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December AT PENN | Calendar Index | Deadlines
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Children's Activities
World Culture Family Afternoon: |
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This FREE joyous, family-oriented afternoon features performances by Curio Theatre Company, the Women's Sekere Ensemble (above), the Gwendolyn Bye Dance Center, Two of a Kind, and Sandy Taylor of Rainbow Child International, along with choral music and fun surprises throughout the day. Information: (215) 898-4890. |
Films
Zizek and the Public Intellectual Craze |
Special Events
Holiday Shopping Days: Express Yourself! |
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Penn Museum's three shops - the Museum Shop, the Second Site shop and the Pyramid Shop for children - stocked for the holidays with a wide assortment of gift possibilities from around the world - offer four days of special discounts and special activities, with a focus on self-expression and body adornment. Each day, the shops host special artists, offering opportunities to experience mehndi (the art of body painting with henna) and learn about tattooing, watch a bead-making artist at work, and meet with jewelry vendors participating in a "trunk show" of their art. Distinctive face-painting is available for kids and the young-at-heart in the Pyramid Shop. For a complete schedule of the special artists and activities visit www.museum.upenn.edu. |
Performances
Penn Presents |
Measure for Measure
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Ronald K. Brown/Evidence |
Cherish The Ladies |
Dianne Reeves |
Exhibits
My Words Are Multiplying Like
Cells:
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My Words Are Multiplying Like Cells
by Sibylla Shekerdjiska-Benatova
Color Fields: A Tribute Robert Slutzky and Neil Welliver |
Untitled by Robert Slutzky
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Untitled by Robert Slutzky |
Bear Hole by Neil Welliver |
Stump and Ferns by Neil Welliver |
CONFLICT: Perspectives, Positive, Realities in Central European Art |
Marina Abramovic, Cutting the Star, 1997
(video, installation at Studio Miscetti, Roma)
Photographic Compositions by
Soliman Lawrence
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Photograph, Untitled by Soliman Lawrence
Exhibits at the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library |
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(Classical) landscape, n. a stand of concepts by Ian Hamilton Finlay with Kathleen Lindsley, Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1966, folded card. Shown in the exhibit From Book to Garden and Back: Works of Ian Hamilton Finlay at the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library. Through December 17. |
Nikon’s Small World 2005
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Bacteria growth in petri dish |
Crystalline formations from evaporated contact lens solution
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Geranium flower |
Phenyl threonine
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Chaetomorpha antennina (seaweed) |
Crystallized vitamin A |
Travels in the Interior of North America: |
Bison-Dance of the Mandan Indians in front of their Medicine Lodge by Karl Bodmer. Image courtesy of the Joslyn Art Museum.
Karl Bodmer's Pehriska-Ruhpa, Moennitarri Warrior, in the Costume of the Dog Danse is based on drawings made during his stay in Fort Clark (North Dakota), November 1833-April 1834. The leggings in the image closely resemble a pair of Mandan leggings, also from North Dakota (ca. 1830), in Penn Museum's collections. These leggings, along with other period pieces from the Museum, are included in the exhibit. Bodmer print image courtesy of the Joslyn Art Museum. Artifact image courtesy of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. |
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Mapping the Pacific Coast: Coronado to Lewis and Clark |
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Features early maps and prints, dating from 1544 to 1801, that illustrate the discovers that led up to commission of the Lewis and Clark expedition. Above, Maris Pacific by Abraham Ortelius, 1589. |
Morris Arboretum Exhibits |
The Holiday Garden Railway 2005 is an exhibit of seven G-scale model train lines in the garden, surrounded by more than 40 miniature houses and buildings decorated for the holidays. The scale-model buildings include replicas of Independence Hall, Betsy Ross House, the Fisher Fine Arts Library at Penn and many other structures from the region, all constructed using natural materials. Acorns, moss, bark and twigs form the exterior décor, accented for the holidays with tiny decorations of tinsel and beads. Twinkling lights surround the display, which is set on about 1/8 of an acre. Through December 31.
Tree Peonies, by Phoebe Shih, is on display at the Morris Arboretum in the exhibit Plants for All Reasons. Featured are landscape paintings by students from the studio class of Phoebe Shih. Paintings will be on display through February 19. |
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African Violet, by Betty McLaughlin, is on display at the Morris Arboretum in the exhibit Plants for All Reasons. Featured are landscape paintings by students from the studio class of Phoebe Shih. Paintings will be on display through February 19. |
A Wonderful Life: A Daughter's Tribute to a Family of Educators |
Pennsylvania Daughter by
Joan Myerson. Digital "painting" of the artist's mother as Penn student
Visit the artist's website for more images
