GRANTS & GRANTEES

Robert Smythe

2006 PEW FELLOW

Updated
30 Nov 2016

Pew Fellow, 2006
Theater

Received Grants

2006 Grants

Pew Fellowships

Theater

GRANTS & GRANTEES

Moon Molson

Molson’s films examine urban masculinity and portray the stories of people of color, capturing the humor and lyricism of, in his words, “the language of the streets."

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Collaborators & Colleagues

jumatatu m. poe

A young choreographer who has already produced provocative, experimental dance works, Poe (Pew Fellow, 2011) is the founder of dance/theater company idiosynCrazy productions.

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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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Zaye Tete

Tete’s practice is dedicated to sharing and reinterpreting traditional Liberian music and dance, connecting Liberian Americans with their heritage across generations.

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Mei-ling Hom

Mei-ling Hom is a visual artist and a 1998 Pew Fellow.

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Leah Stein

Stein’s choreographic practice integrates improvisational methods in site-specific works that illuminate the connections among the body, sound, location, and audience.

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Questions of Practice

Fellows Friday: Q&A with Vocalist and Composer Tokay Tomah

Vocalist, composer, and recording artist Tokay Tomah on starting her artistic career in Liberia, using music as a vehicle for building peace, and more.

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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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Frances Negrón-Muntaner

Frances Negrón-Muntaner is a filmmaker and a 1994 Pew Fellow.

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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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Collaborators & Colleagues

Jamillah James

Jamillah James is curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ICA LA).

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Thaddeus Phillips

Thaddeus Phillips (Pew Fellow, 2002) creates theater works that use transformational scenography, documentary footage, and improvisation to peer into not-often seen worlds.

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Mark Kendall

Kendall's poetic cinematic voice permeates his experimental documentary films that reflect on, as he says, "the everyday conditions of our everyday lives" in ways that bring together the physical, sensuous and perceptual with the intellectual.

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Kimi Takesue

Kimi Takesue is an award-winning filmmaker working in documentary, narrative, and experimental genres.

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Enid Mark

Enid Mark (1932–2008) was a visual artist and a 2001 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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Adelaide Paul

"The things to me that are the most interesting," says visual artist and 2007 Pew Fellow Adelaide Paul, "are the things that by their very nature have no answers."

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Kirsten Kaschock

Informed by her training as a dancer, Kaschock addresses the intersections between language and the body in poetry that displays a choreographer’s sense of rhythm and timing.

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Kevin Varrone

Poet and 2012 Pew Fellow Kevin Varrone has worked for over 10 years on a multiple-book project entitled g-point Almanac.

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Major Jackson

Major Jackson is a poet, professor, and author.

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