December 18, 2012
We’re interrupting regularly scheduled programming to bring you a piece of news that we’re pretty excited about: Uwishunu has teamed up with Google on Google’s new Field Trip app to be the local content partner for Philadelphia. The app is a location-based app that’s acts like a pocket guide to all the hidden things around [...]
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Today’s Philly 101 video spotlights Penny Balkin Bach, Executive Director of the Association For Public Art (formerly known as the Fairmount Park Art Association).
The Association for Public Art is the nation’s first private, nonprofit organization dedicated to integrating public art and urban planning. It was founded in 1872, but today is more active than ever in commissioning, preserving and promoting public art in Philadelphia.
Watch the quick video above to meet Penny, see just a sampling of some of the city’s most treasured pieces of public art, and learn what she wishes more people knew about in Philadelphia.
Bonus: get pumped for the Association For Public Art’s exciting fall project, Open Air, a world premiere sky-high interactive public art experience over the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.
Association For Public Art
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Museum Without Walls
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Today’s Philly 101 video spotlights Penny Balkin Bach, Executive Director of the Association For Public Art (formerly known as the Fairmount Park Art Association). The Association for Public Art is the nation’s first private, nonprofit organization dedicated to integrating public art and urban planning. It was founded in 1872, but today is more active than [...]
Read more»October 6, 2010
The city’s getting ready to show off its stylish side during the 2nd Annual Philadelphia Fashion Week, starting tonight and going through Saturday, October 9. The event is bigger than last year’s and features the Spring and Summer collections of Philadelphia-area students and fashion designers from around the world. “Project Runway” alum Kristin Haskin-Simms will [...]
Read more»September 23, 2010
Say you’re heading to Citizens Bank Park this weekend for the last few home games of the regular season and you don’t want to miss a minute of the action away from your seat, waiting in line for food. There’s an app for that. The Phillies and Aramark are piloting a mobile concierge app that [...]
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