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		<title>The Pew Center for Arts &amp; Heritage : Blog</title>
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		<dc:date>2014-01-17T17:30:06+00:00</dc:date>
		
		
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			<title>Prototype for a Re&#45;installation: &#8220;Imagine Africa @ Penn Museum&#8221;</title>
			<link>http://www.pcah.us/blog/entry/prototype-for-a-re-installation-imagine-africa-penn-museum/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The very concept of the "permanent" or "long-term" exhibition is an oxymoron. Few permanent exhibitions remain the same over the decades, and even when they do, the world changes around them. Researchers and curators regularly unearth new knowledge; the demographics of neighborhoods and audiences evolve too.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Recently, the Penn Museum&mdash;an august archaeological and ethnographic institution founded in 1887 at the University of Pennsylvania&mdash;embarked on the re-installation of a longstanding display of African objects. In the past, this would have been a closed-door process in which the museum&rsquo;s experts drafted new storylines based on changes in scholarship and what they thought their audiences (first and foremost faculty and students) ought to know. This time, the museum decided to take a risk and try something new. Mindful of the fact that the museum has never had a meaningful relationship with its West Philadelphia neighbors, a community that has been majority-black since the...]]></description>
			<dc:date>2013-09-13T16:22:39+00:00</dc:date>
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			<title>Laura Keim: Minneapolis&#8212;AAM Conference</title>
			<link>http://www.pcah.us/blog/entry/laura-keim-minneapolis-aam-conference/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[by Laura Keim The transition from April to May, 2012 happened while attending my first AAM conference on my first visit to Minneapolis and the Midwest.&nbsp;&nbsp; Although the conference was certainly part of the experience, meeting Minneapolis through its institutions was the highlight of the trip for me.&nbsp; At the Walker Art Center, we experienced the exhibition &ldquo;Lifelike,&rdquo; seeing the world through lenses that push the bounds of reality.&nbsp; Many of the works on view were playful and theatrical, like a miniature elevator or a sculpture of a man, so lifelike, I wanted to touch him to be sure.&nbsp;&nbsp; The whole concept of this installation encouraged my thinking about my own work as a curator, creating &ldquo;lifelike&rdquo; settings within historic buildings.&nbsp; A recreated 1970s kitchen, the childhood kitchen of artist Keith Edmier, engaged my mind most vividly.&nbsp; As a child of the 70s, the temptation to treat this space as...]]></description>
			<dc:date>2012-07-06T13:44:22+00:00</dc:date>
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			<title>Jenny Sabin&#8217;s Greenhouse Projects at the American Philosophical Society</title>
			<link>http://www.pcah.us/blog/entry/jenny-sabins-greenhouse-projects-at-the-american-philosophical-society/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Jenny Sabin is the designer of a "Greenhouse for the Future," part of the American Philosophical Society&rsquo;s Greenhouse Projects, presented this past fall in conjunction with their exhibition Of Elephants and Roses: Encounters with French Natural History. The project was funded by The Pew Center for Arts &amp; Heritage through the Heritage program. We asked Sabin to write a short post about her experience working with APS. Following her post is a recent essay by Sabin and her colleagues, the eSkin Team, which describes her design interests, research, and philosophy. All images were taken from the installation of The Greenhouse Projects at the APS. Sabin received a Pew Fellowship in the Arts in 2010. As an emerging architectural designer with an experimental architecture practice in Philadelphia, it&rsquo;s not often that I am able to materialize and build my digitally generated designs. My commission with the American Philosophical Society Museum enabled...]]></description>
			<dc:date>2012-05-31T15:39:21+00:00</dc:date>
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			<title>Hidden Stories, part 3</title>
			<link>http://www.pcah.us/blog/entry/hidden-stories-part-3/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[On February 28, 2012, the Heritage Philadelphia Program and the Philadelphia Theatre Initiative continued our Hidden Stories venture through a discussion between constituents of both initiatives.&nbsp; We talked about the nature of collaboration, historic object interpretation, artistic responsibility, and much more. Below is Sebastienne Mundheim&rsquo;s response. by Sebastienne Mundheim, White Box Theatre "Counsel woven into the fabric of lived life is wisdom," it is such woven wisdom that the storyteller hands on. &mdash;Esther Leslie on Walter Benjamin &nbsp; On Entering a Collaborative Relationship within a Commission: Understanding the Investment of the Artist I am grateful for the dialogue we have around storytelling. I grappled with these thoughts all night. I am glad for the provocations. I came to be a responsive art-maker through circumstance. When commissioned I do try to find an authentic love relationship&mdash;a true revelation. I like the anthropological experience of visiting the unknown and trying to describe...]]></description>
			<dc:date>2012-03-12T18:27:25+00:00</dc:date>
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			<title>In Pursuit of the Paranormal</title>
			<link>http://www.pcah.us/blog/entry/in-pursuit-of-the-paranormal/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[by Richard W. Fink II, Executive Director of the Philadelphia Sketch Club Cliveden: Home of the Chew family and site of the 1777 Battle of Germantown. Spirits of departed soliders are believed to remain on the property. In the fall of 2010 I received a &ldquo;Scholars in the Interpretation of History&rdquo; award from HPP. The grant supported development of public programs that explored connections between historical ghost stories, contemporary spiritual practices, and the power of place. While there was no clear expectation for what these public programs should entail, I was asked to create a project that went &ldquo;beyond predictable ghost tours.&rdquo; I began the project by researching the commercial aspects of the supernatural throughout history. It quickly became apparent that historic sites have been profiting off the paranormal since the Civil War era. At the Germantown Historical Society, in folders marked &ldquo;ghost stories&rdquo; and &ldquo;haunted houses,&rdquo; I uncovered a...]]></description>
