GRANTS & GRANTEES

Francis Davis

1994 PEW FELLOW

Updated
30 Nov 2016

Pew Fellow, 1994
Literature

References

Francis Davis profiled in Philadelphia City Paper

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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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Susan Lankin-Watts

Susan Lankin-Watts (Pew Fellow, 2015) is a singer, trumpet player, composer, and arranger whose complex arrangements draw from tradition, the poetry of her great-grandfather, and a desire to give new voice to the art form and create klezmer culture for a younger generation.

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Jenny Sabin

"Looking to nature for design inspiration is not a new idea," says architect and designer Jenny Sabin.

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William Larson

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

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News

Grammy Awards go to Pew Fellow Jennifer Higdon and Center grantees The Crossing and PRISM Quartet

Composer and Pew Fellow Jennifer Higdon (1999) and Center grantees The Crossing and PRISM Quartet are awarded 2018 Grammy Awards by the Recording Academy.

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Pew Fellows News: Tiona McClodden Awarded Tiffany Foundation Grant, Michael Djupstrom Premieres New Work, National Coalition of 100 Black Women Honors Sonia Sanchez

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Questions of Practice

Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview with Media Artist Tayarisha Poe

Media Artist Tayarisha Poe on becoming an artist, what motivates her to tap into her internal youth, and more.

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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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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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Stephen Berg

Stephen Berg (1934–2014) was a poet and a 1993 Pew Fellow.

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lê thị diem thúy

lê thị diễm thúy is a Vietnamese-American author, poet, and performance artist whose work explores the role of the body as the site of memory.

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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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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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John King

John King is a composer, guitarist, and violist and the recipient of the 2014 Award for Sound/Music from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.

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Matthew Cox

Matthew Cox, a 2008 Pew Fellow, creates psychologically charged figurative paintings that are technically ambitious as well as visually intriguing.

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Bobby Zankel

Bobby Zankel is a musician and a 1996 Pew Fellow.

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News

In Memoriam: Elaine Hoffman Watts, Klezmer Musician and Pew Fellow

A celebrated percussionist and treasured mentor, Watts was known for bringing an authentic and refined approach to klezmer, a centuries-old form of Eastern European Jewish folk music.

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Max Apple

Max Apple (Pew Fellow, 2010) has been described as a "writer's writer," a dedicated author of short fiction who writes with precision and control.

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Mark Kendall

Kendall's poetic cinematic voice permeates his experimental documentary films that reflect on, as he says, "the everyday conditions of our everyday lives" in ways that bring together the physical, sensuous and perceptual with the intellectual.

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Questions of Practice

Fellows Friday: Q&A with Visual Artist Annabeth Rosen

Visual artist and Pew Fellow Annabeth Rosen recalls the most useful advice she ever received, her interest in the “accumulation” of objects and ideas, and more.

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