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9 unusual facts about Painted Bride Art Center


Angelina Grimké

Although not an onstage character, Angelin Grimké Weld is referred to many times in Ain Gordon's 2013 play If She Stood – commissioned by the Painted Bride Art Center in Philadelphia – by the characters Sarah Moore Grimké and Angelina Weld Grimké.

Henry Grew

Grew's wife, Mary, appears as a character in Ain Gordon's 2013 play If She Stood, commissioned by the Painted Bride Art Center in Philadelphia.

Lenny Seidman

A 75 minute solo piece performed by Seidman for tabla and frame drum approximately 12 times during 1994 and 1995 for Helmut Gottschild’s “Meet Mr. R” performed at Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, Allegheny College, Meadeville PA, University of the Arts Theater, Philadelphia PA, Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia PA.

Lenny Seidman (born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a tabla musician/composer and World Music and Jazz curator at the Painted Bride Art Center in Philadelphia.

Lenny has given workshops nationally, teaches tabla and rhythm theory privately and is the World Music and Jazz curator at the Painted Bride Art Center in Philadelphia.

Painted Bride Art Center

In 1973, the gallery gave rise to the Painted Bride Quarterly, a poetry and literary journal, and in 1982 it moved to its current location.

The outside of the former industrial building The Bride is located in is completely covered by Skin of the Bride, a mosaic by Philadelphia artist Isaiah Zagar, which he created between 1991 and 2000 and donated to the center.

Painted Bride Quarterly

It was established in 1973 by Louise Simons and R. Daniel Evans in connection with the Painted Bride Art Center, an art gallery founded in 1969 in an old bridal shop on South Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Sarah Moore Grimké

Both Sarah Moore Grimké and her great niece Angelina Weld Grimké appear as main characters in Ain Gordon's 2013 play If She Stood, commissioned by the Painted Bride Art Center in Philadelphia.


Angelina Weld Grimké

Both Angelina Weld Grimké and her great aunt Sarah Moore Grimké appear as main characters in Ain Gordon's 2013 play If She Stood, commissioned by the Painted Bride Art Center in Philadelphia.


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