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2022
- Marks 150 Anniversary
- Performs Major Restoration for Mark di Suvero’s Iroquois
- Presents Anniversary Speaker Series and Tours
- Annual Conservation Program
- Retirement of Longtime Executive Director, Penny Balkin Bach
2021
- Annual Conservation Program
- 148th Virtual Annual Meeting with Dr. Arie Hartog, Director of Gerhard Marcks Haus
- Restores and reinstalls Maja (1942) by artist Gerhard Marcks
2020
- Presents Nancy Baker Cahill’s Liberty Bell augmented reality project with Art Production Fund
- Annual Conservation Program
- Presents online programming in wake of Covid-19, including virtual public art tours
- Presents “Celebrating Women and Public Art in Philadelphia” in collaboration with Vision 2020’s Women 100
2019
- Relocates Louise Nevelson’s Atmosphere and Environment XII and Jacob Epstein’s Social Consciousness to University of Pennsylvania
- Presents Sculpture Zoo in Logan Circle
- Annual Conservation Program
- Receives 2019 Wyck-Strickland – aPA Executive Director, Penny Balkin Bach
- 147th Annual Meeting with Yorkshire Sculpture Park’s Peter Murray
2018
- Presents #ArtPup
- Annual Conservation Program
- 146th Annual Meeting with Barbara Haskell, curator at Whitney Museum of American Art
2017
- Premieres Jennifer Steinkamp’s Winter Fountains (2017), presented by the Parkway Council for Parkway 100
- Premieres Cai Guo-Qiang: Fireflies (2017) by artist Cai Guo-Qiang, with guest curator Fung Collaboratives
- Installs Martin Puryear’s Big Bling (2016) temporary installation through a collaboration with Madison Square Park Conservancy
2016
- Launches newly designed website
- Annual Conservation Program
- General Ulysses S. Grant (1897) by artists Daniel Chester French and Edward C. Potter receives a dramatic steam treatment
- Receives recognition for role in restoration of Walker Hancock’s Air
- Presents Public Art in Focus
- Supports purchase of Robert Indiana’s AMOR (1998) to Sister Cities Park
2015
- Annual Conservation Program
- Receives PAN Year in Review Award for Candy Coated’s Magic Carpet (2014)
- Receives CODAawards top 100
- Acquires Symbiosis (2011) by artist Roxy Paine
- Receives 2015 Public Art Network Award
- Presents Sculpture Zoo in Rittenhouse Square
- Installs AMOR (1998) by artist Robert Indiana, temporary installation
2014
- Annual Conservation Program
- Installs Symbiosis (2011) by artist Roxy Paine, temporary installation
- Installs Magic Carpet (2014) by artist Candy Coated
- Named Best New Public Artwork – Roxy Paine’s Symbiosis (2011)
- Expands Museum Without Walls: AUDIO
- Presents #THINKpublicart
2013
- Presents #LOVEpublicart
- Receives 2013 PAD Award – aPA Executive Director, Penny Balkin Bach
- Receives Tyler Tribute Award – aPA Executive Director, Penny Balkin Bach
- Restores Major General George Gordon Meade (1887) by artist Alexander Milne Calder
- Receives PAN Year in Review Award for Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s OPEN AIR (2012) and Sol Lewitt’s Lines in Four Directions in Flowers (2012)
- Receives Philadelphia Geek Award “Event of the Year” – Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s OPEN AIR (2012)
- Expands Museum Without Walls: AUDIO – Phase 2
2012
- Presents Site Seeing: Rediscover Public Art This Spring!
