GRANTS & GRANTEES

Thomas Dan

1995 PEW FELLOW

Updated
30 Nov 2016

Pew Fellow, 1995
Visual Arts

Questions of Practice

Fellows Friday: Q&A with Choreographer and Movement Artist Lela Aisha Jones

Choreographer and Pew Fellow Lela Aisha Jones on the importance of “creative spirits” in her family, what motivates her to create, the Philadelphia arts scene, and more.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Brent Wahl

Brent Wahl (Pew Fellow, 2014) works primarily in photography and time-based mediums, transforming everyday materials and detritus into mesmerizing compositions.

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Bill Nace

Nace’s experimental improvisations and compositions extend the boundaries of electric guitar technique, using bows, metal, wood, glass bowls, and other implements. His distinctive musical vocabulary references folk, rock, and punk traditions as he works to make a ubiquitous instrument sound new.

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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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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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Gerald Levinson

Gerald Levinson (Pew Fellow, 2007) has been increasingly recognized as one of the major composers of his generation.

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Coming in 2020: Center-Funded Projects Featuring the Work of Philip Glass, Bill T. Jones, George Nakashima, Refik Anadol, and More

Browse a preview of the performances, exhibitions, and programs that will inspire audiences in the coming year, and sign up for our monthly newsletter to stay in the know about events, announcements, and more.

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Chris Madak

Chris Madak bridges (Pew Fellow, 2015) drone and contemporary experimental electronic music, demonstrating a refined and subtle, yet accessible, musical voice.

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Sueyeun Juliette Lee

Pew Fellow Sueyeun Juliette Lee's poetry questions concepts of birthright, lineage, and homeland, investigating relationships between people and the places they inhabit.

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Leroy Johnson

Leroy Johnson (Pew Fellow, 2014) is a mixed-media artist whose work takes the form of painting, collage, and assemblage sculpture. A native of Philadelphia, his work is reflective of his many experiences in the inner city.

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Matt Saunders

Matt Saunders (Pew Fellow, 2014) is a multidisciplinary theater artist whose practice is rooted in set design.

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Rachel Zolf

Zolf’s poetry and art videos explore memory, history, ethics, and the limits of language.

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Jennifer Higdon

Jennifer Higdon is a Pulitzer Prize-winning musician and a 1999 Pew Fellow and one of America’s most frequently performed living composers.

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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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Chuck Treece

Pew Fellow Chuck Treece is known as a seasoned guitarist, bassist, drummer, vocalist, and, in many circles, a skateboarding legend.

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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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Questions of Practice

Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview with Poet M. Nzadi Keita

Poet M. Nzadi Keita on weaving intricate narratives with historical research and and vivid imagery, her art-making routine, and how she thinks about her legacy.

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Eileen Neff

Eileen Beff is a visual artist and 1994 Pew Fellow.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Daniel Fuller

Daniel Fuller is a writer and independent curator based in Atlanta, Georgia.

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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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