Location: Dorrance Galleries (first floor)

Sound Check features music enlivening the Museum’s galleries. Jim Fogarty is a self-taught folk musician based in Philadelphia.

 

Meets in Lenfest Hall (West Lobby, ground floor)

With Cara Zimmerman, Executive Director, Foundation for Self-Taught Artists

Join our gallery talk—given by curators, conservators, or educators—for an insider’s guide to the Museum’s collection.

Wednesday Nights are “Pay What You Wish” Museum Admission

 

Location: Gallery 161

Play Dixit, a storytelling card game (3-6 players).

Take part in GamePlay. Each month, you'll find different board games in the galleries. Play with your friends or with other Museum visitors. We supply the games and instructions; you do the rest!

Wednesday Nights are “Pay What You Wish” Museum Admission

 

Location: Meet in Gallery 224 (Pillared Temple Hall)

Join local artist Diane Pieri for this drop-in sketching program. Paper and pencils are provided.

 

Location: Gallery 258

Have you ever wanted to be an art student? Now’s your chance to experience a college-level drawing class. Deirdre Murphy, artist and lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania, will lead students in compositional studies. Watch or join in! Paper and pencils will be available.

Wednesday Nights are “Pay What You Wish” Museum Admission

 

Meets at the base of the Great Stair Hall steps.

Curators, conservators, or educators present an insider’s guide to the Museum’s collection.

With Laura Camerlengo, Exhibitions Assistant, Costume and Textiles; & Laura Mina, Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Costume and Textiles Conservation

 

Location: Arms and Armor Gallery 247

Join Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School for an irreverent sketching event featuring live models in the Museum's Arms and Armor galleries. No drawing experience necessary. We will supply materials, but feel free to bring your own sketch pads and drawing or charcoal pencils.

Wednesday Nights are “Pay What You Wish” Museum Admission

 

Location: Gallery 258, second floor

Violinist Diane Monroe bridges the traditions of classical composition and jazz improvisation.

 

Meets at the base of the Great Stair Hall steps.

Curators, conservators, or educators present an insider’s guide to the Museum’s collection.

With Christopher D. M. Atkins, Associate Curator of European Painting and Sculpture before 1900.

 

Location: Gallery 122 (first floor)

Test your strategy skills with the two-player board game Othello (aka reversi). We supply the games and instructions—you do the rest.

 

Meets at the base of the Great Stair Hall steps.

Explore 3 artworks in 33 minutes! Triple Play is part conversation, part gallery talk – all informal and fun.

Wednesday Nights are “Pay What You Wish” Museum Admission

With Elizabeth Yohlin, Coordinator of Family Gallery Learning.

 

Meets at the base of the Great Stair Hall steps.

Explore 3 artworks in 33 minutes! Triple Play is part conversation, part gallery talk – all informal and fun.

Wednesday Nights are “Pay What You Wish” Museum Admission

With Elizabeth Yohlin, Coordinator of Family Gallery Learning.

 

Meets at the base of the Great Stair Hall steps.

Curators, conservators, or educators present an insider’s guide to the Museum’s collection.

With Alexandra Kirtley, The Montgomery-Garvan Associate Curator of American Decorative Arts

 

Location: Brodsky Gallery 188, first floor

Brooklyn-based artist Elaine Cameron-Weir and Philadelphia-based artist Anthony Campuzano join Adelina Vlas, Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, to discuss the role museum collections play in the education of young artists and also the constant inspiration they provide. The Philadelphia Museum of Art has recently acquired a sculpture by Cameron-Weir, Blue Black (2011), and also owns a drawing by Campuzano titled Juan Gris Portrait of Max Jacob 1919 Via Elena Sisto Circa 1997 (2010).

 

Location: Departs from Great Stair Hall

This Wednesday, you might encounter Cecily and Gwendolyn, a couple of time-traveling Victorian social anthropologists wandering through the Museum’s many galleries, studying us and the way we look at art. Feel free to engage or observe in this interactive “theater social-science experiment” that blends comedy, improv, theater, and the fine art of conversation. This program is in partnership with Figment Theater and the Philadelphia Comedy Collective.

 

Location: Great Stair Hall

Local artists exhibiting in the 2013 Fairmount Arts Crawl (which takes place April 28) will be on hand to mingle with visitors. Before you visit their studios, hang out with them at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

 

Meets at the base of the Great Stair Hall steps.

Explore 3 artworks in 33 minutes! Triple Play is part conversation, part gallery talk – all informal and fun.

Wednesday Nights are “Pay What You Wish” Museum Admission

With Kelly Baldwin, Internet Collection Content Manager.

 

Meets at the base of the Great Stair Hall steps.

Explore 3 artworks in 33 minutes! Triple Play is part conversation, part gallery talk – all informal and fun.

Wednesday Nights are “Pay What You Wish” Museum Admission

With Kelly Baldwin, Internet Collection Content Manager.

