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: 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

Caroline Lathan-Stiefel

Caroline Lathan-Stiefel creates large-scale, immersive sculptural installations from textile and found objects to form what she calls "drawings in space."

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Multi-media Artist Mariam Ghani on the Tensions between Private and Public Narratives

Mariam Ghani reflects on shifting narratives that exist “in counterpoint to each other.”

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Thomas Nozkowski

Noted abstract painter Thomas Nozkowski is known for his richly colored and intimately scaled paintings.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Francis Kéré on Architecture and Community Collaboration

Francis Kéré on why every architecture project is “a product of collaboration.”

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Kukuli Velarde

Kukuli Velarde is a visual artist and a 2003 Pew Fellow.

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Grants & Grantees

Room 21

A performance and newly commissioned album-length musical composition by Jace Clayton will take its inspiration from the artwork and record collection of Albert Barnes—including a recording which is credited with introducing African American spirituals to the wider world—offering audiences a way to reconnect with and to reimagine the Barnes Foundation collection through sound.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Nadia Hironaka

Nadia Hironaka is a visual artist and a 2006 Pew Fellow.

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Event

Demetrius Oliver: Canicular

Demetrius Oliver: Canicular is an innovative exhibition of newly commissioned works that will transform the Print Center's galleries, including a live telescope projection of Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky.

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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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Event

Terracotta Warriors of the First Emperor

For its project Enhancing Views of History: Terracotta Warriors and Augmented Reality, The Franklin Institute will enhance the visitor experience of its exhibition with augmented reality (AR) technology.

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A Fierce Kind of Love: Here. Stories from Selinsgrove Center and KenCrest Services

"Connecting Through Story: Lives Lived Apart" is the result of an oral history and photography project connecting Pennsylvanians with and without intellectual disabilities.

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Grants & Grantees

Holding It Down: The Veterans' Dreams Project

The experiences of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans will be illuminated in this multimedia work created by MacArthur Fellow and jazz pianist/composer Vijay Iyer and poet/librettist Mike Ladd, in combination with a publication of local veterans' writings produced through a partnership with the veteran-focused arts organization Warrior Writers.

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Frankenstein & Dracula: Gothic Monsters, Modern Science

The Rosenbach of the Free Library of Philadelphia presents Frankenstein & Dracula, an exhibition highlighting two seminal Gothic works that probe the intersection of scientific literature and social anxieties.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Francis Kéré on Creating Architecture that “Serves Humanity”

Francis Kéré on why the purpose of architecture is to “serve humanity.”

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Enid Mark

Enid Mark (1932–2008) was a visual artist and a 2001 Pew Fellow.

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Event

Charles Sheeler: Fashion, Photography, and Sculptural Form Film Series

As part of its exhibition Charles Sheeler: Fashion, Photography, and Sculptural Form, the James A. Michener Art Museum presents a series of films from the 1920s.

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University of the Arts

Established in 1876, the University of the Arts is one of the nation's only universities dedicated solely to educating students in the visual and performing arts and design.

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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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Event

Asian Arts Initiative presents "Finding Comfort" & "Who's Who"

As part of the Center-funded Consumption: A Project on Pearl Street conceived by Rick Lowe, an ongoing revitalization of Pearl Street, Asian Arts Initiative presents two installations, "Finding Comfort" and "Who's Who."

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