Community
Education Center (3500 Lancaster
Avenue) - The Community Education Center
is a non-profit, community based arts and
education center whose mission is to strengthen
the sense of shared community and culture
among peoples of differing backgrounds and
cultures through the arts.
Ellen Powell Tiberino Museum
of Contemporary Art (3819
Hamilton Street) - Houses collection of
Tiberino's paintings and works of local
sculptors. (see Artists
below for articles about the museum and
artist)
Institute
of Contemporary Art (118 S.
36th St.)
Philadelphia
Museum of Art (Benjamin Franklin
Parkway and 26th Street)
Spiral
Q Puppet Theatre (3114 Spring
Garden Street) - The Spiral Q Puppet Theater
seeks to mobilize communities, empower marginalized
people and illuminate the victories, frustrations
and possibilities of living in the neighborhoods
of Philadelphia and similar urban settings
through the construction of full-scale giant
puppet parades, toy theater and neighborhood
pageantry.
International
House (3701 Chestnut Street)
- The motivation for International House's
founding over 90 years ago was to provide
a nurturing and supportive place for our
region's growing community of international
residents to meet and develop friendships
with one another and with Americans interested
in world culture.
Esther
M. Klein Gallery (3600 Market
Street) - Community-based gallery that promotes
local and emerging artists and those who
explore the artistic and expressive possibilities
of technology.
The
Rotunda (4012 Walnut St.) -
The Foundation is a community gathering
place for the promotion of arts and culture.
This center seeks to bring together the
Penn student community with the people of
West Philadelphia and the greater Philadelphia
area.
University
of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology &
Anthropology (3260 South Street)
- World-renowned collection of art and artifacts
from ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Greco-Roman
world, Asia, Africa, Polynesia and the Americas.
