/26/10- 09/12/10	Andy Warhol Polaroids and B&W Prints Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)

• Reviews

  • Event Name: Distinguished Lecturer Series: Dr. Alexander Nemerov
    "If you missed it"
    Review posted by: Norman Bumpkin from Philadelphia, PA, May 21, 2009
    

    ... well then you missed it. Although he was largely reading from a prepared text, Nemerov conveyed beautifully the essence of a moment in time. Being of humble origins, I'm always envious and a... Expand

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    ... well then you missed it. Although he was largely reading from a prepared text, Nemerov conveyed beautifully the essence of a moment in time. Being of humble origins, I'm always envious and a little suspicious of a person born into such a robust intellectual environment. Sitting through the presentation and brief Q&A my suspicion was quelled and my envy was heightened. He was digging into Lincoln's consciousness in the way that historians usually find impenetrable. Brilliant. Anyone know how I can get a transcript? Collapse

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• Past Events

  03/14/10	PAFA Presents: The Opera Company Presents: A Taste of Opera, Antony & Cleopatra Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  03/13/10	Family Arts Academy: Cool Caps Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  03/03/10	Art-at-Lunch: Derrida Reframed: A Guide for the Arts Student Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  02/24/10	Art-at-Lunch: Bearing Witness to War When all the Photographers are Blinded Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  02/17/10	Art-at-Lunch: Behind the Scenes in Painting Conservation Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  02/10/10	Art-at-Lunch: Subverting Photographic Vision: Henry Koerner, Honoré Sharrer and the Camera Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  02/03/10	Art-at-Lunch: Prints and Process: Selections from the C.R. Ettinger Studio Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  01/23/10	Wedding Expo Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  01/03/10	Free Sunday Program: Artmaking Workshop – Basketball Paintings Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  12/27/09	Free Sunday Program: Queen Nur, Storytelling: Tell a Story… Build a Nation Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  12/20/09	Free Sunday Program: Art Making Workshop: Cool Caps Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  12/19/09	Cigar Box Purses Decoupage Designs Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  12/13/09	Free Sunday Program: Jazz Panel Discussion: The Cool Factor: Defining What is Hip Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  12/12/09	Art Dolls Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  12/06/09	Free Sunday Dance Performance: Become Your Dreams Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  12/05/09	Jeans and T-Shirt Makeover Recyclable Art Gifts Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  12/04/09	2009 PAFA Holiday Student Print Sale Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  12/02/09	Art-at-Lunch: Horace Pippin's John Brown Going to His Hanging
  11/29/09	Free Sunday Program: Art Making Workshop: Portrait Painting Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  11/28/09	Origami Animals - The Art of Paper Folding Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  11/22/09	Free Sunday Program: Video Screening: Scribe Video’s “Precious Places” Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  11/21/09	Animal Safari Drawing Animals in the Galleries Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  11/18/09	Art-at-Lunch: Henry Ossawa Tanner's Religious Nocturnes
  11/15/09	Free Sunday Program: Jazz Performance: The Brent White Trio Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  11/14/09	Family Memory Albums Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  11/11/09	Art-at-Lunch: In Search of Strength and Grace in Two American Sculptors
  11/08/09	Free Sunday Program: Art Making Workshop: Life-Size Self-Portrait Drawings and Painting Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  11/07/09	Intro to Street Art: The Art of Resistance Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  11/04/09	Art-at-Lunch: Early American Landscape Painting Before Thomas Cole
  11/01/09	Free Sunday Program: Video screening: Against All Odds—The Artists of the Harlem Renaissance Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  10/31/09	Clay Gargoyles Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  10/28/09	Art-at-Lunch: W.E.B. DuBois and the Politics of Race in Art
  10/25/09	Free Sunday Program: The Be-Bop and Post-Bop Era in Jazz Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  10/21/09	Art-at-Lunch: Avant Cool and the Evolution of Barkley Hendricks
  10/18/09	Free Sunday Program: Meet the Artist Barkley L. Hendricks Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building
  10/17/09- 01/03/10	Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  10/14/09	Art-at-Lunch: The Urban Workshop, A University/Community Design Collaboration
  10/07/09	Art 21: Art in the 21st Century Season 5 Preview
