GRANTS & GRANTEES

Robert Smythe

2006 PEW FELLOW

Updated
30 Nov 2016

Pew Fellow, 2006
Theater

Received Grants

2006 Grants

Pew Fellowships

Theater

Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Pew Fellows Sonia Sanchez and Major Jackson on Legacy and the Joys of Teaching

Pew Fellows and poets Sonia Sanchez and Major Jackson visited the Center for an extended conversation, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Pew Fellowships in the Arts.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Syd Carpenter

Syd Carpenter is a sculptor and a 1992 Pew Fellow.

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News

In Memoriam: Tokay Tomah, Traditional African Vocalist and Pew Fellow

Tokay Tomah, 2016 Pew Fellow and celebrated singer, composer, and recording artist, passed away on November 14, 2017.

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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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Nana Korantema Ayeboafo

"The pulsating energy that we get from drums have a way of connecting us to everything else in the universe," says Nana Korantema Ayeboafo, a 2008 Pew Fellow.

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Michael Djupstrom

A classical music composer and pianist, Michael Djupstrom (Pew Fellow, 2014) seeks to connect with audiences by bridging traditional and contemporary styles of musical expression.

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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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Karyn Olivier

Olivier creates monuments, memorials, and visual art installations that consider the complex and often conflicting representations of history and memory in public spaces.

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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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Questions of Practice

Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview with Theater Artist Rhodessa Jones

Rhodessa Jones (2020) spoke to us about being drawn to art early in life in a family of Black migrant workers, why she makes work for and with other women, and what she hopes to accomplish during her time in Philadelphia. This interview was transcribed from an audio recording and edited for length and clarity.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Hellmut Gottschild

Hellmut Gottschild is a seminal figure in Philadelphia dance, and was part of the first generation of Pew Fellows in 1992.

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Maria Shaplin

Shaplin uses light to create immersive theatrical worlds that guide and enhance what she describes as the “alchemical meaning-making” of live performance.

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David Scott Kessler

David Scott Kessler's (Pew Fellow, 2015) work combines film, installation, writing, performance, and drawing in a constantly-shifting exploration of place.

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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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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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Questions of Practice

Pew Fellows of the Week: An Interview with Media Artists Michael Kuetemeyer & Anula Shetty

Pew Fellows and media artists Michael Kuetemeyer and Anula Shetty on creating community-engaged work, the best advice they ever received, and more.

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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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Collaborators & Colleagues

Pia Kishore Agrawal

Pia Kishore Agrawal is the curator of performing arts at the Momentary, an adaptive reuse project converting a decommissioned Kraft Foods plant in Arkansas into a multidisciplinary space for visual, culinary, and performing arts and an artist-in-residency program.

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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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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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