- Lines in Four Directions in Flowers (2012) by artist Sol Lewitt realized
- Fairmount Park Art Association (FPAA) renamed Association for Public Art (aPA)
- Premieres OPEN AIR (2012) by artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
- Installs Rock Form (Porthcurno) (1964) by artist Barbara Hepworth
2011
- Presents Sculpture Saturdays
- Named as one of the 10 great places to see art enhance nature by USA Today
- Receives American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) Award of Merit
- Receives Grand Jury Award from Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia
- Receives PNC Arts Alive Award for Arts Innovation
- Named Philadelphia Creative Connector – aPA Executive Director, Penny Balkin Bach
- Recognized as Distinguished Daughter – aPA Executive Director, Penny Balkin Bach
- Awards David Pincus the Medal of Honor in celebration of Mark di Suvero’s Iroquois
2010
- Launches Museum Without Walls : AUDIO
- Presents Sculpture Saturdays
- Installs The Labor Monument: Philadelphia’s Tribute to the American Worker (2010) by artist John Kindness
2009
2007
- Completes comprehensive conservation treatment and rededicates Atmosphere and Environment XII (1970) by artist Louise Nevelson
- Installs Iroquois (1983 – 1999) by artist Mark di Suvero
- Receives City of Philadelphia citation honoring the Association’s leadership role in working with communities and public agencies
2006
2004
- Receives PAN Year in Review Award for Pepón Osario’s I have a story to tell you… (2003) and Ed Levine’s Embodying Thoreau: dwelling, sitting, watching (2003)
2003
- Illuminates thirteen sculptures along Kelly Drive in collaboration with the Philadelphia Streets Department and the Fairmount Park Commission
- Installs Embodying Thoreau: dwelling, sitting, watching (2003) by artist Ed Levine
- Installs I have a story to tell you… (2003) by artist Pepón Osorio
2002
- Receives Henry Jonas Magaziner, EFAIA Award from AIA Philadelphia Historic Preservation Committee
- Receives 2002 Place Planning Award for placement of public art in communities
2000
- Receives Award for Outstanding Commitment to the Preservation and Care of Collections given jointly by the American Institute for the Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC) and Heritage Preservation
- Hosts New•Land•Marks Community Exhibition Series
1999
- Receives first place Save Outdoor Sculpture! (SOS!) Achievement Award
- Hosts New•Land•Marks Symposium at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
1998
1997
1995
- Installs Chinese Water Stone (title unknown)
1993
1992
1991
1989
1987
1985
- Installs Stone Basin (1500 – 1600)
- Installs The Wedges (1970) by artist Robert Morris
- Initiates Light Up Philadelphia
1984
1982
- Installs Louis Kahn Lecture Room (1982) by artist Siah Armajani
- Installs El Gran Teatro de La Luna (1982, reinstalled 2012) by artist Rafael Ferrer
- Initiates its Annual Outdoor Conservation Program
- Assists efforts to acquire and install Cornucopia (1982) by artist Red Grooms
1980
1979
- Installs Five Water Spouts and Lintel (12th-13th century)
- Receives the Herbert Adams Memorial Medal from the National Sculpture Society for outstanding service to American Sculpture
1976
- Establishes the International Sculpture Garden at Penn’s Landing
- Installs Nandi (1500)
- Installs Spheres (300-1525)
- Installs Mangbusucks (1695)
- Installs Government of the People (1965) by artist Jacques Lipchitz
1975
1974
1973
1972
1971
- Installs Martin Luther King Jr. Freedom Memorial (1971) by artists Paul Keene and Neil Lieberman
- Installs Awakening (1971) by artist Ron T. Pierce
1969
- Installs Eli Kirke Price Fountain (1968)
- Installs Ellen Phillips Samuel Fountain (1967) by architect Vincent Kling
- Receives AIA Philadelphia Centennial Award of Honor
1967
- Installs Eagles (1904) by artist Adolph Alexander
- Installs Three Way Piece Number 1: Points (1964) by artist Henry Moore
1966
1964
- Installs Impala Fountain (Herbert C. Morris Memorial Fountain) (1963) by artist Henry Mitchell
1963
1962
1961
1960
- Installs Giraffes (1960) by artist Henry Mitchell
