{"id":938939,"date":"2026-07-16T13:55:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T13:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/938939\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T13:55:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T13:55:16","slug":"the-philadelphia-sketch-club-is-the-oldest-artist-club-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/938939\/","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":3,"featured_media":938940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,8067,462,472,1448,2830,1311,18823,81626,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-938939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-america","tag-artist","tag-club","tag-history","tag-pa","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-philly","tag-sketch","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116930001766514508","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=938939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/938940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}