Start Date: 11/09/2009 | End Date: 11/09/2009
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Features sketches by Thomas Eakins, N. C. Wyeth, Thomas Moran and more, with works ranging from pastel portraits to scratchy, pen-and-ink pieces.
Features patent models that show the progress of 19th-century inventions and technology, with more than 120 miniature inventions on display.
Features dioramas that exhibit animals from the three continents in their natural habitats. The 37 dioramas include animals such as lions, tigers and zebras. (You thought we were going to say "bears," didn't you?)
Learn how to turn an opponent's energy and momentum against him or her in this martial arts class.
Occurs: Daily
Learn how to turn an opponent's energy and momentum against him or her in this martial arts class.
Occurs: Daily
9:30am-5pm
$12-$14.75
free for members
Features 25 rarely displayed machines, including Mailardet's automaton and a model of the Strasbourg cathedral clock.
Features demonstrations of how certain animal species, like the black rhino and giant anteater, overcome difficult environmental pressures to survive.
Features acrylic and mixed-media food portraits on wood and canvas by Mark Mattson, whose work involves "things that should not have faces, with faces." That includes everything from teapots to donuts.
Third- to twelfth-graders can bring some culture booming into their homes in this class. Master percussionist Hafez El Ali Kotain combines Arab and Latin rhythms for beginners at 6pm and intermediates at 7pm, and the Advanced Percussion Ensemble meets at 7:45pm. Scholarships are available.
Features local artist and science teacher Caryn Babaian's chalkboard drawings of aquatic creatures.
Features a site-specific sculpture made entirely from local twigs and saplings. Dougherty's creations, which are often more than 20 feet tall, and which look like giant huts and balls of string, last for about two years before they begin to dissolve.
Features video and sculpture by Ronnie Bass, telling the story of an astronomer who plans to flee an oppressive situation and start a new life.
Features multimedia works by 25 artists from around the world, including Jose Bedia (Cuba), Francesco Clemente (Italy), Bowa Devi (India), John Baldessari (United States) and more. Based on the original 1989 "Magiciens de la Terre" exhibition in Paris, the show brings together pieces by artists from the both the Western "centers" (U.S., Europe) and the "margins" (Africa, Latin America, Asia and Australia).
Practice this yoga paced for all experience levels in an out-of-town retreat.
Features preserved human specimens that will exhibit how the human body and brain function. In a follow-up to the 2005 exhibition, human bodies will be displayed in various poses, preserved by a process called "plastination."
After a journalism student meets a marine biologist in a subterranean lab for a night of casual sex, their affair ends up endangering humanity and the course of the world.
Features gentle, simple, slightly geometric watercolors by Cathy Hozack.
Features rotating exhibits exploring the world of pollination.
Features a variety of native plant species that attract butterflies, hummingbirds, beetles and other wildlife.
Features 20 winning entries from an international contest for cartoonists. Each work presents a message of peace and caring.
Features daguerreotypes — early photographs — by several Philadelphia artists including Robert Cornelius, Marcus Root and the Langenheim brothers. The exhibit also displays examples of daguerreotypes from the Library Co.’s collection and other institutional collections, along with early books about daguerreotyping, studio advertisements and equipment.
Features embroidery, patchwork and collage on metal by Samantha Ernst. Working as an urban archeologist, she spins common rubbish into recycled art.
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