{"id":244881,"date":"2026-07-16T14:14:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T14:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/244881\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T14:14:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T14:14:29","slug":"the-philadelphia-sketch-club-is-the-oldest-artist-club-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/244881\/","title":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia Sketch Club is the oldest artist club in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ByTom Kretschmer<\/p>\n<p>Thursday, July 16, 2026 1:24PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"The Philadelphia Sketch Club is the oldest artist club in America\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">Philadelphia, Pennsylvania &#8212; Take a tour inside the very old, very colorful and immensely influential gallery space\/clubhouse of the Philadelphia Sketch Club!<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">It is the oldest operating artist organization in America.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">It was founded in 1860 by students from PAFA, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The sketch club welcomes all artists of many disciplines and offers courses, live model drawings, gallery space, workshops and exhibitions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">For more information, please visit <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sketchclub.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/www.sketchclub.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ByTom Kretschmer Thursday, July 16, 2026 1:24PM Philadelphia, Pennsylvania &#8212; Take a tour inside the very old, very&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[13447,26724,94,69,71,70,7625,104904],"class_list":["post-244881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-artist","tag-club","tag-history","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philly","tag-sketch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}