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Rediscovered Public Art: Alexander Calder, Sheila Hicks, Gerhard Marcks
Now through Tue, February 1, 2022
5:00 P.M.
Art Department
at
Parkway Central Library
This display looks at two works of art that have been recently returned to public display in Philadelphia and the three artists behind them. Two of the eight textile banners designed by Alexander Calder and made by Sheila Hicks through Philadelphia’s Percent for Art program in 1976 are on…
The Journey of Lowcountry Rice
Wed, February 16, 2022
6:00 P.M.
Culinary Literacy Center
at
Parkway Central Library
Join the Culinary Literacy Center as we follow the journey that rice took from the African continent to the American South and its later upward trajectory to the Northeast and our very own city. Valerie Erwin, former owner of Geechee Girl Rice Cafe in Mount Airy, will talk us through the trip as…
VIRTUAL - Erika M. Kitzmiller | The Roots of Educational Inequality: Philadelphia's Germantown High School, 1907–2014
Thu, February 24, 2022
7:30 P.M.
VIRTUAL
Cost: Free or $49.00-Book with ticket and signed book plate
REGISTER Education historian Erika M. Kitzmiller has conducted research in the city of Philadelphia, its public schools, and the Free Library for nearly two decades. The result of her investigation is The Roots of Educational Inequality , a decades-spanning report of the factors…