Exhibits & Events

You're invited to go behind the scenes and explore the creative process of the next generation of emerging artists!

One of the most anticipated events on PAFA’s calendar, Open Studio Night is the one time each year when PAFA's graduate and undergraduate students open their studios to the public to show and discuss their works in progress.

The event takes place on upper floors of the Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building at 128 N. Broad Street—comprising of individual studios where PAFA students develop and refine their paintings, sculpture, prints, animations, and drawings. Open Studio Night gives visitors a rare look into the creative process of a new generation of emerging artists, and a sense of how they develop their ideas. It also provides a sneak peek of works that may appear in the Annual Student Exhibition (ASE) opening in May, where more than 1,000 works by PAFA students are exhibited in the museum galleries.

At 5:30, join us for an enlightening lecture on printmaking by print scholar and PAFA Printmaking Professor Anthony (Tony) Rosati. Rosati will present Learning to be a Printmaker, a Philadelphia Tradition, a lecture on the legacy of how printmaking has been taught through the pedagogy applied in the Print Study Seminar offered to students at two of the most influential Philadelphia art schools, the University of the Arts and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Instituted by PAFA alum, lithographer Benton M. Spruance (1904–1967) at the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art (later know as University of the Arts) in the late 1930s, the Seminar was continued by printmakers Jerome E. Kaplan (1920–1997) and Lois M. Johnson (1942–2018), and, to this day, by Rosati at PAFA.

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