GRANTS & GRANTEES

Paul Fierlinger

1997 PEW FELLOW

Updated
30 Nov 2016

Pew Fellow, 1997
Media Arts

References

Paul Fierlinger at the PennDesign website

Questions of Practice

Pew Fellowships in the Arts at 25

In 2017, the Center celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Pew Fellowships in the Arts, with a website and short film highlighting a quarter-century of steadfast belief in the value and impact of artists.

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Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview with Poet Julia Bloch

Poet Julia Bloch on using forms of found text in personal and public archival materials, her biggest motivator, and more.

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Jamillah James

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

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Teresa Leo

Teresa Leo is a poet and a 2002 Pew Fellow.

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Pew Fellows News: Rennie Harris Honored with National Dance Award, Wilmer Wilson IV Selected for The New Museum Triennial, Remembering Tokay Tomah

This month’s Pew Fellows news sees a national dance award for a hip-hop icon, several exhibitions by visual artists and filmmakers, and we remember the late Liberian vocalist Tokay Tomah.

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Adelaide Paul

"The things to me that are the most interesting," says visual artist and 2007 Pew Fellow Adelaide Paul, "are the things that by their very nature have no answers."

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Julian Talamantez Brolaski

Brolaski’s poetry draws from multiple languages, literary traditions, and modes of expression to explore multifaceted identity and experience.

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Pew Fellows News: Kate Watson-Wallace Premieres Work at LA’s REDCAT, Tayarisha Poe’s Film to be Adapted by Amazon Studios, Benjamin Volta’s Mural Honored by Americans for the Arts

Catch up on this month’s Pew Fellows news, including the latest recognition, new works, and press coverage.

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Dinita Clark

Through her work as a choreographer, performer, and teacher, Clark engages the vocabularies of hip-hop culture and street dance and centers women within the dance form.

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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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Pew Fellows News: Four Artists in Whitney and Venice Biennials, Major Awards for Sonia Sanchez, and Imani Perry’s Latest Book

Catch up on the many activities and accomplishments of our Pew Fellows, and find out where you can see, read, and hear their newest work.

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J.C. Todd

J.C. Todd's (Pew Fellow, 2014) poems investigate the impact of war, with an insistent eye and ear on language.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

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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Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview With Composer David Ludwig

Composer David Ludwig's work has been commissioned and performed by numerous internationally known artists and ensembles, and recognized by the American Composers Forum, National Endowment for the Arts, and NPR’s “Top 100 Composers Under 40.”

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Venissa Santí

The granddaughter of a Cuban composer, Venissa Santí (Pew Fellow, 2008) moved to Philadelphia when she was 17 and became a trained vocalist with classical- and jazz-based technique.

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Dorothy Wilkie

Dorothy Wilkie's (Pew Fellow, 2007) choreography involves the re-staging and re-choreographing of traditional West African and Afro-Cuban dances.

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In Memoriam: Jymie Merritt, Bassist, Composer, and Pew Fellow

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angel shanel edwards

Angel shanel edwards creates movement work, film, and writing that celebrate the everyday, embodying the textures of Black queer and transgender existence.

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Frank Sherlock

Frank Sherlock (Pew Fellow, 2013) views poetry as a call to action and a tool for encouraging interactions and conversations within public spaces.

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Teresa Jaynes

Teresa Jaynes is a visual artist and a 1999 Pew Fellow.

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