GRANTS & GRANTEES

Charlotte Blake Alston

1994 PEW FELLOW

Updated
30 Nov 2016

Pew Fellow, 1994
Theater

References

Charlotte Blake Alston's website

Collaborators & Colleagues

Catie Rosemurgy

Poet and Pew Fellow Catie Rosemurgy's wry and sharply imagined poems investigate the layered natures of identity, history, and narrative.

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Pablo Batista

Over the course of his 30-year career, percussionist and 2000 Pew Fellow Pablo Batista has performed, recorded, and toured with a range of leading jazz, R&B, Latin, pop, and gospel artists including Bono, George Howard, Alicia Keyes, Gerald Levert, Jeffrey Osborne, Eddie Palmieri, Teddy Pendergrass, Diane Reeves, Grover Washington, Jr., Musiq, Manny Oquendo's Conjunto Libre, and the Philadelphia Orchestra.

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Roberto Lugo

Lugo’s ceramics and visual art practice blends historical forms of European porcelain with contemporary iconography to honor the culture and experiences of people of color.

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Rachel Blau DuPlessis

Rachel Blau DuPlessis is a poet, critic, and a 2002 Pew Fellow.

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Kirsten Kaschock

Informed by her training as a dancer, Kaschock addresses the intersections between language and the body in poetry that displays a choreographer’s sense of rhythm and timing.

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