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The Fabric Workshop and Museum was founded in 1977 by Marion Boulton Stroud. [2] Stroud's goal was to create a non-profit workshop that combined team-work and innovation. The Artists in Residency program provided space, tools and assistance for the artists to make functional objects through screen printing on fabric.
The museum was opened in 1940, founded by Charles Knox Smith (1845–1916), an oil and mining businessman, in his will. Smith was born in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia and began his career as a grocer's boy and as an oil wagon driver. He rose to become a partner in that oil firm and subsequently invested in his own oil brokerage ...
National Philatelic Museum, Philadelphia, opened in 1948, closed in 1959 [8] Philadelphia Commercial Museum, closed in 1994; Sweetbriar Mansion, closed since 2014; late 18th-century house located in west Fairmount Park; was operated by the Modern Club of Philadelphia from 1939 to 2014 [9] Neon Museum of Philadelphia, closed in 2022 after 2 ...
When the linen fabrics wore out, the rags were brought to RittenhouseTown to be made into paper. Paper produced at the Rittenhouse mill was sold to printers in Germantown, Philadelphia, and New York City. The Rittenhouse paper mill operated until about the 1850s, by which time the family was leasing its facilities out to other types of ...
Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial is a set of four buildings consisting of the former Church of the Evangelists and St. Martin's College for Indigent Boys.Previously an Episcopal church in the Bella Vista neighborhood of South Philadelphia, it is best known as the home of the Graphic Sketch Club founded by Samuel S. Fleisher, which still offers free and low-cost studio art classes to children ...
Ohio River Museum: Marietta Washington Southeast Maritime Operated by the Ohio History Connection, transportation and natural history of the Ohio River Ohio State Reformatory: Mansfield Richland Northeast Prison Late 19th-century prison in use until 1990 Ohio Tobacco Museum Ripley Brown Southwest Industry Tobacco farming and production [189]
The Print Center was founded in 1915 as The Print Club of Philadelphia by a group of art collectors and artists who wished to promote the art of printmaking. [2] Its first location was 219 South 17th Street in Philadelphia; but it moved to its current home in a late 19th Century carriage house at 1614 Latimer Street in 1918. [3]
The ICA has exhibited the first museum shows of Andy Warhol, [3] Laurie Anderson, [4] Agnes Martin, [5] and Robert Indiana. [6] The ICA does not have a permanent collection, but new exhibits are shown three times a year, with approximately twelve shows annually. ICA offers educational programs, artist talks, lectures, films and tours.