GRANTS & GRANTEES

Rebecca Medel

1999 PEW FELLOW

Updated
30 Nov 2016

Pew Fellow, 1999
Visual Arts

References

Rebecca Medel's website

News

A “Game Changer,” a “Turning Point:” New Short Film Highlights Pew Fellowships’ Impact on Region’s Artists

The Center marks the 25th anniversary of the Pew Fellowships in the Arts with a short film, released in March 2017.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Ian Berry

Ian Berry is Dayton Director of the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College.

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Valerie Cassel Oliver

Valerie Cassel Oliver is senior curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. She has organized numerous exhibitions that have earned national and international acclaim.

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News

Pew Fellows News: Rasheedah Phillips on “Time”, Roberto Lugo’s Kamala Harris Teapot, Trapeta B. Mayson’s Poetry Hotline

Catch up on this month’s Pew Fellows news, including awards, new works, and interviews.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Brent Wahl

Brent Wahl (Pew Fellow, 2014) works primarily in photography and time-based mediums, transforming everyday materials and detritus into mesmerizing compositions.

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News

Pew Fellows News: Tiona McClodden Awarded Tiffany Foundation Grant, Michael Djupstrom Premieres New Work, National Coalition of 100 Black Women Honors Sonia Sanchez

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Fellows Friday News: Zoe Strauss and Afaa Michael Weaver Receive Guggenheim Fellowships, Orrin Evans Joins The Bad Plus, and More

Visual artist Zoe Strauss and poet Afaa Michael Weaver receive 2017 Guggenheim Fellowships and musician Orrin Evans becomes a permanent member of the renowned jazz group The Bad Plus.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Heidi Saman

Influenced by Italian neo-realism's emphasis on working-class protagonists, Saman's films examine cultural identity, family, class, and daily life among Arab Americans.

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Questions of Practice

Fellows Friday: Q&A with Filmmaker Mark Kendall

Filmmaker and Pew Fellow Mark Kendall on the first work of art that inspired his practice, his experimental approach to filmmaking, and more.

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Questions of Practice: Pew Fellow Hellmut Gottschild on a Life of Dance, with Tania Isaac

Pew Fellows Hellmut Gottschild and Tania Isaac sat down for an extended conversation about Gottschild’s artistic history and practice.

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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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Collaborators & Colleagues

Michèle Steinwald

Michèle Steinwald is an independent curator and dance producer, and former assistant curator for the performing arts at the Walker Art Center.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Germaine Ingram

At age 33, Germaine Ingram (Pew Fellow, 2010) took up dance under the tutelage of a Philadelphia tap legend, the late LaVaughn Robinson (a 1992 Pew Fellow).

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Collaborators & Colleagues

George E. Lewis

A 2002 MacArthur Fellow and early member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, George Lewis is the Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music at Columbia University.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Daniel Heyman

Daniel Heyman's (Pew Fellow, 2009) works on paper capture the images and words of Iraqi torture victims from facilities like Abu Ghraib.

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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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Event

crazy beautiful

Choreographer and Pew Fellow Tania Isaac (2011) presents an iteration of her Center-funded discovery project open notebook: crazy beautiful.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

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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News

Pew Fellows News: Camae Ayewa Receives Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant, Melissa Ho Mounts Exhibition at Smithsonian, Tayarisha Poe Screens Film at Sundance

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

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Beth Kephart

Beth Kephart is a writer and a 2005 Pew Fellow.

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