Born Henrietta Myers in 1913, the artist known as Peter Miller graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) in 1934. In an effort to ensure fair evaluation of her artwork, Henrietta changed her name to Peter, believing her art would be more positively received when attributed to a male creator. Peter channels a soulful brilliance of glowing color that inflames her canvases.

Not ~ At Home features the work of Peruvian-born, Philadelphia-based artist Cecilia Paredes, who explores issues of domesticity, gender, and diaspora through her practice of photography, performance, and bodily coverage via painting and textile.

This exhibition considers a variety of perspectives employed by eight modern American women artists: some self-reflective, others romantic, others spiritual. They each manifest what is known as the female gaze, a type of looking—achievable by anyone—that focuses on perceiving peoples’ interior selves, as opposed to objectifying their bodies.

Through a dedicated (Re)FOCUS: Then and Now self-guided walking tour and website feature, the Association for Public Art (aPA) will explore those artists that have worked in the public realm, with a special focus on permanent sculptural pieces in Philadelphia.

LandLab artist-in-residence Susan Hagen’s diorama-inspired outdoor sculptures capture historical moments in bird conservation, bird science, and humankind’s impact on bird populations.

Artists As Cultivators examines how artists have fostered and sustained critical social dialogues over three centuries through their use of nature as a subject, theme, and material.

The Artfront Partnership, a public art project, curated by Marsha Moss, under the aegis of Philadelphia Sculptors, has commissioned artists with a feminist perspective to transform vacant, dark storefronts in Old City into illuminated art spaces, called Artfronts. Five Philadelphia women artists approach the subconscious mind through dreams, masquerades and symbols.

Barbara Earl Thomas’ most recent series of portraits weave an exquisite tapestry of light and color to depict individuals illuminated in moments of creativity. Invoking the history of portraiture, Thomas’ nine large-scale cut paper pieces celebrate great Black cultural icons such as August Wilson, Seth Parker Woods, and Charles Johnson, alongside Thomas’ friends, family, and acquaintances.

Passages: Rites and Rituals is the first exhibition of Betsy Damon’s radical outdoor performance practice (1976-86). It will feature the documentation of eight public performances, as well as Body Masks—erotic photographs from a 1976 private performative session, which have never been presented publicly.

To Understand a Tree functions as a small-scale way of exploring big questions about the place of humans in the environment, the scale and speed at which we consume natural resources, and which organisms are included or excluded in a definition of “community.”

First Friday Reception & Artist Talk for Women’s History Month: The Peter Miller Story

Born Henrietta Myers in 1913, the artist known as Peter Miller graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) in 1934. In an effort to ensure fair evaluation of her artwork, Henrietta changed her name to Peter, believing her art would be more positively received when attributed to a male creator. Peter channels a soulful brilliance of glowing color that inflames her canvases.

The Colored Girls Museum is celebrating seven years of museuming differently; Sit a Spell is our 10th exhibition. This exhibition features work from artists in Washington, DC, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ghana, New Orleans, and elsewhere.

In her newest body of work on view at Scotts Mills Gallery Godley uses the manipulation of watercolors and oil paint as a backdrop for animation via projection mapping, bringing dynamic life to the work.

Arcadia Exhibitions is pleased to present “Kitty Rauth: The Mirror Room.” In their recent work, the artist uses cast sugar, often formed to replicate decorative glassware, as a poetic material to engage in conversations around classed systems of etiquette, racialized labor, and the body politics that surround the marketing and refining of the product.

From mid-March through mid-May we will present two small groups of seminal works which basically cover the significant event of Marcia Hafif’s return to painting as a lifelong project in the early 1970s after having renounced the practice. Hafif’s work is strongly associated with—and is in fact largely pioneering in—the large overall reexamination of the practice of painting itself, which still continues today.

Continuum highlights the work of two Philadelphia area female artists, painter Jan Morgen and fiber artist Pamela E. Becker. GLG brings them into dialogue about the dedication they apply to their artistic practices, spanning decades.

For the 2024 (Re)FOCUS citywide exhibition, Mural Arts partners with curator Noah Smalls to present the Icon Series. In consultation with a committee of iconic female-identifying curators of color, Smalls Museum Consulting will collaborate on a curatorial exercise to select featured artists from the 1974 Philadelphia Focuses on Women in the Visual Arts exhibition in a mural billboard series across the city.

Sandra Eula Lee: The Walking Mountain brings together sculptural installations that reflect the artist’s interests in labor, migration, and material histories.

Dyke+ ArtHaus and William Way LGBT Community Center have collaborated to showcase works by local Lesbian artists 55 and over that reflect feelings of visibility or invisibility - to the world, or to themselves.

For these female-identifying artists working decades apart, explorations of materials and printing processes are foundational to the understanding of the world around them.

Erin Murray (1979, Philadelphia, PA) lives and works in Philadelphia. Murray’s richly layered ink and graphite drawings account for things like observed tactility, weighted details, and the influence of reverie on our perception. These new works encourage us to slow down, examine the subtleties of our experience, and to recognize ourselves within our surroundings.

Enter the realm of La Vaughn Belle’s artistic journey with her first solo exhibition at Pentimenti Gallery.

Gallery artists Carson Fox and Rachel Romano come together for the first time in this vibrant exhibition which promises to be a “must-see.”

A virtual exhibition and silent auction to honor the women of Stanek Gallery. Our represented women artists are: Treacy Ziegler, Christina Weaver, Louise Strawbridge, Katherine Stanek, Leona Shanks, Mary Spinelli, Rachel Romano, Mary Nomecos, Nicole Michaud, Julia Levitina, Stanka Kordic, Carson Fox, Barbara Fisher, Deborah Fine, Jacqueline Boyd, Tamie Beldue.

Renee Osubu is an award-winning British Nigerian photographer and film director from London. She often investigates themes about community, identity, race, and childhood using the nuances of everyday life as her visual language.

Renee Osubu is an award-winning British Nigerian photographer and film director from London. She often investigates themes about community, identity, race, and childhood using the nuances of everyday life as her visual language.

Fran Orlando photographed the residents of Roosevelt, NJ, for two years starting in 1978. This exhibition revisits the previously unfinished project and presents a selection of 40 portraits that reflect a unique community at a particular moment in time.