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A Day in Philadelphia | PAFA, Park Towne Place, & the Philadelphia Museum of Art
January 16, 2022
10:45am – 4:00pm ET
All ArtTable members are welcome to join us for this all-day program in Philadelphia, coordinated jointly by ArtTable’s Philadelphia and Washington, DC Chapters!
Program Itinerary:
- 10:45am – Meet at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts to tour Joan Semmel: Skin in the Game with curator Jodi Throckmorton.
- 12:30pm – Lunch and a tour of the public spaces of Park Towne Place apartments, where ArtTable Philadelphia Chapter Leader Rachel Zimmerman has worked with the developer to place works by local artists. She also curates regular exhibitions in select “gallery” spaces.
- 2:15pm – We will head to the Philadelphia Museum of Art for a 2:45pm tour of Emma Amos: Color Odyssey with the exhibition curator Shawnya Harris, as well as the Assistant Curator of Prints and Drawings, Laurel Garber, who oversaw the installation of the show at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
This program is open to ArtTable members only for $35 each. Pricing includes entry to both museums as well as lunch. Not a member? Join today!
Please review before registering:
Covid-19 Guidelines
Please note that by registering for this event you consent to have your contact information shared with ArtTable to be used in the event that contact tracing is needed.
Guidelines for the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
- As part of our reopening plan, PAFA has implemented new safety protocols because your health and safety is our highest priority. Current policies are subject to change as advised by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the Philadelphia Department of Public Health. As recommended by public health policies, PAFA requires all staff and visitors to wear masks when inside PAFA's buildings. For everyone's comfort and safety, visitors should continue to remain physically distant from those not in their own group. These guidelines are subject to change as PAFA continues to monitor the situation and comply with local, state, and federal guidelines.
Guidelines for the Park Towne Place
- As recommended by public health policies, all staff and visitors must wear masks when inside the apartment complex. Visitors should continue to remain physically distant from those not in their own group. These guidelines are subject to change as we monitor the situation and comply with local, state, and federal guidelines.
Guidelines for the Philadelphia Museum of Art
- Every visitor is required to wear a mask while visiting the museum, following City of Philadelphia regulations.
Accessibility
Accessibility at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
- Visitors with wheelchairs and strollers are welcome into all PAFA spaces. PAFA’s galleries, special exhibitions and John and Richanda Rhoden Arts Center are accessible through the front Broad Street entrance, which is on street level, and accessible restrooms are located on each floor. The "school entrance" of the Hamilton Building is also accessible on street level, in the rear of the building by Grumman's Greenhouse ("the airplane sculpture"), for meetings, library visits and classes that take place in school studios and classrooms.
- PAFA's galleries and special exhibitions in the Historic Landmark Building are accessible through a street level elevator in the rear of the building during open museum hours, and staff or security will greet visitors and assist them in accessing the museum's front lobby and passenger elevator.
- Please feel free to call PAFA's main number with any questions or concerns: 215-972-7600. Visit PAFA's website for more information on accessibility at PAFA or email progrms@arttable.org for assistance.
Accessibility at the Park Towne Place apartments
- Park Towne Place is wheelchair accessible.
Accessibility at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
- The Philadelphia Museum of Art offers resources for visitors with disabilities, who are blind or partially sighted, have limited mobility, who are deaf or hard of hearing, or who have children on the autism spectrum. Please visit the museum's accessibility page for more information or email programs@arttable.org for assistance.
- Accessible parking is available in the garage across from the main building. Spaces are limited. Drop-off is available by the ramps at the West Entrance and at the curb cut just before the North Entrance on either side of Anne d’Harnoncourt Drive.
- All floors are accessible by elevator. There is seating in almost every third gallery.
- All restrooms are accessible and have baby-changing stations. All-gender restrooms are available near Stir restaurant (first floor), below the West Entrance (lower level), and near the North Entrance (ground floor).
- Please note that free Sign Language interpretation is available but must be requested two weeks before your visit. Please email programs@arttable.org to submit your request.
Getting There
Please note that transportation to/from/within Philadelphia is not included in this program. Attendees are responsible for traveling to/from Philadelphia and between the 3 venues, which are all within a short driving/walking distance.
We will meet at 10:45am at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, located at 118-128 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, 19102.
Park Towne Place is located at 2200 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, 19130.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art is located at 2500 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, 19130.
FROM WASHINGTON, DC
Amtrak/Acela Trains (Please review Amtrak's current Covid-19 guidelines here)
- Train 54 departs Washington DC Union Station at 7:30am, arrives in Philadelphia at 9:17am
- Train 152 departs Washington DC Union Station at 8:20am, arrives in Philadelphia at 10:20am
- Train 850 (Acela) departs Washington DC Union Station at 8:50am, arrives in Philadelphia at 10:28am
Philadelphia is approximately a 3 hour drive from Washington, DC if you choose to travel by car. Click here to find parking near PAFA. The Philadelphia Museum of Art also has a parking garage. Information on parking at Park Towne Place will be provided to registrants closer to the date of the program if needed.
