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.

News

Pew Fellows News: Camae Ayewa Receives Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant, Melissa Ho Mounts Exhibition at Smithsonian, Tayarisha Poe Screens Film at Sundance

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

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Ghost River: The Fall & Rise of the Conestoga Exhibition Opening

As part of its Center-supported Redrawing History: The Fall & Rise of the Conestoga project, the Library Company of Philadelphia presents an exhibition featuring the artwork commissioned for its new graphic novel

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Gabriel Martinez

Gabriel Martinez is a visual artist and a 2001 Pew Fellow.

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Denyse Thomasos

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

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Grants & Grantees

Making/Breaking the Binary: Women, Art, & Technology 1968-1985

This exhibition will survey a generation of pioneering female artists in relation to the technology innovators who helped shape the information age.

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Annabeth Rosen

Annabeth Rosen is a visual artist and ceramicist who creates elaborate sculptures that are “volcanic, beastly, catastrophic, and unnervingly funny,” as described by writer and critic Nancy Princenthal.

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Questions of Practice

Excerpt from The Sentient Archive: Artist Sarah Crowner on Painting and Dancing

Artist Sarah Crowner questions the idea of a painting as “fixed and static,” and proposes that a painting is “an archive of all the actions and gestures that surround it.”

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Making/Breaking the Binary: Women, Art & Technology (1968-85) Opening Reception

Curator Kelsey-Halliday Johnson holds an opening reception for her exhibition Making/Breaking the Binary: Women, Art & Technology (1968-85).

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News

Two Center-Funded Publications from Fabric Workshop Document Work of Ann Hamilton, Janine Antoni, Anna Halprin, Stephen Petronio

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(Dis)placed Mural by eL Seed

Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture has co-commissioned a mural by Tunisian street artist eL Seed.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Billy Dufala

Billy Dufala is the co-founder of RAIR and a Philadelphia-based artist engaged in a variety of creative disciplines, including sculpture, performance, digital media, and drawing.

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Event

(ex)CHANGE: History, Place, Presence: Shahzia Sikander Artist Talk

In conjunction with the Center-supported project (ex)CHANGE: History, Place, Presence, Asian Arts Initiative will unveil The Perennial Gaze, a new work by Pakistani-born visual artist Shahzia Sikander.

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Person of the Crowd: Classes and Workshops

The Barnes Foundation will host two educational classes on the history of performance art and urban exploration.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Dan Murphy

Dan Murphy and Anthony Smyrski work together 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

Sound Machines: Kagel’s Zwei Mann Orchester Exhibition

Bowerbird presents an exhibition in conjunction with its Center-supported project, Sound Machines: Mauricio Kagel's Zwei Mann Orchester (Two Man Orchestra).

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Questions of Practice

Fellows Friday: Q&A with Visual Artist Eileen Neff

Visual artist and Pew Fellow Eileen Neff recalls the early works of art that influenced her practice, her most treasured possession, and more.

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Jeanne van Heeswijk

Jeanne van Heeswijk is a Dutch visual artist whose work centers on the complex relationship between public space and urban renewal.

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Elephants on the Avenue: Petitions for Social Justice & Change with Benjamin Volta

Visual artist and Pew Fellow Benjamin Volta will lead a calligraphy and collage workshop.

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Person of the Crowd: Zachary Fabri’s Mourning Stutter

Performance artist Zachary Fabri will present a performance work consisting of a series of walks and performative actions exploring the process of mourning in response to African American murders.

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Grants & Grantees

Planning for Tacita Dean: JG

Tacita Dean conducted site research for JG, a new film inspired by the dystopian vision of British writer J.G. Ballard.

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