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2004 PEW FELLOW

Updated
30 Nov 2016

Pew Fellow, 2004
Folk and Traditional Arts

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Pew Fellows News: Jennifer Higdon Wins Grammy, New Yorker Profiles Becky Suss, Rebecca Rutstein Debuts AT&T Building Mural

Catch up on this month’s Pew Fellows news, including the latest recognition and interviews.

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Max Apple

Max Apple (Pew Fellow, 2010) has been described as a "writer's writer," a dedicated author of short fiction who writes with precision and control.

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Enid Mark

Enid Mark (1932–2008) was a visual artist and a 2001 Pew Fellow.

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Pew Fellows News: Honors for Musicians Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Diane Monroe, Bobby Zankel; Joy Feasley and Paul Swenbeck Collaborate on Exhibition and Book; and More

The summer months haven’t slowed down for our Pew Fellows who are busy with exhibitions, publications, murals, performances, and more. Catch up with their newest projects below.

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David Ellsworth

David Ellsworth is a visual artist and a 1999 Pew Fellow.

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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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Jennifer Higdon

Jennifer Higdon is a Pulitzer Prize-winning musician and a 1999 Pew Fellow and one of America’s most frequently performed living composers.

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Pablo Batista

Over the course of his 30-year career, percussionist and 2000 Pew Fellow Pablo Batista has performed, recorded, and toured with a range of leading jazz, R&B, Latin, pop, and gospel artists including Bono, George Howard, Alicia Keyes, Gerald Levert, Jeffrey Osborne, Eddie Palmieri, Teddy Pendergrass, Diane Reeves, Grover Washington, Jr., Musiq, Manny Oquendo's Conjunto Libre, and the Philadelphia Orchestra.

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Aaron Landsman

Aaron Landsman is a New York City-based playwright, actor, and teacher whose performance works combine formal experimentation and long-term community engagement.

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Jacob Cooper

Cooper creates expansive sonic palettes that evoke a sense of timelessness through the use of electronic, studio-recorded processes and experimental instrument and vocal techniques.

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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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Edgar J. Shockley III

Edgar J. Shockley III (Pew Fellow, 2008) sees his unique contribution to the world as reconciling African and European theatrical aesthetics, making us all more aware of what it means to be human.

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Leroy Johnson

Leroy Johnson (Pew Fellow, 2014) is a mixed-media artist whose work takes the form of painting, collage, and assemblage sculpture. A native of Philadelphia, his work is reflective of his many experiences in the inner city.

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Michelle Angela Ortiz

Through public art installations and a socially engaged practice, Ortiz examines issues of immigration, socio-economic inequalities, and human rights.

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2018’s Cultural Highlights: Our Year in Review

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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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Ed Bing Lee

Working with colored thread and thousands upon thousands of knots, 2007 Pew Fellow Ed Bing Lee transforms a simple material and a common technique into a unique form of contemporary fiber art.

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Nathalie Anderson

Nathalie Anderson is a poet and a 1993 Pew Fellow.

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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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Tom Quinn

Quinn makes films that tell character-driven stories within regional communities. Blurring the line between documentary and fiction, he casts professional actors alongside people from the locations where he films, such as the South Philadelphia String Band as it prepares for the annual Mummers Parade and residents of a small town in Pennsylvania facing the closure of their local post office.

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