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Francis Di Fronzo

2004 PEW FELLOW

Updated
30 Nov 2016

Pew Fellow, 2004
Visual Arts

References

Francis Di Fronzo's website

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Jymie Merritt

Recognized as a pioneering jazz bassist and composer who has played with numerous musical luminaries over his 60-year career, Merritt composes work that brings forth collective improvisation within a complex rhythmic and harmonic language.

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Odean Pope

Odean Pope is a saxophonist and composer, and a 1992 Pew Fellow.

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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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Jesse Harrod

Harrod’s interdisciplinary practice encompasses sculpture, painting, stop-motion animation, and other media to reimagine forms of gendered, sexual, and disabled embodiment. Their work engages with the history of feminist art, material culture, and craft practices such as macramé, ceramics, and stained glass.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Sam Miller

Sam Miller is the former president of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and currently serves on the Board of Amrita in Phnom Penh. He served as a Center dance panelist and LOI panelist in 2013, Pew Fellowships evaluator in 2014, and Pew Fellowships Panel Chair in 2015.

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Peter Paulsen

Peter Paulsen is a classical and jazz performer, both of which influence his composition style, and a 2007 Pew Fellow.

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Stephen Berg

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

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John Collins

John Collins is founder and artistic director of Elevator Repair Service (ERS), a theater ensemble based in New York City.

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Matthew Levy

Levy's performance practice and compositions bridge modern classical music with rhythmic and improvisatory aspects of jazz, guided by his dedication to exploring the saxophone's genre-defying capabilities.

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Questions of Practice

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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Essex Hemphill

Essex Hemphill (1957–95) was a poet and a 1993 Pew Fellow.

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Questions of Practice

Pew Fellows Chat: Visual Artists Rami George and Didier William on Personal Histories in Art-Making

Visual artists Rami George and Didier William discuss how they approach personal and family narratives within their work and how they balance their creative practices with the obligations of daily life.

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Charles O. Anderson

You have to almost exhaust yourself sometimes to let yourself say what it is, or do what it is, in the most honest way.

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Sarah Gamble

"The best day in the studio is when everything feels like magic," says 2009 Pew Fellow and visual artist Sarah Gamble.

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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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News

Pew Fellows News: Artists on View at MoMA, The Met, and PMA, Three Fellows Win Guggenheims

Catch up on this month’s Pew Fellows news, including interviews, accolades, and how to see their latest work.

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Kirsten Kaschock

Informed by her training as a dancer, Kaschock addresses the intersections between language and the body in poetry that displays a choreographer’s sense of rhythm and timing.

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Greg "Peache" Jarman

Greg "Peache" Jarman (1947–2009) was a musician and a 2000 Pew Fellow in Folk and Traditional Arts.

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News

New Video Series: Pew Fellows Share Poems from Home

In April, we introduced a new video series called Pew Fellows from Home, featuring dispatches from our Fellows.

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Kukuli Velarde

Kukuli Velarde is a visual artist and a 2003 Pew Fellow.

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