Founded as America’s first artist club, the Philadelphia Sketch Club serves as a community center for visual artists — a welcoming home where creators of all backgrounds come together to learn, grow, and collaborate. Through education, mentorship, exhibitions, and professional programs, we enable artists to develop their skills, build their careers, and enrich Philadelphia’s vibrant cultural life.

Our Actions

The Philadelphia Sketch Club supports and nurtures working visual artists by providing studio space through our workshops program and by providing exhibition and networking opportunities. We support the appreciation of the visual arts by providing free public access to our exhibitions. We support visual arts education through our low cost, open enrollment workshop program. Lastly, we promote the historical value of the visual arts to the community by providing free public access to our historic collections and facility.

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