Picture Day 2: Philadelphia Artists & Arts Workers
Philadelphia Museum of Art Steps
November 8, 2026, 12:00 pm
Rain date: November 11, 2026
Picture Day 2 recreates and continues the original 2012 Picture Day that was a part of the City Wide, bringing together Philadelphia artists, arts workers, organizers, educators, performers, and members of the broader creative community for a large-scale group photograph on the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
On Sunday, November 8 (rain date of Sunday, November 22), Practice will facilitate a group picture of every artist and artworker in Philadelphia. This picture will be taken on the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which serves both as a place iconic to Philadelphia and as an important location for art and culture within the city. The resulting photograph, along with documentation taken by people at the event, will be shown at Practice Gallery in November of this year as a part of Collective Futures, a collective exhibition of artist-run spaces. If you are an artist or creative, please save the date. You are a part of something important, we celebrate the people who make up the city’s creative ecosystem.. Let us capture it!
Picture Day 2 is a part of Collective Futures, a broader initiative celebrating and documenting Philadelphia’s independent arts community. Picture Day 2 is generously supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
As part of Picture Day 2, Practice Gallery will be transformed into a professional photography studio, creating an opportunity for Philadelphia artists to have a professional portrait taken free of charge.
Artists are invited to visit Practice Gallery on:
First Friday October 2, 6-9 pm
Saturdays & Sundays , 2–6 PM
No fee is required to participate. Artists can simply stop by during portrait hours to have their photograph taken.
The individual portraits will become part of a physical Picture Day 2 yearbook, creating a lasting record of the artists and creative community participating in the project. The large Picture Day 2 group photograph will appear as the centerfold of the publication, connecting the individual portraits to the larger collective image.
The yearbook will serve as a physical archive of Philadelphia’s arts community in 2026, documenting the people who are making, organizing, teaching, exhibiting, performing, and building culture throughout the city.
About Practice
Practice Gallery seeks to support artist practices that focus on performance, participation, and experimentation. Practice’s governing body is composed of a group of artists and art workers who produce or do not produce art works in a variety of mediums both physical and metaphysical. Our current members include Jessica Beckwith, RIchie Brown, Dave Hannon, Rich Hogan, Jerry Kaba, Margaret Pezalla-Granlund, and Alfred Rosenbluth. We meet each month to decide how best to govern and curate the space. Each exhibition is determined by a democratic consensus.