Planning for Pat O'Neill Exhibition

Screening (Nadia Hironaka and Matt Suib)

2008

$5,000

Pew Fellows and independent curators Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib developed plans to produce a new experimental film exhibition at International House Philadelphia. The project planned for a presentation of early films by renowned Los Angeles-based filmmaker Pat O'Neill and a new work by Hironaka and Suib, accompanied by a series of works by other experimental filmmakers.

GRANTS & GRANTEES

Brent Wahl

Brent Wahl (Pew Fellow, 2014) works primarily in photography and time-based mediums, transforming everyday materials and detritus into mesmerizing compositions.

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Grants & Grantees

Yinka Shonibare: Magic Ladders

The Barnes Foundation presented a major exhibition of work by Nigerian-born, London-based artist Yinka Shonibare, including a new commission, plus works of sculpture, photography, painting, and installation.

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Event

Barbara Kasten: Stages Opening Celebration

The opening celebration for "Barbara Kasten: Stages*, at the Institute of Contemporary Art.

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Event

Sound Machines: Kagel’s Zwei Mann Orchester Performances

In conjunction with its Center-supported project, Sound Machines, Bowerbird presents six performances of Mauricio Kagel’s Zwei Mann Orchester.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Anthony Smyrski

Anthony Smyrski works with Dan Murphy as the artist duo Megawords. They are well known throughout Philadelphia for installations that are equal parts gathering space, artist studio, and storefront.

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Event

The Lives of Pati Hill and the Problem of the Overlooked Female Artist

Ashton Cooper and Sue Pierce discuss the challenges Pati Hill faced as an artist working in an emerging medium.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Frank Bramblett

Frank Bramblett is a visual artist and a 2000 Pew Fellow.

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Jane Irish

The overall intent of my work is to develop a visual myth about the build up and aftermath of war.

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Grants & Grantees

The Miss Rockaway Armada Discovery Grant

The Philadelphia Art Alliance underwent exhibition planning with artist collective the Miss Rockaway Armada for a project that explored the organization's relationship to its surrounding neighborhood.

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Hank Willis Thomas: Philly Block Project

Conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas will recreate a city block with a series of 1:1 scale photographs of North Philadelphia's people and buildings, installed in the galleries of the PPAC, inviting audiences to consider issues related to gentrification, and setting the stage for public forums and a crowd-sourced neighborhood image archive and exhibition.

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Event

reFORM: Philadelphia School Reform Commission Member Feather Houstoun at Temple Contemporary

In conjunction with the ongoing reFORM project, Temple Contemporary hosts a discussion with Feather Houstoun, member of the Philadelphia School Reform Commission.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Jennifer Levonian

Jennifer Levonian (Pew Fellow, 2009) creates cut-paper animations that explore the ambivalence of everyday life.

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RAIR

Operating onsite at Revolution Recovery, a recycling company in Northeast Philadelphia, RAIR (Recycled Artist in Residency) is an arts organization acting as an artist-in-residency program, a materials supplier for artists and designers, a mouthpiece for outreach and education, and a source for exhibitions.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Alex Klein

Alex Klein is Dorothy and Stephen R. Weber Program Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Eungie Joo

Eungie Joo is the director of art and cultural programs at Instituto Inhotim in Brumadinho, Brazil, a contemporary art complex.

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Lisa Junkin Lopez

Lisa Junkin Lopez is a museum leader, public historian, educator, and executive director of the Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace, a cultural resource owned by Girl Scouts of the USA.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Anuradha Mathur & Dilip da Cunha

The collaborative work of Mathur and da Cunha imagines new possibilities for design of the built environment and explores the lines separating land and water, and urban and rural environments.

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Event

The Women’s Mobile Museum: Panel Discussion

In conjunction with the Women’s Mobile Museum exhibition at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), Philadelphia Photo Arts Center holds a panel discussion.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Visual Artist Ann Hamilton on the Social Connotations of Cloth

Ann Hamilton on her interest in exploring the social and material connotations of cloth.

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News

In Print Soon: The Sentient Archive: Bodies, Performance, and Memory

How does the body serve as a repository for knowledge? On June 26, 2018 we see the release of our latest publication, The Sentient Archive: Bodies, Performance, and Memory.

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