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A Center Guide to the Semiquincentennial

Sounds of Democracy, New Perspectives on History, and Contemporary Voices Reflecting on America 250

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Brandywine Workshop and Archives

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Carmen Arteaga demonstrates the intricate bobbin lace-making technique called mundillo, or “little world.” Guatemalan and Puerto Rican designers are leading textile workshops for Taller Puertorriqueño’s Tramando. Photo by Xavier Garcia, courtesy of Taller Puertorriqueño.

Tramando

Taller Puertorriqueño

Coming UpTramando Exhibition

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Nathalie Joachim, 2025 Pew Fellow. Photo by Erin Patrice O'Brien.

“As a Haitian-American performer and composer, my creative practice carries the legacy of my heritage in that it is rooted in storytelling and human connectivity.”

— Nathalie Joachim, Pew Fellow, 2025

A Photograph of Don Buchla with an assortment of his creations from across his career. Photo courtesy of BuchlaUSA.

Instruments That Talk Back: Celebrating the Legacy of Don Buchla

Museum of Music Technology / EMEAPP

Coming UpInstruments That Talk Back exhibition

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Carmen Maria Machado, 2023 Pew Fellow. Photo by Neal Santos.

“To me, writing is both a practice of synthesizing human experience through language and interrogating the role of that synthesis in the experience of being alive.”

— Carmen Maria Machado, Pew Fellow 2023

The First Salute: An Untold Story of the American Revolution at the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History, 2026. Photo by Christopher Brown  / Shoot From Within Photography.