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June 2016

Colored Girls Museum Festival 2016

Vashti Dubois hosts the first annual Colored Girls Museum Festival at FringeArts on July 9. [learn more]

Heidi Saman Receives Award At LA Film Festival

The LA Muse Award was given to Heidi Saman for her film “Namour,” which made its world premiere at the Festival. [learn more]

Lancaster Avenue Jazz Festival Features Leeway Grantees

Monette Sudler and Pheralyn Dove, will perform at the 10th Annual Lancaster Avenue Jazz & Arts Festival on July 16. [learn more]

Leeway Grantees Awarded Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Fellowships and Grants

Seven Leeway grantees awarded fellowships & grants in the 2016 Pew Grant cycle. [learn more]

Affordable Live/Work Spaces For Artists in West Philadelphia

People’s Emergency Center is offering affordable apartments ideally suited for working artists at any stage of their career. [learn more]

Syd Carpenter and Sumi Maeshima Exhibit

Syd Carpenter and Sumi Maeshima are exhibiting artwork in a group exhibition at the Leonard Pearlstein Gallery. [learn more]

Pheralyn Dove Upcoming Events

Pheralyn Dove will be performing and exhibiting work in two events this summer. [learn more]

Call For Curatorial Proposals: Visual AIDS Exhibit

Visual AIDS is seeking proposals for a month-long exhibition that interprets AIDS/HIV through the lens of art. [learn more]

Scribe Video Center presents The Art of the Pitch for Filmmakers

Scribe Video Center presents a seminar with Cynthia Lopez on how to develop an effective pitch. [learn more]

Lauren Vargas Exhibits at REVEAL

Lauren Vargas (ACG ’15) will exhibit her artwork at Raw Artists Presents: REVEAL on July 20. [learn more]

Tara Felicia Jones Book Release

Tara Felicia Jones will discuss her new book, Sistahs Coping – If My Daddy Was Here at the J. Lewis Crozier Library on July 16. [learn more]

T.U.F.F. (Turn Up For Freedom) Girls Freedom Party

Turn Up For Freedom Girls are hosting their final Freedom Party of the season from 5:00pm – 8:00pm on June 10 at the Lensfest Center. [learn more]

J. C. Todd Receives Poetry Prize

J. C. Todd (WOO ‘04, IA ’01) has been awarded the 2016 Rita Dove Poetry Prize of the International Literary Awards for “The Girl in the Square,” sponsored by The Center for Women Writers at Salem College, Winston-Salem, NC. [learn more]

Lois Fernandez Publishes New Memoir

Lois Fernandez's memoir, Lois Fernandez: Recollections (Part 1) was published on the occasion of her 80th birthday. [learn more]