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  1. INITIATIVES
  2. In Our Gallery

In Our Gallery

Our galleries showcase local folk and traditional arts - vernacular and alternative expression. The PFP gallery is free and open to the public.

Current Initiatives

Iraqi Songs in Color

Iraqi painter Mayada Alhumssi uses brilliant colors and images to interpret Iraqi folk songs. Her paintings celebrate and revive her cultural traditions and preserve these songs for the next generation.

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Tibetans in Philadelphia

Ongoing Exhibition through May 2016

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If These Walls Could Talk: The Bill and Miriam Crawford Dining Room

(April 15, 2005 - Present)

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Past Initiatives

Fall Focus on Arts in Education (2014)
Honoring Ancestors (2014)
We Cannot Keep Silent (2013)
Cultural Exchange (2011)
Under Autumn Moon Exhibition (2010)
Tatreez Exhibition (2009)
All That We Do Exhibition (2007)
What You Got to Say? (2007)
We Try To Be Strong Exhibition (2006)
ODUNDE Exhibition (2005, 1995)
Folk Arts of Social Change Exhibition (1999)
Artists in Exile Exhibition (1998)
Plenty of Good Women Dancers (1996)
Keep it Real Exhibition (1995)
Giants, Kings & Celestial Angels (1993)
You, Me and Them Exhibition (1992)
Uses of Tradition (1989)

PFP Membership

Membership in the Philadelphia Folklore Project supports community-based folk arts programs in our region. The Philadelphia Folklore Project is registered with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as a charitable organization.

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