GRANTS & GRANTEES

Filmon Mebrahtu

2005 PEW FELLOW

Updated
30 Nov 2016

Pew Fellow, 2005
Media

References

Filmon Mebrahtu at the Documentary Educational Resources website

News

2016: A Year in Pew Fellows News

In 2016, our Pew Fellows brought an abundance of new projects to fruition, as they performed and exhibited their works across the nation and around the globe.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Brian Teare

Brian Teare's (Pew Fellow, 2015) poetry is concerned with embodiment—both our human bodies and the natural environment around us.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Valerie Cassel Oliver

Valerie Cassel Oliver is senior curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. She has organized numerous exhibitions that have earned national and international acclaim.

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Adam Lerner

Adam Lerner is the Mark G, Falcone “MaFa” director and chief animator of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Denver.

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Mara Isaacs

Mara Isaacs is the founder and director of Octopus Theatricals LLC, a company dedicated to producing and consulting in the performing arts.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Germaine Ingram

At age 33, Germaine Ingram (Pew Fellow, 2010) took up dance under the tutelage of a Philadelphia tap legend, the late LaVaughn Robinson (a 1992 Pew Fellow).

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Dan Murphy

Dan Murphy and Anthony Smyrski work together 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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Collaborators & Colleagues

Whit MacLaughlin

Whit MacLaughlin is a theater artist, the founder of New Paradise Laboratories, and a 2002 Pew Fellow.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Judy Hussie-Taylor

Judy Hussie-Taylor has served as Executive Director of Danspace Project, a New York City venue for independent experimental choreographers, since 2008. Hussie-Taylor served as a Pew Fellowships panelist in 2012 and 2013, a Performance LOI panelist in 2014, and as the Performance panel chair in 2015.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

LaVaughn Robinson

LaVaughn Robinson (1927–2008) was a tap dancer and a 1992 Pew Fellow.

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News

2018 Project Grant Guidelines Now Available

The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage is pleased to announce that the 2018 guidelines for Project grant applications are now available.

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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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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Camae Ayewa & Rasheedah Phillips

As “afrofuturistic cultural producers,” Ayewa and Phillips collaboratively explore the intersections of black culture, science fiction, futurism, and social practice.

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Rea Tajiri

Rea Tajiri's (Pew Fellow, 2015) films straddle documentary and art film genres with an innovative approach to storytelling, which she characterizes as "personal essay documentary," exploring the effects of political, social, and emotional histories within families and across generations.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

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

Fellows Friday News: Awards for James Ijames and Jenny Sabin, David Scott Kessler Screens His New Film, Linh Dinh Publishes Book of Photos and Poetry

In this month’s Pew Fellows news, playwright James Ijames receives a Whiting Award, filmmaker David Scott Kessler presents a screening of his new film, and architect Jenny Sabin wins the 2017 Young Architects Program.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Edgar J. Shockley III

Edgar J. Shockley III (Pew Fellow, 2008) sees his unique contribution to the world as reconciling African and European theatrical aesthetics, making us all more aware of what it means to be human.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

J. Rufus Caleb

Playwright and 2008 Pew Fellow J. Rufus Caleb strives to create theater experiences that are "as visceral as they are intellectual."

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Event

A Billion Nights on Earth FringeArts Holiday Performances

Thaddeus Phillips' family-friendly, visual theater work returns to FringeArts for a series of special holiday performances.

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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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