Pennsylvania art organisations 'blind sided' by governor's suspension of grant funds

Arts funding

Fabric Workshop and Museum 

Coronavirus

Emergency grants

Pennsylvania Council on the Arts

Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance

Philadelphia's Fabric Workshop and Museum is in the process of process of “scenario-planning” as state grant funds are frozen. 

Courtesy of the Fabric Workshop and Museum. Photo: Jessi Melcer

Arts organisations produce face masks and other medical equipment to help slow the spread of coronavirus

Whitney Museum of American Art

Rijksmuseum

Museums

Face masks are in short supply across the globe. 

The Confederate flag of surrender rises in Philadelphia

Exhibitions

Politics

Philadelphia

A woven replica of the Confederate Flag of Truce (2019) by Sonya Clark, in collaboration with The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia. 

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