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The Philadelphia Art Alliance is the oldest multidisciplinary arts
center in the United States, bringing the visual, literary and
performance arts to the Philadelphia area for all to enjoy.
Welcome to the Rittenhouse Square neighborhood - where you can see our latest exhibitions, or take part in one of our innovative programs
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 Robert Glenn Ketchum, Fish Paths & Caribou Tracks, 1998. Fuji Crystal Archive chromogenic print.
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EXHIBITS
Opening September 10, 2008
Southwest Alaska: A World of Parks and Wildlife Refuges at the Crossroads:
The Photographs of Robert Glenn Ketchum
Second floor galleries
Southwest Alaska is home to the most productive wild salmon fishery in history. In 2008, as reported in the New York Times, it is also a flashpoint for the competing interests of the environment, energy, and mining.
In Southwest Alaska, photographer Robert Glenn Ketchum documents a landscape, an ecosystem, and native lifestyles that are at risk of disappearing forever.
In 1999, Audubon magazine named Robert Glenn Ketchum as one of their 100 champions of conservation, "who shaped the environmental movement of the twentieth century." exhibition. The exhibition of his photographs runs until October 18, 2008.
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Lisa Murch, Wisteria, 2008. Thread, paper, shellac, matte-medium, pins.
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Bioforms: A Multimedia Installation by Lisa Murch
First floor galleries
Philadelphia-based artist Lisa Murch will create a site-specific installation that features vegetation originally part of the Wetherill mansion garden, with a living vine that incorporates insects whose appearance mimics the properties of the vine itself.
Satellite Gallery
210 W. Rittenhouse Square, 3rd Floor
John Clark: Perspectives in Buoyancy
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JAZZ LEGENDS AT THE ALLIANCE
 Thursday, August 28 - 8:00 p.m.
ARS NOVA WORKSHOP presents
Gjerstad / Nilssen-Love Duo
Frode Gjerstad, alto saxophone/clarinets
Paal Nilssen-Love, drums
Marshall Allen, alto saxophone/EVI
Known for his work with the John Stevens Group in the 80s, and his subsequent trio performances with Johnny Dyani, Kent Carter, William Parker, Rashied Bakr and Hamid Drake, Frode Gjerstad has more than 20 recording as a leader to his name and is one of the most celebrated saxophonists on the international scene.
Paal Nilssen-Love is one of Europe's most active drummers and is widely noted for his ongoing projects with Mats Gustafsson (The Thing), Ken Vandermark (School Days, FME, Powerhouse Sound), Raoul Björkenheim (Scorch Trio) and Peter Brötzmann. As a young musician, Marshall Allen performed with pianist Art Simmons, Don Byas and James Moody before enrolling in the Paris Conservatory of Music. After relocating to Chicago, Allen became a pupil of Sun Ra, subsequently joining his Arkestra in 1958 and leading Sun Ra's formidable reed section for the next 40 years.
General Admission: $12.00
Free for Art Alliance Members
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Thursday, September 25th – 7:00pm
PRESENTATION AND FILM
Red Gold: The Last Great Salmon Run on Earth
Tim Troll, Executive Director
Nushagak-Mulchatna Wood-Tikchik Land Trust
 A companion event to the Robert Glenn Ketchum exhibition, Southwest Alaska: A World of Parks and Wildlife Refuges at the Crossroads, a presentation on the resource issues currently at stake in the region will be made by Tim Troll, Executive Director of the Nushagak-Mulchatna Wood-Tikchik Land Trust. The Trust is dedicated to the preservation and protection of the salmon and wildlife habitat of the Nushagak Bay watersheds in the remote Bristol Bay region of southwest Alaska.
Mr. Troll will also screen
Red Gold,, winner of the Festival Director Award and the Audience Award at the 2008 Telluride Mountain Film Festival. The 55-minute film is a documentary on the Pebble Mine as told through the voices of the commercial, subsistence and sport fisherman of Bristol Bay and as much a celebration of the salmon and the people of Bristol Bay as it is about the controversy surrounding the Pebble Mine Project.
Admission is free.
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FALL PROGRAMS ARE JUST AROUND THE CORNER
Whether you love classical music, jazz giants, cinema, Philadelphia history, or if you just like to take a chance, there is a program for everyone at the Art Alliance this fall.
It's educational, it's fun, and it's a great way to meet people in one of the best performance spaces in Philadelphia. All are welcome!
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