GRANTS & GRANTEES

Rebecca Westcott

2004 PEW FELLOW

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30 Nov 2016

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Rebecca Westcott.

Pew Fellow, 2004
1976–2004
Visual Arts

Collaborators & Colleagues

Raven Chacon

Chacon’s compositions and sound installations combine contemporary chamber music with self-made electronic and acoustic instruments while conveying the perspectives of Indigenous people. During his residency, Chacon will investigate Philadelphia’s experimental music scene and the region’s Indigenous histories as he creates new musical works.

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Miya Masaoka

Miya Masaoka is a musician, composer, performance artist, teacher, and sound artist living and working in New York City.

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Aaron Landsman

Aaron Landsman is a New York City-based playwright, actor, and teacher whose performance works combine formal experimentation and long-term community engagement.

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David Felix Sutcliffe

A documentary filmmaker, Sutcliffe creates intimate, character-driven stories about the complex experiences of Muslim American communities today.

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Julie York

Julie York is a visual artist and 2007 Pew Fellow who works in porcelain, glass, and plastic, and whose practice is driven by the industrial process.

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Mary Lattimore

Classically trained on the harp since age 11, Mary Lattimore (Pew Fellow, 2014) incorporates experimental techniques and technologies into her music, thereby extending the conventions of her instrument.

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Rachel Blau DuPlessis

Rachel Blau DuPlessis is a poet, critic, and a 2002 Pew Fellow.

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Beth Kephart

Beth Kephart is a writer and a 2005 Pew Fellow.

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David Hartt

Hartt’s multidisciplinary work in photography, sculpture, installation, and digital film considers the history of social and cultural ideals in relation to the built environment.

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News

Pew Fellows News: Artists on View at MoMA, The Met, and PMA, Three Fellows Win Guggenheims

Catch up on this month’s Pew Fellows news, including interviews, accolades, and how to see their latest work.

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Katharine Clark Gray

That's the thing that I find important about theater: describing moments that you've had in your life, that you've never been able to put words to.

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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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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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News

Fellows Friday News: Lela Aisha Jones Nominated for a Bessie Award, Pew Fellows Create Philadelphia Monuments, and Theater Premieres from Thaddeus Phillips and Geoff Sobelle

This month’s Pew Fellows news sees world premiere performances in the 2017 Philadelphia Fringe Festival, a national choreography award, a series of new public artworks transforming the city, and more.

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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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Thomas Devaney

Thomas Devaney (Pew Fellow, 2014) considers poetry an act of exploration. His work is a lyric evocation of, and meditation upon, remembered people, places, his native city of Philadelphia, and the passage of time.

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Vera Nakonechny

Vera Nakonechny, a 2008 Pew Fellow, is a Ukrainian embroiderer, bead worker, and weaver.

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Greg Osby

Greg Osby (Pew Fellow, 2012) has made an indelible mark on contemporary jazz over the past 20 years, leading his own ensembles and performing with musical icons such as Dizzy Gillespie.

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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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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Poet Sonia Sanchez Discusses Her Creative Life and Legacy with Major Jackson [Full Interview]

Poets and Pew Fellows Sonia Sanchez and Major Jackson discuss the experiences that have shaped Sanchez’s distinguished, decades-long artistic practice.

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