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- Pearlstein Gallery Exhibitions Showcase Digital Rendering Talents of Drexel Community, Explore the Nature of Consciousness
  
  August 18, 2025
  Drexel University’s Leonard Pearlstein Gallery will host a pair of exhibitions that showcase the digital design talents of students, faculty and local artists whose work transforms human experience through digital rendering and explores the effects of technology on humanity. The exhibitions — Digital Twin and Heavy Merge — will be open to the public from Aug. 19 to Oct. 4, 2025, at the Pearlstein Gallery at 3401 Filbert St.
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- The Roots’ James Poyser to Deliver Keynote Address at Westphal Commencement: Q&A
  
  May 05, 2025
  
  Drexel’s Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design is pleased to announce that the keynote speaker for our 2025 Commencement ceremony will be Grammy Award-winning musician, producer, and composer James Poyser.
  
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- Drexel’s Pearlstein Gallery Presents ‘A Certain Slant of Light’ Featuring Philadelphia Artists Dino Pelliccia, Bruce Pollock and Stuart Rome
  
  January 13, 2025
  The Leonard Pearlstein Gallery of Drexel University’s Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, will present four decades of process-oriented work from influential Philadelphia artists Dino Pelliccia, Bruce Pollock and Stuart Rome, who share a longstanding connection to the Drexel community. The exhibition, “A Certain Slant of Light” will go on display Thursday, Jan. 16 through Tuesday, March 18.
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- Drexel’s Pearlstein Gallery Presents Retrospective of Cey Adams, Graffiti Artist, and Def Jam Recordings Founding Creative Director
  
  July 31, 2024
  The Leonard Pearlstein Gallery of Drexel University’s Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, in collaboration with Mural Arts Philadelphia, will present the career-spanning work of Cey Adams, a New York-based visionary artist working at the forefront of design, culture, innovation, and collaboration.
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- Drexel’s Pearlstein Gallery Offers Spring Exhibitions Centered on the Healing Properties of Art and Creative Works
  
  March 20, 2024
  The Leonard Pearlstein Gallery of Drexel University’s Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design will present two spring exhibitions that draw on nature, its calming properties and the creation of art as a form of medicine. “Sandra Eula Lee: The Walking Mountain” and “50 Years of Creative Arts Therapies” will go on display Tuesday, April 2 through Saturday, May 25 with an opening reception taking place on Thursday, April 11 from 5-7:30 p.m.
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- The First Exhibition of Contemporary Nepali Artists in the U.S. Debuts in Drexel’s Pearlstein Gallery
  
  January 10, 2024
  Forty-one paintings by 13 contemporary Nepali artists will be on display alongside 42 early photographs from late 19th- and early 20th-century Nepal. This is the first exhibition of contemporary Nepali artists in the United States.
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- Penny Park Honors School of Education Dean With Color, Space and Peace
  
  June 21, 2023
  The corner garden at Warren and Filbert streets has been named in recognition of Penny L. Hammrich, PhD, just steps behind 3401 Market St., where the School of Education is housed.
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- The Latest Shout-Outs: Westphal Student, Faculty, Staff, and Alumni Achievements
  
  March 15, 2023
  Celebrate the students, faculty, staff, and alumni of the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design in this round-up of recent accomplishments.
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- Drexel’s First Faculty and Staff Exhibition Opening in Pearlstein Gallery
  
  January 04, 2023
  Present Tense: Drexel Art Now will focus on the personal studio work of 18 members of Westphal College’s faculty and staff. Forty artworks in total will be on display.
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- Multi-disciplinary Artists Explore Queer Intimacy and Domesticity in Drexel’s Fall Gallery Exhibition
  
  September 20, 2022
  The Leonard Pearlstein Gallery of Drexel University’s Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, will present at home, an art exhibition exploring queer life, on Thursday, Sept. 22 with an opening reception from 5-7 p.m. A group show, at home will highlight visual stories of queer intimacy and domesticity.
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