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.

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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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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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Collaborators & Colleagues

Helen Molesworth

Distinguished scholar, writer and curator Helen Molesworth is chief curator of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art.

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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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Questions of Practice

Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview With Visual Artist Quentin Morris

For more than 50 years, visual artist Quentin Morris has been creating monochromatic paintings and works on paper that explore the possibilities of the color black. He talks about the early moments that shaped his career, starting with trips to the Philadelphia Museum of Art with his father, and how Philadelphia has transformed in his time as an artist.

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Philly Block Project: Preface Opening Reception

An opening reception for Preface will be held on March 10, featuring a community meeting and a panel discussion with the artists.

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*The Sentient Archive: Bodies, Performance, and Memory*

The Sentient Archive: Bodies, Performance, and Memory, debuting June 26, 2018, gathers the work of leading cultural practitioners who theorize the body as a crucible of knowledge.

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Thelma Golden

Thelma Golden has been the director and chief curator at the Studio Museum in Harlem since 2000.

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Dirt on Delight: Impulses That Form Clay

The work of 22 artists, spanning four generations, was presented in an exhibition that examined clay's appeal and craft.

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Frankenstein & Dracula: Gothic Monsters, Modern Science

In commemoration of the 200th anniversary of *Frankenstein*, this exhibition will highlight two seminal Gothic works—Mary Shelley's 1818 novel and Bram Stoker's *Dracula*—through a selection of rare books, manuscripts, and artifacts to illustrate how these horror stories reflect ethical and scientific questions that continue to challenge us today.

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Gerald Cyrus, Jr.

Gerald Cyrus, Jr. is a visual artist and a 2005 Pew Fellow.

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(ex)CHANGE: History, Place, Presence: Shahzia Sikander Artist Talk

In conjunction with the Center-supported project (ex)CHANGE: History, Place, Presence, Asian Arts Initiative will unveil The Perennial Gaze, a new work by Pakistani-born visual artist Shahzia Sikander.

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The Women's Mobile Museum with Zanele Muholi

South African photographer Zanele Muholi creates a mobile exhibition space and engages with 10 Philadelphia women in telling their own stories through self-portraits and portraits of women in the participants’ lives.

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Janine Antoni

Janine Antoni creates work in performance art, sculpture, and photography.

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Invisible City: Philadelphia and the Vernacular Avant-garde

Philadelphia’s significant contributions to visual culture in the 1950s through the 1970s are highlighted and explored in an exhibition, a publication, and performances.

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(Dis)placed Arts Workshop

Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture presents a multi-disciplinary workshop exploring the theme of displacement through art, poetry, and music.

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Yinka Shonibare: Magic Ladders

The Barnes Foundation presented a major exhibition of work by Nigerian-born, London-based artist Yinka Shonibare, including a new commission, plus works of sculpture, photography, painting, and installation.

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Michelle Angela Ortiz

Through public art installations and a socially engaged practice, Ortiz examines issues of immigration, socio-economic inequalities, and human rights.

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William Larson

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

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Artist Cai Guo-Qiang on Audience Participation in Public Art

Contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qiang describes the role of audience participation in his large-scale public art installation for Philadelphia’s Benjamin Franklin Parkway.

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