Date/Time
Date(s) - 10/21/2026 - 10/26/2026
All Day
Location
Brandywine Workshop and Archives
Categories
Through October 26, 2026. Get a candid deep dive into migration, cultural exchange, and identity through the generations and diasporas at the exhibition, We the People. The show candidly covers exactly who has been included in “We the People.” The exhibit zeros in on the melting pot of communities, migrations, and cultural exchanges that made up the tapestry of Philadelphia over the centuries. Organized by Brandywine Workshop and Archives curator, Alicia DeLargem and independent curator Zindzi Harley, the show explores how artists have “documented belonging, displacement, labor, faith, resistance, and identity, while tracing Philadelphia’s evolution through Indigenous presence, migration, diaspora, and cultural exchange.”
It traces 19th-century Black Philadelphia, industrialization and European immigration in the 1800s; the Great Migration era and movement of Black communities northward between 1916 and 1970; African Diaspora connections and cultural exchange; Puerto Rican, Caribbean, and Latin- American arrivals from the mid-20th century onward. See works by a cross-section of creatives like Philadelphia’s Faith Ringgold, Jamaican-born interdisciplinary artist Andrea Chung, Congolese artist Alexandre Mwilambwe Kyungu, and Cuban artist Ibrahim Miranda. The exhibition includes offset lithographs, screen prints, intaglios, woodcuts, digitally carved works, and other print-based media.
Free event, schedule a visit in advance by appointment. Brandywine Workshop and Archives/ Firehouse Gallery, 730 S. Broad St. Email: prints@brandywineworkshop.org, 267-908-2775 or https://brandywineworkshop.org