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Anna Weesner

Pew Fellow, 2003
Music

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Poet Ross Gay on Sport and the Act of Looking
Video Cross-Disciplinary Practices
Denice Frohman, 2022 Pew Fellow.
Denice Frohman
Pew Fellow Literature
Cesar Viveros and Ada Trillo

Fellow to Fellow: Artists Cesar Viveros and Ada Trillo on Art Created from Memory and Cultural Identity
Interview Social & Community-Based Practices
TOWN, 2022, Theatre Horizon, Norristown, PA. Photo by John C. Hawthorne.
Building a Sense of Belonging through Community-Centered Theater
Essay Social & Community-Based Practices
Paint Factory performed by Darin Atwater and his Soulful Symphony, 2019, Merriweather Post Pavilion, Baltimore, MD. Photo by Stephen Cherry.
Black Metropolis: Improvisations on Paint Factory
Project Grant Performance
Sabaah Folayan, 2022 Pew Fellow.
Sabaah Folayan
Pew Fellow Film & Media
The Crossing Choir in Montana. Photo by Kevin Vondrak. 
Farming
Project Grant Performance
William Edmondson: A Monumental Vision
Project Grant Exhibitions & Public Interpretation
Pig Iron Theatre Company, The Path of Pins or the Path of Needles, directed by Josephine Decker, 2022, Rigby Mansion, Philadelphia, PA. Photo by Johanna Austin. 
Director Josephine Decker on Translating the Experience of Pregnancy into Performance
Video Practice & Process
News

Pew Fellows News: Raphael Xavier’s Hip-Hop Practice in Visual Art Exhibition, James Ijames’ Kill Move Paradise at The Wilma Theater, and Leah Stein’s Site-Specific Dance at Woodmere Art Museum

Aug 28, 2018

Pew Fellows News: Tiona McClodden Awarded Tiffany Foundation Grant, Michael Djupstrom Premieres New Work, National Coalition of 100 Black Women Honors Sonia Sanchez

Feb 27, 2018