This Alumni Weekend is your opportunity to enjoy the vast array of visual and performing arts at Penn. Learn from the experts at the Penn Gallery Hop. Or discover the University's cultural life on your own through exhibits at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, the Arthur Ross Gallery, and the Institute of Contemporary Art, or through an eye-opening performance at the Annenberg Center.

ARTHUR ROSS GALLERY
Hitoshi Nakazato: Print Series
(included in Penn Gallery Hop)
Hours: Friday-Monday, 10 AM-5 PM
Phone: 215-898-2083
Web: www.upenn.edu/ARG

INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART
Karen Kilimnik; Contemporary Art and The Art of Curating; Ramp Project: Phoebe Washburn
(all 3 exhibits included in Penn Gallery Hop)
Hours: Wednesday-Friday, Noon-8 PM; Saturday and Sunday, 11 AM-5 PM
Phone: 215-898-5911
Web: www.icaphila.org

ADDAMS HALL GALLERY
Senior Graduation Show
Hours: Friday and Saturday, 10 AM-5 PM;
Sunday: 1-4 PM
Phone: 215-573-5134
Web: www.design.upenn.edu

KROIZ GALLERY ARCHITECTURAL ARCHIVES
Venturi Scott Brown Collection
(included in Penn Gallery Hop)
Hours: Friday and Saturday, 10 AM-5 PM, Sunday, Noon-4 PM
Phone: 215-898-8323

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA LIBRARY
Equus Unbound: Fairman Rogers and the Age of the Horse
Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, Kamin Gallery
An exhibition of the horse's role in nineteenth century industrial America with over 1,000 titles from the Fairman Rogers Collection.
Hours: Friday, 9 AM-5 PM; Saturday and Sunday, 10 AM-5 PM
Phone: 215-898-7555

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA MUSEUM OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY
Amarna, Ancient Egypt's Place in the Sun
Lower Egyptian Gallery
This exhibit offers a rare look at the meteoric rise and fall of Amarna, boyhood home of Tutankahmun. The exhibit features more than 100 ancient artifacts, including statuary of gods and goddesses, royalty, monumental reliefs, golden jewelry and personal items from the royal family. The exhibition complements the blockbuster traveling exhibition, Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs, at Philadelphia's Franklin Institute.

Vanishing Worlds: Art and Ritual of Amazonia Dietrich Gallery
Colorful headdresses, masks, body ornaments, and full body costumes, as well as domestic and utilitarian pieces like basketry, weapons, pottery and textiles, illustrate the largely vanished world of the Amazonian tribes that flourished prior to the advent of the Europeans.

Piranesi: The Grandeur of Ancient Rome
Merle-Smith Gallery
Sixty works by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, one of the major artists of 18th century Italian etching, convey the majesty and grandeur of ancient Rome. The exhibit includes engravings of Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli, the ancient Roman Forum and the pyramid tomb of Caius Cestius, as well as many tombs, ancient amphitheaters, bridges, fountains, temples, and architectural fragments.

Hours: Friday and Saturday, 10 AM-4:30 PM; Sunday, 1-5 PM
Phone: 215-898-4000
Web: www.museum.upenn.edu

Alumni are admitted free to the Museum during Alumni Weekend with an Alumni PennCard. The Museum is free for everyone on Sunday.

PENN PRESENTS
Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Zellerbach Theatre
Jigu!: Thunder Drums of China
Friday, May 11, 8 PM
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