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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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- On Exhibition at Drexel’s Pearlstein Gallery: The Art of Game Creation
  
  January 23, 2019
  The Speed of Thinking, is an exhibition spawned from a mobile game about global trade and the collaborative artwork used in the creation of the game. The art team, Joelle Dietrick and Owen Mundy will also showcase works that portray architecture as fragments affected by economic and communications systems.
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- Drexel Debuts First Exhibit in Custom-Built Gallery Gifted from Robert and Penny Fox
  
  September 25, 2018
  Drexel University’s Robert and Penny Fox Historic Costume Collection (FHCC) of the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design is opening its new, custom-built gallery space with the presentation of The Fox Collection, 2008-2018: A Decade of Renewal. The exhibition honors Robert (Hon. ’13) and Penny Fox (Hon.’13) for their generous support, which made the new gallery possible. It will open to the public on Friday, Sept. 28, 2018 and run through March 23, 2019.
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- Drexel Exhibit Pays Tribute to Design Integrity of Fashion Legend James Galanos
  
  August 21, 2018
  The Robert and Penny Fox Historic Costume Collection (FHCC) of Drexel University’s Westphal College of Media Arts and Design will present a retrospective exhibition of work by renowned fashion designer James Galanos. The exhibition, James Galanos: Design Integrity (October 19-December 8, January 8-27 2019), will celebrate the artistry of James Galanos, considered by his peers to be one of the greatest and most creative of American designers of the 20th century.
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- Drexel’s Pearlstein Gallery to Feature the U.S. Premiere of Zwei Mann Orchester (Two Person Orchestra)
  
  April 30, 2018
  SOUND MACHINES: an exhibition that will explore the interplay between sound and object, performance and sculpture, and the changing experience of sound in an age of digital reproduction is coming to Drexel University’s Pearlstein Gallery. The exhibit will feature Mauricio Kagel's Zwei Mann Orchester, a large-scale kinetic sound sculpture that utilizes orchestral instruments, household and found objects, connected through a network of levers and strings to produce an orchestra.
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- The Working Artists’ Studio Routine, a Winter Exhibition at Pearlstein Gallery
  
  January 16, 2018
  Drexel’s Leonard Pearlstein Gallery will open Where the Artists Are (in their studios), an exhibition of sculpture, drawings and paintings by three professors in the Westphal College of Media Arts & Design. Examining several years of each artist’s practice, this exhibition will explore the intellectual and technical characteristics that distinguish their daily working routines; what draws them into their studios, excites them and ultimately keeps them there.
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- where the artists are (in their studios)
  
  December 19, 2017
  where the artists are (in their studios) brings sculpture by Lewis Colburn, drawings and paintings by Anda Dubinskis, and drawings by Mark Stockton together for an exhibition at the Leonard Pearlstein Gallery, on view January 16 through March 18, 2018.
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- Bitty in Philly
  
  October 30, 2017
  Rankin Scholar in Residence Delroy "Bitty" McLean and Guillaume Bougard will be mixing up something special when they demonstrate how to create dub music, a sub-genre of reggae, starting at 6:30 on Thursday, November 2nd in the Gallery.
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- The Expanded Caribbean
  
  September 27, 2017
  The Leonard Pearlstein Gallery kicks off the fall season with The Expanded Caribbean: Contemporary Photograph at the Crossroads, an exhibition featuring work from sixteen emerging and established artists with projects based in several different nations and communities neighboring the Caribbean Sea, bringing together over 50 photographs and related sculptural and video installations.
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