Buzzworthy: 2014 Year in Review

08 Jan 2015

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The sold-out audience at \Gospel Meets Symphony

The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage's 2014 Year in Review celebrates a spectacular year of innovative cultural presentations and stimulating discussions, as well as a look at some of the exciting Center-funded projects on the horizon.

In 2014, the Center awarded over $9.3 million for 35 Project Grants, 12 Pew Fellowships, and two of our new Advancement Grants. We asked cultural practitioners to engage in dialogue on issues critical to artistic practice, and we welcomed our newest visiting scholar to the Center.

View the 2014 Year in Review here>>.

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Invisible City: Philadelphia and the Vernacular Avant-garde Exhibitions

Exhibitions at four Philadelphia locations highlight Philadelphia’s significant contributions to visual, literary, and musical culture between 1956 and 1976.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Zanele Muholi

Zanele Muholi is an award-winning South African photographer and self-described “visual activist” who explores race, gender, and sexuality.

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Grants & Grantees

Chronicling Resistance, Enabling Resistance

A discovery process explores new methods for telling the stories of Philadelphia’s rich heritage of resistance by broadening accessibility to little-known documents held in the collections of 38 member libraries.

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Pop Up Garden: An Exploration of the Philadelphia Rail Park

A pop up garden including imaginative installations and community interventions that will introduce audiences to the rich architectural heritage of the three-mile Philadelphia Rail Park.

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Demetrius Oliver: Canicular

New York-based artist Demetrius Oliver's Print Center exhibition consisted of live-feed video projections that drew from telescopes aimed at the constellation Canis Major.

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Silent Night

Opera Philadelphia presented the East Coast premiere of a new opera by composer Kevin Puts and librettist Mark Campbell, which went on to win the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for music.

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Social Practice Lab Series

Along with guest curator Aimee Chang and a national advisory committee, Asian Arts Initiative conducted planning for the launch of a new artist residency programt.

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Shofuso and Modernism: Mid-Century Collaboration between Japan and Philadelphia Programs

In a series of programs, scholars, curators, and artists elaborate on the historical significance and cultural impacts of the central figures in the exhibition Shofuso and Modernism: Mid-Century Collaboration between Japan and Philadelphia.

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Spit Spreads Death: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918–19 in Philadelphia: Exhibition

The Mütter Museum of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia presents Spit Spreads Death, an exhibition about the 1918–19 influenza pandemic in Philadelphia.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Paula Vogel

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel's current playwriting project is a Center-funded commission for Philadelphia's Wilma Theater, based on Don Juan Returns from the War.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Maternity Care Coalition

The Maternity Care Coalition (MCC) was founded in 1980 to improve the health and wellbeing of pregnant women and parenting families and enhance school readiness for children three and under.

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Extremely Public Displays of Privacy

With this production, New Paradise Laboratories enhanced and challenged the conventions of the live theatrical experience by merging theater and mobile technology.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Bob and Roberta Smith on Art as Advocacy

"Objects are very vulnerable when people have forgotten their stories," says artist Bob and Roberta Smith, when asked to speak on art and advocacy.

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Who's at the Center? Schimmel Molesworth

Schimmel and Molesworth, widely celebrated curators, visited the Center to discuss curating and historiography with visual arts and exhibition professionals from the Philadelphia area.

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Questions of Practice

The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage’s Pew Fellow Artist Residencies

Since 2011, The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage has provided recent Pew Fellows with opportunities to take sojourns outside of the Philadelphia area, for residencies intended to push their artistic practice and expand their horizons.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Linda Earle

Linda Earle is the Center’s 2021 Visiting Scholar. In this role, she will organize a series of conversations with Center constituents, staff, and thinking partners considering how Black archives can serve as a framework for a multivalent exploration of Black cultural production.

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Questions of Practice

Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview with Visual Artist Wilmer Wilson IV

Multidisciplinary artist Wilmer Wilson IV on his work in public spaces, the viewer's experience, and more.

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Chorus for Change Pop-up Concert at the New Liberia FM Radio Honors Awards

Liberian Women's Chorus for Change performs a pop-up concert as part of the New Liberia FM Radio Honors Awards.

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"Whose Passion Are We Hearing?:" On Mendelssohn's Revival of the St. Matthew Passion

Dr. R. Larry Todd comments on the significance that the multiple interpretations of Bach's St. Matthew Passion engender for different generations.

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12 New Fellows Announced, Jenny Sabin’s MoMAPS1 Installation, King Britt’s New Album, and James Ijames in The New York Times

This month’s Pew Fellows news sees the release of a new album of electronic music, national media coverage of a new play addressing race in America, the introduction of the 2017 Pew Fellows, and more.

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