GRANTS & GRANTEES

Molly Russakoff

1995 PEW FELLOW

Updated
30 Nov 2016

Pew Fellow, 1995
Literature

References

Molly Russakoff's Facebook page

Collaborators & Colleagues

Julie Carr

Julie Carr is the author of several books of poetry and a 2011 recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship.

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Carolyn Lazard

Lazard’s cross-disciplinary practice centers the experiences of disability and accessibility, appropriating existing materials and, in the artist’s words, “the labor of others as a structural element of the work.”

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Questions of Practice

Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview with Dancer and Choreographer Dinita Clark

Dancer, choreographer, and educator Dinita Clark (2019) spoke to us about her lifelong interest in dance, the current issues she is addressing in her work, and what makes Philadelphia’s dance community distinctive.

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Philip Bither

Philip Bither has been the Walker Art Center's senior curator of performing arts since 1997.

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Diana Nawi

Diana Nawi is an independent curator based in Los Angeles and the co-artistic director of Prospect.5, the 2020–21 installment of the Prospect New Orleans contemporary art triennial.

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Iain Low

Iain Low is an architect and a 1993 Pew Fellow.

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Beth Kephart

Beth Kephart is a writer and a 2005 Pew Fellow.

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News

2018’s Cultural Highlights: Our Year in Review

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Travis Macdonald

Travis Macdonald (Pew Fellow, 2014) questions authorship with poems that are lively and whimsical without being frivolous, and which offer critique and reflection of the contemporary moment.

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Jenny Sabin

"Looking to nature for design inspiration is not a new idea," says architect and designer Jenny Sabin.

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News

Pew Fellows News: Major Award for Tiona Nekkia McClodden, New Commission for Karyn Olivier, and a Photography Book Release from Emmet Gowin

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Thomas Devaney

Thomas Devaney (Pew Fellow, 2014) considers poetry an act of exploration. His work is a lyric evocation of, and meditation upon, remembered people, places, his native city of Philadelphia, and the passage of time.

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Rhodessa Jones

Jones is a theater performer, director, teacher, and writer whose five-decade body of work tells the stories of women, particularly women of color and incarcerated individuals. In Philadelphia, Jones will hold workshops and in-progress readings as she develops a new solo performance and a book on theater creation for women in prisons.

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News

Fellows Friday News: Afaa Michael Weaver Publishes New Poetry Collection, Alex Da Corte’s Times Square Billboards, and More

Poet Afaa Michael Weaver publishes a new book of poetry, visual artist Alex Da Corte’s video installation Blue Moon is projected on Times Square billboards, and filmmaker Cheryl Hess receives a 2016 Tribeca Documentary Grant.

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Questions of Practice

Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview with Lighting Designer Maria Shaplin

Lighting designer Maria Shaplin (2019) spoke to us about the works that shaped her approach to her own practice, what makes Philadelphia’s artistic community distinctive, and how her theater background comes in handy with a new baby.

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Gerald Cyrus, Jr.

Gerald Cyrus, Jr. is a visual artist and a 2005 Pew Fellow.

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Jonathan Olshefski

Olshefski’s documentary films depict intimate portraits of contemporary American life, rooted in the long-term relationships he develops with his subjects.

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News

Pew Fellows News: The Whitney Acquires Works by Jonathan Lyndon Chase and Alex da Corte, Trapeta B. Mayson Named Philly Poet Laureate, Tina Satter’s Play on NY Times “Best Of” List

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Julia Wolfe

Composer Julia Wolfe, whose music is inspired by the folk, classical, and rock genres, is co-founder of New York's music collective Bang on a Can.

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Questions of Practice

Fellows Friday: Q&A with Vocalist and Composer Tokay Tomah

Vocalist, composer, and recording artist Tokay Tomah on starting her artistic career in Liberia, using music as a vehicle for building peace, and more.

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