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Rafael Ferrer

1993 PEW FELLOW

Updated
30 Nov 2016

Pew Fellow, 1993
Visual Arts

References

Rafael Ferrer at the Guggenheim Foundation website

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Uri Caine

Uri Caine is an award-winning composer and pianist, and a 2003 Pew Fellow.

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Sharon Hayes

Hayes blends various mediums—including video, performance, installation, and photography—to probe the complex intersections of history, politics, gender, and speech within private and public spaces.

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News

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Judy Hussie-Taylor

Judy Hussie-Taylor has served as Executive Director of Danspace Project, a New York City venue for independent experimental choreographers, since 2008. Hussie-Taylor served as a Pew Fellowships panelist in 2012 and 2013, a Performance LOI panelist in 2014, and as the Performance panel chair in 2015.

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Pew Fellows News: Sonia Sanchez Wins Wallace Stevens Award, Glenn Holsten’s Wyeth Documentary Makes PBS Debut, David Hartt’s Solo Exhibition at Art Institute of Chicago, and More

In September, Pew Fellows from across all art disciplines were nationally recognized for their work, launched new and innovative projects, and received prestigious honors and awards. See the latest updates in our news roundup below.

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Fellows Friday News: A Living Legacy Award for Odean Pope; An Exhibition Honors the Late Nicholas Kripal; Tayarisha Poe Named Sundance Institute Fellow & More

This month’s Pew Fellows news sees a wide range of national and regional awards for Fellows across disciplines, an exhibition recognizing the legacy of late visual artist and educator Nicholas Kripal, and press coverage for world premiere theater works.

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Hellmut Gottschild

Hellmut Gottschild is a seminal figure in Philadelphia dance, and was part of the first generation of Pew Fellows in 1992.

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Meg Foley

Foley, a 2012 Pew Fellow, explores how every movement, no matter how ordinary or seemingly inconsequential, informs a responding movement, and so on, in an ongoing creative feedback loop.

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Thaddeus Phillips

Thaddeus Phillips (Pew Fellow, 2002) creates theater works that use transformational scenography, documentary footage, and improvisation to peer into not-often seen worlds.

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Mauro Zamora

"I'm interested in the landscape for political reasons, environmental reasons...things that have to do with us and our society right now," says painter and 2008 Pew Fellow Mauro Zamora.

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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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Questions of Practice

Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview with Writer and Cultural Scholar Brenda Dixon Gottschild

Writer and cultural scholar Brenda Dixon Gottschild on her artistic journey, her interest in the presence and influence of the black dancing body in America, and more.

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Jymie Merritt

Recognized as a pioneering jazz bassist and composer who has played with numerous musical luminaries over his 60-year career, Merritt composes work that brings forth collective improvisation within a complex rhythmic and harmonic language.

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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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Catie Rosemurgy

Poet and Pew Fellow Catie Rosemurgy's wry and sharply imagined poems investigate the layered natures of identity, history, and narrative.

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King Britt

King Britt is on a journey, exploring the patchwork of rhythmic textures from many urban dance music cultures: deep house, hip-hop, broken beat, nu-jazz, funk, and afro-tech.

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Yolanda Wisher

Yolanda Wisher's (Pew Fellow, 2015) writing addresses both artistic and community-oriented pursuits. The founder and director of the Germantown Poetry Festival, she is dedicated to poetry as a performative, public act, capable of producing environmental and social change.

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Julia Bloch

Bloch’s lyric and prose poems blend the personal and the political to, she says, “negotiate tensions between individual forms of expression and webs of social meaning.”

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Alex Da Corte

Alex Da Corte (Pew Fellow, 2012) scans grocery stores, street corners, and IKEA showrooms to find materials for his assemblages and videos, which utilize everything from food to hardware.

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Babette Martino

Babette Martino (1956–2011) was a visual artist and a 2000 Pew Fellow.

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