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- Rehearsing Philadelphia: A City-Wide Musical Project Exploring Togetherness through Rehearsal
  
  April 04, 2022
  Designed by Ari Benjamin Meyers and jointly produced and presented by Drexel University’s Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design and the Curtis Institute of Music, Rehearsing Philadelphia culminates this weekend with performances by the first-ever Public Orchestra. All events are free and open to the public, presented in locations across the city and featuring more than 200 multidisciplinary artists.
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- Artists' Creations Address the Afflictions of U.S. Society in Drexel's Spring Gallery Exhibition
  
  March 29, 2022
  The Leonard Pearlstein Gallery of Drexel University’s Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, will open an exhibition called Lastgaspism: Art and Survival in the Age of Pandemic on Thursday, March 31 – with a reception and book launch from 5-7 p.m.
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- The State of the Art on and off Drexel’s Campus
 
 November 01, 2021
 There are several art exhibitions and collections (both in person and online) showcasing the art of everything from Polish posters to presidential memorabilia to prehistoric fossils.
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- The Latest Shout-Outs: Westphal Student, Faculty, Staff, and Alumni Achievements
 
 June 02, 2021
 
 Celebrate the students, faculty, staff, and alumni of the Westphal College of Media Arts & Design in this round-up of recent accomplishments
 
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- Drexel Will Re-Open the Pearlstein Gallery in April to Introduce ‘Breathing Room’
 
 March 01, 2021
 Drexel University’s Leonard Pearlstein Gallery will re-open on Friday, April 2, 2021 after COVID-19 closed the doors to its contemporary art space for the last year. Fittingly, the Pearlstein Gallery will open with a new exhibition, called Breathing Room, presented in collaboration with local gallery Twelve Gates Arts.
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- Drexel Hosts Revival! a Virtual Celebration for Collective Joy and Resilience
 
 September 17, 2020
 Part dance party, part live video art performance, Revival! an audio-visual meditation event will be= streamed on the Twitch channel of Drexel University's Pearlstein Gallery on Sunday, Sept. 20 at 3 p.m. The event will stream for free and is presented in tandem with the gallery's partners, the Westphal College Diversity Equity & Inclusion Council, Art & Art History Department, Urban Strategy Graduate Program, Retail & Merchandising Graduate Program and BlackStar Film Festival.
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- Internationally Acclaimed Artist Brendan Fernandes Brings Solo Exhibition to Drexel
 
 January 15, 2020
 A solo exhibition by internationally acclaimed, multidisciplinary artist, Brendan Fernandes will open at the <a href="https://drexel.edu/pearlsteingallery/">Leonard Pearlstein Gallery</a>, of Drexel University’s <a href="https://drexel.edu/westphal/">Westphal College of Media Arts & Design</a> on Tuesday, Jan. 14. The exhibition, entitled Brendan Fernandes: We Want a We – will showcase a diverse blend of performative, sculptural and photographic works from the past five years, and marks the first retrospective of this important artists work in Philadelphia.
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- ‘What Might This Be?’ The Art and Science of Rorschach Inkblots Opens at Drexel
  
  September 19, 2019
  “What might this be?” Is an innocent question, and one that Hermann Rorschach asked of a series of inkblots he developed, in hope of diving further into the inner workings of the human mind in the 1920s. Rorschach combined two of his passions, graphic arts and the science of medicine, as a catalyst for inquiry into the psyche – and in this process, he also created art.
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- Drexel Celebrates 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots with Largest LGBTQ+ Art Exhibit in Philadelphia History
  
  June 13, 2019
  On June 28, 1969 – the Stonewall Riots marked a pivotal moment in the fight for queer liberation in the United States. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, Drexel University’s Pearlstein Gallery will present Stonewall @ 50 - an exhibition that will gather 60 LGBTQ+ Philadelphia-area artists.
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- Assemblage: An Exhibition on Collective Creativity Opens in Drexel’s Pearlstein Gallery
  
  April 02, 2019
  Contemporary culture most often places value on authoritative individual (master) voices—when often those voices rely upon the work of others to exist. In an attempt to de-center the focus on solo auteurs as preferred makers, Assemblage, an exhibition at the Leonard Pearlstein Gallery of Drexel University’s Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, looks to highlight works by collectives or collaborative projects made by several artists.
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