GRANTS & GRANTEES

Rudolf Staffel

1996 PEW FELLOW

Updated
30 Nov 2016

Pew Fellow, 1996
1911–2002
Visual Arts

References

Rudolf Staffel at the Philadelphia Museum of Art website

News

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Fatu Gayflor (Pew Fellow, 2014) learned music, dance, and traditional arts at an early age in rural Liberia. She states that her goal is "to use singing and songwriting to build cooperation and community among Liberians."

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Alex Kanevsky

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Mark Goodwin is a visual artist and a 1995 Pew Fellow.

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Mary Lattimore

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Questions of Practice

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