GRANTS & GRANTEES

Margie Strosser

1994 PEW FELLOW

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30 Nov 2016

Pew Fellow, 1994
Media Arts

GRANTS & GRANTEES

Brian Teare

Brian Teare's (Pew Fellow, 2015) poetry is concerned with embodiment—both our human bodies and the natural environment around us.

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Lela Aisha Jones

Jones is a movement performance artist who intertwines personal history, diasporic movement, social commentary, and interdisciplinary methods, drawing from, in her words, "the individual and collective lived experiences of blackness."

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Kristy Edmunds

Kristy Edmunds is the executive and artistic director of the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA. She is recognized for innovation and depth in the presentation of works by contemporary artists.

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News

Pew Fellows News: Tiona McClodden Receives Keith Haring Fellowship, Justin Cronin’s The Passage Adapted Into TV Series, Heidi Saman Selected for International Emerging Film Talent Association Initiative, and More

This month’s Pew Fellows news includes fellowships, grants, and honors, a new television series, and critically-acclaimed performances and exhibitions.

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Babette Martino

Babette Martino (1956–2011) was a visual artist and a 2000 Pew Fellow.

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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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Ryan Eckes

Eckes' poetry documents the voices and histories of urban life through narrative-driven, investigative, and experimental texts that draw from sources such as news archives, personal accounts, and corporate correspondence.

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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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News

Pew Fellows News: James Ijames Wins Kesselring Prize, Susan Lankin-Watts Premieres Soul Songs: Inspiring Women of Klezmer, Alex Da Corte’s Carnegie International Installation Featured in ARTNEWS, and More

In October, our Pew Fellows news roundup includes a Bessie Award and Kesselring Prize, the premiere of a new musical composition, artists on tour around the country, and more. See the latest updates in our news roundup below.

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Beth Kephart

Beth Kephart is a writer and a 2005 Pew Fellow.

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Questions of Practice

Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview with Poet Julia Bloch

Poet Julia Bloch on using forms of found text in personal and public archival materials, her biggest motivator, and more.

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Tina Morton

Tina Morton (Pew Fellow, 2010) left a career as an X-ray technician to pursue documentary filmmaking.

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Marissa Johnson-Valenzuela

Johnson-Valenzuela's writing is concerned with little-told histories, Mexican American identities, migration, and experiences of incarceration in works of poetry, prose, and music, such as No Otro Lado, a conceptual, bilingual album that explores borders and the relationship between the US and Mexico.

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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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Questions of Practice

Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview With Vocalist Zaye Tete

Liberian vocalist, composer, and dancer Zaye Tete spoke to us about her artistic development in Liberia, music’s transformative power, and her fondness for Paul Simon.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Lane Czaplinski

Lane Czaplinski is the artistic director of Seattle's On the Boards, founded in 1978 to introduce audiences to international innovators in contemporary dance, theater, and music.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

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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Jennifer Levonian

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

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News

International Artist Residencies Awarded to Pew Fellows Andrea Clearfield, David Scott Kessler, and Wilmer Wilson IV

Pew Fellows Andrea Clearfield (2016), David Scott Kessler (2015), and Wilmer Wilson IV (2017) have been awarded international artist residencies through the Center’s ongoing partnership with the Alliance of Artists Communities.

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Jymie Merritt

Recognized as a pioneering jazz bassist and composer who has played with numerous musical luminaries over his 60-year career, Merritt composes work that brings forth collective improvisation within a complex rhythmic and harmonic language.

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