Burrison Art Gallery; 2nd Floor
The University Club at Penn
3611 Walnut Street

Marilyn Paul, mother of 2010 Penn graduate Austin Paul, is a fine art printmaker. When visiting their son at school, Marilyn and her husband Howard often stayed at the Inn at Penn, and enjoyed viewing the variety of exhibits at Burrison Gallery. Now, she is pleased to bring a bit of rural Central Pennsylvania to the gallery with her art. Marilyn's mixed media prints express the joy and beauty found in the farmlands, gardens, forests and roadsides near her home. Her work explores the tentative aspect of nature, the spiritual connection of man to the environment, and the need to protect what we have. She collects plant materials and handmade papers to incorporate into her work. Her hand-pulled prints show glimpses, patterns and textures of nature through multiple images.

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Kamin Gallery, 1st Floor; Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
3420 Walnut Street (entrance on College Green near the Button)
Kroiz Gallery, Architectural Archives; Lower Level of the Fisher Fine Arts Library
220 South 34th Street

In the 1920s and 1930s, Wharton Esherick
was part of a circle of friends whose lives and works, in many ways were inseparable, and who put a particularly American face on Modernism. Esherick's works on paper, canvas, and wood
are here exhibited alongside contemporary photographs, books, correspondence, printed ephemera, and works by other artists, all evoking the excitement, chaos, and creativity
of the time. This exhibit is supported by the
Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through the Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative. For more information, contact Kristin Winch at kwinch@pobox.upenn.edu 
or call 215.573.3610.

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University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
3260 South Street (entrance on College Green near the Button)
Merle - Smith Gallery West, 1st Floor

In the 1880s, the Penn Museum organized America's first archaeological expedition to the ancient Near East—to Nippur, a promising but far-flung Mesopotamian site then within the vast Ottoman Empire, now located in Iraq. It was a time of great opportunities and great adventurers. Archaeologists and Travelers in Ottoman Lands takes a look at the accomplishments, struggles, and fortunes of three adventurers whose lives intersected at Nippur: Osman Hamdi Bey, archaeologist, museum director, and internationally renowned Turkish painter; John Henry Haynes, American archaeologist and photographer; and Hermann Vollrath Hilprecht, a German archaeologist, Assyriologist, and professor at Penn. The exhibition features two 19th century oil paintings by Osman Hamdi Bey, including one, Excavations at Nippur, which has never before been on public exhibition. The story is told through photographs, many by Haynes, and more than 40 artifacts from the Nippur expedition (1889–1900), including a full-sized "slipper" coffin, incantation bowls inscribed with protective magical spells, figurines, and numerous clay cuneiform tablets bearing some of the earliest writing in the world. The exhibition is made possible through generous donations from the Halpern-Rogath Fund of the History of Art Department at the University of Pennsylvania; the Joukowsky Foundation; and the Turkish Cultural Foundation.

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University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
3260 South Street (entrance on College Green near the Button)
Merle - Smith Gallery East, 1st Floor

In this new exhibition, anthropologist and Penn PIK professor Philippe Bourgois and photographer-ethnographer Jeff Schonberg document the daily lives of homeless drug users, drawing upon more than a decade of fieldwork they conducted among a community of heroin injectors and crack smokers who survive on the streets of San Francisco's former industrial neighborhoods. About 40 black and white photographs are interwoven with edited transcriptions of tape recorded conversations, fieldwork notes, and critical analysis to explore the intimate experience of homelessness and addiction. Revealing the social survival mechanisms and perspectives of this marginalized "community of addicted bodies," the exhibition also sheds light on the often unintended consequences of public policies that can exacerbate the suffering faced by street-based drug users in America. The Penn Center for Public Health Initiatives co-sponsored the exhibition. (Research funded by the National Institutes of Health.)

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Begins at the Kroiz Gallery of the Architectural Archives
Lower Level of the Fisher Fine Arts Library
220 South 34th Street

The Gallery Hop begins at the Kroiz Gallery of the Architectural Archives, includes stops at three galleries, and features a director/curator at each site to explain the exhibition on hand. The Hop concludes at the Institute of Contemporary Art with hors d'oeuvres and dessert.

