Explore Jennifer Steinkamp’s four-domed Winter Fountains along the Parkway, and stop by the Barnes Foundation for hot chocolate, cookies, art and shopping from 5-8pm.
Events
Join us for the free public reception and ceremonial lighting of Jennifer Steinkamp’s Winter Fountains, a centerpiece of the Parkway 100 celebration.
Enjoy a free public art bike ride through West Fairmount Park and along Kelly Drive. The tour will highlight Martin Puryear’s Pavilion in the Trees (1993) and his newly-installed Big Bling (2016).
A free event on Kelly Drive to welcome Martin Puryear’s largest temporary public sculpture to date. The artist will be receiving the Association for Public Art’s historic Medal of Honor.
Robert Indiana’s AMOR (1998) sculpture has been moved to its permanent home at Sister Cities Park on 18th Street and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway and will be formally dedicated at a ceremony on Friday, December 2nd.
The Association for Public Art’s “Museum Without Walls Public Art Bike Tours” are back! Enjoy a free public art bike tour that explores Philadelphia’s outdoor sculpture in Fairmount Park.
Artist and curator Marc Pally – the founding Artist Director of the Glow arts festival in Santa Monica – will be the guest speaker at the aPA’s 144th Annual Meeting at the Philadelphia Museum of Art on April 25, 2016.
A free family-friendly event with live animal sculpture-making workshops, sculpture demonstrations and more!
Internationally acclaimed artist Roxy Paine discussed his work and his sculpture Symbiosis with Tom Eccles, Executive Director of the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College and former Director of the Public Art Fund in New York City.
Join us for our Annual Meeting at the Philadelphia Museum of Art with guest speaker, Jody Pinto.