GRANTS & GRANTEES

Jena Osman

2006 PEW FELLOW

Updated
30 Nov 2016

Pew Fellow, 2006
Literature

References

Jena Osman's website

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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GRANTS & GRANTEES

David Hartt

Hartt’s multidisciplinary work in photography, sculpture, installation, and digital film considers the history of social and cultural ideals in relation to the built environment.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Diane Monroe

Monroe says she aims to “abandon classifications of style and genre” by bridging classical and jazz repertoires, African and African American musical traditions, and contemporary experimental music.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Valerie Cassel Oliver

Valerie Cassel Oliver is senior curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. She has organized numerous exhibitions that have earned national and international acclaim.

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Questions of Practice

Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview With Visual Artist Michelle Angela Ortiz

Visual artist Michelle Angela Ortiz has designed and created over 50 large-scale public works nationally and internationally. She maintains a practice that examines issues of immigration, inequality, and human rights.

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News

Fellows Friday News: A Living Legacy Award for Odean Pope; An Exhibition Honors the Late Nicholas Kripal; Tayarisha Poe Named Sundance Institute Fellow & More

This month’s Pew Fellows news sees a wide range of national and regional awards for Fellows across disciplines, an exhibition recognizing the legacy of late visual artist and educator Nicholas Kripal, and press coverage for world premiere theater works.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Anthony Smyrski

Anthony Smyrski works with Dan Murphy 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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The Pew Center is Recognized with Two Awards from the Public Relations Society of America

We are honored to receive recognition from the Philadelphia Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America’s Pepperpot Awards for our Pew Fellowships at 25 anniversary celebration.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Tom Quinn

Quinn makes films that tell character-driven stories within regional communities. Blurring the line between documentary and fiction, he casts professional actors alongside people from the locations where he films, such as the South Philadelphia String Band as it prepares for the annual Mummers Parade and residents of a small town in Pennsylvania facing the closure of their local post office.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Anuradha Mathur & Dilip da Cunha

The collaborative work of Mathur and da Cunha imagines new possibilities for design of the built environment and explores the lines separating land and water, and urban and rural environments.

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Pew Fellows News: Rasheedah Phillips on “Time”, Roberto Lugo’s Kamala Harris Teapot, Trapeta B. Mayson’s Poetry Hotline

Catch up on this month’s Pew Fellows news, including awards, new works, and interviews.

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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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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Annabeth Rosen

Annabeth Rosen is a visual artist and ceramicist who creates elaborate sculptures that are “volcanic, beastly, catastrophic, and unnervingly funny,” as described by writer and critic Nancy Princenthal.

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Questions of Practice

The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage’s Pew Fellow Artist Residencies

Since 2011, The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage has provided recent Pew Fellows with opportunities to take sojourns outside of the Philadelphia area, for residencies intended to push their artistic practice and expand their horizons.

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Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview with Visual Artist Jonathan Lyndon Chase

Visual artist Jonathan Lyndon Chase (2019) spoke to us about their art-making routine and the artists, early experiences, and aspects of Philadelphia culture that most influence their work.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Ursula Rucker

Rucker’s interdisciplinary poetry and spoken word performances—which she characterizes as situated “along the edge of the terrains of poetry”—reflect on personal history, family, and place.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Bobby Zankel

Bobby Zankel is a musician and a 1996 Pew Fellow.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Jacob Cooper

Cooper creates expansive sonic palettes that evoke a sense of timelessness through the use of electronic, studio-recorded processes and experimental instrument and vocal techniques.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Venissa Santí

The granddaughter of a Cuban composer, Venissa Santí (Pew Fellow, 2008) moved to Philadelphia when she was 17 and became a trained vocalist with classical- and jazz-based technique.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Russell Davis

Moments of grace or insight or good writing actually are dependent on a day-to-day process.

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