GRANTS & GRANTEES

Shanti Thakur

2001 PEW FELLOW

Updated
30 Nov 2016

Pew Fellow, 2001
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Shanti Thakur's website

Collaborators & Colleagues

Pablo de Ocampo

Pablo de Ocampo is a Vancouver-based film and exhibitions curator at Western Front, one of Canada’s leading artist-run centers for contemporary art and new music.

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News

In Memoriam: Elaine Hoffman Watts, Klezmer Musician and Pew Fellow

A celebrated percussionist and treasured mentor, Watts was known for bringing an authentic and refined approach to klezmer, a centuries-old form of Eastern European Jewish folk music.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Hanna Khoury

Hanna Khoury (Pew Fellow, 2010) was trained in Western classical music and has performed with several orchestras. His passion, however, lies in Arab classical music.

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Paula Marincola

Paula Marincola was named the first executive director of The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage in June 2008. She leads the organization in developing and implementing its strategic agenda as both grantmaker and hub for knowledge-sharing.

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Artist Residencies Awarded to Pew Fellows Nichole Canuso and Jennifer Kidwell

Pew Fellows Nichole Canuso (2017) and Jennifer Kidwell (2016) have been awarded artist residencies to cultivate in-progress works during the summer of 2020.

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Dito van Reigersberg

Dito van Reigersberg is a theater artist, a co-founder and co-artistic director of Pig Iron Theatre Company, and a 2002 Pew Fellow.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Annabeth Rosen

Annabeth Rosen is a visual artist and ceramicist who creates elaborate sculptures that are “volcanic, beastly, catastrophic, and unnervingly funny,” as described by writer and critic Nancy Princenthal.

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New Artist Residencies Awarded to Pew Fellows Michael Djupstrom, James Ijames, Mary Lattimore, and Rea Tajiri

The Center is pleased to announce that four new artist residencies have been awarded to Pew Fellows.

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In Memoriam: Mick Moloney, Musician, Folklorist, and Pew Fellow

Pew Fellow Mick Moloney passed away on July 27, 2022, at the age of 77.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Pew Fellow Hellmut Gottschild on a Life of Dance, with Tania Isaac

Pew Fellows Hellmut Gottschild and Tania Isaac sat down for an extended conversation about Gottschild’s artistic history and practice.

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Kara Crombie

"I see my work as representation of the first generation to grow up entirely under the umbrella of a 'read-write' culture," 2010 Pew Fellow Kara Crombie states.

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In Memoriam: Anuradha Mathur, Landscape Architect and Pew Fellow

Pew Fellow Anuradha Mathur passed away on February 26 at the age of 61.

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Tina Davidson

Tina Davidson is a composer and a 1992 Pew Fellow.

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Questions of Practice

A Poetry Month Pew Fellows Chat with Julian Talamantez Brolaski, Kayleb Rae Candrilli, & Marissa Johnson-Valenzuela

For National Poetry Month, we invited three poets—Julian Talamantez Brolaski (2019 Fellow-in-Residence), Kayleb Rae Candrilli (2021 Fellow), and Marissa Johnson-Valenzuela (2020 Fellow)—to discuss what drew them to poetry, how writing and “pre-writing” permeates throughout their daily lives, and how to sustain a creative practice over time.

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Ursula Rucker

Rucker’s interdisciplinary poetry and spoken word performances—which she characterizes as situated “along the edge of the terrains of poetry”—reflect on personal history, family, and place.

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Iain Low

Iain Low is an architect and a 1993 Pew Fellow.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Rhodessa Jones

Jones is a theater performer, director, teacher, and writer whose five-decade body of work tells the stories of women, particularly women of color and incarcerated individuals. In Philadelphia, Jones will hold workshops and in-progress readings as she develops a new solo performance and a book on theater creation for women in prisons.

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Questions of Practice

Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview with Filmmaker Moon Molson

Filmmaker Moon Molson on his daily art-making routine, his biggest motivator as an artist, and more.

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Pew Fellows Chat: Shatara Michelle Ford, Karyn Olivier, and Brett Ashley Robinson on the Art and Audiences That Matter to Them

Filmmaker Shatara Michelle Ford , visual artist Karyn Olivier, and theater artist Brett Ashley Robinson discuss the works that catalyzed their own creative pursuits, how audience considerations shape their practices, and the possibilities that lie in their chosen disciplines.

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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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