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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

Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview with Poet Julia Bloch

Poet Julia Bloch on using forms of found text in personal and public archival materials, her biggest motivator, and more.

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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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Brian Teare

Brian Teare's (Pew Fellow, 2015) poetry is concerned with embodiment—both our human bodies and the natural environment around us.

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News

The Pew Center is Recognized with Two Awards from the Public Relations Society of America

We are honored to receive recognition from the Philadelphia Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America’s Pepperpot Awards for our Pew Fellowships at 25 anniversary celebration.

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Jennifer Higdon

Jennifer Higdon is a Pulitzer Prize-winning musician and a 1999 Pew Fellow and one of America’s most frequently performed living composers.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Judd Greenstein

Judd Greenstein is a composer and music presenter based in Brooklyn, NY. He curates the Ecstatic Music Festival, an annual showcase of new collaborative concerts between artists from different musical worlds.

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Rajendra Roy

Rajendra Roy joined the Department of Film at The Museum of Modern Art as Chief Curator in July 2007, overseeing the museum's film collection, and their preservation and exhibition efforts. Roy served as a Pew Fellowships panelist in 2015.

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Bobby Zankel

Bobby Zankel is a musician and a 1996 Pew Fellow.

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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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Christopher Colucci

Colucci's sound designs for theater are distinguished by their sense of musicality, and what he describes as a "sensitivity to the power of sound to evoke the ineffable."

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Jane Irish

The overall intent of my work is to develop a visual myth about the build up and aftermath of war.

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Paul Swenbeck

Pew Fellow Paul Swenback developed a fascination with the macabre and occult at an early age, which has filtered into his idiosyncratic sculptures, paintings, photographs, and installations.

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Tracie Morris

Tracie Morris is a poet, performer, and scholar. She works extensively as a singer, sound artist, writer, bandleader, and actor.

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Robert Matthews

Pew Fellow Robert Matthews' drawings are representational with varying degrees of narrative. They are not illustrations but rather investigations of unsolvable questions.

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David Ludwig

Ludwig's contemporary classical compositions for a range of instrumental ensembles, voice, theater, and film play with style and genre and address topics ranging from climate change to religious traditions.

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News

Announcing the 25th Anniversary of the Pew Fellowships in the Arts

In 2017, the Center marks the 25th anniversary of the Pew Fellowships in the Arts with a commemorative website highlighting a quarter-century of support to artists.

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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.

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12 New Fellows Announced, Jenny Sabin’s MoMAPS1 Installation, King Britt’s New Album, and James Ijames in The New York Times

This month’s Pew Fellows news sees the release of a new album of electronic music, national media coverage of a new play addressing race in America, the introduction of the 2017 Pew Fellows, and more.

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Nicholas Kripal

Nicholas Kripal is a visual artist and a 1999 Pew Fellow.

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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.

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