GRANTS & GRANTEES

Lamont B. Steptoe

2006 PEW FELLOW

Updated
30 Nov 2016

Pew Fellow, 2006
Literature

References

Lamont B. Steptoe's Facebook page

Collaborators & Colleagues

George E. Lewis

A 2002 MacArthur Fellow and early member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, George Lewis is the Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music at Columbia University.

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Trapeta B. Mayson

Trapeta B. Mayson is a poet, 2002 Pew Fellow, and the 2020–2021 poet laureate of Philadelphia.

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Jim Hinz

Jim Hinz is a visual artist and a 2003 Pew Fellow.

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Questions of Practice

Pew Fellows of the Week: An Interview with Media Artists Michael Kuetemeyer & Anula Shetty

Pew Fellows and media artists Michael Kuetemeyer and Anula Shetty on creating community-engaged work, the best advice they ever received, and more.

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Beth Kephart

Beth Kephart is a writer and a 2005 Pew Fellow.

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News

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

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Fritz Dietel

Fritz Dietel's (Pew Fellow, 2007) inspiration comes from observation of botanic and aquatic natural forms. His pieces, quite labor-intensive, are mainly constructed from strips and shards of band-sawed wood.

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Event

Raphael Xavier: The Unofficial Guide to Audience Watching Performance

Dancer, choreographer, and 2013 Pew Fellow Raphael Xavier takes hip-hop techniques from the street to the stage and tells the autobiographical story defined by sacrifice, passion, and transcendence.

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Questions of Practice

Fellows Friday: Q&A with Visual Artist and Filmmaker Tiona McClodden

Pew Fellow and visual artist Tiona McClodden on creating work inspired by her lived experiences, why “honesty is perfection,” and more.

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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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Karyn Olivier

Olivier creates monuments, memorials, and visual art installations that consider the complex and often conflicting representations of history and memory in public spaces.

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James Ijames

James Ijames' (Pew Fellow, 2015) plays and devised works examine how class and gender intersect with race, drawing inspiration from historical texts, the media, and stories of his own family to deconstruct history and its established figures.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

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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Uri Caine

Uri Caine is an award-winning composer and pianist, and a 2003 Pew Fellow.

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David Ellsworth

David Ellsworth is a visual artist and a 1999 Pew Fellow.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Sally Berger

Sally Berger is a film and media curator, lecturer, and writer, and serves as assistant curator of the department of film at The Museum of Modern Art.

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Ken Kalfus

Ken Kalfus is a 2009 Pew Fellow and the author of two collections of stories, Thirst and Pu-239 and Other Russian Fantasies, both of which were New York Times notable books.

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Heather Lineberry

Heather Lineberry is senior curator and associate director at Arizona State University (ASU) Art Museum, where she curates contemporary art exhibitions with an emphasis on collaborations across disciplines and experimental curatorial approaches.

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Jennifer Levonian

Jennifer Levonian (Pew Fellow, 2009) creates cut-paper animations that explore the ambivalence of everyday life.

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