- Installs The Spirit of Enterprise (1958) by artist Jacques Lipchitz
1959
- Installs Walt Whitman (1939, cast 1957) by artist Jo Davidson
- Installs The Poet (1954) by José de Creeft
- Installs Titles Unknown: Eye and Hand (1959) by artist J. Wallace Kelly
- Supports the City’s “percent for art” ordinance, the first municipal mandate in the nation
1958
- Installs The Laborer (1958) by artist Ahron Ben-Shmuel
- Installs The Scientist (1955) by artist Khoren Der Harootian
1957
1955
1950
1949
- Installs Lambs (1948) by artist Sylvia Shaw Judson
- Holds the third and final Sculpture International Exhibition for the Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial
1944
- Plans for the preservation and improvement of Independence Hall area
1943
- Installs The Revolutionary Soldier (1942) by artist Erwin F. Frey
- Installs The Statesman (1942) by artist Erwin F. Frey
- Installs Birth of a Nation (1942) by Henry Kreis
1942
- Installs The Puritan (1942) by artist Harry Rosin
- Installs The Quaker (1942) by artist Harry Rosin
- Installs Settling of the Seaboard (1942) by artist Wheeler Williams
1940
- Holds the second of three Sculpture International Exhibitions for the Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial
- Installs The Slave (1940) by Helene Sardeau
1939
1938
- Installs The Miner (1938) by artist John Flannagan
- Installs The Ploughman (1938) by artist J. Wallace Kelly
- Installs Spanning the Continent (1937) by artist Robert Laurent
1937
1935
- Installs Ericsson Memorial Fountain (1934)
1933
- Completes the architectural elements of the Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial, designed by Paul Phillipe Cret
- Holds the first of three Sculpture International Exhibitions for the Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial
- Installs The Immigrant (1933) by artist Heinz Warneke
1932
- Acquires Diana (1892) by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, installed in the Great Stair Hall of the Philadelphia Museum of Art
1929
- Installs The Mounted Amazon Attacked by a Panther (1839, cast 1929) by artist August Kiss
- Relocates The Lion Fighter (1858, cast 1892) by artist Albert Wolff to the steps of the Philadelphia Museum
1928
1926
- Installs Robert Morris (1926) by artist Paul Wayland Bartlett
1920
- Installs Seaweed Girl Fountain (1920) by artist Beatrice Fenton
- Installs Thorfinn Karlsefni (1918) by artist Einar Jonsson
1919
1916
1913
- Ellen Phillips Samuel dies and her residuary estate is pledged to the Association upon the death of her husband J. Bunford Samuel (d. 1929)
1912
1911
- The Association urges the creation of a Municipal Art Jury (forerunner of the City’s Art Commission)
1910
- Sponsors the National Conference on City Planning and accompanying exhibition
1908
- Installs Cowboy (1908) by artist Frederic Remington
- Installs William McKinley (1908) by artist Charles Albert Lopez
1907
1906
- Amends its charter to extend the work of the Association beyond the City of Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park
1905
- Installs Matthias William Baldwin (1905) by artist Herbert Adams
- Installs Anthony J. Drexel (1904) by Sir Moses Jacob Ezekial
- Installs Sundial (1903) by artist Alexander Stirling Calder
1901
1899
1898
1895
1893
1892
1890
1888
1887
- Installed Major General George Gordon Meade (1887) by Alexander Milne Calder
- Installs Florentine Lions (1849) by unknown artist
1886
1885
- Installs The Wrestlers (3rd century BC, cast 1885)
- Installs Silenus and the Infant Bacchus (4th century BC, cast 1885) attributed to Praxiteles
1884
- Installs Orestes and Pylades Fountain by Carl Johann Steinhauser
1877
- Installs Bulrush/Wheat Sheaf Fountains (Rond Point Fountain head replicas)
1876
1872
- Philadelphia becomes first American city to establish a private non-profit organization dedicated to art in public spaces when the Fairmount Park Art Association is created
- Installs Night (1872) by artist Edward Stauch
- Installs Hudson Bay Wolves (1872) by artist Edward Kemeys
1871
- Henry K. Fox and Charles Howell establish the Fairmount Park Art Association (FPAA), renamed the Association for Public Art (aPA) in 2012