Temple Contemporary

Hannah Wilke, Untitled, 1976 (Gum on Succulents with Wilke's Shadow, Los Angeles) Archival pigment print, 2019
© Marsie, Emanuelle, Damon and Andrew Scharlatt, Hannah Wilke Collection & Archive, Los Angeles/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

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We are pleased to announce that in March Temple Contemporary will be installing repair kits for instruments in every Philadelphia public school music classroom, to aid on the expansion of the project, Symphony for a Broken Orchestra. The project was born as the result of a a visionary composition by David Lang, featuring the School District of Philadelphia’s 1,500 broken instruments. The instruments that were used in the concert have been repaired, and were returned to the School District in the fall 2018. For more information, please visit symphonyforabrokenorchestra.org.
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Velocity Fund
We are proud to introduce The Velocity Fund, a Regional Re-granting Program of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts! This new Philadelphia initiative, is a partnership between Temple Contemporary at the Tyler School of Art and the Warhol Foundation, offering grants up to $5,000 to 10-15 artists or artist teams, with the first round being awarded in September, 2018. For more information please visit www.velocityfund.org.
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How & Why
Many of our peer museums and galleries come up with a great idea and then start looking for an audience to come and see it. At Temple Contemporary, we start with the public first! Our programming is designed with the public at the forefront of our process. Learn about how we do it here.
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Temple Contemporary

Our mission is to creatively re-imagine the social function of art. All of our programs are free and open to everyone. More

Contact and Hours

Temple Contemporary

Tyler School of Art, Temple University
2001 North 13th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122

Hours:

Wednesday - Friday 11am - 5pm
or by appointment
sarah.biemiller@temple.edu

Upcoming

Temple Contemporary’s Advisory Council met earlier this month. Through their process of individually asking questions that they care deeply about and collectively deciding which of these questions carry the most local relevance and international significance they voted on the following two questions to guide Temple Contemporary’s upcoming programming:

What does it mean to be counted? & Who counts? --

“Up to $40 billion dollars will be reapportioned in accordance with the upcoming census. Based on the significant undercounting of Philadelphia’s disinvested neighborhoods in the 2010 census, this city is now cited as one of the most at risk counties in the state to be undercounted in the 2020 census. How can we hold onto the histories and communities of our proud neighborhoods while living in one of the United States’ most rapidly gentrifying cities? Questions of citizenship, belonging and displacement are prevalent throughout Philadelphia and our nation’s borders. Recognizing that culture often leads policy, how can we as cultural producers lead in the effort to recognize, honor, and show who counts?”

“What is play?”

Why is play only acceptable up until a certain age? Can we play through hard things? Can play be used as a tool to think through something else? At what age do we turn play into a commodity? What is the age that you need to have gear to play? How can we play more in work? Unleash people in their office. How do you assess play? What does it mean to introduce and create play in difficult environments? Race has a role in play. Playing quietly is different from loud play and it is interpreted differently in regards to race. How can this be re-interpreted? Our public education system is struggling to learn from play – taking out recess, gym, music and art class. Increasingly maturity is being falsely equated with a seriousness that is devoid of play and being playful. You can’t wear cat sweaters.