The Goodlands
Through May, free with regular admission of $10, UPenn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 3260 South St., 215-898-4001, penn.museum.
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Community arts program The Goodlands impressed us when it showed the best work of its most recent session at UPenn's Fox Art Gallery in April. Groups of sophisticated, evocative photographs adorned the walls — sunbursts on street corners, row homes rendered in warm tones — compassionately studying the overlooked beauty of a much-maligned section of the city, the Latino Corridor of Fairhill and West Kensington, known as "The Badlands." The photos, by the way, were shot by preteens from those very neighborhoods. Considering the strength of the work we saw coming from a single session, we're excited to see what the best of The Goodlands' entire run looks like. On display through May, Penn Museum's "The Goodlands: Young Photographers Inspiring Hope in North Philadelphia," collects 40 color photographs that achieve exactly what its title promises. Over the past nine years, the program has shown more than 800 North Philly children how to tap into their inner creativity, and shown the rest of us a vision of the area that doesn't necessarily involve poverty and crime.
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