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

Ralph Rugoff

Ralph Rugoff is director of the Hayward Gallery at the Southbank Centre in London.

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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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News

Pew Fellows News: Raphael Xavier’s Hip-Hop Practice in Visual Art Exhibition, James Ijames’ ‘Kill Move Paradise’ at The Wilma Theater, and Leah Stein’s Site-Specific Dance at Woodmere Art Museum

This month, Pew Fellows offer premiere performances and exhibitions with works in photography, film, theater, dance, and music.

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Event

STUDIO CONVERSATIONS: MINERVA CUEVAS AND NATO THOMPSON

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Strange Currencies, The Galleries at Moore host a conversation between Mexico City-based artist and activist Minerva Cuevas and Creative Time Chief Curator Nato Thompson about the effects of socially engaged art practices.

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Grants & Grantees

Fighting for Democracy Discovery Grant

The National Constitution Center planned a new hybrid performance/exhibition experience in conjunction with Fighting for Democracy, a traveling exhibition about World War II.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Pepón Osorio

Pepón Osorio is a visual artist and a 2006 Pew Fellow.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

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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Event

Sonic Migration: Morning Comes

Created by artist duo Mendi + Keith Obadike, the sound installation plays shifting musical harmonies that are triggered by sunlight at Tindley Temple United Methodist Church.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Leroy Johnson

Leroy Johnson (Pew Fellow, 2014) is a mixed-media artist whose work takes the form of painting, collage, and assemblage sculpture. A native of Philadelphia, his work is reflective of his many experiences in the inner city.

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Event

Philly Block Project: Preface

Philadelphia Photo Arts Center presents Preface, an exhibition featuring the work of Block Project artist collaborators Hank Willis Thomas, Lisa Fairstein, Wyatt Gallery, Hiroyuki Ito, Will Steacy, and Lori Waselchuk.

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Grants & Grantees

Wharton Esherick and the Birth of the American Modern

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries, in collaboration with the Wharton Esherick Museum and the Architectural Archives at the University of Pennsylvania, presented the first major examination of Esherick's work and artistic development in over 50 years.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Curator Ruth Estévez on Why Some Performances Should Remain in the Past

Curator Ruth Estévez on why the practice of restaging may be both “interesting” and “dangerous.”

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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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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

Timothy Rub

Timothy Rub is The George D. Widener Director and Chief Executive Officer of The Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Winifred Lutz

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

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Philadelphia Photo Arts Center

The Philadelphia Photo Arts Center (PPAC) is a nonprofit organization devoted to the study, practice, and appreciation of photography in the Philadelphia region.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Tiona Nekkia McClodden

McClodden's interdisciplinary work traverses documentary film, experimental video, sculpture, and sound installations, to explore elements of race, familial histories, and social change.

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Grants & Grantees

Ai Weiwei: Dropping the Urn

Arcadia University Art Gallery presented the first United States museum survey of the internationally acclaimed artist's ceramics outside of New York City.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Anne Seidman

Painter and 2008 Pew Fellow Anne Seidman's practice has allowed her to explore the nature of pure painting through abstraction, suggesting friction, awkwardness, and ultimately, a sense of self.

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