Past Events

2024

• Fisher Fine Arts Library Building Open House · Saturday, November 16, 2024
• Community Celebration for Nina Chanel Abney’s Epic Painting Cycle, “I Dread to Think”  · Saturday, November 16, 2024
• The Legacy of Terry Adkins  · Thursday, November 14, 2024
• Forever Furness: The Arthur Ross Gallery at 40 · Monday, November 11, 2024
• Makoto & Haejin Fujimura: Beauty & Justice · Monday, October 21, 2024
• The Art of Art Collecting · Thursday, October 17, 2024
• Tea With Ms. Tanzania: a Reading with Fayyaz A. Vellani · Monday, October 14, 2024
• Susan T. Marx Distinguished Lecture: Elizabeth Turk · Thursday, September 26, 2024
• Closing Celebration for “David C. Driskell and Friends: Creativity, Collaboration, and Friendship,” featuring a conversation on “The Women of the Driskell Circle” · Friday, September 13, 2024
• Opening reception for David C. Driskell and Friends · Friday, June 14, 2024
• Postponed: The Illuminated Body: A Community Celebration of Creativity · Saturday, May 11, 2024
• Dr. Christa Mahlobo, Flourishing Through Expression: The Transformative Power of Arts and Mindfulness in Black Communities · Saturday, May 4, 2024
• Artist Talk | Marisa Williamson, Lightbox: An Illuminated Lecture · Friday, April 26, 2024
• Arthur Ross Gallery Student Advisory Board DIY Night · Thursday, April 18, 2024
• Performance | Seth Parker Woods, Difficult Grace · Thursday, April 11, 2024
• Lecture | Dr. Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, Black Girl’s Window: Re-framing Contemporary Reparative Artistic Practices · Tuesday, March 26, 2024
• Tour | Exhibition walkthrough with curator Emily Zimmerman · Wednesday, March 6, 2024
• Opening Reception | Barbara Earl Thomas: The Illuminated Body · Friday, February 16, 2024

2023

• Film screening of Goya or the Hard Way to Enlightenment (Goya – oder der arge Weg der Erkenntnis) · Thursday, December 7, 2023
• 12@12 with the Curators · Wednesday, December 6, 2023
• Spanish politics, culture, and ethnic relations during Goya’s (1746-1828) lifetime · Tuesday, November 7, 2023
• 12@12 with Shira Brisman · Wednesday, November 1, 2023
• Tour of 'Songs for Ritual and Remembrance' with curator Emily Zimmerman · Friday, October 27, 2023
• Goya: Prints from The Arthur Ross Collection - Opening Reception · Friday, October 20, 2023
• Bearing Witness - Artist Talk with Alison Saar · Thursday, October 5, 2023
• Listening Beyond Words: A Workshop with the Penn Medicine Listening Lab led by Aaron Levy and Teya Sepinuck · Wednesday, September 13, 2023
• Sound Bath with Guadalupe Maravilla’s 'Disease Thrower #16' · Tuesday, September 12, 2023
• Movement & Mindfulness with Rasaq Lawal · Saturday, September 9, 2023
• Daedalus Quartet Performance · Thursday, September 7, 2023
• 12@12: Dr. Jasmine Henry · Wednesday, September 6, 2023
• 12@12: On Ritual · Wednesday, August 2, 2023
• 12@12 with curator Emily Zimmerman · Wednesday, July 5, 2023
• Opening Reception: Songs for Ritual and Remembrance · Friday, June 16, 2023
• 12@12 with Lynn Marsden-Atlass · Wednesday, April 5, 2023
• Courbet and the Natural Wonders of the Jura · Tuesday, April 4, 2023
• A Conversation with Jayson Musson and Ken Lum · Wednesday, March 22, 2023
• Lost & Found: The Art of Caring for Collections, a Conversation between Jennifer A. Thompson and Lynn Marsden-Atlass · Tuesday, March 21, 2023
• 12@12 with Jenn Mass and Adam Finnefrock · Wednesday, March 1, 2023
• Origins and Epistemes, a lecture with Paul Galvez · Thursday, February 9, 2023
• 12@12 with André Dombrowski · Wednesday, February 8, 2023
• Opening Reception: At the Source: A Courbet Landscape Rediscovered · Friday, February 3, 2023

