At the Arts and Business Council’s Annual Awards Luncheon on April 29, 2011, the Fairmount Park Art Association received the PNC Arts Alive Award for Arts Innovation in Honor of Peggy Amsterdam – a new award that acknowledges an arts organization that has demonstrated an innovative approach to increasing arts access and engagement.

The Fairmount Park Art Association is one of ten local arts and culture organizations receiving a $75,000 Engage 2020 Innovation Grant, funded by The Wallace Foundation and The Pew Charitable Trusts, and managed by The Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance (GPCA) and The Philadelphia Foundation.

“In one hour and across just four blocks I was able to guide myself through seven examples of the city’s finest public art. Through these works I learned about astronomy, the Holocaust and Jesus.”

Arborists to the rescue! Tree care experts Shechtman Tree Care, LLC greatly improved the environment around Pavilion in the Trees, located in Landsdowne Glen, behind the Horticulture Center in West Fairmount Park.

Museum Without Walls™: AUDIO is featured on the January episode of WHYY’s Friday Arts TV program.

In Philadelphia, the month-old “Museum Without Walls” audio program was created to be used like a customizable museum that’s free and never closes.

Celebrating Philadelphia’s pivotal and unique role in the American labor movement, the artwork transforms Elmwood Park into a community gathering space and an outdoor history lesson.

By fall, the seven-acre park at 71st Street and Buist Avenue will be transformed into a place that pays tribute to the contributions of organized labor nationwide.

“The city’s main tenders of public art, the Fairmount Park Art Association, have created a terrific audio tour –Museum Without Walls™: AUDIO – of public sculptures.”

Check out the aPA’s free and ongoing Museum Without Walls™: AUDIO program for Philadelphia’s outdoor sculpture on Phillyfunguide.