# Event Details - **Event Name**: Ralph Lemon: The Fugitivity of Water - **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 18 Sep, 2026 at 06:00 pm – Fri, 18 Sep, 2026 at 08:00 pm (-04:00) - **Event Description**: Lecture-performance by David Evans Family Artist-in-Residence, Ralph Lemon.About this EventPlease join us for The Fugitivity of Water, a lecture-performance by Ralph Lemon, the David Evans Family Artist-in-Residence at the Arthur Ross Gallery. This event will be held in the Kleinman Forum, 4th floor, Fisher Fine Arts Library.Over the course of the summer, Lemon conducted research exploring architectural shadows, drawing on the Penn Libraries collections and the architecture of Frank Furness's landmark Anne & Jerome Fisher Fine Arts Library. This lecture-performance will integrate Lemon's ongoing artistic exploration on water as a metaphor.This event is curated by Emily Zimmerman, Director of Exhibitions and Curatorial Affairs at the Arthur Ross Gallery. About Ralph LemonRalph Lemon has spent more than four decades working across choreography, writing, drawing, and performance. He founded the Ralph Lemon Dance Company in 1985 and led it for a decade before pursuing long-form, research-driven projects, a turn that reshaped his practice and helped redefine the terms of postmodern performance in New York. In the years since, his work has moved fluidly between the stage, the museum, and the page, earning him recognition as one of the essential American artists of his generation.Works by Lemon are in important public collections such as the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Modern Art, and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Currently he is a Visual Arts Mentor at Columbia University School of the Arts. He has held fellowships and residencies at Yale University, Stanford University, Brown University, Temple University, Princeton University, the Krannert Center at the University of Illinois, and the Museum of Modern Art.Among his many awards, Lemon received a 2020 MacArthur “Genius” Grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. In 2022 he won the Bucksbaum Award for his work included in that year’s Whitney Biennial, and in 2024 he was awarded a Pew Fellowship in the Arts. Lemon received a 2015 National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama. He is a 2018 recipient of the Heinz Family Foundation Award, and a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship. Lemon was honored with one of the first Doris Duke Performing Artist Awards (2012); he was also one of the first artists to receive the United States Artists Fellowship (2006).About the David Evans Family Artist ResidencyThe David Evans Family Artist-in-Residence program at the Arthur Ross Gallery is made possible by the generous support of David Evans. He earned his MBA at Penn’s Wharton School in 1970 and received an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from Muskingum College in 2008. After retiring from an investment career, he partnered in real estate development and historic home renovations.Image credit: photograph by Ralph Lemon - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/philadelphia/ralph-lemon-the-fugitivity-of-water/100001996826666312 - **Event Categories**: fitness, Art, fine-arts, Business, Entertainment, Exhibitions, Workshops, performances - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - Duration: 2 hours - Location: Penn Kleinman Center for Energy Policy - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Philadelphia - **state**: PA - **country**: United States - **location**: Penn Kleinman Center for Energy Policy - **lat**: 39.9516901 - **long**: -75.1924858 - **full address**: Penn Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, 220 South 34th Street, Philadelphia, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Ralph Lemon: The Fugitivity of Water - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events10/banners/733700945eff21342470586f965a6c2b8e9376107eacf4b0cde7beb707c108ef-rimg-w1032-h740-dcf8f8f8-gmir.jpg?v=1787204316 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Ralph Lemon: The Fugitivity of Water being held? - **A:** Ralph Lemon: The Fugitivity of Water takes place on Fri, 18 Sep, 2026 at 06:00 pm to Fri, 18 Sep, 2026 at 08:00 pm at Penn Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, 220 South 34th Street, Philadelphia, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Ralph Lemon: The Fugitivity of Water? - **A:** Ralph Lemon: The Fugitivity of Water is organized by Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania. - **Q**: Who is this event for? 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