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Muhsana Ali

2002 PEW FELLOW

Updated
30 Nov 2016

Pew Fellow, 2002
Visual Arts

References

Muhsana Ali's website

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Christopher Bursk

Christopher Bursk is a poet and a 1995 Pew Fellow.

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Bill Nace

Nace’s experimental improvisations and compositions extend the boundaries of electric guitar technique, using bows, metal, wood, glass bowls, and other implements. His distinctive musical vocabulary references folk, rock, and punk traditions as he works to make a ubiquitous instrument sound new.

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Beth Kephart

Beth Kephart is a writer and a 2005 Pew Fellow.

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James Maurelle

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Maria Shaplin

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