GRANTS & GRANTEES

Sheryl Robin David

2000 PEW FELLOW

Updated
30 Nov 2016

Pew Fellow, 2000
Folk and Traditional Arts

News

Pew Fellows News: Interviews with Jamaladeen Tacuma and Lorene Cary, New Works from Michelle Angela Ortiz and Brian Teare, and More

Catch up on this month’s Pew Fellows news, including the latest recognition, new works, and press coverage.

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Pew Fellows News: Camae Ayewa Receives Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant, Melissa Ho Mounts Exhibition at Smithsonian, Tayarisha Poe Screens Film at Sundance

Catch up on this month’s Pew Fellows news, including the latest recognition, new works, and press coverage.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Adelaide Paul

"The things to me that are the most interesting," says visual artist and 2007 Pew Fellow Adelaide Paul, "are the things that by their very nature have no answers."

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Questions of Practice

Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview With Visual Artist Michelle Angela Ortiz

Visual artist Michelle Angela Ortiz has designed and created over 50 large-scale public works nationally and internationally. She maintains a practice that examines issues of immigration, inequality, and human rights.

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Questions of Practice: Poet Sonia Sanchez Discusses Her Creative Life and Legacy with Major Jackson [Full Interview]

Poets and Pew Fellows Sonia Sanchez and Major Jackson discuss the experiences that have shaped Sanchez’s distinguished, decades-long artistic practice.

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Melanie Bilenker

Melanie Bilenker (Pew Fellow, 2010) translates the historic art of Victorian hair jewelry into work that reflects upon the contemporary era.

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Mark Kendall

Kendall's poetic cinematic voice permeates his experimental documentary films that reflect on, as he says, "the everyday conditions of our everyday lives" in ways that bring together the physical, sensuous and perceptual with the intellectual.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Catie Rosemurgy

Poet and Pew Fellow Catie Rosemurgy's wry and sharply imagined poems investigate the layered natures of identity, history, and narrative.

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Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview with Poet Kirsten Kaschock

Poet Kirsten Kaschock spoke to us about her daily writing routine, how her dance background informs her poetry work, and why she doesn’t believe in procrastination.

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Thomas Devaney

Thomas Devaney (Pew Fellow, 2014) considers poetry an act of exploration. His work is a lyric evocation of, and meditation upon, remembered people, places, his native city of Philadelphia, and the passage of time.

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The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Announces Over $10.2 Million in Pandemic Recovery Funding for Philadelphia Organizations and Fellowships for Artists

42 new grants support individual artists and assist arts sector in emerging from the effects of COVID-19 through technology and facilities upgrades, diversity initiatives, new business models

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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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Kinan Abou-afach

Classical Arab musician Kinan Abou-afach (Pew Fellow, 2013) was born in Damascus, Syria, where he learned traditional Arabic repertoire on the oud, an Arabic lute.

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Beth Kephart

Beth Kephart is a writer and a 2005 Pew Fellow.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

John Corbett

John Corbett is a writer, musician, radio host, teacher, record producer, concert promoter, and, with co-owner Jim Dempsey, of Corbett vs. Dempsey art gallery in Chicago.

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Odean Pope

Odean Pope is a saxophonist and composer, and a 1992 Pew Fellow.

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George E. Lewis

A 2002 MacArthur Fellow and early member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, George Lewis is the Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music at Columbia University.

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Applying for a 2020 Pew Center Grant: What You Need to Know

The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage is pleased to share the 2020 guidelines for Letters of Intent to Apply for Project grants in our Exhibitions & Public Interpretation and Performance programs.

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Steven Donegan

Steven Donegan is a visual artist and a 1998 Pew Fellow.

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Questions of Practice

Fellows Friday: Q&A with Visual Artist Annabeth Rosen

Visual artist and Pew Fellow Annabeth Rosen recalls the most useful advice she ever received, her interest in the “accumulation” of objects and ideas, and more.

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