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April 3, 2023 | Issuu
How can historical collections be used for civic engagement? How can innovative teaching and learning be part of such initiatives? Drexel University and the University of Delaware explored these questions through an Innovate/Collaborate (IN/CO) grant from the Colonial Academic Alliance (2020-22). We now aim to share relevant experiences and findings with other collecting institutions that may have similar goals.
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February 16, 2023 | The Philadelphia Inquirer
On Wednesday, Drexel University announced that the Atwater Kent collection will be uploaded to a digital database, making more than 130,000 artifacts of Philadelphia and American history available online for public viewing.
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November 1, 2022 | The Philadelphia Inquirer
We are profoundly saddened by the loss of Blake Bradford. As senior fellow with the Lenfest Center for Cultural Partnerships at Drexel, Blake was working with the Atwater Kent Collection team on Philadelphia History projects. He was an insightful scholar, wonderful colleague, mentor and friend. Our deepest sympathies to his family and friends.
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June 24, 2022 | The Philadelphia Citizen
Drexel is set to take over the orphaned Atwater Kent historical collection. But the Historical Society, and City Council, might have other ideas. What's all the fighting really about?
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March 23, 2022 | The Philadelphia Citizen
Lenfest Center Senior Fellow Blake Bradford interviews Julie Rainbow, another collaborator of the Center.
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February 10, 2022 | The Lenfest Institute
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December 22, 2021 | The Decorative Arts Trust
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October 7, 2021 | The Philadelphia Inquirer
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April 14, 2021 | National Endowment for the Humanities
The Lenfest Center received a grant for Digitizing the Atwater Kent Museum Collection -- digitization of approximately 25,000 three-dimensional objects that represent 350 years of history in Philadelphia, including historical artifacts and fine and decorative arts. The images and associated metadata would be available to the public through an online database.
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April 5, 2021 | The Lenfest Institute for Journalism
In a Lenfest Center-funded co-op position, Maddie Vassallo has been working on this newsletter celebrating some of the smartest and most innovative women working across local journalism, for The Lenfest Institute for Journalism. Executive Director and CEO Jim Friedlich said: “This series has been terrific. It looks great, reads very well and has informed and inspired while garnering a great deal of attention for the Institute. It’s both fun and noteworthy that it is the work of a Drexel Co-Op (Maddie) and a very newly minted Klein College grad (Kyra), each with superb multimedia content and production skillset well beyond the native acumen of their generation. Congratulations to each of your schools.”
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March 25, 2021 | PR Newswire
The Forman Arts Initiative will also provide grantees with access to host co-operative education students from Drexel University to enhance their organizational effectiveness. These placements, administered by Drexel's Lenfest Center for Cultural Partnerships, provide meaningful work experience in the arts and culture sector.
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March 16, 2021 | Traditional Building
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March 9, 2021 | ArtfixDaily
The Decorative Arts Trust has announced that the Atwater Kent Collection at Drexel University; The Historic New Orleans Collection and the Backstreet Cultural Museum; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and the Newport Restoration Foundation are the inaugural recipients of IDEAL Internship Grants.
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March 3, 2021 | PA Media
The Lenfest Center received a grant to improve documentation of and access to historically valuable records related to African-American history, in the Atwater Kent Collection at Drexel University.
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July 17, 2019 | The Lenfest Institute for Journalism
A new project is bringing together Philadelphia-area scholars and Philadelphia Inquirer reporters to collaborate and find new ways to work together.
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June 20, 2019 | The Philadelphia Citizen
Was the closing of the Philadelphia History Museum the wake-up call we need?
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November 20, 2018 | Drexel Magazine
The new Thomas R. Kline Institute of Trial Advocacy located in Center City is a stunning tribute to advocacy that seeks to remedy injustices by spurring accountability and reform.
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March 15, 2018 | Drexel Magazine
A new $3 million gift will endow paid student co-ops at museums and other arts and culture nonprofits.
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March 15, 2017 | Drexel Magazine
Thanks to help from Drexel’s Center for Cultural Partnerships, the National Museum of Industrial History in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, is now open.
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