2017 by the Numbers
Awarded through 53 grants
Performances, Exhibitions, & Events
of Pew Fellowships in the Arts
Awarded through 53 grants
Performances, Exhibitions, & Events
of Pew Fellowships in the Arts
Artist Cai Guo-Qiang on audience participation in public art. Filmed at the artist's Philadelphia studio and on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway on August 11, 2017.
Choreographer Boris Charmatz on “re-enchanting” public space through dance. Filmed at Drexel University URBN Annex on September 8, 2016.
Michael Rakowitz on threading disparate sources into a cohesive whole. Filmed at The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage on February 17, 2017.
Our short film celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Pew Fellowships in the Arts.
Pew Fellows and Poets Sonia Sanchez and Major Jackson on teaching. Filmed at The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage on April 25, 2017.
The coming year brings new, imaginative Center-funded projects to the Philadelphia region. Browse highlights below and stay up to date year-round by subscribing to our monthly e-newsletter.
We also look forward to the debut of a new publication: The Sentient Archive: Bodies, Performance, and Memory. Edited by Bill Bissell, director of Performance at the Center, and Linda Caruso Haviland, associate professor at Bryn Mawr College, The Sentient Archive brings together the work of leading scholars and practitioners in dance, performance, science, and the visual arts to address issues of history, memory, and agency, and the body. Learn more>>