The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University

Updated
1 Dec 2016

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The Academy of Natural Sciences.

The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University is the oldest natural history museum in North America. Founded in 1812, the museum is known for both its extraordinary collections of natural specimens and its active research faculty. Center support allowed the Academy to upgrade its financial accounting software, giving staff members a more efficient tool for monitoring their internal and external activity.

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Making Place Matter: “Clay & Conversation” Workshop Series

The Clay Studio will host a series of four “Clay & Conversation” workshops, led by artists Roberto Lugo and Jennie Shanker.

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News

In Memoriam: Elaine Hoffman Watts, Klezmer Musician and Pew Fellow

A celebrated percussionist and treasured mentor, Watts was known for bringing an authentic and refined approach to klezmer, a centuries-old form of Eastern European Jewish folk music.

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Grants & Grantees

Midway Avenue

Canuso's new solo work Midway Avenue built on research initiated with UK-based choreographer Wendy Houstoun, premiered in May 2014 as part of FringeArts' year-round programming.

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Advancement Grant: Philadelphia Chamber Music Society

The Philadelphia Chamber Music Society will research and develop new business models that respond to shifting trends in audience behaviors.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

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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Advancement Grant: DataArts

A new, user-friendly technology platform will enhance and streamline DataArts' data collection and analysis tools, used nationally by thousands of cultural nonprofits to drive data-informed decision-making.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Pew Fellow Major Jackson Reads Urban Renewal

Poet and Pew Fellow Major Jackson reads sections from his suite of poems, Urban Renewal, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Pew Fellowships in the Arts.

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Myth, Music, Truth: Network for New Music Concert with John Harbison

John Harbison sets the poetry of Louise Glück, Jessica Fisher, and Eugenio Montale to music and conducts this premiere performance.

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2016: A Year in Pew Fellows News

In 2016, our Pew Fellows brought an abundance of new projects to fruition, as they performed and exhibited their works across the nation and around the globe.

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Julius Eastman: That Which is Fundamental at The Kitchen

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David Ludwig

Ludwig's contemporary classical compositions for a range of instrumental ensembles, voice, theater, and film play with style and genre and address topics ranging from climate change to religious traditions.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Jessie Montgomery

Jessie Montgomery is a violinist, composer, and music educator, who currently serves as composer-educator for the Albany Symphony Orchestra.

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Monument Lab Summer Sampler

Mural Arts Philadelphia presents a preview event for its forthcoming public art project Monument Lab: A Citywide Public Art and History Exhibition.

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Person of the Crowd: Walking Tours

The Barnes Foundation presents a series of artist-led walking tours in various Philadelphia neighborhoods that invite audiences to become contemporary flâneurs.

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Prisons Today: Questions in the Age of Mass Incarceration

This exhibition, which will be the Eastern State Penitentiary's first to focus on the current state of incarceration in America, will shed light on this critical contemporary subject.

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Performance Lecture by Malavika Sarukkai at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Bhratanatyam dancer and choreographer Malavika Sarukkai will present a performance lecture that ties the language of Indian classical dance to its interpretation in the visual arts.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: The Village of Arts and Humanities' Aviva Kapust on Local Messages with Global Impact

Aviva Kapust on global messages that originate in the local environment.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Tacita Dean

Tacita Dean is esteemed for her drawings, photographs, prints, and sound works. In early 2013, her new film, JG, was on view at the Arcadia University Art Gallery.

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Nato Thompson

Nato Thompson is chief curator at Creative Time. He served as a Center panelist (2008) and evaluator (2010), and contributed to the Center's Pigeons on the Grass, Alas series.

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Association for Public Art's Museum Without Walls Media Mention

In fall 2011, the Association for Public Art was featured in *USA Today Travel* as "the main reason Philadelphia is now said to have more public art than any other city."

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