Join curator Maggie Adler and artist Letitia Huckaby for a discussion of the exhibition Emancipation: The Unfinished Project of Liberation at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. On view during the 160th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, the exhibition contemplates what freedom looks like for Black Americans today and the legacy of the Civil War in 2023 and beyond. Highlighting the perspectives of contemporary Black artists, Emancipation features commissioned and recent...

Ready for some Spring Summer fun? Lace-up your sneakers, pack a bottle of water, grab your notebook, and join AAMP as we host the premier “Philadelphia’s 1838 Black Metropolis” mile-walking tour. The 1838 Black Metropolis Movement is offering four custom routes with themes complementing our new exhibition, Rising Sun: Artists in an Uncertain America. We will explore the streets of Center City, an area of the City that housed a...

Join us at AAMP every third Thursday for one hour at noon for Art Break, a monthly program encouraging visitors to unpack the layered content of a featured exhibition by engaging in informal discussions with curatorial and programming staff and invited guest speakers. See you at Art Break! Date Thursday, June 15, 2023 Time 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Venue African American Museum in Philadelphia Price Included with General Admission...

In Selections from Philadelphia’s LGBT Archives, Rami George weaves together an extensive collection of images and printed material within the John J. Wilcox, Jr. Archives at the William Way LGBT Community Center. George presented their exhibition Selections from the Archives at the Center this past January/February 2023, featuring snapshots of everyday life and fragmented moments of political action, as well as exploring the history of the Center itself. The exhibition also included an installation...

Discover the possibilities in a pause, a breath, and notes unplayed in this extraordinary music and poetry event featuring Airea Dee Matthews, Philadelphia's Poet Laureate, Salina Kuo, percussionist and composer, and the acclaimed artists Dan Blacksberg and Tyshawn Sorey, playing together for the first time in 10 years. Rising Sun: Artists in an Uncertain America is an exhibition of new works by 20 artists exploring themes of equality, free speech, and other tenets...

Rising Sun artists Sheida Soleimani (PAFA) and Deborah Willis (AAMP), join Peter Barberie, the Brodsky Curator of Photographs, Alfred Stieglitz Center, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, in a conversation that explores how photography can be a tool to re-set historical and political narratives and complicate our experiences of power.

Ready for some Spring Summer fun? Lace-up your sneakers, pack a bottle of water, grab your notebook, and join AAMP as we host the premier “Philadelphia’s 1838 Black Metropolis” mile-walking tour. The 1838 Black Metropolis Movement is offering four custom routes with themes complementing our new exhibition, Rising Sun: Artists in an Uncertain America. We will explore the streets of Center City, an area of the City that housed a...

Ready for some Spring Summer fun? Lace-up your sneakers, pack a bottle of water, grab your notebook, and join AAMP as we host the premier “Philadelphia’s 1838 Black Metropolis” mile-walking tour. The 1838 Black Metropolis Movement is offering four custom routes with themes complementing our new exhibition, Rising Sun: Artists in an Uncertain America. We will explore the streets of Center City, an area of the City that housed a...