Art and access to it are essential to the fabric of civic life. As a multidisciplinary grantmaker dedicated to fostering a vibrant and diverse cultural ecology in the Philadelphia region, the Center annually awards grants to organizations and artists, whose imaginative programs, events, and artistic work inspire audiences and make Philadelphia a thriving hub for culture.
The Center’s 44 new grants support the ideas and creative practices shaping Philadelphia’s cultural landscape and civic life. Across museum galleries and theater stages, and in public spaces ranging from cafes to historic sites, our newest grantees will create meaningful cultural experiences that spark curiosity, enliven shared spaces, and connect communities.
Ars Nova Workshop
A retrospective at the Fabric Workshop and Museum centers around Swedish visual artist and designer Moki Cherry, bringing together textiles, paintings and drawings, music, video, and other media.
Read moreWoodmere Art Museum
A multi-site retrospective for ceramic artist and Pew Fellow Syd Carpenter spans her five-decade career, centering on themes in her body of work, including historical Black American land practices and clay as a metaphor for collective memory.
Read morePennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
A new “arts hub” leverages space in PAFA’s contemporary Samuel M.V. Hamilton building, revitalizing its campus and creating new revenue streams.
Read moreThe Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
Designed in collaboration with Indigenous community advisors, a new exhibition revisits the 200-plus carefully preserved North American plant specimens collected during the 1804–06 Lewis and Clark expedition.
Read moreTempesta di Mare – Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra
Concerts informed by new scholarship illuminate the previously overlooked music and lives of female composers of baroque Venice.
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“My art is an act of testifying, moving us closer to processing the unprocessed and engaging our individual and collective power to activate our own healing.”
— Shavon Norris, Movement and theater artist
“My work is an effort to look beyond the impositions of society to illustrate the truths of Black masculine identity and reframe Black men as complex, nuanced, and multidimensional.”
— Zac Manuel, Filmmaker
“My work concerns itself with developing a creative model that altogether obliterates musical boundaries, expands consciousness by going inward, and facilitates emotional transcendence.”
— Tyshawn Sorey, Composer and musicianTotal grant dollars awarded
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Total number of Pew Fellowships for artists
