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Live From the Museum: Portraits of a New Nation

Date
Tuesday, May 21
Time
12:00 pm
price
Free Online
West Entrance and Fairmount Water Works. Photo: Graydon Wood, Philadelphia Museum of Art.

West Entrance and Fairmount Water Works.
Photo: Graydon Wood, Philadelphia Museum of Art.

In this collaboration with the Philadelphia Museum of Art, this program allows students to analyze portraits as primary sources to unlock the past. From the wife of a Founding Father to a Black artist making a living in the early Republic, museum educators guide classes in a discussion around how principles of freedom and equality were granted to some but denied to others.

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