TRIPOD is a year-long residency that brings Drexel and local high school students together with community members to document life in Philadelphia.
DEVIN WELSH
HAPPENING NOW
HAPPENING NOW
teddy poneman
seeding joy
Join us for a new interactive workshop series for all ages created in collaboration with the Museum of Black Joy and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Free admission to the PMA with registration.
Lillian Fenzil
Brenda Bailey
Morgan Jackson
Morgan Jackson
Katie Singley
Pamela Blanding-Godbolt
Brenda Bailey
Morgan Jackson
Victoria Huggins-Puerifoy
Norman Cain
Victoria Lambert
Ibrahim Kamara
Victoria Lambert
2024-25
members
ages 18 through 83
Carol McDuffy
Victoria Lambert
Victoria Huggins-Peurifoy
Brenda Bailey
Pamela Blanding-Godbolt
Norman Cain
Katie Singley
Ibrahim Kamara
Lillian Fenzil
Emelie Ingle
Morgan Jackson
Elaina Harewood
Ben Guidry
origins
Canon has been the lead supporter of TRIPOD since the program's inception in 2017. Eight years later, we're still bringing people together across generations to share stories and change lives.
lauren lowe
INSIGHTS
with
LOWELL NOTTAGE
Led by Dr. Ayana Allen-Handy (School of Education), this Community-driven Participatory Action Research study examines how intergenerational arts programming can strengthen civic engagement and catalyze transformative solutions.
ALUMNI WORK
ALUMNI WORK
Mark Dawkins
Kaleena Lettich
Kaliyah Pitts
Natasha Hajo
Devin Welsh
Kirsten Kashock
Dejah McIntosh
Kaliyah Pitts
Amy Gottsegen
Natasha Hajo
Andrea Walls
Calvin Kiniale
Lauren Lowe
P A S T E X H I B I T I O N S
Seeing
philadelphia
TRIPOD members worked in in response to Atwater Kent Collection images of 18th-20th century life in Philadelphia. Questions that rose up: What is a city? Who is it for? Who serves? Who is served? Who decides? Who disrupts?
Andrea walls, lead artist
ATWATER KENT x TRIPOD at
P A S T E X H I B I T I O N S
BUT WE
KEEP GOING
In summer 2021, members of Paul Robeson High School graduating class had their portraits projected seven stories high for all the city to see.
Devin Welsh '20, ArtistYear AmeriCorps Fellow
P A S T E X H I B I T I O N S
A NEW KIND
OF HOUSE
This retrospective of TRIPOD photography and writing displayed alongside and in conversation with pieces from The Drexel Collection engaged in a rich dialogue about the changing face of our university and surrounding neighborhoods.
Lori Waselchuk, curator
P A S T E X H I B I T I O N S
PEOPLE, PLACES, PORTRAITS
TRIPOD celebrated Year 1 with an exhibition and reading at the Free Library of Philadelphia, Central Parkway. Acute observations of their neighborhoods, filled with textures, memories, and stories, evoked a community in constant flux.