GRANTS & GRANTEES

María Teresa Rodriguez

2001 PEW FELLOW

Updated
30 Nov 2016

Pew Fellow, 2001
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References

María Teresa Rodriguez at the Women Make Movies website

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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Ted Passon

Ted Passon (Pew Fellow, 2014) is a filmmaker whose work explores human relationships and how they shape our world.

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Marshall Allen

Marshall Belford Allen, a 2012 Pew Fellow, has been an active member of the Sun Ra Arkestra for over 50 years, and has helmed the historic jazz group since 1995, following the death of jazz pioneer Sun Ra.

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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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Collaborators & Colleagues

Germaine Ingram

At age 33, Germaine Ingram (Pew Fellow, 2010) took up dance under the tutelage of a Philadelphia tap legend, the late LaVaughn Robinson (a 1992 Pew Fellow).

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Quentin Morris

Morris’ five-decade meditation on the color black investigates identity and spirituality, driven by his desire to, in his words, “refute all negative cultural mythologies about the color.”

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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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News

Pew Fellows News: Raphael Xavier’s Hip-Hop Practice in Visual Art Exhibition, James Ijames’ ‘Kill Move Paradise’ at The Wilma Theater, and Leah Stein’s Site-Specific Dance at Woodmere Art Museum

This month, Pew Fellows offer premiere performances and exhibitions with works in photography, film, theater, dance, and music.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Pia Kishore Agrawal

Pia Kishore Agrawal is the curator of performing arts at the Momentary, an adaptive reuse project converting a decommissioned Kraft Foods plant in Arkansas into a multidisciplinary space for visual, culinary, and performing arts and an artist-in-residency program.

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Dinita Clark

Through her work as a choreographer, performer, and teacher, Clark engages the vocabularies of hip-hop culture and street dance and centers women within the dance form.

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Melanie Bilenker

Melanie Bilenker (Pew Fellow, 2010) translates the historic art of Victorian hair jewelry into work that reflects upon the contemporary era.

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Alice Oh

Alice Oh is a visual artist and a 2000 Pew Fellow.

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Event

crazy beautiful

Choreographer and Pew Fellow Tania Isaac (2011) presents an iteration of her Center-funded discovery project open notebook: crazy beautiful.

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Robert Crowder

Robert Crowder (1930–2012) was the founder of Kùlú Mèlé African Dance and Drum Ensemble and a 2004 Pew Fellow in folk and traditional arts.

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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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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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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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Collaborators & Colleagues

Michael Gordon

Composer Michael Gordon is a co-founder of Bang on a Can, an international organization dedicated to the support of experimental music since 1987.

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Questions of Practice

Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview With Visual Artist Ken Lum

Visual artist Ken Lum creates conceptual and representational work in a number of mediums, including painting, sculpture, and photography, driven by an interest in the formation of individual and societal identities

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Questions of Practice: Pew Fellow Hellmut Gottschild on a Life of Dance, with Tania Isaac

Pew Fellows Hellmut Gottschild and Tania Isaac sat down for an extended conversation about Gottschild’s artistic history and practice.

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