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.

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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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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Melanie Bilenker

Melanie Bilenker (Pew Fellow, 2010) translates the historic art of Victorian hair jewelry into work that reflects upon the contemporary era.

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Adelaide Paul

"The things to me that are the most interesting," says visual artist and 2007 Pew Fellow Adelaide Paul, "are the things that by their very nature have no answers."

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William Larson

William Larson is a media artist and a 2001 Pew Fellow.

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Rowhouse Workshop

This exhibition and website will investigate Philadelphia's long history of row house development as an architectural territory to be mined for physical and social histories, new ideas, and urban innovations.

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SPACES: International Artist Residency Initiative at The Village of Arts and Humanities

The Village will host two accomplished West African social practice artists, Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh and Olanre Tejuoso, during residencies in which they will collaborate with north central Philadelphia's families to design and execute a public art project, nurturing a space for community members to creatively transform their physical landscape.

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Monument Lab: A Citywide Public Art and History Exhibition

"What is an appropriate monument for the current city of Philadelphia?" Five temporary public artworks, created by artists including Mel Chin, Emeka Ogboh, Kaitlin Pomerantz, Kara Crombe, and Alexander Rosenberg, along with on-site "laboratories" for public feedback considered this question and notions of monumentality within the civic sphere.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Valerie Cassel Oliver

Valerie Cassel Oliver is senior curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. She has organized numerous exhibitions that have earned national and international acclaim.

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habitus: Conversation with Ann Hamilton and Maria Popova

The Fabric Workshop and Museum presents a conversation between visual artist Ann Hamilton and author and art critic Maria Popova.

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Sarah Crowner

Sarah Crowner’s diverse practice ranges from paintings and ceramics to sculpture and theater curtains.

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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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Eileen Neff

Eileen Beff is a visual artist and 1994 Pew Fellow.

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Lee Tusman

Lee Tusman is an independent curator based in Philadelphia whose projects straddle the intersection of ideas that are socially-based and urban in nature, with a focus on contemporary new media.

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Auditus Natura Terminale at the PHS Pop Up Garden

A new site-specific sound work by research-based artist Abby Sohn at the PHS Pop Up Garden.

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Philly Block Project Archive Collective: South Kensington 19122 Opening Reception

Philadelphia Photo Arts Center presents a community exhibition comprised of crowd-sourced photographs from residents of Philadelphia's South Kensington neighborhood.

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Invisible City: Philadelphia and the Vernacular Avant-garde

Philadelphia’s significant contributions to visual culture in the 1950s through the 1970s are highlighted and explored in an exhibition, a publication, and performances.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Curator Koyo Kouoh on Transdisciplinary Practice

Curator and artistic director of RAW Material Company Koyo Kouoh discusses the ascendance of transdisciplinary practices.

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Winifred Lutz

Winifred Lutz is an installation artist and a 1992 Pew Fellow.

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Philly Block Project: Arts Carnival

The Philadelphia Photo Arts Center presents an arts carnival including artmaking workshops, carnival rides and games, and performances.

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Fritz Dietel

Fritz Dietel's (Pew Fellow, 2007) inspiration comes from observation of botanic and aquatic natural forms. His pieces, quite labor-intensive, are mainly constructed from strips and shards of band-sawed wood.

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