GRANTS & GRANTEES

Mark Shetabi

2002 PEW FELLOW

Updated
30 Nov 2016

Pew Fellow, 2002
Visual Arts

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Kinan Abou-afach

Classical Arab musician Kinan Abou-afach (Pew Fellow, 2013) was born in Damascus, Syria, where he learned traditional Arabic repertoire on the oud, an Arabic lute.

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Matt Saunders

Matt Saunders (Pew Fellow, 2014) is a multidisciplinary theater artist whose practice is rooted in set design.

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Kevin Varrone

Poet and 2012 Pew Fellow Kevin Varrone has worked for over 10 years on a multiple-book project entitled g-point Almanac.

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Marco Roth

Marco Roth is an essayist, literary critic, a 2009 Pew Fellow, and a founding editor of n +1 magazine, a twice-yearly printed journal of literature, politics, and culture.

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News

A Poem that Changed My Life: Seven Pew Fellows on the Works that Inspire Them

In celebration of National Poetry Month, we invited some of our Fellows to reflect on the poems that have been most meaningful to them and how they have shaped their practices and their lives.

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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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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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12 New Fellows Announced, Jenny Sabin’s MoMAPS1 Installation, King Britt’s New Album, and James Ijames in The New York Times

This month’s Pew Fellows news sees the release of a new album of electronic music, national media coverage of a new play addressing race in America, the introduction of the 2017 Pew Fellows, and more.

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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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Virgil Marti

Virgil Marti is a visual artist and a 1995 Pew Fellow.

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Nathalie Anderson

Nathalie Anderson is a poet and a 1993 Pew Fellow.

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Questions of Practice

Pew Fellowships in the Arts at 25

In 2017, the Center celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Pew Fellowships in the Arts, with a website and short film highlighting a quarter-century of steadfast belief in the value and impact of artists.

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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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Gerald Levinson

Gerald Levinson (Pew Fellow, 2007) has been increasingly recognized as one of the major composers of his generation.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Dito van Reigersberg

Dito van Reigersberg is a theater artist, a co-founder and co-artistic director of Pig Iron Theatre Company, and a 2002 Pew Fellow.

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Anne Seidman

Painter and 2008 Pew Fellow Anne Seidman's practice has allowed her to explore the nature of pure painting through abstraction, suggesting friction, awkwardness, and ultimately, a sense of self.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Poet Sonia Sanchez Discusses Her Creative Life and Legacy with Major Jackson [Full Interview]

Poets and Pew Fellows Sonia Sanchez and Major Jackson discuss the experiences that have shaped Sanchez’s distinguished, decades-long artistic practice.

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Zaye Tete

Tete’s practice is dedicated to sharing and reinterpreting traditional Liberian music and dance, connecting Liberian Americans with their heritage across generations.

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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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Odean Pope

Odean Pope is a saxophonist and composer, and a 1992 Pew Fellow.

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