GRANTS & GRANTEES

Steven Beyer

1992 PEW FELLOW

Updated
30 Nov 2016

Pew Fellow, 1992
Visual Arts

GRANTS & GRANTEES

John Blake, Jr.

John Blake, Jr. (1947–2014, Pew Fellow, 2010) took his inspiration as a contemporary jazz violinist and composer from some of the genre's greats.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Nami Mun

Nami Mun is a novelist and short story writer.

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News

Fellows Friday News: Jennifer Kidwell Wins Obie Award; James Ijames Debuts New Play; Pepón Osorio Opens Site-Specific Installation

This month’s Pew Fellows news sees an award recognizing excellence in off-Broadway theater, grants from Leeway Foundation for projects addressing art and social change, and a large-scale installation that tells the story of a local matriarch.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Frank Sherlock

Frank Sherlock (Pew Fellow, 2013) views poetry as a call to action and a tool for encouraging interactions and conversations within public spaces.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

David Lang

David Lang is one of America's most performed composers, with an extensive catalog that includes opera, orchestra, chamber, and solo works.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

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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Michael Djupstrom

A classical music composer and pianist, Michael Djupstrom (Pew Fellow, 2014) seeks to connect with audiences by bridging traditional and contemporary styles of musical expression.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Adam Lerner

Adam Lerner is the Mark G, Falcone “MaFa” director and chief animator of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Denver.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Katharine Clark Gray

That's the thing that I find important about theater: describing moments that you've had in your life, that you've never been able to put words to.

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News

The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Announces 2018 Grants for Philadelphia Artists, Organizations

2018 Grants Announcement Custom PageThe Pew Center for Arts & Heritage today announced 45 grants today in support of the Philadelphia region’s cultural organizations and artists.

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Matthew Levy

Levy's performance practice and compositions bridge modern classical music with rhythmic and improvisatory aspects of jazz, guided by his dedication to exploring the saxophone's genre-defying capabilities.

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Chris Forsyth

Chris Forsyth seeks out and articulates intersections of various musical traditions, including free jazz, American folk, blues, and electronic music.

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Nami Yamamoto

Pew Fellow Nami Yamamoto's cut-paper installations reflect the hundreds of natural and man-made objects she consistently collects, serving as visual resources and inspirations for her practice.

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News

Pew Fellows News: Tiona McClodden Receives Keith Haring Fellowship, Justin Cronin’s The Passage Adapted Into TV Series, Heidi Saman Selected for International Emerging Film Talent Association Initiative, and More

This month’s Pew Fellows news includes fellowships, grants, and honors, a new television series, and critically-acclaimed performances and exhibitions.

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Questions of Practice

Pew Fellowships in the Arts at 25

In 2017, the Center celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Pew Fellowships in the Arts, with a website and short film highlighting a quarter-century of steadfast belief in the value and impact of artists.

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Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview with Visual Artist Wilmer Wilson IV

Multidisciplinary artist Wilmer Wilson IV on his work in public spaces, the viewer's experience, and more.

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Jesse Harrod

Harrod’s interdisciplinary practice encompasses sculpture, painting, stop-motion animation, and other media to reimagine forms of gendered, sexual, and disabled embodiment. Their work engages with the history of feminist art, material culture, and craft practices such as macramé, ceramics, and stained glass.

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Event

crazy beautiful

Choreographer and Pew Fellow Tania Isaac (2011) presents an iteration of her Center-funded discovery project open notebook: crazy beautiful.

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Dinita Clark

Through her work as a choreographer, performer, and teacher, Clark engages the vocabularies of hip-hop culture and street dance and centers women within the dance form.

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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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