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

William Larson

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

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Kemi Ilesanmi

Kemi Ilesanmi is executive director of The Laundromat Project, which advances artists and neighbors as change agents in their own communities.

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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

Common Touch: The Art of the Senses in the History of the Blind

Artist-in-residence Teresa Jaynes will curate a multisensory exhibition based on the Library Company's extraordinary collection of pre-Braille texts for the visually impaired.

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Charles Sheeler: Fashion, Photography, and Sculptural Form

An untapped aspect of the Philadelphia region's artistic heritage will be brought to light in an exhibition of painter and photographer Charles Sheeler's little-known fashion photography created for Condé Nast between 1926 and 1931—a body of work that significantly informed the aesthetic vision of one of American modernism's founding figures.

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The Franklin Institute

Founded in 1824 in honor of America’s first scientist, Benjamin Franklin, The Franklin Institute is one of the oldest and premier centers of science education and development in the US, and is the most visited museum in Pennsylvania.

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Event

The Avenues: An Exhibition by Shawn Theodore

As part of the ongoing Center-funded project Re-PLACE-ing Philadelphia, Painted Bride Art Center presents The Avenues, an exhibition of portraits by photographer Shawn Theodore exploring urban African American identity.

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Jens Hoffmann

Jens Hoffmann is a curator and has been a guest contributor to Center publications.

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Paul Rucker

Paul Rucker is a visual artist, composer, and musician. His work often integrates live performance, sound, original compositions, and visual art, and focuses on issues surrounding incarceration.

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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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News

On the Horizon: 2019 Center-Funded Projects Reimagine Performance Spaces, Illuminate Community Voices, Reinterpret History

The organizations supported by the Center have a wide range of ambitious projects planned for 2019. The sampling below showcases their upcoming performances, exhibitions, and public programs around the region.

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Questions of Practice

Contemplating the Museum as Score

In September 2016, the Philadelphia Museum of Art presented the eighth annual Anne d’Harnoncourt Symposium, “Museum as Score.”

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Event

Sarah Sze

The Fabric Workshop and Museum presents new work by Artist-in-Residence Sarah Sze in her first solo exhibition in the Philadelphia area.

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Monument Lab: Creative Speculations for Philadelphia

This project will pose the question: What does a 21st-century urban monument look like? The centerpiece of this exploration will be a temporary monument designed by the late, award-winning artist Terry Adkins.

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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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Elizabeth Smith

Elizabeth Smith is the executive director of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation in New York City.

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Peter Saul

Peter Saul (b. 1934 in San Francisco) is a painter best known for his lush, satirical, Pop-Surrealist cartoon style, described by The New York Times as "an artist's artist."

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Syd Carpenter

Syd Carpenter is a sculptor and a 1992 Pew Fellow.

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Event

Philadelphia Assembled Discussions and Workshops

The Philadelphia Museum of Art presents a series of discussions and workshops addressing social and community issues.

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Xerography: A Lecture by Michelle Cotton

Bonner Kunstverein director Michelle Cotton presents a talk on Xerography, an international survey she curated to honor the 75th anniversary of the invention of the photocopier.

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