GRANTS & GRANTEES

Christian Michel

1993 PEW FELLOW

Updated
30 Nov 2016

Pew Fellow, 1993
Visual Arts

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Christian Michel featured in the Philadelphia Inquirer

GRANTS & GRANTEES

Leroy Johnson

Leroy Johnson (Pew Fellow, 2014) is a mixed-media artist whose work takes the form of painting, collage, and assemblage sculpture. A native of Philadelphia, his work is reflective of his many experiences in the inner city.

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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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Questions of Practice

Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview with Poet M. Nzadi Keita

Poet M. Nzadi Keita on weaving intricate narratives with historical research and and vivid imagery, her art-making routine, and how she thinks about her legacy.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

jumatatu m. poe

A young choreographer who has already produced provocative, experimental dance works, Poe (Pew Fellow, 2011) is the founder of dance/theater company idiosynCrazy productions.

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Lauren Mabry

Lauren Mabry (Pew Fellow, 2015) is a ceramist whose expressive and colorful "dimensional paintings," as she describes them, play with form, texture, color, and scale and blur the boundaries between ceramics, abstract painting, and sculpture.

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Tim Portlock

Originally trained as a muralist, 2011 Pew Fellow Tim Portlock began experimenting with digital media platforms in the late '90s.

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Questions of Practice

Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview With Poet Rachel Zolf

Poet Rachel Zolf spoke to us about their works in progress and the “conscious choice” to live and work in Philadelphia.

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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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William Larson

William Larson is a media artist and a 2001 Pew Fellow.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

George E. Lewis

A 2002 MacArthur Fellow and early member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, George Lewis is the Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music at Columbia University.

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Tina Morton

Tina Morton (Pew Fellow, 2010) left a career as an X-ray technician to pursue documentary filmmaking.

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Bruce Metcalf

Bruce Metcalf is a jeweler and a 1996 Pew Fellow.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Poet Sonia Sanchez Discusses Her Creative Life and Legacy with Major Jackson [Full Interview]

Poets and Pew Fellows Sonia Sanchez and Major Jackson discuss the experiences that have shaped Sanchez’s distinguished, decades-long artistic practice.

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Fred Wilson

New York City-based conceptual artist Fred Wilson is known for repurposing objects and artifacts to lead people to see them in a different way.

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News

Pew Fellows News: Rennie Harris Honored with National Dance Award, Wilmer Wilson IV Selected for The New Museum Triennial, Remembering Tokay Tomah

This month’s Pew Fellows news sees a national dance award for a hip-hop icon, several exhibitions by visual artists and filmmakers, and we remember the late Liberian vocalist Tokay Tomah.

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Event

A Billion Nights on Earth at Brooklyn Academy of Music

Thaddeus Phillips brings his family-friendly, visual theater work to the Brooklyn Academy of Music as part of the 2017 Next Wave Festival.

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Fellows Friday News: A Living Legacy Award for Odean Pope; An Exhibition Honors the Late Nicholas Kripal; Tayarisha Poe Named Sundance Institute Fellow & More

This month’s Pew Fellows news sees a wide range of national and regional awards for Fellows across disciplines, an exhibition recognizing the legacy of late visual artist and educator Nicholas Kripal, and press coverage for world premiere theater works.

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Tayarisha Poe

Poe creates multifaceted portraits of young people of color in work that blends film, photography, and prose across media platforms.

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Daniel Heyman

Daniel Heyman's (Pew Fellow, 2009) works on paper capture the images and words of Iraqi torture victims from facilities like Abu Ghraib.

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News

The Pew Center is Recognized with Two Awards from the Public Relations Society of America

We are honored to receive recognition from the Philadelphia Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America’s Pepperpot Awards for our Pew Fellowships at 25 anniversary celebration.

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