GRANTS & GRANTEES

Francis Davis

1994 PEW FELLOW

Updated
30 Nov 2016

Pew Fellow, 1994
Literature

References

Francis Davis profiled in Philadelphia City Paper

GRANTS & GRANTEES

Tokay Tomah

Tomah uses traditional folk songs of compassion, trust, and reconciliation to generate collective strength and foster dialogue about critical issues facing Liberian immigrant communities.

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Chris Madak

Chris Madak bridges (Pew Fellow, 2015) drone and contemporary experimental electronic music, demonstrating a refined and subtle, yet accessible, musical voice.

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Questions of Practice

Fellows Friday: Q&A with Poet Ryan Eckes

Poet and Pew Fellow Ryan Eckes on his desire to “write toward another way of living,” why he chooses to work and live in Philadelphia, the books on his bedside table, and more.

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Pew Fellowships in the Arts at 25

In 2017, the Center celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Pew Fellowships in the Arts, with a website and short film highlighting a quarter-century of steadfast belief in the value and impact of artists.

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Sharon Hayes

Hayes blends various mediums—including video, performance, installation, and photography—to probe the complex intersections of history, politics, gender, and speech within private and public spaces.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Ian Berry

Ian Berry is Dayton Director of the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College.

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Merián Soto

Over her 40-year career in performance, Merián Soto (Pew Fellow, 2015) has focused on investigating the living body and its relationship to consciousness. Her conceptual and process-based pieces work towards, in the artist's words, "a dance of the future, a dance of healing, transformation, and transcendence."

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Zeena Parkins

Zeena Parkins is a pioneer of contemporary harp practice and performance, and has extended the language of the harp with unusual playing techniques, preparations, and layers of electronic processing.

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Andrea Clearfield

Clearfield creates deep, emotive musical languages that she says, "synthesize disparate elements into a musical whole," in works that explore themes ranging from freedom and oppression, to ancient cultures, religion, health, and technology.

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News

Photos and Video: Celebrating Our 2018 Grantees

We recap our June 18, 2018 celebration of The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage grant recipients with photos and video.

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Lori Waselchuk

Pew Fellow Lori Waselchuk's photographs of post-Katrina New Orleans and the hospice at Angola Prison in Louisiana bring us into intimate contact with complex subjects.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Peter Taub

Peter Taub is a curator and arts manager with over 30 years of experience in developing and producing artist-centered projects.

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David Scott Kessler

David Scott Kessler's (Pew Fellow, 2015) work combines film, installation, writing, performance, and drawing in a constantly-shifting exploration of place.

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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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Jennifer Higdon

Jennifer Higdon is a Pulitzer Prize-winning musician and a 1999 Pew Fellow and one of America’s most frequently performed living composers.

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Brian Phillips

Brian Phillips (Pew Fellow, 2011) is founding principal of Interface Studio Architects, based in the South Kensington area of Philadelphia.

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Julia Bloch

Bloch’s lyric and prose poems blend the personal and the political to, she says, “negotiate tensions between individual forms of expression and webs of social meaning.”

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Frank Bramblett

Frank Bramblett is a visual artist and a 2000 Pew Fellow.

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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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Hellmut Gottschild

Hellmut Gottschild is a seminal figure in Philadelphia dance, and was part of the first generation of Pew Fellows in 1992.

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