Pearlstein Gallery is pleased to present two concurrent exhibitions in Spring 2026, with artists selected from our 2025-26 Call for Entries.  

Conflagrations, a group show featuring recent works by Viola Bordon, Evan Curtis Charles Hall, Narendra Haynes, and Emmanuela Soria Ruiz, investigates fire as force, event, and aftermath.  Moving between active burn and residual trace, the artists ask how we might respond to fire's capacity to clear, consume, reveal, and reorder. As fire increasingly shapes our ecological context, these works reflect on how fire constructs and destroys in the same gesture, reshaping ecologies, infrastructures, and collective memory. What burns. What survives. What returns.  


Gallery Hours:
Tuesday - Friday 12 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Saturday 12 p.m. - 5 p.m.


About Pearlstein Gallery: 

The Leonard Pearlstein Gallery is an inclusive gallery space that welcomes the public to experience free exhibitions of contemporary art and design. Located on Drexel University’s campus, the Pearlstein Gallery is committed to cultivating engagement with emerging artists, Drexel’s faculty and student populations, and community partners in the nearby neighborhoods of Powelton Village and Mantua. Since its creation in 2012, the Gallery has fostered innovation and collaboration, developing strong relationships within Philadelphia’s arts and culture sector.  

Through a social science lens, Poppy Martinez’s Senior Capstone explores how Women of Color navigate the complex intersections of race and gender in the workplace by examining dress as a tool for identity and resisting systemic biases.

Join us to celebrate the opening of Drexel Pilates’ new studio location at 3300 Race Street.  This is an open house style event welcoming drop-in from 3:00 to 5:30 PM.  All offerings are free and open to the public.  Advance registration recommended.  Highlights include:
 
3:30 PM | Ribbon Cutting 
Drexel Pilates students and faculty, along with alumni and members of the community celebrate the official opening of the new studio.
 
4:00 PM | Panel Discussion: The Pilates Teacher's Toolkit 
Drexel Pilates Director and Teaching Professor in Dance, Jennifer Morley, discusses her new book with a panel of expert guests.
 
3:00-5:30 PM | Pilates Demonstrations
Demonstrations will take place throughout the event.  Meet Drexel Pilates instructors and learn more about all the Drexel Pilates programs, from weekly class offerings at all levels to the 450-hour Drexel Pilates Training Program. 
 
Free Ticket Registration: HERE

Presented in the Mandell Theater, the Drexel Dance CBL programming partners share the stage with the Drexel Dance Ensemble for a celebration of dance. This event is free and open to the public, reserve your tickets here

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Join us for the Chamber Strings Spring Concert in the Mandell Theater. This event is free and open to all, reserve tickets here.

All are invited to join us for an evening of cutting edge comedy as Drexel students from the Creating Stand-up Comedy class present their final sets!