GRANTS & GRANTEES

Mytili Jagannathan

2002 PEW FELLOW

Updated
30 Nov 2016

Pew Fellow, 2002
Literature

References

GRANTS & GRANTEES

James Ijames

James Ijames' (Pew Fellow, 2015) plays and devised works examine how class and gender intersect with race, drawing inspiration from historical texts, the media, and stories of his own family to deconstruct history and its established figures.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Jamillah James

Jamillah James is curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ICA LA).

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News

Fellows Friday News: David Felix Sutcliffe Wins Emmy Award, Fatu Gayflor and Tokay Tomah Star in New Documentary, Remembering Elaine Hoffman Watts

This month’s Pew Fellows news sees national awards for filmmaking and nonfiction writing, new music and film releases, and we remember the late klezmer musician Elaine Hoffman Watts.

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Lumi Tan

Lumi Tan is curator at The Kitchen in New York, where she organizes exhibitions and produces performances with artists across disciplines and generations.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Marc Brodzik

Marc Brodzik (Pew Fellow, 2009) is a visual artist and documentary filmmaker interested in filming portraits of the common man.

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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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Alexandra Tatarsky

Tatarsky blends performance art, comedy, physical theater, and clown practices to probe the construction of meaning, self, and community. Playing with perceptions of language and narrative structure, their live performances are highly responsive to venue and audience, often breaking the fourth wall and embracing humor to reveal vulnerability and humanity.

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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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Collaborators & Colleagues

Adam Lerner

Adam Lerner is the Mark G, Falcone “MaFa” director and chief animator of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Denver.

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Essex Hemphill

Essex Hemphill (1957–95) was a poet and a 1993 Pew Fellow.

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Chris Madak

Chris Madak bridges (Pew Fellow, 2015) drone and contemporary experimental electronic music, demonstrating a refined and subtle, yet accessible, musical voice.

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Questions of Practice

Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview with Media Artist Tayarisha Poe

Media Artist Tayarisha Poe on becoming an artist, what motivates her to tap into her internal youth, and more.

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Matthew Levy

Levy's performance practice and compositions bridge modern classical music with rhythmic and improvisatory aspects of jazz, guided by his dedication to exploring the saxophone's genre-defying capabilities.

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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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Collaborators & Colleagues

Dan Blacksberg

Spanning avant-garde jazz, modern classical music, improvised music, and klezmer, 2012 Pew Fellow Dan Blacksberg pushes at the technical and textural extremes of his instrument, the trombone.

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James Sugg

James Sugg (Pew Fellow, 2010) describes himself as a bridge—a bridge between music and theater, composer and performer, and traditional and ensemble-generated theater.

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Lela Aisha Jones

Jones is a movement performance artist who intertwines personal history, diasporic movement, social commentary, and interdisciplinary methods, drawing from, in her words, "the individual and collective lived experiences of blackness."

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Stuart Netsky

Stuart Netsky is a painter, sculptor, and a 1995 Pew Fellow.

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News

A Poem that Changed My Life: Seven Pew Fellows on the Works that Inspire Them

In celebration of National Poetry Month, we invited some of our Fellows to reflect on the poems that have been most meaningful to them and how they have shaped their practices and their lives.

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Fritz Dietel

Fritz Dietel's (Pew Fellow, 2007) inspiration comes from observation of botanic and aquatic natural forms. His pieces, quite labor-intensive, are mainly constructed from strips and shards of band-sawed wood.

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