Return Trains
- Train 2253 (Acela) departs Philadelphia at 4:13pm, arrives in Washington DC Union Station at 6:05pm
- Train 87 departs Philadelphia at 4:35pm, arrives in Washington DC Union Station at 6:37pm
- Train 163 departs Philadelphia at 5:35pm, arrives in Washington DC Union Station at 7:40pm
- Train 159 departs Philadelphia at 6:33pm, arrives in Washington DC Union Station at 8:37pm
FROM NEW YORK CITY
Amtrak/Acela Trains (Please review Amtrak's current Covid-19 guidelines here)
- Train 2203 (Acela) departs NYC Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station at 8:00am, arrives in Philadelphia at 9:11am
- Train 153 departs NYC Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station at 8:05am, arrives in Philadelphia at 9:30am
- Train 155 departs NYC Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station at 9:05am, arrives in Philadelphia at 10:27am
Philadelphia is approximately a 2 hour drive from New York City if you choose to travel by car. Click here to find parking near PAFA. The Philadelphia Museum of Art also has a parking garage. Information on parking at Park Towne Place will be provided to registrants closer to the date of the program if needed.
Return Trains
- Train 156 departs Philadelphia at 4:34pm, arrives at NYC Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station at 6:01pm
- Train 2218 (Acela) departs Philadelphia at 4:43pm, arrives at NYC Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station at 5:59pm
- Train 168 departs Philadelphia at 5:18pm, arrives at NYC Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station at 6:46pm
- Later trains are available should you wish to take your time in returning to NYC. Visit Amtrak.com for more information.
PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION TO PHILADELPHIA IS ALSO AVAILABLE FROM TRENTON, NJ; WILMINGTON, DE; AND OTHER CITIES SURROUNDING PHILADELPHIA VIA SEPTA.
TRAVELING WITHIN THE CITY
Attendees of this program are encouraged to use taxis or ride-sharing apps to travel between the various locations. Time allowances have been made in the program itinerary to account for travel. Please note travel times below:
- From William H. Gray III 30th Street Train Station in Philadelphia to PAFA: 4 minute drive, 22 minute walk
- From PAFA to Park Towne Place: 4 minute drive, 20 minute walk
- From Park Towne Place to the Philadelphia Museum of Art: 4 minute drive, 13 minute walk
ArtTable is a 501.c.3 organization. All programs are non-refundable.
About the speakers
Jodi Throckmorton is the curator of contemporary art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) in Philadelphia. Before joining PAFA in fall 2014, she was curator of modern and contemporary art at the Ulrich Museum of Art at Wichita State University in Kansas. Prior to that, she was associate curator at the San Jose Museum of Art in California. She organized the exhibition and publications for Rina Banerjee: Make Me a Summary of the World (2018) with Lauren Dickens and Postdate: Photography and Inherited History in India (2015). Her other recent projects include Nick Cave: Rescue (2018), Paul Chan: Pillowsophia (2017), Melt/Carve/Forge: Embodied Sculptures by Cassils (2016), Alyson Shotz: Plane Weave (2016), Bruce Conner: Somebody Else’s Prints (2014), Questions from the Sky: New Work by Hung Liu (2013), Dive Deep: Eric Fischl and the Process of Painting (2013), Ranu Mukherjee: Telling Fortunes (2012), and This Kind of Bird Flies Backward: Paintings by Joan Brown (2011). The major retrospective, Joan Semmel: Skin in the Game is Throckmorton’s most recent exhibition and publication project.
ArtTable member and Philadelphia Chapter Co-Chair Rachel Zimmerman is the Artistic and Executive Director of InLiquid, as well as a photographer. Zimmerman founded InLiquid over 20 years ago to support the careers and creative efforts of visual artists in Philadelphia. Since its inception, InLiquid has had a significant impact on the arts community in Philadelphia and the surrounding region through their work with local artists, collectors, area businesses and institutions, including the City of Philadelphia. Rachel and InLiquid work with individual artists to create over 40 exhibits a year for both public and private spaces, help build corporate and personal collections, and collaborate with a cohort of arts leaders not only to restore the Philadelphia Cultural Fund and the Office of Arts and Culture and the Creative Economy but to make the arts a priority for the city.
Shawnya L. Harris, Ph.D. is the organizing curator for Emma Amos: Color Odyssey, centering on the work of the late feminist artist Emma Amos (1937-2020). Harris is the Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Curator of African American and African Diasporic Art at the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia. Recently, Harris has been a fellow at the Center for Curatorial Leadership. She earned her doctorate in art history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Harris is also an alumna of Yale University.
Laurel Garber is Park Family Assistant Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She is the PMA’s curator of Emma Amos: Color Odyssey, organized by the Georgia Museum of Art. Laurel is also a PhD candidate at Northwestern University, where she is completing a dissertation on the social position of the printer in nineteenth-century France. Laurel has held positions and fellowships at the Art Institute of Chicago, Getty Museum, Clark Art Institute, and Courtauld Gallery. She received an MA at the Courtauld as well as a BA from Cornell University.
Images (clockwise from top right): Joan Semmel: Skin in the Game at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Photography by Adrian Cubillas, courtesy of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia. // Hygge, House of Cards, 2012, Plastic card assemblage on wood armature, 64 × 36 × 32 in/162.6 × 91.4 × 81.3 cm // Emma Amos, 1937-2020, Never (for Vivian Browne), 1993, Acrylic on canvas with African fabric borders, 45 × 34 inches; Amos Family, courtesy RYAN LEE Gallery.
Thank you to Shelley Langdale, ArtTable DC Chapter Programs Co-chair; Rachel Zimmerman, ArtTable Philadelphia Chapter Co-Chair; Laurie McGahey, ArtTable Philadelphia Chapter Co-Chair, and April La Vai Williamson, ArtTable Philadelphia Programs Chair for organizing this program.
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