GRANTS & GRANTEES

Caden Manson

2002 PEW FELLOW

Updated
30 Nov 2016

Pew Fellow, 2002
Theater

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Raven Chacon

Chacon’s compositions and sound installations combine contemporary chamber music with self-made electronic and acoustic instruments while conveying the perspectives of Indigenous people. During his residency, Chacon will investigate Philadelphia’s experimental music scene and the region’s Indigenous histories as he creates new musical works.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Brenda Dixon Gottschild

Dixon Gottschild’s 50-year career as a writer and cultural scholar surveys the presence and influence of the black dancing body in America, in what she calls “choreography for the page.”

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Jenn McCreary

Jenn McCreary (Pew Fellow, 2013) believes that the poem is "a dialogue and exchange between poet and reader; a breathing entity rather than a closed, coherent object."

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News

Pew Fellows News: Jennifer Higdon Awarded Nemmers Prize in Music Composition, King Britt’s Orchestral collaboration, Plays from Jennifer Kidwell and Bruce Graham in the News, and More.

This month’s Pew Fellows news includes new exhibitions and performances from coast-to-coast, critically-acclaimed plays, and a national award in music composition.

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Bhob Rainey

Bhob Rainey is a soprano saxophonist, composer, and a 2013 Pew Fellow whose interests lie in new realms of artistic possibility.

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Rami George

Rami George’s visual art practice turns an autobiographical lens on their queer experience, Lebanese heritage, and family history in a New Age spiritual community.

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Maia Chao

Maia Chao’s (she/her) work in performance, video, sculpture, and social practice investigates systems of value and power within formal and informal institutions such as museums, economic structures, and families.

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Questions of Practice

Pew Fellows Chat: Emily Bate, Tom Quinn, and Eva Wǒ on Artistic Practice

In our ongoing artist interview series, we illuminate the distinctive artistic practices, influences, and creative challenges of our Pew Fellows, who represent a diversity of perspectives and creative disciplines.

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Questions of Practice

Fellows Friday: Q&A with Choreographer and Movement Artist Lela Aisha Jones

Choreographer and Pew Fellow Lela Aisha Jones on the importance of “creative spirits” in her family, what motivates her to create, the Philadelphia arts scene, and more.

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Brent Wahl

Brent Wahl (Pew Fellow, 2014) works primarily in photography and time-based mediums, transforming everyday materials and detritus into mesmerizing compositions.

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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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Fatu Gayflor

Fatu Gayflor (Pew Fellow, 2014) learned music, dance, and traditional arts at an early age in rural Liberia. She states that her goal is "to use singing and songwriting to build cooperation and community among Liberians."

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Kinan Abou-afach

Classical Arab musician Kinan Abou-afach (Pew Fellow, 2013) was born in Damascus, Syria, where he learned traditional Arabic repertoire on the oud, an Arabic lute.

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Bill Nace

Nace’s experimental improvisations and compositions extend the boundaries of electric guitar technique, using bows, metal, wood, glass bowls, and other implements. His distinctive musical vocabulary references folk, rock, and punk traditions as he works to make a ubiquitous instrument sound new.

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Questions of Practice

Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview with Theater Artist Rhodessa Jones

Rhodessa Jones (2020) spoke to us about being drawn to art early in life in a family of Black migrant workers, why she makes work for and with other women, and what she hopes to accomplish during her time in Philadelphia. This interview was transcribed from an audio recording and edited for length and clarity.

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Emily Bate

Emily Bate is a composer and vocalist who writes and performs works that focus on group singing and blend elements of theater, performance art, and choral and experimental music.

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Rebecca Westcott

Rebecca Westcott (1976–2004) was a visual artist and a 2004 Pew Fellow.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Amanda Hunt

Amanda Hunt is Director of Education and Public Programs at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and co-curator of the 2019 Desert X Biennial in Palm Springs.

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Questions of Practice

Fellows Friday: Q&A with Visual Artist Eileen Neff

Visual artist and Pew Fellow Eileen Neff recalls the early works of art that influenced her practice, her most treasured possession, and more.

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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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