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Second Phase of Culture & Community Partnership Announced

The Mellon Foundation has renewed its support for the UGA – Penn Center project with a new grant

Penn Center Culture & Community
Culture & Community

Penn Center partnership with UGA’s Willson Center to offer public events, artists in residence, classes, & workshops

2022 Public Programs
Public Programs

Culture & Community includes artists-in-residence, community conversations, and Penn Scholars Research Residencies

Penn Center Conversations
Penn Center Conversations

The past, present, & future of a unique culture and community

A group of people sit and stand on a boat with a yellow canopy, looking out at the water on a sunny day.
Summer Research Residencies

Classes & workshops bring students & faculty from UGA, HBCUs, other regional institutions

Culture and Community at the Penn Center Historic District

Call for Submissions: Sam Doyle Artist-in-Residence at the Penn Center

Culture and Community invites submissions for an artist residency to take place during 2027. Submissions are due November 30 ...
Smiling woman with gray curly hair, Artist-in-Residence at Penn Center, wears a patterned blue headband and matching top, posing against a dark gray background.

Artist-in-Residence Cookie Washington partners with The Guardian’s Legacies of Enslavement program at Penn Center

Artist-in-Residence Torreah "Cookie" Washington leads community quilting workshop in partnership with The Guardian’s Legacies of Enslavement program ...
A historic two-story white house at Penn Center with an exterior staircase to an upper balcony and a covered ground-level patio, shaded by large, moss-covered oak trees.

Penn Center receives NPS grant for historic preservation of Butler Building

The National Park Service awarded Penn one of 54 grants for African American Civil Rights Preservation and History ...