2022

• Art Reset: Sonic and Spiritual Durations of Flight in John Dowell’s Paths of Freedom · Friday, November 11, 2022
• SOUNDS OF SPIRIT MUSIC EVENT · Thursday, November 3, 2022
• 12@12 with John E. Dowell · Wednesday, November 2, 2022
• Conversation with John E. Dowell and Brittany Webb · Thursday, October 13, 2022
• 12@12 with Lynn Marsden-Atass · Wednesday, October 12, 2022
• OPENING RECEPTION John E. Dowell: Paths to Freedom · Friday, September 9, 2022
• Docent led tours every Thursday afternoon! · July 7 – August 18, 2022
• 12@12 with Mary Tasillo, Common Press Studio Manager, Penn Libraries · Wednesday, July 13, 2022
• Opening Reception: From Studio to Doorstep: Associated American Artists Prints, 1934-2000 · Friday, June 17, 2022
• 12 @ 12 with Fariha Khan · Wednesday, May 4, 2022
• Migration and Empires in Latin America and the Caribbean: How to Explain the Large Presence of Asians in the Americas · Thursday, April 7, 2022
• 12@12, Siyuan (Alice) Zhao · Wednesday, April 6, 2022
• Asian Diaspora and Migration to the Americas and the Caribbean: A Panel Discussion with Fernando Chang-Muy and Rupa Pillai. · Thursday, March 24, 2022
• Artist Talk with Shirin Neshat · Tuesday, March 15, 2022
• 12@12 with Lynn Marsden-Atlass · Wednesday, March 2, 2022
• Pan-Asian Dance Troupe Performance · Tuesday, February 22, 2022
• PennYo Performance · Thursday, February 10, 2022
• 12@12 with Catherine Bartch · Wednesday, February 2, 2022
• Opening Reception for 'No Ocean Between Us: Art of Asian Diasporas in Latin America & The Caribbean, 1945–Present' · Friday, January 28, 2022
• Lecture with Adriana Ospina - No Ocean Between Us Opening Celebration - · Friday, January 28, 2022

2021

• 12@12 · Wednesday, December 1, 2021
• Writing Workshop with Levi Bentley · Saturday, November 13, 2021
• 12@12 · Wednesday, November 3, 2021
• Poetry Reading moderated by Levi Bentley · Thursday, October 21, 2021
• A Conversation with Roberto Lugo and Jennifer Zwilling · Thursday, October 14, 2021
• Art Reset · Friday, October 8, 2021
• Artist Talk with Claudy Jongstra on Fields of Transformation · Tuesday, September 28, 2021
• Artist Talk: Roberto Lugo, God Complex: Different Philadelphia · Friday, September 10, 2021
• OPENING RECEPTION for God Complex: Different Philadelphia · Friday, September 10, 2021
• 12@12 with Lara Yeager-Crasselt · Wednesday, July 7, 2021
• Performance by Filament Baroque Ensemble · Thursday, June 17, 2021
• 12@12 with Heather Moqtaderi · Wednesday, June 2, 2021
• Inner Worlds and Late Hours: Nocturnal Imagery in Dutch Genre Painting · Friday, May 21, 2021
• Student-Led Video Tour of "An Inner World" · Thursday, May 20, 2021
• Gold-Making: Painting, Alchemy, and Virtuosity in Dutch Art · Friday, May 7, 2021
• 12@12 with Caroline Van Cauwenberge · Wednesday, May 5, 2021
• An Inner World Opening Celebration · Friday, April 16, 2021
• "Many Voices, Many Visions" Tour & Art Project · February 23 – March 31, 2021
• Welcome to the Shiva House - a virtual performance · Friday, March 26, 2021
• A Conversation with Audrey Flack · Friday, March 19, 2021
• Object(ive) · Friday, March 5, 2021
• Virtual 12@12 · Wednesday, March 3, 2021
• A Conversation on the Dox Thrash House · Friday, February 19, 2021
• Conversation with Curlee Holton · Friday, February 5, 2021
• Virtual 12@12 · Wednesday, February 3, 2021
• Opening Virtual Program: Conversation with Andrew Moore · Friday, January 22, 2021

