GRANTS & GRANTEES

Christian Michel

1993 PEW FELLOW

Updated
30 Nov 2016

Pew Fellow, 1993
Visual Arts

References

Christian Michel featured in the Philadelphia Inquirer

Questions of Practice

Fellows Friday: Q&A with Vocalist and Composer Tokay Tomah

Vocalist, composer, and recording artist Tokay Tomah on starting her artistic career in Liberia, using music as a vehicle for building peace, and more.

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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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Trapeta B. Mayson

Trapeta B. Mayson is a poet, 2002 Pew Fellow, and the 2020–2021 poet laureate of Philadelphia.

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Ryan Trecartin

"I'm interested in how personality is replacing gender in how people are defined," says 2009 Pew Fellow Ryan Trecartin, an innovative video artist who creates phantasmagorical media installations.

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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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Russell Davis

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News

Pew Fellows News: Interviews with Jamaladeen Tacuma and Lorene Cary, New Works from Michelle Angela Ortiz and Brian Teare, and More

Catch up on this month’s Pew Fellows news, including the latest recognition, new works, and press coverage.

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Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview with Poet Julia Bloch

Poet Julia Bloch on using forms of found text in personal and public archival materials, her biggest motivator, and more.

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J.C. Todd

J.C. Todd's (Pew Fellow, 2014) poems investigate the impact of war, with an insistent eye and ear on language.

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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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Anthony Smyrski

Anthony Smyrski works with Dan Murphy as the artist duo Megawords. They are well known throughout Philadelphia for installations that are equal parts gathering space, artist studio, and storefront.

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Hafez Javier Kotain

Hafez Javier Kotain is a percussionist and teacher, fluent in both Arab and Latin rhythms.

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Gerald Levinson

Gerald Levinson (Pew Fellow, 2007) has been increasingly recognized as one of the major composers of his generation.

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Fellows Friday: Q&A with Bassist and Composer Jymie Merritt

Bassist, composer, and Pew Fellow Jymie Merritt discusses the early influence of Duke Ellington on his artistic practice, his interest in digital composition tools, and more.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Michèle Steinwald

Michèle Steinwald is an independent curator and dance producer, and former assistant curator for the performing arts at the Walker Art Center.

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Emily Abendroth

Poet and 2013 Pew Fellow Emily Abendroth's poetry encourages readers to discover difficult truths woven into social, cultural, and physical realities.

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Laura Mullen

Laura Mullen was appointed Director of Creative Writing at Louisiana State University in 2014. She has served as Poet-in-Residence at Brown University and Columbia College, and serves frequently as a guest faculty member at Naropa's Summer Writing Program. In 2015, she served as a panelist for Pew Fellowships.

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Pia Agrawal

Pia Agrawal is the curator of performing arts at the Momentary, an adaptive reuse project converting a decommissioned Kraft Foods plant in Arkansas into a multidisciplinary space for visual, culinary, and performing arts and an artist-in-residency program.

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Gerald Cyrus, Jr.

Gerald Cyrus, Jr. is a visual artist and a 2005 Pew Fellow.

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Julie Carr

Julie Carr is the author of several books of poetry and a 2011 recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship.

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