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.

Collaborators & Colleagues

Carin Kuoni

Carin Kuoni is director/chief curator of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School. 

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Event

ALTERNATIVE CURRENCIES: TACTICS FOR STAYING RELEVANT AND RADICAL

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Strange Currencies, this forum of independent contemporary art groups and spaces from around the country will explore what it means to be (and stay) "alternative."

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News

Pew Fellows News: Jennifer Higdon Awarded Nemmers Prize in Music Composition, King Britt’s Orchestral collaboration, Plays from Jennifer Kidwell and Bruce Graham in the News, and More.

This month’s Pew Fellows news includes new exhibitions and performances from coast-to-coast, critically-acclaimed plays, and a national award in music composition.

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Celebrate South Asia

In conjunction with the reopening of its eight South Asian art galleries, the Museum will present a series of family-friendly events.

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Paul Evans: Crossing Boundaries and Crafting Modernism

The first comprehensive survey of Paul Evans' work will document the artist's critical role in the mid-century American studio furniture movement.

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Grants & Grantees

Release

Filmmaker Bill Morrison and composer Vijay Iyer created a site-specific installation in Eastern State Penitentiary, a once abandoned 19th-century prison.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Helen Molesworth

Distinguished scholar, writer and curator Helen Molesworth is chief curator of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Denyse Thomasos

Denyse Thomasos (1964–2012) was a visual artist and a 1995 Pew Fellow.

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Philadelphia Assembled

Dutch artist Jeanne van Heeswijk initiated collaborations that reimagined Philadelphia's changing landscape through a series of installations and events across the city, laying the foundation for an installation that activated the Philadelphia Museum of Art's Perelman Building.

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Questions of Practice

Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview With Visual Artist Michelle Angela Ortiz

Visual artist Michelle Angela Ortiz has designed and created over 50 large-scale public works nationally and internationally. She maintains a practice that examines issues of immigration, inequality, and human rights.

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Questions of Practice: Artist Cai Guo-Qiang on Audience Participation in Public Art

Contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qiang describes the role of audience participation in his large-scale public art installation for Philadelphia’s Benjamin Franklin Parkway.

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Event

Tone Poems & Light Stories: The Great Migration

The African American Museum in Philadelphia will present an exhibition of works originally commissioned for Scribe Video Center’s Center-funded project The Great Migration: A City Transformed (1916-30).

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Rebecca Westcott

Rebecca Westcott (1976–2004) was a visual artist and a 2004 Pew Fellow.

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Kasten in Context: New Peers with Kasten and special guests

The second in a series of events programmed around the exhibition Barbara Kasten: Stages, the ICA hosts a conversation between Kasten herself and representatives from a younger generation of artists who have found inspiration in her work and process.

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Grants & Grantees

AUX Curatorial Fellowship Program

Member-run artist collective Vox Populi will launch a curatorial fellowship program dedicated to performance art, hosting five curatorial fellows in total over a period of two years.

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News

Pew Fellows News: Interviews with Jamaladeen Tacuma and Lorene Cary, New Works from Michelle Angela Ortiz and Brian Teare, and More

Catch up on this month’s Pew Fellows news, including the latest recognition, new works, and press coverage.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Nami Yamamoto

Pew Fellow Nami Yamamoto's cut-paper installations reflect the hundreds of natural and man-made objects she consistently collects, serving as visual resources and inspirations for her practice.

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Grants & Grantees

Ally

Ally is a performance-as-exhibition, conceived by MacArthur Fellow Janine Antoni in collaboration with pioneering choreographer Anna Halprin and contemporary dance artist Stephen Petronio.

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Gerald Cyrus, Jr.

Gerald Cyrus, Jr. is a visual artist and a 2005 Pew Fellow.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Koyo Kouoh

Koyo Kouoh is the founding artistic director of RAW Material Company, a center for art, knowledge, and society in Dakar, Senegal.

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