Local Culture, Global Impact

"America's most astonishing choir" with "an embrace of the new, a social conscience, and fearless technique."

—The New York Times features The Crossing

"I was  interested in the idea of black and Jewish diasporas as being intertwined and…in the space simultaneously hosting two different cultural identities."

—Pew Fellow David Hartt speaks with The Art Newspaper

"We’re trying to let the voices of people who are incarcerated be a springboard for deeper conversations about criminal justice reform." 

—The New York Times features Eastern State Penitentiary

"The course of Lattimore’s career was altered when she won the Pew Fellowship." 

—The Philadelphia Inquirer profiles Pew Fellow Mary Lattimore

The exhibition "couldn’t be more relevant—or present a more compelling argument for ecologically sensitive design."

—The Philadelphia Inquirer reviews PennDesign’s Design With Nature Now
 

"A sense of mystery and wonder hovers in these images."

—The New Yorker reviews Pew Fellow Emmet Gowin's book of photography

"A generous foray into the previously unturned stones of [Ed] Emshwiller’s personal and formal obsessions, spilling across the city of Philadelphia…"

—Art in America reviews Lightbox Film Center’s Dream Dance
 

A public parade with a purpose: "to reflect on historic losses and an all-too-modern health crisis."

—The Washington Post reports on the Mütter Museum’s Spit Spreads Death