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Robert Smythe

2006 PEW FELLOW

Updated
30 Nov 2016

Pew Fellow, 2006
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2006 Grants

Pew Fellowships

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Ken Kalfus

Ken Kalfus is a 2009 Pew Fellow and the author of two collections of stories, Thirst and Pu-239 and Other Russian Fantasies, both of which were New York Times notable books.

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News

In Memoriam: Anuradha Mathur, Landscape Architect and Pew Fellow

Pew Fellow Anuradha Mathur passed away on February 26 at the age of 61.

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Matthew Mitchell

Pew Fellow Matthew Mitchell's compositions address intersections and cross-pollination among various strains of acoustic, electric, composed, and improvised new music.

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Gerald Levinson

Gerald Levinson (Pew Fellow, 2007) has been increasingly recognized as one of the major composers of his generation.

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Major Jackson

Major Jackson is a poet, professor, and author.

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Ted Passon

Ted Passon (Pew Fellow, 2014) is a filmmaker whose work explores human relationships and how they shape our world.

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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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Ryan Eckes

Eckes' poetry documents the voices and histories of urban life through narrative-driven, investigative, and experimental texts that draw from sources such as news archives, personal accounts, and corporate correspondence.

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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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News

Pew Fellows News: Rennie Harris Honored with National Dance Award, Wilmer Wilson IV Selected for The New Museum Triennial, Remembering Tokay Tomah

This month’s Pew Fellows news sees a national dance award for a hip-hop icon, several exhibitions by visual artists and filmmakers, and we remember the late Liberian vocalist Tokay Tomah.

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Artist Residencies Awarded to Pew Fellows Nichole Canuso and Jennifer Kidwell

Pew Fellows Nichole Canuso (2017) and Jennifer Kidwell (2016) have been awarded artist residencies to cultivate in-progress works during the summer of 2020.

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Jacob Cooper

Cooper creates expansive sonic palettes that evoke a sense of timelessness through the use of electronic, studio-recorded processes and experimental instrument and vocal techniques.

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Caroline Lathan-Stiefel

Caroline Lathan-Stiefel creates large-scale, immersive sculptural installations from textile and found objects to form what she calls "drawings in space."

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Bhob Rainey

Bhob Rainey is a soprano saxophonist, composer, and a 2013 Pew Fellow whose interests lie in new realms of artistic possibility.

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Questions of Practice

Fellows Friday: Q&A with Visual Artist Sharon Hayes

Pew Fellow and visual artist Sharon Hayes on the responsibilities associated with being an artist, the first film that inspired her practice, and more.

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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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Collaborators & Colleagues

Judy Hussie-Taylor

Judy Hussie-Taylor has served as executive director and chief curator of Danspace Project since 2008, where her theme-based Platform series has mobilized artists as advocates and curators within the field.

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Rea Tajiri

Rea Tajiri's (Pew Fellow, 2015) films straddle documentary and art film genres with an innovative approach to storytelling, which she characterizes as "personal essay documentary," exploring the effects of political, social, and emotional histories within families and across generations.

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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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Emily Abendroth

Poet and 2013 Pew Fellow Emily Abendroth's poetry encourages readers to discover difficult truths woven into social, cultural, and physical realities.

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