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 across campus.
Charles Addams Fine Arts Hall
200 S. 36th Street
Senior Graduation Show
Hours: Friday and Saturday, 10 AM-5 PM; Sunday, 1-4 PM
215-573-5134 | www.design.upenn.edu
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Arthur Ross Gallery
220 S. 34th Street
Thirteen Miles from Paradise by John Moore
Included in the Gallery
Hop.
Hours: Tuesday-Friday, 10 AM-5 PM; Saturday and Sunday,
NOON-5 PM
215-898-2083 | www.upenn.edu/ARG
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Institute of
Contemporary Art
118 S. 36th Street
· Dirt on Delight:
Impulses
That Form Clay
· Tavares Strachan
· Pathways to Unknown Worlds: Sun Ra,
El Saturn & Chicago's Afro-Futurist
Underground 1954-1968
· Odili Donald Odita: Third Space
All four exhibitions are included in the Gallery
Hop.
Hours: Wednesday-Friday, NOON-8 PM;
Saturday and Sunday, 11 AM-5 PM
215-898-7108/5911 | www.icaphila.org
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Kroiz Gallery, Architectural Archives
220 S. 34th Street
Philadelphia Modernism Rediscovered:
Residential Visions at Midcentury
Included in the Gallery
Hop.
Hours: Monday-Friday, 9 AM-5 PM; Saturday, 11 AM-4 PM
215-898-8323 | www.design.upenn.edu/archives
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Morris Arboretum
100 East Northwest Avenue
Visit the Morris Arboretum, the official arboretum of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and enjoy one of the
world's largest collections of plant and floral species in full
spring bloom. During Alumni Weekend only, admission is free for Penn alumni, or regularly $1 off any admission price.
Hours: Monday-Friday, 10 AM-4 PM;
Saturday and Sunday, 10 AM-5 PM
215-247-5777 | www.morrisarboretum.org
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Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
3420 Walnut Street, enter by the Button
· Milton at 400
Kamin Gallery, 1st Floor
2008 marked the 400th anniversary
of John Milton's birth. This exhibition
brings together objects ranging from
rare pamphlets to lavishly-illustrated
editions of Paradise Lost to
Miltoniana from various periods,
demonstrating the breadth of Milton's work and his
development into a canonical literary figure and cultural icon.
· Did Censorship Make the
French Enlightenment?
Rosenwald Gallery, 6th Floor
This exhibition, celebrating the 250th anniversary of the
publication of Voltaire's satirical masterpiece Candide, draws
on the collections of the Rare Book and Manuscript
Library to examine the aims and methods of censorship
in Enlightenment France.
Hours: Kamin: Friday 8:30 AM-8 PM; Saturday 8:30 AM-6 PM
Rosenwald: Friday, 9 AM-4:45 PM; Saturday, 10 AM-4 PM
215-898-7555 | www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits
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University of Pennsylvania Museum
of Archaeology and Anthropology
3260 South Street
· Painted Metaphors: Pottery and Politics of the Ancient Maya
The William B. Dietrich Gallery
Through brightly-colored ceramic vessels, figurines, jade
carvings, musical instruments, weaving implements, burial
urns, cave offerings, and more, the Penn Museum offers a
compelling story of the way ordinary people lived, endured,
and survived drastic change in the Guatemalan village of
Chama more than a thousand years ago. A tour will be
offered on Saturday at 10 AM.
· Fulfilling a Prophecy:
The Past and Present of the
Lenape in Pennsylvania
The Jacqueline W. and John
C. Hover II Gallery
Lenape Indians, once the undisputed
lords of southeastern Pennsylvania,
have endured through their art and
culture, which form the basis of this exhibit organized by the
Museum and the Lenape Nation of Pennsylvania.
Hours: Friday and Saturday, 10 AM-4:30 PM; Sunday 1-5 PM
215-898-4000 | www.museum.upenn.edu
During Alumni Weekend, Museum admission is free
for alumni and families when presenting a Penn Alumni
card or an Alumni Weekend registration tag.
