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Pennsylvania Heritage Foundation Newsletter – Winter 2025

Posted by PA Heritage Staff on Feb 24, 2025 in | Comments Off Topics in the Winter 2025 Newsletter: Winter Events on the Pennsylvania Trails of History PHF Welcomes Art of the State Winter-2025-PHF-Newsletter...
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Art of the State 2024

Posted by PA Heritage Staff on Feb 24, 2025 in | Comments Off On September 8, 2024, The State Museum of Pennsylvania opened its 57th Art of the State. Established in 1968, the annual juried exhibition provides a glimpse into the rich artistic tapestry of the commonwealth. A panel of three jurors — Marc Jacobson (Herron School of Art + Design, Indiana University Indianapolis), Jennifer-Navva Milliken (Museum for Art in Wood), and Eric Sung...
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Pennsylvania Heritage Foundation Newsletter – Winter 2024

Posted by PA Heritage Staff on Dec 1, 2023 in | Comments Off Topics in the Winter 2024 Newsletter: PHF Welcomes New Executive Director Sam Sweet PHF Announces New Board Member Art of the State Opens PHF-Newsletter ...
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Looking Back at 2023

Posted by Amy Fox on Dec 1, 2023 in | Comments Off As we do every year in these pages (for the last dozen years or so, anyway), it’s time to take a look at highlights of the year that was. Art of the State 2023 The State Museum of Pennsylvania’s annual juried art exhibition, Art of the State, opened on September 10. This year 559 artists submitted 1,915 entries. Selection jurors Deborah Pinter (Cleveland Institute of Art), Kyle Hackett...
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2022 Trails

Posted by Amy Fox on Dec 16, 2022 in | Comments Off With what feels like record speed, it’s once again time for our look back at the past year. Our steady rebound from 2020’s COVID-19–related site closures and event cancellations continued into 2022, with ongoing efforts to balance staff and visitor safety with everyone’s desire to get back out onto the Pennsylvania Trails of History. Visitation levels that started to increase in 2021 have...
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Trailheads

Posted by Amy Fox on Dec 1, 2021 in | Comments Off When we rang in 2021, Pennsylvania’s Trails of History sites had been closed to the public for nine months because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Maintenance and security staff had continued to report to sites to perform their duties, while others of us had adapted to telework. The new year dawned with hope of spring reopenings, and on April 30 sites implemented new public schedules designed to ease...
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Pennsylvania Heritage Foundation Newsletter – Winter 2021

Posted by PA Heritage Staff on Feb 17, 2021 in | Comments Off Topics in the Winter 2021 Newsletter: PHF Continues Partnership with The State Museum on Art of the State Art of the State Ceremony and Tours Presented Virtually for 2020 PHF Cosponsors Virtual Archaeology Workshops Winter-2021-phf-newsletter ...
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Pennsylvania Heritage Foundation Newsletter – Fall 2019

Posted by PA Heritage Staff on May 5, 2020 in | Comments Off Topics in the Fall 2019 newsletter: PHF Partners with The State Museum for Art of the State PHF Welcomes New Board Member PHF Introduces New Staff PHMC Volunteers Honored pennsylvania-heritage-foundation-newsletter-fall-2019...
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Pennsylvania Heritage Foundation Newsletter – Spring 2019

Posted by PA Heritage Staff on May 5, 2020 in | Comments Off Topics in the Spring 2019 newsletter: PHF Partners with The State Museum for Art of the State Weddings Make History at PHMC Sites PHF at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Mary M. Hull Appointed Manager of PHF pennsylvania-heritage-foundation-newsletter-spring-2019...
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Art of the State 2019 / Scholars in Residence

Posted by Sean Adkins on Apr 22, 2020 in | Comments Off Art of the State 2019 On June 23, 2019, Pennsylvania’s finest artists mingled with guests at the opening of Art of the State: Pennsylvania 2019 at The State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg. The 52nd annual juried exhibition, presented by the museum in association with the Pennsylvania Heritage Foundation, PHMC’s nonprofit partner, showcased 110 works of art by 103 artists from 35 counties...
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