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Sheryl Robin David

2000 PEW FELLOW

Updated
30 Nov 2016

Pew Fellow, 2000
Folk and Traditional Arts

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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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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Teresa Jaynes

Teresa Jaynes is a visual artist and a 1999 Pew Fellow.

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Rick Lowe

Artist and community activist Rick Lowe is the founder of Project Row Houses, a neighborhood-based nonprofit arts and cultural organization in Houston's Northern Third Ward.

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Anthony Smyrski

Anthony Smyrski works with Dan Murphy as the artist duo Megawords. They are well known throughout Philadelphia for installations that are equal parts gathering space, artist studio, and storefront.

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Peter Taub

Peter Taub is a curator and arts manager with over 30 years of experience in developing and producing artist-centered projects.

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News

In Memoriam: Jymie Merritt, Bassist, Composer, and Pew Fellow

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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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Karyn Olivier

Olivier creates monuments, memorials, and visual art installations that consider the complex and often conflicting representations of history and memory in public spaces.

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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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Trapeta B. Mayson

Trapeta B. Mayson is a poet, 2002 Pew Fellow, and the 2020–2021 poet laureate of Philadelphia.

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Deron Albright

Deron Albright (Pew Fellow, 2012) has been a filmmaker since 1994, with work spanning documentary, installation, poetic animation, and short- and long-form narrative.

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Tina Davidson

Tina Davidson is a composer and a 1992 Pew Fellow.

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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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Uri Caine

Uri Caine is an award-winning composer and pianist, and a 2003 Pew Fellow.

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Questions of Practice

Fellows Friday: Q&A with Bassist and Composer Jymie Merritt

Bassist, composer, and Pew Fellow Jymie Merritt discusses the early influence of Duke Ellington on his artistic practice, his interest in digital composition tools, and more.

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Travis Macdonald

Travis Macdonald (Pew Fellow, 2014) questions authorship with poems that are lively and whimsical without being frivolous, and which offer critique and reflection of the contemporary moment.

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Pablo Colapinto

Pablo Colapinto is a media artist and a 2005 Pew Fellow.

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News

Pew Fellows News: Major Award for Tiona Nekkia McClodden, New Commission for Karyn Olivier, and a Photography Book Release from Emmet Gowin

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Jim Hinz

Jim Hinz is a visual artist and a 2003 Pew Fellow.

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