2020

• Virtual Tour of the exhibition 'Re-materialize' with Curator Heather Moqtaderi · Wednesday, December 23, 2020
• Re-materialize Kids' Virtual Tour and Art Project · November 3 – December 20, 2020
• Conversation with Wayne Modest · Friday, December 4, 2020
• Object(ive) · Wednesday, November 4, 2020
• Rematerializing Care: A Conversation with Roksana Filipowska · Friday, October 30, 2020
• Re-assemble: Sound performance by June Lopez · Friday, October 23, 2020
• Conversation with Jackie Milad · Friday, October 16, 2020
• Conversation with Shari Mendelson · Friday, October 9, 2020
• William Kentridge: The Moment Has Gone · Friday, October 2, 2020
• Monuments and Social Justice · Thursday, September 24, 2020
• Printmaker Pop-Up Market · July 11–19, 2020
• Art Matters, Part 1 · May 11–13, 2020
• Art Matters, Part 2 · May 11–13, 2020
• A look back on ‘Frankenthaler on Paper’ exhibition · Tuesday, April 28, 2020
• Yoga with Anisha · March 6 – April 17, 2020
• “Paths of Subtle Resistance: The Careers of Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Martha Jackson” · Monday, March 23, 2020
• Artist Talk: Honour Mack · Monday, February 24, 2020

2019

• Liliana Porter lecture · Wednesday, October 23, 2019
• Art Reset · Friday, October 18, 2019
• Jaume Plensa: Talking Continents Opening Reception · Friday, September 27, 2019
• Art Reset · Friday, September 13, 2019
• Artist Talk with Laurel McSherry · Wednesday, September 11, 2019
• 12@12 · Wednesday, September 4, 2019
• 12@12 · Wednesday, August 7, 2019
• 12@12 · Wednesday, July 3, 2019
• Yoga with Anisha · February 8 – May 3, 2019
• 12@12 · Wednesday, May 1, 2019
• ART RESET · Friday, April 26, 2019
• Color Mixing Program with Roger Toledo · Friday, April 12, 2019
• 12@12 with Roger Toledo · Wednesday, April 10, 2019
• Artist Talk: Roger Toledo · Sunday, April 7, 2019
• Soy Cuba / I am Cuba Opening Reception · Friday, April 5, 2019
• An Art Journey with David C. Driskell · Thursday, March 21, 2019
• Printmaker Pop-Up Market · Saturday, March 16, 2019
• Film Screening of SOY CUBA · Friday, March 15, 2019
• Art + Data Hack-a-thon · Wednesday, March 13, 2019
• 12@12 · Wednesday, March 6, 2019
• Camae Ayewa Poem Premiere · Wednesday, February 27, 2019
• Writing Workshop Series · February 2–23, 2019
• 12@12 · Wednesday, February 6, 2019
• Walt Whitman Workshop · Saturday, January 26, 2019
• Art Reset: Spiritscapes: Place and Spirit in Citizen Salon · Friday, January 25, 2019

2018

• Daedalus Quartet Concert · Friday, December 7, 2018
• 12@12 · Wednesday, December 5, 2018
• CITIZEN SALON Opening Reception & After-Party · Friday, November 30, 2018
• Yoga with Anisha · Friday, November 9, 2018
• 12@12 · Wednesday, November 7, 2018
• Lecture: "William Kentridge's Triumphs and Laments" by Carlos Basualdo · Wednesday, November 7, 2018
• Yoga with Anisha · Friday, November 2, 2018
• Yoga with Anisha · Friday, October 26, 2018
• ART RESET · Friday, October 26, 2018
• Yoga with Anisha · Friday, October 19, 2018
• Concert: South African Jazz · Tuesday, October 16, 2018
• Yoga with Anisha · Friday, October 12, 2018
• Yoga with Anisha · September 28 – October 5, 2018
• Yoga with Anisha · Friday, October 5, 2018
• 12@12 · Wednesday, October 3, 2018
• Print Demonstration · Tuesday, October 2, 2018
• Film Screening: William Kentridge's 10 Drawings for Projections, 1989-2011 · Thursday, September 27, 2018
• William Kentridge: Universal Archive Opening Reception · Friday, September 7, 2018
• 12@12 · Wednesday, July 11, 2018
• 12@12 · Wednesday, June 6, 2018
• Yoga with Anisha · Friday, May 18, 2018
• Yoga with Anisha · Friday, May 11, 2018
• 12@12 · Wednesday, May 2, 2018
• Yoga with Anisha · Friday, April 20, 2018
• Ice Cream Social · Friday, April 20, 2018
• Lecture by artist Jaume Plensa · Wednesday, April 18, 2018
• Lantern Slide Show · Tuesday, April 17, 2018
• Yoga with Anisha · Friday, April 13, 2018
• Art Reset · Thursday, April 12, 2018
• Opening Reception for The World on View: Objects from Universal Expositions, 1851-1915 · Friday, April 6, 2018
• Yoga with Anisha · Friday, March 23, 2018
• ART RESET with Lauren Altman, MFA'18 · Friday, March 16, 2018
• Yoga with Anisha · Friday, March 16, 2018
• Impressions in Ink Symposium · Thursday, March 15, 2018
• Yoga with Anisha · Friday, March 9, 2018
• 12@12 · Wednesday, March 7, 2018
• Yoga with Anisha · Friday, March 2, 2018
• Yoga with Anisha · Friday, February 23, 2018
• Pop-Up Market · Saturday, February 10, 2018
• 12@12 · Wednesday, February 7, 2018
• ART RESET with Lauren Altman, MFA'18 · Tuesday, January 30, 2018
• A Photograph Can Lead To… · Thursday, January 25, 2018
• Opening Reception for Impressions in Ink · Friday, January 12, 2018

