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Pennsylvania Academy of the 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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Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
118 & 128 N. Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102Phone: 215-972-7600 | Official Website
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Accessibility Details
Access Information: An accessible entrance to the Museum is located at Cherry and Burns Street. The Burns Street Elevator provides access to the Gallery Floor. Visitors can access this entrance by pushing the call button at the bottom of the front stairs of the Museum, or at the corner of Cherry and Burns; Security staff will meet the caller.
Two weeks notice is required when making reservations for special tours, accessible seating, and interpreted events. Guided tours are available for people with physical or mental disabilities upon request.
Blind/VI Access: Touch tours of American sculpture can be arranged with four weeks prior notice.
Deaf/Hearing Access: Sign language interpreters for all programs and tours are available by prior arrangement. Assistive listening devices available upon request. Listening enhancement systems are available upon request. For information, call 215-972-2069 (VOICE); 215-972-6198 (TDD).
Wheelchair Access: Wheelchairs are available free of charge, on a first-come, first-served basis. The gallery floor is accessible by elevator, and restrooms are accessible.
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Current Events
02/12/12 Family Arts Academy: From Istanbul to Cairo
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)02/10/12-
04/15/12Moe Brooker: The Evidence of Things Not Seen
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)01/28/12-
04/15/12Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)01/28/12-
04/16/12After Henry Tanner: African American Artists since 1940
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)11/19/11-
11/19/12Bill Viola: Ocean Without a Shore
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
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Upcoming Events
02/15/12 Art at Lunch - Clocks, Calendars, and Conversion Charts
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)02/19/12 Family Arts Academy: Dance of Color
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)02/22/12 Art at Lunch - Moe Brooker: Start to Finish
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)02/26/12 Family Arts Academy: Painted Stories
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)02/29/12 Art at Lunch - Between Shores: Henry Ossawa Tanner and Transatlanticism
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)03/07/12 Pen and Paintbrush Club: In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)03/08/12 PAFA after Dark: Turned On
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
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NOTE: We do our best to ensure all information is accurate. However, it's a good idea to visit the website or call the venue to verify the information.
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Current Events
02/12/12 Family Arts Academy: From Istanbul to Cairo
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)02/10/12-
04/15/12Moe Brooker: The Evidence of Things Not Seen
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)01/28/12-
04/15/12Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)01/28/12-
04/16/12After Henry Tanner: African American Artists since 1940
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)11/19/11-
11/19/12Bill Viola: Ocean Without a Shore
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
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Upcoming Events
02/15/12 Art at Lunch - Clocks, Calendars, and Conversion Charts
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)02/19/12 Family Arts Academy: Dance of Color
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)02/22/12 Art at Lunch - Moe Brooker: Start to Finish
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)02/26/12 Family Arts Academy: Painted Stories
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)02/29/12 Art at Lunch - Between Shores: Henry Ossawa Tanner and Transatlanticism
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)03/07/12 Pen and Paintbrush Club: In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)03/08/12 PAFA after Dark: Turned On
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
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Past Events
02/08/12 Art at Lunch - Long Live the Figure: The Role of Figuration in 2011
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)02/01/12 Art At Lunch: The Material World of Early Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)02/01/12 Pen and Paintbrush Club: Winter by Rick Bass
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)01/29/12 Family Arts Academy: Mural Madness
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)01/22/12 Family Arts Academy: Chinese New Year Explosions
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)01/15/12 Family Arts Academy: Heroes and Monuments
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)12/15/11 After Dark: Collision Course
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)12/02/11 Student Print Sale
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)11/30/11 Art At Lunch - In Conversation: George Scheer and Kate Kraczon
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)11/27/11 Family Arts Academy: Family Memory Quilts
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)11/20/11 Family Arts Academy: Origami: The Art of Paper Folding
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)11/16/11 Art at Lunch - Westward the Course of Empire
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)11/13/11 Family Arts Academy: Puppets Can Fly - Performance and Puppet Making
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)11/09/11 Art At Lunch - So Bravely and So Well: The Life and Art of William T. Trego
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)11/06/11 Family Arts Academy: Fantasy Island
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)11/05/11-
02/05/12Hennessy Youngman & Nathaniel Snerpus Present: The Grand Manner
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)11/05/11-
01/29/12Small Works
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)11/02/11 Art At Lunch - Then and Now: A History of Video Art
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)11/02/11 Pen and Paintbrush Club: The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)10/30/11 Family Arts Academy: Haunted Halloween Trees and Eerie Ornaments
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)10/27/11 After Dark: Home Grown
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)10/26/11 Art-at-Lunch: In Conversation: Timothy Portlock and Adelina Vlas
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)10/23/11 Family Arts Academy: City Planning
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)10/19/11 Art-at-Lunch: The City of Murals
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)10/16/11 Family Arts Academy: Pop-up Landscape Books
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)10/12/11 Art-at-Lunch: Paint Torch: From Start to Finish
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)10/09/11 Family Arts Academy: Family Portraits
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)10/05/11 Art-at-Lunch: Gristle: Art in Urban Nature
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)10/01/11 Party on the Plaza
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)09/28/11 Art-at-Lunch: Advertising Beauty and the Modern American Woman
