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inquirer.com | Peter Dobrin
Facing a funding cut outlined in the city’s proposed budget, leaders of Mural Arts Philadelphia on Wednesday testified to the value of art in building community, beautifying neighborhoods and repairing the social fabric of the city. “Our work is so much more than murals,” said Jane Golden, Mural Arts Philadelphia’s longtime executive director, at hearings for Philadelphia’s proposed fiscal year 2026 budget.
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inquirer.com | Rosa Cartagena |Peter Dobrin
Quintessence Theatre opened its latest production over the weekend with an urgent plea to the audience over the state of arts funding: Call your representatives.
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inquirer.com | Peter Dobrin
When Faith Castillo dons her cap and gown in a few days, she’ll be graduating with a bachelor of fine arts, and a rare distinction she could hardly have imagined when she started school four years ago. She is a member of the last Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts class to graduate with a college degree. Facing a string of deficits and declining enrollment, PAFA announced in January 2024 that it would be ending its college program.
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inquirer.com | Peter Dobrin
Leaders of Historic Germantown and the Atwater Kent Collection received late-night emails on Wednesday from the Institute of Museum and Library Services stating that grants awarded but rescinded as part of cuts by the Department of Government Efficiency would be paid after all. The latest developments in the IMLS funding saga, however, along with deep cuts to the National Endowment for the Humanities, have left the cultural community feeling anything but assured.
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charlotteobserver.com | Peter Dobrin
PHILADELPHIA - In 2023, Historic Germantown received word that it had won a two-year grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to pilot a new hands-on science program for middle schoolers called Science Sleuths. The size of the award was relatively modest - $108,812 - but the impact promised to be enormous. If the initiative was able to prove its worth, it could be replicated, bringing accessible science education to thousands of Philadelphia students.
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