All Upcoming Events
DesignPhiladelphia: Architecture of Us
A part of DesignPhilly’s 2026 festival, Architecture of Us traces the story of Philadelphia's rowhome, from its origins housing immigrant communities and multigenerational families, to the pressures reshaping it today.
Pilobolus's UP!
Join Pilobolus’s UP!, where the imaginative whimsy of Mary Poppins meets the kaleidoscopic energy of a night at Studio 54. Participate in an immersive performance.
Bleeds and Dies: A Print Production Workshop
Bleeds and Dies is a print production workshop that bridges the gap between theory and application to produce real world pieces.
An Eye For An Eye
Join us for a screening of An Eye for an Eye, co-hosted by The Hamdeli Project & Middle Eastern Center at UPenn, with a live Q&A with Director Tanaz Eshaghian and Producer and Cinematographer Gelareh Kiazand.
ARIMAS Metal Lab Workshop: Sterling Silver Stacking Rings
In this beginner-friendly workshop, you will learn the foundations of traditional metalsmithing while making a set of sterling silver rings from start to finish. Measure, form, solder, texture, file, sand, and polish your rings inside the intimate working ARIMAS Metal Lab.
ARIMAS Metal Lab Workshop: Sterling Silver Stacking Rings
In this beginner-friendly workshop, you will learn the foundations of traditional metalsmithing while making a set of sterling silver rings from start to finish. Measure, form, solder, texture, file, sand, and polish your rings inside the intimate working ARIMAS Metal Lab.
2026 AIA Philadelphia Design Celebration
Every year AIA Philadelphia presents a number of awards honoring the individuals that help shape our organization in addition to celebrating the esteemed firm winners of our annual Design Awards competition.
The Weaving Circle: Drop Spindle for Beginners
Learn the basics of spinning yarn using a top whorl drop spindle. You’ll learn the fundamental techniques of spinning fiber into yarn, from drafting fiber to adding twist.
The Ceramics Department: Girl Dinner
Students will construct their trays through different hand building options such as, slab, coil-building, or pinch. The work will be dried over two weeks, bisque-fired and dipped in a clear or colored glaze of your choosing. It will be available for pick up 2-4 weeks after class.
ARIMAS Metal Lab Workshop: Sterling Silver Studs
In this beginner friendly workshop, you will transform small pieces of sterling silver into polished ball studs from start to finish inside the intimate working ARIMAS Metal Lab.
ARIMAS Metal Lab Workshop: Sterling Silver Stacking Rings
In this beginner-friendly workshop, you will learn the foundations of traditional metalsmithing while making a set of sterling silver rings from start to finish. Measure, form, solder, texture, file, sand, and polish your rings inside the intimate working ARIMAS Metal Lab.
The Ceramics Department: Girl Dinner
Students will construct their trays through different hand building options such as, slab, coil-building, or pinch. The work will be dried over two weeks, bisque-fired and dipped in a clear or colored glaze of your choosing.
The Ceramics Department: Girl Dinner
Students will construct their trays through different hand building options such as, slab, coil-building, or pinch. The work will be dried over two weeks, bisque-fired and dipped in a clear or colored glaze of your choosing.
ARIMAS Metal Lab Workshop: Sterling Silver Stacking Rings
In this beginner-friendly workshop, you will learn the foundations of traditional metalsmithing while making a set of sterling silver rings from start to finish. Measure, form, solder, texture, file, sand, and polish your rings inside the intimate working ARIMAS Metal Lab.
Philly Fiber Fest
This one-day event will bring together fiber producers, artisans, textile businesses, artists, educators, and fiber enthusiasts to showcase the incredible range of materials, products, and skills being cultivated across the Commonwealth.
ARIMAS Metal Lab Workshop: Sterling Silver Stacking Rings
In this beginner-friendly workshop, you will learn the foundations of traditional metalsmithing while making a set of sterling silver rings from start to finish. Measure, form, solder, texture, file, sand, and polish your rings inside the intimate working ARIMAS Metal Lab.
The Ceramics Department: Girl Dinner
Students will construct their trays through different hand building options such as, slab, coil-building, or pinch. The work will be dried over two weeks, bisque-fired and dipped in a clear or colored glaze of your choosing.
ARIMAS Metal Lab Workshop: Sterling Silver Studs
In this beginner friendly workshop, you will transform small pieces of sterling silver into polished ball studs from start to finish inside the intimate working ARIMAS Metal Lab.
