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

Questions of Practice

Fellows Friday: Q&A with Filmmaker Mark Kendall

Filmmaker and Pew Fellow Mark Kendall on the first work of art that inspired his practice, his experimental approach to filmmaking, and more.

question-of-practice-content
fellows-friday-q-amp-amp-a-with-filmmaker-mark-kendall
GRANTS & GRANTEES

Travis Macdonald

Travis Macdonald (Pew Fellow, 2014) questions authorship with poems that are lively and whimsical without being frivolous, and which offer critique and reflection of the contemporary moment.

people-content
travis-macdonald
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.

news-content
fellows-friday-news-heidi-saman-film-acquired-for-distribution-jennifer-higdon-grammy-nominations-and-geoff-sobelle-at-new-york-theatre-workshop
GRANTS & GRANTEES

Justin Witte

Justin Witte is a visual artist and a 2004 Pew Fellow.

people-content
justin-witte
GRANTS & GRANTEES

Matthew Suib

Pew Fellow Matthew Suib's work comes from a deep engagement with moving-image culture and how moving images shape our understanding of culture, history, and politics.

people-content
matthew-suib
News

Pew Fellows News: Tiona McClodden Receives Keith Haring Fellowship, Justin Cronin’s The Passage Adapted Into TV Series, Heidi Saman Selected for International Emerging Film Talent Association Initiative, and More

This month’s Pew Fellows news includes fellowships, grants, and honors, a new television series, and critically-acclaimed performances and exhibitions.

news-content
pew-fellows-news-tiona-mcclodden-receives-keith-haring-fellowship-justin-cronin-s-the-passage-adapted-into-tv-series-heidi-saman-selected-for-international-emerging-film-talent-association-initiative-and-more
Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Pew Fellow Sonia Sanchez Reads 10 Haikus for Max Roach

Award-winning poet, playwright, professor, and Pew Fellow Sonia Sanchez reads her poem 10 Haikus for Max Roach.

question-of-practice-content
questions-of-practice-pew-fellow-sonia-sanchez-reads-10-haikus-for-max-roach
GRANTS & GRANTEES

Micah Danges

Micah Danges' (Pew Fellow, 2015) work hovers between image and object, pushing the limit of what a photograph can be and using optical distortions that create abstract scenes from everyday items and places, in a distinctive merging of materials and process.

people-content
micah-danges
GRANTS & GRANTEES

Raphael Xavier

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

people-content
raphael-xavier
GRANTS & GRANTEES

Merián Soto

Over her 40-year career in performance, Merián Soto (Pew Fellow, 2015) has focused on investigating the living body and its relationship to consciousness. Her conceptual and process-based pieces work towards, in the artist's words, "a dance of the future, a dance of healing, transformation, and transcendence."

people-content
merian-soto
GRANTS & GRANTEES

Gabriel Martinez

Gabriel Martinez is a visual artist and a 2001 Pew Fellow.

people-content
gabriel-martinez
Collaborators & Colleagues

Whit MacLaughlin

Whit MacLaughlin is a theater artist, the founder of New Paradise Laboratories, and a 2002 Pew Fellow.

people-content
whit-maclaughlin
Questions of Practice

Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview With Poet Rachel Zolf

Poet Rachel Zolf spoke to us about their works in progress and the “conscious choice” to live and work in Philadelphia.

question-of-practice-content
pew-fellow-of-the-week-an-interview-with-poet-rachel-zolf
GRANTS & GRANTEES

Kukuli Velarde

Kukuli Velarde is a visual artist and a 2003 Pew Fellow.

people-content
kukuli-velarde
Collaborators & Colleagues

Eungie Joo

Eungie Joo is the director of art and cultural programs at Instituto Inhotim in Brumadinho, Brazil, a contemporary art complex.

people-content
eungie-joo
GRANTS & GRANTEES

J.C. Todd

J.C. Todd's (Pew Fellow, 2014) poems investigate the impact of war, with an insistent eye and ear on language.

people-content
j-c-todd
GRANTS & GRANTEES

Vera Nakonechny

Vera Nakonechny, a 2008 Pew Fellow, is a Ukrainian embroiderer, bead worker, and weaver.

people-content
vera-nakonechny
GRANTS & GRANTEES

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.

people-content
michael-djupstrom
GRANTS & GRANTEES

Alex Da Corte

Alex Da Corte (Pew Fellow, 2012) scans grocery stores, street corners, and IKEA showrooms to find materials for his assemblages and videos, which utilize everything from food to hardware.

people-content
alex-da-corte
Collaborators & Colleagues

Juliette Carrillo

Juliette Carrillo is a nationally recognized theater director, writer, and award-winning filmmaker from Los Angeles, California. Carrillo served as a Pew Fellowships panelist in 2015.

people-content
juliette-carrillo