Now on view on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway through October 2026, this living, growing installation in Maja Park is a nearly 375-foot living flax “thread” designed by architect and educator Jeff Richards that moves through the stages of the creation of “flaxcrete,” a biogenic material developed by Richards with his students. Follow the flax and explore how it might help build a more sustainable future.

A winding procession of transformed steel barricades, Nicolo Gentile’s Bar None honored the Benjamin Franklin Parkway’s legacy as a site of collective assembly and action.

12,500 small aluminum panels capture and amplify the play of wind and light, revealing the subtle, shifting patterns in the environment.

This architectural glass sculpture by Mags Harries and Lajos Héder interacts with the shifting sunlight, creating an ever-changing choreography of light and color.

Inspired by Taiwan’s reflexology footpaths, this temporary installation for The Oval invites visitors to embark on a tactile and meditative experience by removing their shoes and traversing an undulating surface of rounded stones.

These commemorative banners at 13th and Locust Streets by Xenobia Bailey feature a mid-1800s daguerreotype of a Black man collaged with crocheted gold embellishments. A project of the Association for Public Art in partnership with the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, this marks Bailey’s first public art installation in Philadelphia.

Known for her intricate works in the medium of pop-up books and paper art, Colette Fu created a series of square tunnel books that memorialize the Free Library’s historic stacks.

Originally commissioned and presented by Socrates Sculpture Park in New York, “Steel Bodies” is the first contemporary public art exhibition at the Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial, and Maren Hassinger’s first outdoor sculpture exhibition in Philadelphia. Ten large-scale metal vessel sculptures have been installed throughout the memorial, juxtaposed against the existing figurative artworks and landscape.

Hopping along a walkway in Society Hill since 1972, these stainless steel kangaroos are one of the many metal sculptures throughout the Philadelphia region by Harold Kimmelman.