GRANTS & GRANTEES

Linda Cordell

2003 PEW FELLOW

Updated
30 Nov 2016

Pew Fellow, 2003
Visual Arts

References

Linda Cordell at the Schulman Project website

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Yolanda Wisher

Yolanda Wisher's (Pew Fellow, 2015) writing addresses both artistic and community-oriented pursuits. The founder and director of the Germantown Poetry Festival, she is dedicated to poetry as a performative, public act, capable of producing environmental and social change.

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The Center marks the 25th anniversary of the Pew Fellowships in the Arts with a short film, released in March 2017.

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CAConrad

Living and working in Philadelphia for 25 years, 2011 Pew Fellow CAConrad's work falls between poetics, performance, and pedagogy.

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Fellows Friday News: Lela Aisha Jones Nominated for a Bessie Award, Pew Fellows Create Philadelphia Monuments, and Theater Premieres from Thaddeus Phillips and Geoff Sobelle

This month’s Pew Fellows news sees world premiere performances in the 2017 Philadelphia Fringe Festival, a national choreography award, a series of new public artworks transforming the city, and more.

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

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Dawn Lundy Martin

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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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Questions of Practice

Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview with Dancer and Choreographer Dinita Clark

Dancer, choreographer, and educator Dinita Clark (2019) spoke to us about her lifelong interest in dance, the current issues she is addressing in her work, and what makes Philadelphia’s dance community distinctive.

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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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Elaine Hoffman Watts

Elaine Hoffman Watts was a klezmer musician and a 2000 Pew Fellow in folk and traditional arts.

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News

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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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Zeena Parkins

Zeena Parkins is a pioneer of contemporary harp practice and performance, and has extended the language of the harp with unusual playing techniques, preparations, and layers of electronic processing.

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jumatatu m. poe

A young choreographer who has already produced provocative, experimental dance works, Poe (Pew Fellow, 2011) is the founder of dance/theater company idiosynCrazy productions.

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Philip Bither

Philip Bither has been the Walker Art Center's senior curator of performing arts since 1997.

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Aaron Landsman

Aaron Landsman is a New York City-based playwright, actor, and teacher whose performance works combine formal experimentation and long-term community engagement.

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Maria Shaplin

Shaplin uses light to create immersive theatrical worlds that guide and enhance what she describes as the “alchemical meaning-making” of live performance.

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