GRANTS & GRANTEES

Steven Beyer

1992 PEW FELLOW

Updated
30 Nov 2016

Pew Fellow, 1992
Visual Arts

GRANTS & GRANTEES

Lauren Mabry

Lauren Mabry (Pew Fellow, 2015) is a ceramist whose expressive and colorful "dimensional paintings," as she describes them, play with form, texture, color, and scale and blur the boundaries between ceramics, abstract painting, and sculpture.

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Jacob Cooper

Cooper creates expansive sonic palettes that evoke a sense of timelessness through the use of electronic, studio-recorded processes and experimental instrument and vocal techniques.

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Questions of Practice

Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview with Visual Artist Lisa Marie Patzer

Visual artist Lisa Marie Patzer (2019) spoke to us about how her practice and interests have evolved during the pandemic, the most useful piece of artistic advice she ever received, and her favorite “brain candy” for relaxing.

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Charles Cohen

Charles Cohen (Pew Fellow, 2011) has been characterized as a "special and singular musician" with a highly developed and refined voice.

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News

Pew Fellows News: Pepón Osorio Named a 2018 USA Fellow, Kukuli Velarde’s First West Coast Exhibition, Afaa Michael Weaver’s Work Featured in New Book

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Fellows Friday News: David Felix Sutcliffe Wins Emmy Award, Fatu Gayflor and Tokay Tomah Star in New Documentary, Remembering Elaine Hoffman Watts

This month’s Pew Fellows news sees national awards for filmmaking and nonfiction writing, new music and film releases, and we remember the late klezmer musician Elaine Hoffman Watts.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

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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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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Teresa Jaynes

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

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Rashid Zakat

Zakat intermingles film, music, photography, and creative space-making in work that engages with Black social and spiritual life.

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News

Fellows Friday News: Heidi Saman Film Acquired for Distribution, Jennifer Higdon Grammy Nominations, and Geoff Sobelle at New York Theatre Workshop

Filmmaker Heidi Saman’s film Namour is acquired for theatrical and on-demand distribution, theater artist Geoff Sobelle presents The Object Lesson at New York Theatre Workshop, and composer Jennifer Higdon is nominated for Grammy Awards.

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Fellows Friday News: A Living Legacy Award for Odean Pope; An Exhibition Honors the Late Nicholas Kripal; Tayarisha Poe Named Sundance Institute Fellow & More

This month’s Pew Fellows news sees a wide range of national and regional awards for Fellows across disciplines, an exhibition recognizing the legacy of late visual artist and educator Nicholas Kripal, and press coverage for world premiere theater works.

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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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Collaborators & Colleagues

Pia Kishore Agrawal

Pia Kishore Agrawal is the curator of performing arts at the Momentary, an adaptive reuse project converting a decommissioned Kraft Foods plant in Arkansas into a multidisciplinary space for visual, culinary, and performing arts and an artist-in-residency program.

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Kayleb Rae Candrilli

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Questions of Practice

Fellows Friday: Q&A with Visual Artist Sharon Hayes

Pew Fellow and visual artist Sharon Hayes on the responsibilities associated with being an artist, the first film that inspired her practice, and more.

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In Memoriam: Tokay Tomah, Traditional African Vocalist and Pew Fellow

Tokay Tomah, 2016 Pew Fellow and celebrated singer, composer, and recording artist, passed away on November 14, 2017.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Maria Shaplin

Shaplin uses light to create immersive theatrical worlds that guide and enhance what she describes as the “alchemical meaning-making” of live performance.

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Jim Hinz

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

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Nami Mun

Nami Mun is a novelist and short story writer.

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