GRANTS & GRANTEES

James Mills

1998 PEW FELLOW

Updated
30 Nov 2016

Pew Fellow, 1998
Visual Arts

References

James Mills' website

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Suss’ use of vivid color, pattern, and distorted perspective imbues an otherworldly quality to her large-scale paintings of domestic interiors.

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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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