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.

Grants & Grantees

Ann Hamilton: habitus

MacArthur Fellow and visual artist Ann Hamilton, whose installations incorporate textiles and fabric, created a major off-site installation on the Delaware River waterfront, accompanied by an exhibition of historical and contemporary fabrics at the Fabric Workshop and Museum

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Micah Danges

Micah Danges' (Pew Fellow, 2015) work hovers between image and object, pushing the limit of what a photograph can be and using optical distortions that create abstract scenes from everyday items and places, in a distinctive merging of materials and process.

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Event

I is for Institute: RAW Material Company

The ICA presents a conversation with Koyo Kouoh, founding artistic director of RAW Material Company—a center for art, knowledge, and society in Dakar, Senegal.

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Event

Cai Guo-Qiang: Fireflies Opening Celebration

The Association for Public Art presents a public opening celebration to unveil Cai Guo-Qiang: Fireflies on Philadelphia’s Benjamin Franklin Parkway.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Visual Artist Ann Hamilton on the Social Connotations of Cloth

Ann Hamilton on her interest in exploring the social and material connotations of cloth.

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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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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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Event

Charles Sheeler: Fashion, Photography, and Sculptural Form

The Michener Art Museum presents an exhibition of painter and photographer Charles Sheeler's little-known fashion photography created for Condé Nast between 1926 and 1931.

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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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Grants & Grantees

Planning for The Puppet Show

This exhibition examined the imagery of puppets in contemporary art with work by 30 artists.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Astrid Bowlby

Astrid Bowlby is a visual artist and a 2005 Pew Fellow.

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Event

Philadelphia Assembled Film Screening

The Philadelphia Museum of Art presents a film screening of Zein Nakhoda’s Grounded While Walls Fall.

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Event

(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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GRANTS & GRANTEES

The Clay Studio

The Clay Studio inspires curiosity and discovery around the art and craft of clay through robust educational programs, artist residencies, and exhibitions.

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Event

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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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Roberto Lugo

Lugo’s ceramics and visual art practice blends historical forms of European porcelain with contemporary iconography to honor the culture and experiences of people of color.

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Event

Reopening of South Asian Galleries

The Philadelphia Museum of Art reopens its eight South Asian art galleries, featuring nearly 3,000 works spanning over 2,500 years.

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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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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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William Smith

William Smith is a visual artist and a 2001 Pew Fellow.

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