Addams Gallery
Charles Addams Fine Arts Hall
200 S. 36th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Named in memory of the former Penn student and world-renowned cartoonist, Charles Addams Fine Arts Hall (200 S. 36th Street) was dedicated in 2001 as the first permanent home for the Fine Arts at Penn. Formerly Penn's Faculty Club, the building was renovated--with glass curtain walls, and open, light-filled interiors--to provide facilities for 2,500 students per semester.

Facilities include the Karesh Studios, housing drawing, painting, and video facilities, and the Gutman-Nathan Clay Center, equipped with three ceramics studios, a kiln room, and plaster and glazing facilities. With its digital media studios and extensive photography, video and animation studios, Charles Addams Fine Arts Hall supports not only PennDesign, but also classes for the Annenberg School for Communications and the Digital Media Design program. The Charles Addams Gallery, an expansive gallery space on the first floor, exhibits work by students, faculty and visiting artists.

The Kelly Family gates at the entrance to the Addams Hall courtyard were designed by Mark Lueders, MFA'93, a PennDesign alumnus and sculptor on Penn's Fine Arts faculty, who incorporated finely crafted bronze sculptures of hands and tools that relate to the making of paintings, drawings, sculpture and clay. The landscaped courtyard within is animated with silhouettes of the Addams Family characters.