GRANTS & GRANTEES

Francis Di Fronzo

2004 PEW FELLOW

Updated
30 Nov 2016

Pew Fellow, 2004
Visual Arts

References

Francis Di Fronzo's website

GRANTS & GRANTEES

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 for Arts & Heritage Announces 2017 Grants for Philadelphia Artists, Organizations

The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage today announced 53 grants in support of the Philadelphia region’s cultural organizations and artists.

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Pew Fellows News: Artists in Whitney and Venice Biennials, an Academy of American Poets Award, and New Works Around the World

Catch up on this month’s Pew Fellows news, including the latest recognition, new works, and press coverage.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Pew Fellow Major Jackson Reads Urban Renewal

Poet and Pew Fellow Major Jackson reads sections from his suite of poems, Urban Renewal, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Pew Fellowships in the Arts.

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Toshi Makihara

Toshi Makihara is a 2013 Pew Fellow whose performance work effortlessly blends percussion with dance-like body movement.

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Ken Lum

Working across mediums, including painting, sculpture, and photography, Lum’s practice explores the formation of individual and societal identities as they are expressed within the context of public space.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Dan Blacksberg

Spanning avant-garde jazz, modern classical music, improvised music, and klezmer, 2012 Pew Fellow Dan Blacksberg pushes at the technical and textural extremes of his instrument, the trombone.

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Questions of Practice

Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview with Choreographer Nichole Canuso

Choreographer and performer Nichole Canuso on improvisation, audience participation, and what she describes as “the kinesthetic intellect.”

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Carolyn Lazard

Lazard’s cross-disciplinary practice centers the experiences of disability and accessibility, appropriating existing materials and, in the artist’s words, “the labor of others as a structural element of the work.”

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LaVaughn Robinson

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

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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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Sueyeun Juliette Lee

Pew Fellow Sueyeun Juliette Lee's poetry questions concepts of birthright, lineage, and homeland, investigating relationships between people and the places they inhabit.

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Eileen Neff

Eileen Beff is a visual artist and 1994 Pew Fellow.

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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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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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Jennifer Monson

Choreographer and performer Jennifer Monson is the founder of New York City-based iLAND: Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art, Nature, and Dance.

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Pew Fellows News: Swarthmore College Awards Sonia Sanchez Honorary Degree, Dave Burrell celebrated for Lifetime of Achievement, Jane Irish Transforms Lemon Hill Mansion, and More

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Hanna Khoury

Hanna Khoury (Pew Fellow, 2010) was trained in Western classical music and has performed with several orchestras. His passion, however, lies in Arab classical music.

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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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Thomas Nozkowski

Noted abstract painter Thomas Nozkowski is known for his richly colored and intimately scaled paintings.

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