Tag Archives: UArts

The Absolute Final Issue of DUCKWORK

Posted on July 5, 2024 by Joe

It may have taken 42 years, but the latest and, sadly, the last issue of DUCKWORK is out!

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Scratching a Scratchboard Itch

Posted on June 18, 2024 by Joe_Williams

The recent closure of The University of the Arts has set me careening down memory lane like a runaway train crashing into memories of my days at The Philadelphia College of Art. The Philadelphia College of Art mutated into the … Continue reading →

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Doomsday for PCA?

Posted on June 7, 2024 by Tina Garceau

Last Friday brought the sloppy and shocking announcement that the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA had lost its accreditation and would be closing. After a chaotic week of conflicting and sometimes contradictory announcements from various parties involved and … Continue reading →

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The University of the Arts is NO MORE

Posted on June 2, 2024 by Joe

We entered the month of June with the shocking news that the University of the Arts has lost its accreditation and will be closing its doors on June 7th. The announcement was made rather sloppily by the local news media … Continue reading →

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Inflatable Vermin

Posted on March 7, 2019 by Joe_Williams

This inflatable vermin continues to make appearances at Broad and Spruce Streets outside of the Atlantic Building which once housed the classrooms of The Philadelphia College of Art. PCA has left the building and discarded the name a few decades … Continue reading →

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Above Broad & Spruce in 1983

Posted on March 14, 2016 by Joe_Williams

This is a photograph I shot from what was once Anderson Hall on the Northwest corner of Broad and Spruce which once housed The Philadelphia College of Art. This is probably the 7th floor where the illustration majors were situated. … Continue reading →

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PCA – The Class of ’68 – Motion Picture

Posted on October 21, 2014 by Joe_Williams

A few weeks ago, Tony Visco handed me a blast from our Alma mater’s past — The Philadelphia College of Art’s yearbook from 1968!This collection of film makers had special significance to me because I recognized one of the graduates … Continue reading →

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