GRANTS & GRANTEES

Rafael Ferrer

1993 PEW FELLOW

Updated
30 Nov 2016

Pew Fellow, 1993
Visual Arts

References

Rafael Ferrer at the Guggenheim Foundation website

Questions of Practice

Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview With Poet Ursula Rucker

Interdisciplinary poet, performer, and recording artist Ursula Rucker spoke to us about the influences that shaped the trajectory of her career, from crucial early advice to collaborating across disciplines.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Jennifer Monson

Choreographer and performer Jennifer Monson is the founder of New York City-based iLAND: Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art, Nature, and Dance.

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Questions of Practice

Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview With Vocalist Zaye Tete

Liberian vocalist, composer, and dancer Zaye Tete spoke to us about her artistic development in Liberia, music’s transformative power, and her fondness for Paul Simon.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Charles O. Anderson

You have to almost exhaust yourself sometimes to let yourself say what it is, or do what it is, in the most honest way.

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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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Robert Crowder

Robert Crowder (1930–2012) was the founder of Kùlú Mèlé African Dance and Drum Ensemble and a 2004 Pew Fellow in folk and traditional arts.

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Annabeth Rosen

Annabeth Rosen is a visual artist and ceramicist who creates elaborate sculptures that are “volcanic, beastly, catastrophic, and unnervingly funny,” as described by writer and critic Nancy Princenthal.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Robert Matthews

Pew Fellow Robert Matthews' drawings are representational with varying degrees of narrative. They are not illustrations but rather investigations of unsolvable questions.

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Airea D. Matthews

Matthews’ work experiments with poetic forms to consider how language can shape perceptions of the self, shared histories, and assumed notions of Blackness.

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Event

A Billion Nights on Earth FringeArts Holiday Performances

Thaddeus Phillips' family-friendly, visual theater work returns to FringeArts for a series of special holiday performances.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

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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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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Alex Torra

Torra’s ensemble-created, experimental performance work invites audiences to consider the complexities of contemporary cultural identity, community, and humanity.

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Questions of Practice

Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview with Poet M. Nzadi Keita

Poet M. Nzadi Keita on weaving intricate narratives with historical research and and vivid imagery, her art-making routine, and how she thinks about her legacy.

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News

25+ Ways to Engage with Philadelphia Arts and Culture from Home

These organizations have a range of digital exhibitions and performances, art tutorials, music, and films available to anyone seeking to stay connected to Philadelphia’s art scene.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Quentin Morris

Morris’ five-decade meditation on the color black investigates identity and spirituality, driven by his desire to, in his words, “refute all negative cultural mythologies about the color.”

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Sally Berger

Sally Berger is a film and media curator, lecturer, and writer, and serves as assistant curator of the department of film at The Museum of Modern Art.

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Bruce Metcalf

Bruce Metcalf is a jeweler and a 1996 Pew Fellow.

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Questions of Practice

Fellows Friday: Q&A with Electronic Musician King Britt

Electronic musician and DJ King Britt describes how his practice has evolved since receiving the Pew Fellowships ten years ago, the best advice he has ever received, and more

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Ryan Trecartin

"I'm interested in how personality is replacing gender in how people are defined," says 2009 Pew Fellow Ryan Trecartin, an innovative video artist who creates phantasmagorical media installations.

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