Context celebrates (founding) father’s day in Philadelphia
On Saturday and Sunday, June 20th and 21st, we’ll be running a series of walking seminars in Philadelphia to celebrate the launch of our programs here and to explore the role of the Founding Fathers on Father’s Day.
We’ll get started on Saturday with our Franklin Seminar at 10 am, led by art historian Justina Barrett. This three-hour walk of Old City north of Market Street not only looks deeply into the biography of Franklin but also tries to contextualize his life within the social and political realities of his time and his city.
Later that afternoon, Katie Wood, a graduate student in American material culture, will take a group on our fascinating American Art in Philadelphia walk that includes Charles Wilson Peale’s portrait gallery at the Second Bank as well as the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art. I love this walk, especially when we dip into the Pennsylvania hospital and are surprised by the enormous Benjamin West canvas there. Who knew?
On Sunday, although I’ll personally be enjoying being waited on nonstop by my ever-devoted children, two other groups will be heading out on, respectively, our Colonial City in Context walk, which covers the founding of Philadelphia to the founding of the Republic south of Market Street, and on our Temple on the Hill walk of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
So, please, come on down (or up) to Philadelphia for Father’s Day and get a taste of Context as we get started in our own backyard.
Posted by Paul Bennett
Paul Bennett is the founder and director of Context. He also writes freelance for a variety of magazines, including National Geographic and Smithsonian.
May 25th, 2009 under Art, Context Travel, Culture, History, Philadelphia.
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