GRANTS & GRANTEES

Shanti Thakur

2001 PEW FELLOW

Updated
30 Nov 2016

Pew Fellow, 2001
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References

Shanti Thakur's website

GRANTS & GRANTEES

Camae Ayewa & Rasheedah Phillips

As “afrofuturistic cultural producers,” Ayewa and Phillips collaboratively explore the intersections of black culture, science fiction, futurism, and social practice.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Brenda Dixon Gottschild

Dixon Gottschild’s 50-year career as a writer and cultural scholar surveys the presence and influence of the black dancing body in America, in what she calls “choreography for the page.”

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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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Carolyn Lazard

Lazard’s cross-disciplinary practice centers the experiences of disability and accessibility, appropriating existing materials and, in the artist’s words, “the labor of others as a structural element of the work.”

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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.

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Charles Cohen

Charles Cohen (Pew Fellow, 2011) has been characterized as a "special and singular musician" with a highly developed and refined voice.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Kristy Edmunds

Kristy Edmunds is the executive and artistic director of the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA. She is recognized for innovation and depth in the presentation of works by contemporary artists.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Babette Martino

Babette Martino (1956–2011) was a visual artist and a 2000 Pew Fellow.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Julia Bloch

Bloch’s lyric and prose poems blend the personal and the political to, she says, “negotiate tensions between individual forms of expression and webs of social meaning.”

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Gerald Cyrus, Jr.

Gerald Cyrus, Jr. is a visual artist and a 2005 Pew Fellow.

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Questions of Practice

Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview with Choreographer Nichole Canuso

Choreographer and performer Nichole Canuso on improvisation, audience participation, and what she describes as “the kinesthetic intellect.”

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Anne Seidman

Painter and 2008 Pew Fellow Anne Seidman's practice has allowed her to explore the nature of pure painting through abstraction, suggesting friction, awkwardness, and ultimately, a sense of self.

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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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News

A “Game Changer,” a “Turning Point:” New Short Film Highlights Pew Fellowships’ Impact on Region’s Artists

The Center marks the 25th anniversary of the Pew Fellowships in the Arts with a short film, released in March 2017.

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Joy Feasley

"The major concern of my work is to paint the invisible," says Joy Feasley, a painter and a 2011 Pew Fellow.

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Jennifer Levonian

Jennifer Levonian (Pew Fellow, 2009) creates cut-paper animations that explore the ambivalence of everyday life.

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Questions of Practice

Fellows Friday: Q&A with Visual Artist Sharon Hayes

Pew Fellow and visual artist Sharon Hayes on the responsibilities associated with being an artist, the first film that inspired her practice, and more.

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Anuradha Mathur & Dilip da Cunha

The collaborative work of Mathur and da Cunha imagines new possibilities for design of the built environment and explores the lines separating land and water, and urban and rural environments.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Essex Hemphill

Essex Hemphill (1957–95) was a poet and a 1993 Pew Fellow.

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Event

Raphael Xavier: The Unofficial Guide to Audience Watching Performance

Dancer, choreographer, and 2013 Pew Fellow Raphael Xavier takes hip-hop techniques from the street to the stage and tells the autobiographical story defined by sacrifice, passion, and transcendence.

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