Kroiz Gallery of the Architectural Archives 
www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/esherick.html
Wharton Esherick and the Birth of the American Modern

Kamin Gallery
Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, first floor

Wharton Esherick and the Birth of the American Modern, in collaboration with the Wharton Esherick Museum and Hedgerow Theatre, occupies two venues at the University of Pennsylvania, the Kamin Gallery in the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center and the Kroiz Gallery in the Architectural Archives. The Kamin Gallery explores the context in which Esherick's art emerged and evolved, looking primarily at the people and places that shaped the artist and his art, while Kroiz Gallery explores Esherick's evolution as an artist in wood.

Institute of Contemporary Art
www.icaphila.org/exhibitions
Set Pieces, from the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art
118 South 36th Street

This exhibit restages objects and art works from the renowned collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Curated by Virgil Marti, a Philadelphia-based artist, the selection of works comes from various collections throughout the museum, and in particular decorative arts and sculpture—a reflection of Marti's own work in immersive sculptural environments that often cross art with domestic décor. The installation of the works, devised by Marti, is inspired by a few of the artist's favorite films, and specifically those cinematic moments that highlight the unique capability of film to stitch together random incidents. The result is an exhibition structure composed as a series of mash-ups and tableaux, an unconventional approach to the display of art objects and objects d'art.

Mineral Spirits: Anne Chu and Matthew Monahan 
Chu and Monahan are known for uniquely individual bodies of work that mine forms ranging from antiquity to Buddhism, classicism to modernism, as well as the history of sculpture and drawing. By placing these two artists' works side by side, this two-person exhibition of sculpture and drawing constructs a mode to explore their distinctive takes on the figure. Though their work shares various sensibilities, the pieces selected exemplify the very distinct ways they view and create the figure. Working with a range of materials, from aluminum to foam to paper, each artist addresses the figure as a fertile place to explore abstraction, drawing, and craft.

Erin Shirreff: Still, Flat, and Far
Trained as a sculptor, Shirreff works in multiple media, including photography and video, and her work suggests evocations as diverse as the archeological cataloging of ancient tools, the observation of planets through telescopic devices, and the hulking presence of minimalist sculpture in the landscape. In this, her first solo museum exhibition, the artist elegantly mines the terrain of mediation and representation through a variety of formal strategies, including pigment prints and sculpture molded from compressed ash.

Burrison Art Gallery; 2nd Floor
The University Club at Penn
3611 Walnut Street

Marilyn Paul, mother of 2010 Penn graduate Austin Paul, is a fine art printmaker. When visiting their son at school, Marilyn and her husband Howard often stayed at the Inn at Penn, and enjoyed viewing the variety of exhibits at Burrison Gallery. Now, she is pleased to bring a bit of rural Central Pennsylvania to the gallery with her art. Marilyn's mixed media prints express the joy and beauty found in the farmlands, gardens, forests and roadsides near her home. Her work explores the tentative aspect of nature, the spiritual connection of man to the environment, and the need to protect what we have. She collects plant materials and handmade papers to incorporate into her work. Her hand-pulled prints show glimpses, patterns and textures of nature through multiple images.

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Locust Walk between 36th and 37th Streets

Don't miss the second annual Penn Alumni Arts Fair. Our own talented alumni will exhibit original artwork, jewelry, and artisan crafts for purchase along Locust Walk. Browse each distinctive display on your way to the game, and you're sure to find a unique handmade treasure crafted by a fellow Quaker. To participate as a vendor, APPLY ONLINE or contact Alumni Relations at 215.898.9539.

Click here for the Alumni Arts Fair Participant List!

Click here to view the Brochure Featuring Alumni Artists!

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Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
Studio Theatre Lobby
3680 Walnut Street

Many of the movers and shakers in the theater world today are Penn alumni. Take part in a broad discussion of the state of the theatrical profession from some of its most successful participants. Panelists include: Carol Fineman, C'83, vice president, theater, Scott Sanders Productions; Scott Heller, C'82, The New York Times theater editor; Vicki Reiss, C'77, executive director of The Shubert Foundation; Seth Rozin, C'86, producing artistic director of the InterAct Theatre Company; David Stone, C'88, producer, Wicked and Next to Normal; and Harold Wolpert, C'88, managing director of The Roundabout Theatre Company. The discussion will be moderated by Howard Sherman, C'84, executive director of the American Theatre Wing. Bring your questions and expect a lively discussion.

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Penn Museum of Archaeology Gallery Tour: Magical Objects in the Galleries :
Saturday 1:30 - 2:30 PM

Tour Penn's Architectural Masterpieces : Saturday 2 – 3:15 PM

PennGALA: What is Gay Art? A Panel Discussion : Saturday 4 – 6 PM