 

Location: Wallace Gallery 201 (second floor)

Participate in this collaborative drawing game where the unexpected will happen. Let the medieval art galleries inspire you to create something a little different.

 

Location: Alter Gallery 176

Listen to the inventive sounds of vibraphonist Tony Miceli while viewing paintings by contemporary artist Sean Scully.

 

Meets at the base of the Great Stair Hall steps.

Curators, conservators, or educators present an insider’s guide to the Museum’s collection.

With Donna Corbin, The Louis C. Madeira IV Associate Curator of European Decorative Arts.

 

Location: Toll Gallery 152

Solve a jigsaw puzzle with your friends and family or make your own.

 

Meets at the base of the Great Stair Hall steps.

Explore 3 artworks in 33 minutes! Triple Play is part conversation, part gallery talk – all informal and fun.

Wednesday Nights are “Pay What You Wish” Museum Admission

With Rebecca Mitchell, Museum Educator and Coordinator of Teacher Programs

 

Meets at the base of the Great Stair Hall steps.

Explore 3 artworks in 33 minutes! Triple Play is part conversation, part gallery talk – all informal and fun.

Wednesday Nights are “Pay What You Wish” Museum Admission

With Rebecca Mitchell, Museum Educator and Coordinator of Teacher Programs

 

Location: Gallery 255

You get to be the artist in the Museum. Find inspiration in the European artworks on view and then let your imagination run wild.

 

Meets at the base of the Great Stair Hall steps.

Curators, conservators, or educators present an insider’s guide to the Museum’s collection.

With Hiromi Kinoshita, The Hannah L. and J. Welles Henderson Associate Curator of Chinese Art.

 

Location: Meet at Diego Rivera’s mural Liberation of the Peon, near the Balcony Shop, first floor

Philadelphia Museum of Art educators and graduate students from Temple University and the University of Pennsylvania bring objects from the permanent collection to life during a 45-minute conversation in one of the Museum’s two hundred galleries.

Learn More >>

 

Location: Meet at Diego Rivera’s mural Liberation of the Peon, near the Balcony Shop, first floor

Philadelphia Museum of Art educators and graduate students from Temple University and the University of Pennsylvania bring objects from the permanent collection to life during a 45-minute conversation in one of the Museum’s two hundred galleries.

Learn More >>

 

Location: Meet at Diego Rivera’s mural Liberation of the Peon, near the Balcony Shop, first floor

Philadelphia Museum of Art educators and graduate students from Temple University and the University of Pennsylvania bring objects from the permanent collection to life during a 45-minute conversation in one of the Museum’s two hundred galleries.

Learn More >>

 

Location: Galleries 151‒161

Local artists Phillip Adams and Damon Reaves have created a self-guided tour that combines installation art and storytelling. Follow their colorful walking paths and explore an original narrative that connects works in the Museum’s galleries of European art 1850‒1900.

 

Meets at the base of the Great Stair Hall steps.

Explore 3 artworks in 33 minutes! Triple Play is part conversation, part gallery talk – all informal and fun.

Wednesday Nights are “Pay What You Wish” Museum Admission

With Erica Warren, Curatorial Fellow, of European Decorative Arts.

 

Meets at the base of the Great Stair Hall steps.

Explore 3 artworks in 33 minutes! Triple Play is part conversation, part gallery talk – all informal and fun.

Wednesday Nights are “Pay What You Wish” Museum Admission

With Erica Warren, Curatorial Fellow, of European Decorative Arts.

 

Location: Dorrance Galleries

Tour the exhibition "Great and Mighty Things": Outsider Art from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Collection with John Ollman and Philadelphia artist Tristin Lowe. Ollman is the owner of the Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, one of the world's premier sources for self-taught art. Lowe is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice pushes low-brow, low-tech methods and materials toward unexpected ends. Together they will discuss Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz's collection of outsider art, how it was formed, and why Ollman pursued the artwork that Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz collected. Great and Mighty Things is on view in the Dorrance Galleries through June 9.

 

Meets at the base of the Great Stair Hall steps.

Curators, conservators, or educators present an insider’s guide to the Museum’s collection.

With Darielle Mason, The Stella Kramrisch Curator of Indian and Himalayan Art.

 

Meets at the base of the Great Stair Hall steps.

Explore 3 artworks in 33 minutes! Triple Play is part conversation, part gallery talk – all informal and fun.

Wednesday Nights are “Pay What You Wish” Museum Admission

With Jenni Drozdek, Museum Educator, Public Programs.

 

Location: Indian Temple Hall, gallery 224, second floor

Captivating performer Tom Reese is known for his warm tone, melodic lines, and whimsical riffs. In addition to the soprano and alto flutes, he plays the Irish pennywhistle, the recorder, the Chinese shakuhachi flute, bamboo flutes, Peruvian pan pipes, the fife, antique ocarinas, and the Native American Lakota flute.