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)09/24/11 Art of Architecture - Center City
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)09/21/11 Art-at-Lunch: Katherine Bradford: 2011 Guggenheim Fellow
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)08/11/11 Free Art Appreciation Event
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)08/03/11 Architectural Walking Tour: Avenue Of The Arts
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)07/02/11-
09/04/11Urbanism: Reimagining the Lived Environment
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)06/17/11-
08/28/11Abstract Expressionism and its Discontents
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)06/02/11 Art in the Open: PAFA After Dark: Wanderlust
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)06/02/11 PAFA After Dark: Wanderlust
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)05/22/11 Mini Fiber Arts Wall Murals: Family Arts Academy
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)05/18/11 International Museum Day - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)05/15/11 Springtime Celebration Parade: Family Arts Academy
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)05/13/11-
06/05/11110th Annual Student Exhibition
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)05/08/11 Masterpiece Decoupage Jewelry: Family Arts Academy
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)05/04/11 Art-at-Lunch: PAFA Grad Students
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)05/01/11 My Beautiful Neighborhood: Family Arts Academy
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)04/29/11-
07/23/11Art in the Open: Water as the Source Exhibition
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)04/29/11-
07/17/11Alumni Sales Gallery: Water As the Source
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)04/27/11 Art-at-Lunch: PAFA Certificate Students
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)04/20/11 Art-at-Lunch: Andy Warhol Part II: Tradition and Innovation in Film
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)04/17/11 Anatomy/Academy Exhibit Closing Day
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)04/17/11 Trash to Treasure: Family Arts Academy
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)04/15/11-
04/17/11Montage à Trois
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)04/13/11 Art-at-Lunch: Pittsburgh’s Painter Takes Paris: Henry Ossawa Tanner and France
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)04/13/11-
04/27/11Pittsburgh's Painter Takes Paris: Henry Ossawa Tanner and France 1910-1920
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)04/13/11 Pittsburgh's Painter Takes Paris: Henry Ossawa Tanner and France, 1910-1920
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)04/10/11 A Slice of Life Storybook - Family Arts Academy
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)04/06/11 Art-at-Lunch: What Can We See When We Look at Art
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)04/02/11-
08/28/11Hiro Sakaguchi: No Particular Place To Go
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)04/01/11-
05/29/11How 'Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm After They've Seen Paree
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)03/30/11 Art-at-Lunch: Thomas Eakins and The Prevailing Feeling in Regard to Dissection
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)03/27/11 Art Career Fair: Family Arts Academy
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)03/23/11 Art-at-Lunch: The Best Art Training I Ever Had: Ivan Albright and World War I
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)03/20/11 Construct Wood Folk Figures: Family Arts Academy
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)03/19/11 Doctor’s Orchestra of Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)03/16/11 Art-at-Lunch: Painting in a Foreign Language
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)03/13/11 Become Your Dreams: Hip Hop Dance Performance and Draw Hip Hop Dancers Family Arts Academy
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)03/06/11 Mardi Gras Masks: Family Arts Academy
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)03/02/11 Art-at-Lunch: Run Generator: The Paintings of Tom LaDuke
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)02/27/11 African Adinkre Prints: Family Arts Academy
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)02/23/11 Art-at-Lunch: Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones: Painting on the Pulse
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)02/20/11 Animal Anatomy Academy: Family Arts Academy
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)02/16/11 Art-at-Lunch: Exquisite Corpses
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)02/13/11 Feel the Love: Valentine's Day Cards Family Arts Academy
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)02/06/11 African Masks: Family Arts Academy
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)02/05/11-
04/10/11Pictures of the Body
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)02/03/11 PAFA After Dark: Reload
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)02/02/11 Art-at-Lunch: Color for Painters--Al Gury’s New Book
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)01/30/11 Art-at-Lunch: Creature Feature
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)01/29/11-
04/17/11Anatomy/Academy
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)01/29/11-
04/17/11Oliver Grimley: Menagerie
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)01/27/11-
04/17/11Anatomy Now
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)12/19/10 Gift of Family: Tree and Leaf Ornaments
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)12/12/10 Holiday Journal Bookmaking
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)12/08/10 Art-at-Lunch: A New Nation of Goods
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)12/05/10 Self-fashioning: A Series of Artist Interviews
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)12/05/10 Crafting an Artist Statement
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)12/05/10 Decorative Paper and Holiday Cards
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)12/03/10 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 17th Annual Holiday Student Print Sale
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)12/01/10 Art-at-Lunch: Enduring Legacy: Violet Oakley
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)11/28/10 Soft Sculpture Food Pillows
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)11/23/10 State of the Unio: Linh Dinh's Dismal Photographs
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)11/21/10-
12/12/10Seeing Green: The Art of Ecology Family Class
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)11/21/10 Construct Wood Folk Animals
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)11/17/10 Art-at-Lunch: For Your Pleasure: Megawords Magazine
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)11/14/10 Meet Kamal from "The Roots" and Make Arty Instruments
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)11/10/10 Art-at-Lunch:Assuming Identities: Portraits from Self-Portraits
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)11/07/10 Draw a Live Horse
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)11/04/10 PAFA After Dark: Full Frontal
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)11/03/10 Art-at-Lunch: The Richard Allen Monument at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)10/31/10 Family Arts Academy - Halloween Mummies
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
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