GRANTS & GRANTEES

Shanti Thakur

2001 PEW FELLOW

Updated
30 Nov 2016

Pew Fellow, 2001
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References

Shanti Thakur's website

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Didier William

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J. Louise Makary

J. Louise Makary (Pew Fellow, 2013) approaches film as a platform to explore, critique, and dissect narratives and their uses.

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Event

A Billion Nights on Earth FringeArts Holiday Performances

Thaddeus Phillips' family-friendly, visual theater work returns to FringeArts for a series of special holiday performances.

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William Daley

Self-proclaimed "mud man" and 2010 Pew Fellow William Daley has been a leading figure in the field of ceramics for close to 60 years.

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Questions of Practice

Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview With Visual Artist Ken Lum

Visual artist Ken Lum creates conceptual and representational work in a number of mediums, including painting, sculpture, and photography, driven by an interest in the formation of individual and societal identities

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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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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.

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Tiona Nekkia McClodden

McClodden's interdisciplinary work traverses documentary film, experimental video, sculpture, and sound installations, to explore elements of race, familial histories, and social change.

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Greg "Peache" Jarman

Greg "Peache" Jarman (1947–2009) was a musician and a 2000 Pew Fellow in Folk and Traditional Arts.

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Peter Paulsen

Peter Paulsen is a classical and jazz performer, both of which influence his composition style, and a 2007 Pew Fellow.

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Brett Ashley Robinson

Robinson’s work blends physical ensemble performance, drag burlesque culture, documentary theater, and clowning.

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News

Pew Fellows News: Honors for Musicians Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Diane Monroe, Bobby Zankel; Joy Feasley and Paul Swenbeck Collaborate on Exhibition and Book; and More

The summer months haven’t slowed down for our Pew Fellows who are busy with exhibitions, publications, murals, performances, and more. Catch up with their newest projects below.

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The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Announces 2017 Grants for Philadelphia Artists, Organizations

The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage today announced 53 grants in support of the Philadelphia region’s cultural organizations and artists.

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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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Collaborators & Colleagues

Hellmut Gottschild

Hellmut Gottschild is a seminal figure in Philadelphia dance, and was part of the first generation of Pew Fellows in 1992.

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Bo Bartlett

Bo Bartlett is a painter and a 1993 Pew Fellow.

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Mark Thomas Gibson

Visual artist Mark Thomas Gibson (he/his) chronicles race, class, and contemporary American culture with a historian’s eye on the past.

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Airea D. Matthews

Matthews’ work experiments with poetic forms to consider how language can shape perceptions of the self, shared histories, and assumed notions of Blackness.

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News

New Video Series: Pew Fellows Share Poems from Home

In April, we introduced a new video series called Pew Fellows from Home, featuring dispatches from our Fellows.

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Alex Smith

Smith’s writing, Afrofuturist collage art, and avant-garde punk music draw from influences including science fiction, comic art, and Dadaism to frame the creativity, survival, and hopefulness of queer and Black people.

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