  09/25/09- 09/27/09	Women's Board of PAFA Presents: USArtists American Fine Art Show Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  08/10/09- 08/14/09	Summer FUNdamentals Art Camp: Bookmaking and Illustration Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  08/10/09- 08/14/09	Summer FUNdamentals Art Camp: Magic, Myths and Monsters Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  08/10/09- 08/14/09	Summer FUNdamentals Art Camp: The Grand Falloons Circus II Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  08/10/09- 08/14/09	Summer FUNdamentals Art Camp: Comic Magazines Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  08/03/09- 08/07/09	Summer FUNdamentals Art Camp: Sculpture FUNdamentals Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  08/03/09- 08/07/09	Summer FUNdamentals Art Camp: Underwater World Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  08/03/09- 08/07/09	Summer FUNdamentals Art Camp: Basic Filmmaking Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  08/03/09- 08/07/09	Summer FUNdamentals Art Camp: Street Art Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  07/27/09- 07/31/09	Summer FUNdamentals Art Camp 2009: Dream Buildings Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  07/27/09- 07/31/09	Summer FUNdamentals Art Camp 2009: The Grand Falloons Circus Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  07/27/09- 07/31/09	Summer FUNdamentals Art Camp 2009: Sculpture Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  07/20/09- 07/24/09	Summer FUNdamentals Art Camp 2009: Animal Drawing Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  07/20/09- 07/24/09	Summer FUNdamentals Art Camp 2009: Art Dolls Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  07/20/09- 07/24/09	Summer FUNdamentals Art Camp 2009: Basic Animation Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  07/20/09- 07/24/09	Summer FUNdamentals Art Camp 2009: Printmaking Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  07/13/09- 07/17/09	Summer FUNdamentals Art Camp 2009: Painting FUNdamentals Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  07/13/09- 07/17/09	Summer FUNdamentals Art Camp 2009: Seeing Green - The Art of Ecology Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  07/13/09- 07/17/09	Summer FUNdamentals Art Camp 2009: Wearable Art Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  07/13/09- 07/17/09	Summer FUNdamentals Art Camp 2009: Drawing Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  07/06/09- 07/10/09	Summer FUNdamentals Art Camp 2009: Drawing FUNdamentals Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  07/06/09- 07/10/09	Summer FUNdamentals Art Camp 2009: Decorative Furniture Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  07/06/09- 07/10/09	Summer FUNdamentals Art Camp 2009: Flying Frog Fantasy Puppet Theatre Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  07/06/09- 07/10/09	Summer FUNdamentals Art Camp 2009: Painting July 6-July 10 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  06/26/09- 09/20/09	Elizabeth Osborne: The Color of Light Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  06/26/09- 09/20/09	Sidney Goodman: Man in the Mirror Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  06/15/09- 09/30/09	Public Treasures/Private Visions: Hudson River School Masterworks from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Private Collections Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  05/20/09	Distinguished Lecturer Series: Dr. Alexander Nemerov Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  05/16/09	Honey I Shrunk the Museum Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  05/09/09	Paint a Portrait of Your Mom Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  05/06/09	The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts' Graduate Students Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  05/03/09	De-Lightful, De-Licious, De-Diva The Rotunda
  05/02/09	Paper Paintings Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  04/29/09	The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts' Certificate Students Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  04/27/09- 05/03/09	Museum Week at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  04/25/09	Chic Unique Box Purses Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  04/22/09	A Portrait of the Artist: Mark Rothko's Late Work Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  04/18/09	Comic Genius Blick Art Materials Store
  04/15/09	Sneak Peek: The Art of Elizabeth Osborne Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  04/15/09	Distinguished Lecturer Series: Artist Kehinde Wiley Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  04/11/09	Drawing in the Gallery Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  04/08/09	Illustrating Her World: Ellen B. T. Pyle Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  04/04/09	Red Grooms: Cardboard Sculptures Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  04/01/09	With a Rose in Her Teeth: Stereotype vs. Reality in Paintings of Female Flamenco Dancers Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  03/28/09	Nature's Abstracts Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  03/25/09	What Happens Next: Stephanie Beck and Jenny Kanzler Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
  03/21/09	Nature Journals Blick Art Materials Store
  03/18/09	Composing a Masterpiece: At the Intersection of Art and Music Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)