GRANTS & GRANTEES

Robert Smythe

2006 PEW FELLOW

Updated
30 Nov 2016

Pew Fellow, 2006
Theater

Received Grants

2006 Grants

Pew Fellowships

Theater

Collaborators & Colleagues

Zeena Parkins

Zeena Parkins is a pioneer of contemporary harp practice and performance, and has extended the language of the harp with unusual playing techniques, preparations, and layers of electronic processing.

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News

Fellows Friday News: Jennifer Kidwell Wins Obie Award; James Ijames Debuts New Play; Pepón Osorio Opens Site-Specific Installation

This month’s Pew Fellows news sees an award recognizing excellence in off-Broadway theater, grants from Leeway Foundation for projects addressing art and social change, and a large-scale installation that tells the story of a local matriarch.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Kate Watson-Wallace

Kate Watson-Wallace is a Philadelphia-based choreographer, 2007 Pew Fellow, and the co-director of anonymous bodies.

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Trapeta B. Mayson

Trapeta B. Mayson is a poet and a 2002 Pew Fellow. She serves as the executive director of Historic Germantown.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Kara Crombie

"I see my work as representation of the first generation to grow up entirely under the umbrella of a 'read-write' culture," 2010 Pew Fellow Kara Crombie states.

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Questions of Practice

Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview with Visual Artist Wilmer Wilson IV

Multidisciplinary artist Wilmer Wilson IV on his work in public spaces, the viewer's experience, and more.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Fred Wilson

New York City-based conceptual artist Fred Wilson is known for repurposing objects and artifacts to lead people to see them in a different way.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Nichole Canuso

Canuso’s choreographic practice spans genres and experiments with the participation of audience bodies, personal narratives, and what she describes as “the kinesthetic intellect.”

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Thomas Nozkowski

Noted abstract painter Thomas Nozkowski is known for his richly colored and intimately scaled paintings.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Frances McElroy

Frances McElroy (Pew Fellow, 2009) creates elegantly crafted documentaries that delve deeply into personal stories.

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Andrea Clearfield

Clearfield creates deep, emotive musical languages that she says, "synthesize disparate elements into a musical whole," in works that explore themes ranging from freedom and oppression, to ancient cultures, religion, health, and technology.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Jenn McCreary

Jenn McCreary (Pew Fellow, 2013) believes that the poem is "a dialogue and exchange between poet and reader; a breathing entity rather than a closed, coherent object."

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News

Fellows Friday News: Heidi Saman Film Acquired for Distribution, Jennifer Higdon Grammy Nominations, and Geoff Sobelle at New York Theatre Workshop

Filmmaker Heidi Saman’s film Namour is acquired for theatrical and on-demand distribution, theater artist Geoff Sobelle presents The Object Lesson at New York Theatre Workshop, and composer Jennifer Higdon is nominated for Grammy Awards.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Michael Kuetemeyer & Anula Shetty

Kuetemeyer and Shetty combine new media storytelling and immersive documentary forms with socially engaged art-making practices to explore themes of place, cultural identity, memory, and hidden histories.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

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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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Raphael Xavier

Raphael Xavier (Pew Fellow, 2013) has practiced "breaking," an acrobatic street dance style commonly known as breakdancing, since 1983.

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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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Collaborators & Colleagues

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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GRANTS & GRANTEES

J. Rufus Caleb

Playwright and 2008 Pew Fellow J. Rufus Caleb strives to create theater experiences that are "as visceral as they are intellectual."

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Benjamin Volta

Benjamin Volta (Pew Fellow, 2015) creates intricate public murals and sculptures, and works within the fields of education, restorative justice, and urban planning.

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