Philadelphia Contemporary

The citywide initiatives programming recognizes social engagement as the determining factor in programming across communities and throughout the neighborhoods of the city. This program foregrounds accountability, reciprocity, and listening as the values that center our work.

Ecological futures programming focuses on our sustained relationship with the delaware river and addresses issues around environmental justice, climate change and environmental crises especially those impacting our urban community.

Lived culture the lived culture programs celebrate and present art that embraces the breadth of what art can be beyond its traditional forms and institutional limitations. Education the youth ambassador program is a high-impact place-based education program centered on the arts, environmental justice, and civic engagement, for middle school youth with ties to the mantua community in west philadelphia. Special initiatives our commitment to collaboration and partnerships and flexible and nimble approach to programming holds space for programming opportunities as they arise such as community murals and university partnerships to present internationally renowned artists. Curatorial programs (all of the above) through an emphasis on partnerships and collaboration, our curatorial programming brings innovative contemporary art to philadelphia's communities and mounts temporary, rotating exhibitions, performances, and projects that emphasize relevant, experimental, and dynamic work from local, national, and international artists. Pc space philadelphia contemporary is focusing on developing a long-term home: an innovative, environmentally sustainable, net-zero, floating gallery on the delaware river.