2017

• Yoga with anisha · Friday, December 8, 2017
• Yoga with anisha · Friday, December 1, 2017
• Yoga with anisha · Friday, November 10, 2017
• Art Reset: Views from the Archive · Thursday, November 9, 2017
• Yoga with Anisha · Friday, November 3, 2017
• A conversation with Jeannette Montgomery Barron · Wednesday, November 1, 2017
• 12@12 · Wednesday, November 1, 2017
• Concert: Daedalus Quartet · Friday, October 20, 2017
• Film Screening: "Louis Kahn's Tiger City" [ROUGH CUT] · Wednesday, October 18, 2017
• Yoga with Anisha · Friday, October 13, 2017
• Art Reset with Lauren Altman, MFA '18 · Thursday, October 12, 2017
• Art Reset: Women in Public Space · Thursday, October 12, 2017
• Yoga with Anisha · Friday, October 6, 2017
• LECTURE: “Watching the Light in Rome” by Dean Frederick Steiner · Wednesday, October 4, 2017
• 12@12 · Wednesday, October 4, 2017
• Yoga with Anisha · Friday, September 29, 2017
• Yoga with Anisha · Friday, September 22, 2017
• Lecture: “A View of One’s Own: Women, Walking, and Photography in Rome” · Wednesday, September 6, 2017
• 12@12 · Wednesday, June 7, 2017
• The Group Motion Workshop and Ron Kravitz · Wednesday, May 31, 2017
• 12@12 · Wednesday, May 3, 2017
• yoga with anisha · Friday, April 14, 2017
• Art Reset · Wednesday, April 12, 2017
• ARTIST TALK by WILLIE COLE · Friday, April 7, 2017
• Yoga with anisha · Friday, April 7, 2017
• Willie Cole: On-Site Opening Reception · Friday, April 7, 2017
• Yoga with anisha · March 17–24, 2017
• Lecture by Dr. Johnnetta Cole, Director, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution · Wednesday, March 22, 2017
• Performance by Philly beat-maker Christopher “Pow Pow” Powell · Wednesday, March 15, 2017
• Daedalus Quartet Concert · Monday, March 13, 2017
• PANEL EVENT @ the Penn Club of New York · Monday, March 6, 2017
• YOGA with anisha · February 10 – March 3, 2017
• 12@12 · Wednesday, March 1, 2017
• ART RESET · Wednesday, March 1, 2017
• Andrew Moore photography lecture and performance by Michael Roy Barker · Wednesday, February 8, 2017
• 12@12 with curator Heather Gibson Moqtaderi · Wednesday, February 1, 2017
• Gallery Talk and Opening Reception · Friday, January 13, 2017

