As the current election season unfolds, it feels like we’re caught in a surreal déjà vu. As a society, we’ve made significant advances in many areas for women’s rights, but as soon as we thought...
The Frances M. Maguire Art Museum welcomed over 30 paintings, sculptures and other artistic works as part of the “Queens, Gods and Devotees” exhibition Sept. 26. The exhibition, featuring works from...
Back in 1974, Dorothea Gamble dreamed of one day opening her very own boutique. In 2018, that dream became a reality alongside her business partner, Dagmar Mitchell.
Gamble spent most of her early...
I like art, I like crafts and I have a weird fondness for a painted rock I found on the Wissahickon trail during the covid-19 lockdown. So, on a Sunday in mid-October, I found myself on my way to “Rock...
The first thing I saw when I entered the Asian Arts Initiative building in Philadelphia’s Chinatown was a video of a woman in a white dress projected on the room’s walls. I soon discovered this woman...
A burst of heat hit my chest as I stepped into the “hot room.”
This room, on the first floor of the Tyler School of Art and Architecture on Temple University’s campus, is where all the creativity...
On a fall day in 2018, while visiting my sister, Quinn O’Hara ’21, here at St. Joe’s, the O’Hara family wanted a new experience: something fresh and enticing that would make the brisk autumn day...
The Frances M. Maguire Art Museum hosted Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, a traditional Mexican celebration, Nov. 2.
Día de los Muertos, which takes place Nov. 1 to Nov. 2 in Mexico, invites...
From Oct. 23-Nov. 3, the Nealis Program in Asian Studies partnered with the department of art and art history to host a two-week Artists Residency “When Heaven Meets Earth” in Boland Hall.
The...
Students at the University City campus invited Hawk Hill students to an afternoon of snipping and snacking Sept. 29 at the Papel Picado Making event in the Center for Inclusion and Diversity (CID) in...
With the plethora of mobile and digital cameras available, film photography might sound like an art form from the past. But for Justin Layug ’25, it is his present and future.
Half of the enjoyment...