ARIMAS Metal Lab Workshop: Sterling Silver Stacking Rings
In this beginner-friendly workshop, you will learn the foundations of traditional metalsmithing while making a set of sterling silver rings from start to finish. Measure, form, solder, texture, file, sand, and polish your rings inside the intimate working ARIMAS Metal Lab.
Comic Relief Philadelphia: Neighborhood Festival
Comic Relief Philadelphia invites the community for a a day of free neighborly fun, good vibes, and giving back.
Huckleberry Jim: A Philadelphia Homecoming with Adam Nelson
Thirty-five years after leaving Philadelphia with a theater degree and setting out on the journey that would eventually become Huckleberry Jim , author Adam Nelson is coming back to where it began. On October 21, Nelson returns to the former grounds of his alma mater, the University of the Arts, for a special celebration and conversation at The Village of Industry & Art.
Bulletin 03: Kindred Launch Gathering
Bulletin 03: Kindred Launch Gathering celebrates the newest issue of Monument Lab’s print publication, Bulletin. Edited by Monument Lab Senior Curator Yolanda Wisher, Bulletin 03: Kindred gathers a constellation of writers, artists, poets, and thinkers whose work expands what it means to be—and become—kin. The evening brings their contributions into conversation through readings, making, food, and fellowship.
A Night on the Town: We Outside!
Join the Justice Alliance for Design Education (JADE) Fellows for a night out with fellow creatives! DesignPhiladelphia’s summer JADE Fellowship centers Black and Brown design students, but this party is for everyone. #NoFOMO
DesignPhiladelphia: The Next Now Design Symposium: Innovation in Housing
Presented alongside the exhibition The Architecture of Us, this half-day symposium brings together architects, policymakers, and housing advocates to explore how Philadelphia can build more homes, more affordably, and more connectedly. Panels will examine how these issues are playing out nationally, and what it will take to act on them locally, from legalizing single-stair apartment buildings to expanding accessory dwelling units, shared living models, and accessible design for aging in place.
DesignPhiladelphia: What is Experience Design? Graphic Design + Interior Design + Beyond
As part of DesignPhiladelphia’s 2026 Festival, faculty and students from Thomas Jefferson University’s Graphic Design and Interior Design programs come together with practicing Experience Design professionals to discuss how graphic and spatial design intersect in this growing field. The panel offers current and prospective students a firsthand look at the collaborative, cross-disciplinary work possible within Jefferson’s new College of Architecture, Design & Engineering (CADE).
DesignPhiladelphia: Rewriting the Family Home: Three Philadelphia Authors Imagine A Way Out of the Single-Family Housing Trap
As part of DesignPhiladelphia’s 2026 Festival, Design Philadelphia invites three Philadelphia authors to discuss their visions for “a way out of the single-family housing trap.” Join Design Philadelphia at Village of Industry & Art for this engaging book talk.
DesignPhiladelphia: home:bodies
A part of DesignPhilly’s 2026 festival, This installation uses textiles as primary architectural elements whose form remains intentionally unresolved until activated through inhabitation. Join us as gathering spaces, intimate enclosures, filtered thresholds, and unexpected passages emerge and disappear from Thursday, October 1–11, 2026 at Village of Industry & Art in the hidden outdoor courtyard.
DesignPhiladelphia: A People’s Philly
A part of DesignPhilly’s 2026 festival, A People’s Philly is a collaborative public exhibition and programming project grounded in spatial imagination as a political practice. At its core, it invites viewers to consider how collective care might transform the city and the possibilities we envision for its future.
Sounds of Philadelphia
This summer, VIA’s facade is transformed into a daily open-air listening experience, celebrating the music, culture, and creative spirit of Philadelphia.
FREE & open to the public Mon-Sun 11am-1pm
Ongoing Exhibition: Kay Healy "Don't Trash a Good Thing"
Presented in partnership with Paradigm Gallery + Studio. On display at Village of Industry & Art through May 30, 2026.
FREE & open to the public Mon-Fri 9am-4pm
Monument Lab Pop-Up: Sasha Stiles “A Living Poem: The Codex”
Monument Lab’s Pop-Up is a temporary retail, learning, and exhibition space at Village of Industry & Art through the end of July. Log into the digital poetic work of Sasha Stiles, currently installed in the space.
FREE & open to the public Mon-Fri 9am-4pm