2016

• Gallery Talk followed by Opening Reception · Thursday, December 15, 2016
• yoga with anisha · Friday, December 9, 2016
• 12@12 · Wednesday, December 7, 2016
• Performance: Ernel Martinez and Keir Johnston · Friday, December 2, 2016
• yoga with anisha · Friday, December 2, 2016
• yoga with anisha · Friday, November 18, 2016
• yoga with anisha · Friday, November 11, 2016
• yoga with anisha · Friday, November 4, 2016
• 12@12 · Wednesday, November 2, 2016
• Bag Revival Workshop Party for Penn Students! · Wednesday, November 2, 2016
• yoga with anisha · Friday, October 28, 2016
• yoga with anisha · Friday, October 14, 2016
• yoga with anisha · Friday, October 7, 2016
• 12@12 · Wednesday, October 5, 2016
• Performance: Sean Riley · Thursday, September 29, 2016
• Opening Reception · Thursday, September 8, 2016
• 12@12 · Wednesday, September 7, 2016
• 12@12 · Wednesday, July 6, 2016
• 12@12 · Wednesday, June 1, 2016
• yoga with anisha · Friday, May 27, 2016
• yoga with anisha · Friday, May 20, 2016
• yoga with anisha · Friday, May 13, 2016
• yoga with anisha · Friday, May 6, 2016
• 12@12 · Wednesday, May 4, 2016
• yoga with anisha · Friday, April 29, 2016
• Printmaking Demonstration · Monday, April 25, 2016
• yoga with anisha · Friday, April 22, 2016
• Conversation with with Hoang Tran · Thursday, April 21, 2016
• yoga with anisha · Friday, April 15, 2016
• LECTURE by Anna O. Marley · Thursday, April 14, 2016
• yoga with anisha · Friday, April 8, 2016
• Curatorial Discussions & Opening Reception · Thursday, April 7, 2016
• yoga with anisha · Friday, March 18, 2016
• 12@12 · Wednesday, March 2, 2016
• Dolce Suono Ensemble Concert · Wednesday, March 2, 2016
• 12@12 · Wednesday, February 3, 2016
• Jealousy, Infidelity, and Transfiguration: an Interdisciplinary Collaboration of Music, Literature, Theatre, Movement, and Visual Arts · Friday, January 29, 2016
• LECTURE by Andrew B. Newberg, M.D. · Wednesday, January 20, 2016
• 12@12 · Wednesday, January 6, 2016

2015

• 12@12 · Wednesday, December 2, 2015
• ARTIST TALK and RECEPTION! · Friday, November 20, 2015
• ARTIST TALK: Abbas · Friday, November 20, 2015
• Dolce Suono Ensemble · Thursday, November 5, 2015
• 12@12 · Wednesday, November 4, 2015
• Ghost Stories: The Horrors of 19th Century Dentistry, Poe, and More @ 6:30 PM · Wednesday, October 21, 2015
• 12@12 · Wednesday, October 7, 2015
• DOCENT TOURS available on the weekends! · Saturday, October 3, 2015
• 12@12 · Wednesday, September 2, 2015
• 12@12 · Wednesday, August 5, 2015
• 12@12 · Wednesday, June 3, 2015
• Concert by Dolce Suono Ensemble · Thursday, May 14, 2015
• 12@12 · Wednesday, May 6, 2015
• PENN STUDENTS - SPRING ARTparty tonight! · Wednesday, April 29, 2015
• OPENING RECEPTION · Thursday, April 9, 2015
• Free Student Docent Tours Saturdays & Sundays · February 28 – March 29, 2015
• YOGA CLASSES · March 20–27, 2015
• 12@12 · Thursday, March 5, 2015
• Lecture: Paul Strand: The Mexican Portfolio Amanda Bock · Wednesday, March 4, 2015

2014

• Film: Day With(out) Art / World AIDS Day · Monday, December 1, 2014
• Concert: Minas · Thursday, November 13, 2014
• Artist Talk: Henrique Oliveria · Thursday, October 30, 2014
• Lecture: "The Art of Collecting 20th- Century Prints" · Tuesday, October 7, 2014
• Concert: Dolce Suono Ensemble · Thursday, September 18, 2014
• Gallery Talk: Shared Vision · Friday, September 12, 2014
• Charles and Isabella Edenshaw: Haida Master Artists · Wednesday, April 30, 2014
• Stories from Storage: Behind the Scenes Lives of Objects · Wednesday, April 23, 2014
• Tall Tales of the Totem Pole: An Intercultural Biography of the Northwest Coast Icon · Tuesday, April 22, 2014
• Northwest Coast Display in Ceremony and Gallery · Wednesday, April 16, 2014
• Haida Traditions and Modern Innovations · Wednesday, April 9, 2014
• Lecture: William H. Johnson · Modernist Master of New World Realities · Friday, March 21, 2014
• Are Old Northwest Coast Objects Meaningful Today? Tlingit in 2014 · Wednesday, March 19, 2014
• Artist Talk: Abdi Farah · Tuesday, March 4, 2014
• Valentine's Throwback Thursday · Thursday, February 13, 2014
• Concert: Mimi Stillman & Dolce Suono Ensemble · Wednesday, February 12, 2014
• Lecture: Dr. Mark Anthony Neal & Dr. Guthrie P. Ramsey · Thursday, January 30, 2014
• Gallery Tour and Opening Reception: William H. Johnson · An American Modern · Friday, January 17, 2014

2013

• Concert: Dolce Suono Ensemble · Wednesday, October 2, 2013
• Concert: Daedalus Quartet · Sunday, September 22, 2013
• Gallery Talk: Judith Sobol · Friday, September 6, 2013