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Conversation | The Art of Syd Carpenter

Community & CultureCultural & Heritage FestivalsAfrican & Diaspora CultureCommunity & Culture / Cultural & Heritage Festivals
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CasualGeneral PublicBlack/African AmericanPanel DiscussionPublic
When:
January 31, 2026 · 2:00 PM
Where:
Philadelphia, PA
Source:
Creative Philadelphia Arts Access Calendar

Join art historians Lowery Stokes Sims and Leslie King Hammond for a conversation with artist Syd Carpenter about her retrospective, Place, Time, and Memory. Together they will delve into Carpenter’s innovative ceramic practice, examining how her work engages African American history, land and agriculture, the human body, and the elemental materiality of clay. This discussion offers an expansive look at five decades of Carpenter’s influential career, contextualizing her iconography and symbolism

Black/African AmericanAfrican & Diaspora CultureCasualGeneral PublicPanel DiscussionPublic

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    Lansdowne, PA

  • Primary source

    Creative Philadelphia Arts Access Calendar

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    Community & Culture, Cultural & Heritage Festivals, African & Diaspora Culture

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    Black/African American, African & Diaspora Culture, Casual, General Public