			<dc:date>2012-01-27T16:23:23+00:00</dc:date>
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			<title>Hidden Stories, part 2</title>
			<link>http://www.pcah.us/blog/entry/hidden-stories-part-2/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[by Cornelia S. King, Curator of Women&rsquo;s History, Library Company of Philadelphia I was intrigued to be invited to join a field trip sponsored by Heritage Philadelphia Program (HPP) and the Philadelphia Theatre Initiative (PTI), which I described to my colleagues at the Library Company as a mash-up between people like us (special collections librarians and archivists) and people in the performing arts. I imagined wonderful outcomes; wouldn&rsquo;t it be great to collaborate on programming that would re-create the singing, dancing, and theatrical staging that is documented by the printed sheet music, playbills, and programmes in our collection? Years ago we&rsquo;d had such a program, with the performers singing 19th-century temperance songs, even though our event was not &ldquo;dry," a fact that amused everyone. Our first stop on the field trip was the Wagner Free Institute. The Wagner is a stunning place that evokes the intellectual rigors that characterized the...]]></description>
			<dc:date>2012-01-19T13:26:47+00:00</dc:date>
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			<title>Jan Ramirez on Creating the National September 11 Memorial Museum</title>
			<link>http://www.pcah.us/blog/entry/jan-ramirez-on-creating-the-national-september-11-memorial-museum/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[by Sarah Biemiller, former Senior Program Associate for The Pew Center for Arts &amp; Heritage I attended Jan Ramirez&rsquo;s lecture here at the Center on October 20, 2011. She came here to talk about the intricacies of designing the National September 11 Memorial Museum. The museum will consist of 110,000 square feet of exhibition space, located &ldquo;within the archaeological heart&rdquo; of the World Trade Center site. Using archives, personal narratives and authentic artifacts, the museum will &ldquo;provide a link to the events of 9/11, while presenting intimate stories of loss, compassion, reckoning, and recovery that are central to telling the story of the attacks and the aftermath.&rdquo; Ms. Ramirez&rsquo;s lecture was raw. It was profound. But first and foremost, it was sensitive and thoughtful. Obviously the subject matter is delicate. She emphasized how they want to create a museum that honors all those who perished that day, as well as...]]></description>
			<dc:date>2012-01-05T19:23:06+00:00</dc:date>
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			<title>Announcing the 2011 HPP Triple I Awards</title>
			<link>http://www.pcah.us/blog/entry/announcing-the-2011-hpp-triple-i-awards/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[This program was formerly known as HPP Scholars in the Interpretation of History Heritage Philadelphia Program (HPP) of The Pew Center for Arts &amp; Heritage is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2011 HPP Awards for Interpretive Inquiry and Investigation. This professional development opportunity supports individual practitioners in the investigation of imaginative projects in public history. These small grants support experimental interpretive research and projects that bring history alive by: &bull; connecting the present to the past in engaging, imaginative, and meaningful ways, &bull; responding to audience/community interests or needs, &bull; demonstrating a complex understanding and presentation of history. There are four recipients this year, an unprecedented number. Triple I Award recipients are selected by Heritage Philadelphia Program senior staff with the assistance of an outside reviewer. Jebney Lewis&mdash;We Make the City Lewis will develop and construct a small exhibit with a focus on the intersection of Broad and...]]></description>
			<dc:date>2011-12-05T18:09:21+00:00</dc:date>
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			<title>Hidden Stories</title>
			<link>http://www.pcah.us/blog/entry/hidden-stories/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[By Adrienne Mackey, Swim Pony Performing Arts I was recently lucky enough to spend the day on a PTI and HPP joint field trip called &ldquo;Hidden Stories.&rdquo; Our task: take a &ldquo;journey to explore seldom-seen aspects of historic collections and sites.&rdquo; Beyond uniting theater professionals and public historians there were few mandated outcomes of the trip, but many opportunities for question, exploration and cross-pollination. I appreciated that freedom - to simply take in, to process in whatever way seemed appropriate and to let a sheet of ragtime music or an angry taxidermy squirrel strike me as they may. It was overwhelming and a little awe inspiring to walk into the storage facility of the Atwater Kent and know that every single object, and there were hundreds of thousand in view, held many lifetimes worth of stories and that I was standing next to a man who simply by asking &ldquo;What&rsquo;s...]]></description>
			<dc:date>2011-12-01T18:37:25+00:00</dc:date>
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			<title>Picturing History</title>
			<link>http://www.pcah.us/blog/entry/picturing-history/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[by Andrea (Ang) Reidell, Education Specialist, National Archives at Philadelphia History is full of dramatic moments. But how that moment is documented&mdash;and by whom&mdash;impacts how (or if) an event is remembered. Visual records are a particularly compelling type of source, as they tend to draw people into historical events in ways that text documents do not&mdash;at least at first glance. But what if an event was never visually documented? How do we as public historians create engaging exhibits and programs that are visually compelling when we have no original visual sources? For the team from the National Archives at Philadelphia, participants in the HPP initiative &ldquo;No Idea Is Too Ridiculous,&rdquo; the answer was to work with an artist to create a visual representation based on written primary sources. A complex task, yes, but the result was remarkable. Artist Alina Josan&rsquo;s painting&mdash;which can be viewed here at the online version of...]]></description>
			<dc:date>2011-11-22T18:07:10+00:00</dc:date>
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