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The 37th Manayunk Arts Festival 2026 takes over Main Street June 27–28 — free, 300 artists, the Carrera Paint My Ride Tour, 30 Emerging Artists on Grape Street, and a cover artist whose painting sold to a close friend of Jamie Wyeth.
On July 1, Princeton scholar Charmaine Branch leads a lunchtime discussion at PAFA on Elizabeth Catlett’s pedagogy, her networks of Black women artists, and the prints already hanging on PAFA’s walls.
Danny Simmons Jr., the abstract expressionist painter who left New York to build Rush Arts Philadelphia in Logan and paint four murals across Germantown and North Philadelphia, died June 15, 2026. He was 72. A tribute to the artist who chose this city on purpose — and gave it everything he had.
Philadelphia artist Eustace Mamba opens Lavender, his first solo exhibition with Paradigm Gallery + Studio,
Philadelphia artist Allan Lane spent more than thirty years away from the canvas before returning to painting. His portrait work is already on gallery walls.
Morgan Overton’s solo exhibition America: 500 opens at NoName Gallery in Chestnut Hill on July 3, asking what the country looks like 250 years from now.
The Barnes Foundation and Mural Arts Philadelphia present Just Us, a new exhibition of original work by artists from the Rec Crew and artists at SCI Phoenix, open June 26 through August 24.
Brazilian-American sculptor Marcus De Paula opens his first major solo exhibition at Wexler Gallery in Fishtown on June 11, bringing new illuminated stone sculptures and the first indoor presentation of his 3,000-pound granite structure Titan. On view through August 14, 2026.
Philadelphia painter Nancy Bea Miller opens her fifth solo show at Old City’s F.A.N. Gallery on First Friday, June 5 — more than forty oil paintings spanning still life, animal subjects, and portraiture. Free and open to the public through June 26.
The Barnes Foundation and Calder Gardens are offering free general admission to Philadelphia residents for the entire month of July 2026 — no reservations required, just a valid Philadelphia ID at the door.
