GRANTS & GRANTEES

Michael Hurwitz

1999 PEW FELLOW

Updated
30 Nov 2016

Pew Fellow, 1999
Visual Arts

References

Michael Hurwitz's website

News

2018’s Cultural Highlights: Our Year in Review

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Christopher Colucci

Colucci's sound designs for theater are distinguished by their sense of musicality, and what he describes as a "sensitivity to the power of sound to evoke the ineffable."

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Questions of Practice

Fellows Friday: Q&A with Electronic Musician King Britt

Electronic musician and DJ King Britt describes how his practice has evolved since receiving the Pew Fellowships ten years ago, the best advice he has ever received, and more

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Caroline Lathan-Stiefel

Caroline Lathan-Stiefel creates large-scale, immersive sculptural installations from textile and found objects to form what she calls "drawings in space."

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Paul Swenbeck

Pew Fellow Paul Swenback developed a fascination with the macabre and occult at an early age, which has filtered into his idiosyncratic sculptures, paintings, photographs, and installations.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Anthony Campuzano

Anthony Campuzano (Pew Fellow, 2009) is known for his use of found language in his drawings, using text from newspaper headlines, Wikipedia entries, paperback novels, and song lyrics.

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Jamaaladeen Tacuma

Jamaaladeen Tacuma (Pew Fellow, 2011) is considered a living legend among jazz circles. He is credited with redefining the potential of the electric bass.

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News

Pew Fellows News: Sonia Sanchez Wins Wallace Stevens Award, Glenn Holsten’s Wyeth Documentary Makes PBS Debut, David Hartt’s Solo Exhibition at Art Institute of Chicago, and More

In September, Pew Fellows from across all art disciplines were nationally recognized for their work, launched new and innovative projects, and received prestigious honors and awards. See the latest updates in our news roundup below.

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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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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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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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Becky Suss

Suss’ use of vivid color, pattern, and distorted perspective imbues an otherworldly quality to her large-scale paintings of domestic interiors.

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Questions of Practice

Fellows Friday: Q&A with Visual Artist Sharon Hayes

Pew Fellow and visual artist Sharon Hayes on the responsibilities associated with being an artist, the first film that inspired her practice, and more.

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New Video Series: Pew Fellows Share Poems from Home

In April, we introduced a new video series called Pew Fellows from Home, featuring dispatches from our Fellows.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Fred Wilson

New York City-based conceptual artist Fred Wilson is known for repurposing objects and artifacts to lead people to see them in a different way.

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Questions of Practice

Pew Fellows of the Week: An Interview with Landscape Architects Anuradha Mathur & Dilip da Cunha

Landscape architects Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha discuss their collaborative work and continued interest in the built environment, and more.

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Jim Hinz

Jim Hinz is a visual artist and a 2003 Pew Fellow.

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Charles Cohen

Charles Cohen (Pew Fellow, 2011) has been characterized as a "special and singular musician" with a highly developed and refined voice.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

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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Hanna Khoury

Hanna Khoury (Pew Fellow, 2010) was trained in Western classical music and has performed with several orchestras. His passion, however, lies in Arab classical music.

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