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

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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Collaborators & Colleagues

Anthony Campuzano

Anthony Campuzano (Pew Fellow, 2009) is known for his use of found language in his drawings, using text from newspaper headlines, Wikipedia entries, paperback novels, and song lyrics.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Sarah Stolfa

Sarah Stolfa is executive director of Philadelphia Photo Arts Center.

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Paul Evans Retrospective Discovery Grant

The James A. Michener Art Museum conducted research for a retrospective exhibition on the work of designer-craftsman Paul Evans (1931–87).

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Pablo de Ocampo

Pablo de Ocampo is a Vancouver-based film and exhibitions curator at Western Front, one of Canada’s leading artist-run centers for contemporary art and new music.

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Syd Carpenter

Syd Carpenter is a sculptor and a 1992 Pew Fellow.

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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

ALTERNATIVE CURRENCIES: TACTICS FOR STAYING RELEVANT AND RADICAL

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Strange Currencies, this forum of independent contemporary art groups and spaces from around the country will explore what it means to be (and stay) "alternative."

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Among the largest art museums in the United States, the Philadelphia Museum of Art is a pilgrimage site for modern and contemporary art professionals.

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Event

Ghost River: The Fall & Rise of the Conestoga Exhibition Opening

As part of its Center-supported Redrawing History: The Fall & Rise of the Conestoga project, the Library Company of Philadelphia presents an exhibition featuring the artwork commissioned for its new graphic novel

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Maria Shaplin

Shaplin uses light to create immersive theatrical worlds that guide and enhance what she describes as the “alchemical meaning-making” of live performance.

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Event

The Women’s Mobile Museum: Panel Discussion

In conjunction with the Women’s Mobile Museum exhibition at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), Philadelphia Photo Arts Center holds a panel discussion.

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Grants & Grantees

Michelangelo Pistoletto: From One to Many, 1956–1974

The Philadelphia Museum of Art co-organized a multifaceted exhibition devoted to the art of Michelangelo Pistoletto, influential founder of the Arte Povera movement.

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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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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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Collaborators & Colleagues

taisha paggett

taisha paggett is a Los Angeles-based artist whose individual and collaborative work for the stage, gallery, and public space takes up questions of the body, agency, and the phenomenology of race and gender. In 2015, paggett served as a Performance LOI panelist.

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Event

Hidden Lives Illuminated: Film Screenings

Eastern State Penitentiary’s Hidden Lives Illuminated offers a rare look inside America’s correctional system through twenty newly commissioned, animated short films created by currently incarcerated artists.

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Ken Lum

Working across mediums, including painting, sculpture, and photography, Lum’s practice explores the formation of individual and societal identities as they are expressed within the context of public space.

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Peter Saul: A Retrospective

PAFA presented the most comprehensive exhibition of Peter Saul's work to date, featuring over 50 artworks spanning from 1958 to present.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Cai Guo-Qiang

Cai Guo-Qiang’s practice spans a range of media in contemporary art, including drawing, installation, video, and performance art, alongside Chinese traditions in medicine, art, and placemaking.

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