 

Location: Seminar Room, ground floor

Daniel Heyman and Cindi Ettinger of C. R. Ettinger Studio will discuss their collaborative process. They will show examples of etched plates, proof prints, and other printmaking materials as well as recent experiments printing on plaster. They will then move to the Berman Gallery to discuss their favorite etchings in the exhibition Starting from Scratch: The Art of Etching from Dürer to Dine. The conversation will be facilitated by James Wehn, Margaret R. Mainwaring Curatorial Fellow in Prints, Drawings, and Photographs and cocurator of Starting from Scratch, on view through August 11, 2013. The event is made possible by the Center for American Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

 

Meets at the base of the Great Stair Hall steps.

Explore 3 artworks in 33 minutes! Triple Play is part conversation, part gallery talk – all informal and fun.

Wednesday Nights are “Pay What You Wish” Museum Admission

With Jenni Drozdek, Museum Educator, Public Programs.

 

Meets at the base of the Great Stair Hall steps.

Curators, conservators, or educators present an insider’s guide to the Museum’s collection.

With James When, Margaret R. Mainwaring Curatorial Fellow in Prints, Drawings, and Photographs.

 

Location: Meet at Diego Rivera’s mural Liberation of the Peon, near the Balcony Shop, first floor

Philadelphia Museum of Art educators and graduate students from Temple University and the University of Pennsylvania bring objects from the permanent collection to life during a 45-minute conversation in one of the Museum’s two hundred galleries.

Learn More >>

 

Location: Meet at Diego Rivera’s mural Liberation of the Peon, near the Balcony Shop, first floor

Philadelphia Museum of Art educators and graduate students from Temple University and the University of Pennsylvania bring objects from the permanent collection to life during a 45-minute conversation in one of the Museum’s two hundred galleries.

Learn More >>

 

Location: Meet at Diego Rivera’s mural Liberation of the Peon, near the Balcony Shop, first floor

Philadelphia Museum of Art educators and graduate students from Temple University and the University of Pennsylvania bring objects from the permanent collection to life during a 45-minute conversation in one of the Museum’s two hundred galleries.

Learn More >>

 

Meets at the base of the Great Stair Hall steps.

Explore 3 artworks in 33 minutes! Triple Play is part conversation, part gallery talk – all informal and fun.

Wednesday Nights are “Pay What You Wish” Museum Admission

With Justina Barrett, Museum Educator for American Art.

 

Meets at the base of the Great Stair Hall steps.

Explore 3 artworks in 33 minutes! Triple Play is part conversation, part gallery talk – all informal and fun.

Wednesday Nights are “Pay What You Wish” Museum Admission

With Justina Barrett, Museum Educator for American Art.

 

Location: Alter Gallery 176, first floor

The coolest sketching event in town returns! Last time they brought Game of Thrones to the arms and armor galleries. Tonight it’s all about Agent 007. Bond girls will grace the galleries for a night of live figure drawing and music. No drawing experience is necessary. Use our drawing supplies or bring your own. Dry materials only please.

 

Meets at the base of the Great Stair Hall steps.

Curators, conservators, or educators present an insider’s guide to the Museum’s collection.

With Nora Lambert, Dorothy J. del Bueno Curatorial Fellow.

 

Join Jennifer Thompson, the Museum’s Gloria and Jack Drosdick Associate Curator of European Painting and Sculpture before 1900 and the Rodin Museum, for a tour of the gardens at the Rodin Museum and a discussion of Rodin’s views on the installation of his sculptures. This program will take place outdoors, rain or shine.

 

Location: Meet at Diego Rivera’s mural Liberation of the Peon, near the Balcony Shop, first floor

Philadelphia Museum of Art educators and graduate students from Temple University and the University of Pennsylvania bring objects from the permanent collection to life during a 45-minute conversation in one of the Museum’s two hundred galleries.

Learn More >>

 

Location: Meet at Diego Rivera’s mural Liberation of the Peon, near the Balcony Shop, first floor

Philadelphia Museum of Art educators and graduate students from Temple University and the University of Pennsylvania bring objects from the permanent collection to life during a 45-minute conversation in one of the Museum’s two hundred galleries.

Learn More >>

 

Join Jennifer Thompson, the Museum’s Gloria and Jack Drosdick Associate Curator of European Painting and Sculpture before 1900 and the Rodin Museum, for a tour of the gardens at the Rodin Museum and a discussion of Rodin’s views on the installation of his sculptures. This program will take place outdoors, rain or shine.

 

Location: Meet at Diego Rivera’s mural Liberation of the Peon, near the Balcony Shop, first floor

Philadelphia Museum of Art educators and graduate students from Temple University and the University of Pennsylvania bring objects from the permanent collection to life during a 45-minute conversation in one of the Museum’s two hundred galleries.

Learn More >>