GRANTS & GRANTEES

Michael Hurwitz

1999 PEW FELLOW

Updated
30 Nov 2016

Pew Fellow, 1999
Visual Arts

References

Michael Hurwitz's website

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Charles Burwell

Charles Burwell (Pew Fellow, 2008) creates abstract paintings, often times on a large scale, which are formally rigorous and visually stimulating.

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Questions of Practice

Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview with Choreographer Nichole Canuso

Choreographer and performer Nichole Canuso on improvisation, audience participation, and what she describes as “the kinesthetic intellect.”

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Raphael Xavier

Raphael Xavier (Pew Fellow, 2013) has practiced "breaking," an acrobatic street dance style commonly known as breakdancing, since 1983.

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Dave Burrell

Dave Burrell is a pianist and a 1996 Pew Fellow.

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Chuck Treece

Pew Fellow Chuck Treece is known as a seasoned guitarist, bassist, drummer, vocalist, and, in many circles, a skateboarding legend.

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Vera Nakonechny

Vera Nakonechny, a 2008 Pew Fellow, is a Ukrainian embroiderer, bead worker, and weaver.

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Alex Torra

Torra’s ensemble-created, experimental performance work invites audiences to consider the complexities of contemporary cultural identity, community, and humanity.

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Jen Bervin

Jen Bervin is an artist and poet whose research-driven interdisciplinary works weave together art, writing, science, and life.

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Camae Ayewa & Rasheedah Phillips

As “afrofuturistic cultural producers,” Ayewa and Phillips collaboratively explore the intersections of black culture, science fiction, futurism, and social practice.

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Denyse Thomasos

Denyse Thomasos (1964–2012) was a visual artist and a 1995 Pew Fellow.

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Anthony Smyrski

Anthony Smyrski works with Dan Murphy as the artist duo Megawords. They are well known throughout Philadelphia for installations that are equal parts gathering space, artist studio, and storefront.

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News

A “Game Changer,” a “Turning Point:” New Short Film Highlights Pew Fellowships’ Impact on Region’s Artists

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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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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Greg "Peache" Jarman

Greg "Peache" Jarman (1947–2009) was a musician and a 2000 Pew Fellow in Folk and Traditional Arts.

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Jamey Robinson

"I have never had a shortage of ideas for creating music," says 2007 Pew Fellow Jamey Robinson.

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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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Collaborators & Colleagues

Laura Mullen

Laura Mullen was appointed Director of Creative Writing at Louisiana State University in 2014. She has served as Poet-in-Residence at Brown University and Columbia College, and serves frequently as a guest faculty member at Naropa's Summer Writing Program. In 2015, she served as a panelist for Pew Fellowships.

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Alex Da Corte

Alex Da Corte (Pew Fellow, 2012) scans grocery stores, street corners, and IKEA showrooms to find materials for his assemblages and videos, which utilize everything from food to hardware.

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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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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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