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Thomas Dan

1995 PEW FELLOW

Updated
30 Nov 2016

Pew Fellow, 1995
Visual Arts

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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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Lumi Tan

Lumi Tan is curator at The Kitchen in New York, where she organizes exhibitions and produces performances with artists across disciplines and generations.

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Emily Abendroth

Poet and 2013 Pew Fellow Emily Abendroth's poetry encourages readers to discover difficult truths woven into social, cultural, and physical realities.

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Yolanda Wisher

Yolanda Wisher's (Pew Fellow, 2015) writing addresses both artistic and community-oriented pursuits. The founder and director of the Germantown Poetry Festival, she is dedicated to poetry as a performative, public act, capable of producing environmental and social change.

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Matthew Mitchell

Pew Fellow Matthew Mitchell's compositions address intersections and cross-pollination among various strains of acoustic, electric, composed, and improvised new music.

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Carolyn Lazard

Lazard’s cross-disciplinary practice centers the experiences of disability and accessibility, appropriating existing materials and, in the artist’s words, “the labor of others as a structural element of the work.”

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David Ludwig

Ludwig's contemporary classical compositions for a range of instrumental ensembles, voice, theater, and film play with style and genre and address topics ranging from climate change to religious traditions.

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Lori Waselchuk

Pew Fellow Lori Waselchuk's photographs of post-Katrina New Orleans and the hospice at Angola Prison in Louisiana bring us into intimate contact with complex subjects.

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Christopher Bursk

Christopher Bursk is a poet and a 1995 Pew Fellow.

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Becky Suss

Suss’ use of vivid color, pattern, and distorted perspective imbues an otherworldly quality to her large-scale paintings of domestic interiors.

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Pablo Batista

Over the course of his 30-year career, percussionist and 2000 Pew Fellow Pablo Batista has performed, recorded, and toured with a range of leading jazz, R&B, Latin, pop, and gospel artists including Bono, George Howard, Alicia Keyes, Gerald Levert, Jeffrey Osborne, Eddie Palmieri, Teddy Pendergrass, Diane Reeves, Grover Washington, Jr., Musiq, Manny Oquendo's Conjunto Libre, and the Philadelphia Orchestra.

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Kimi Takesue

Kimi Takesue is an award-winning filmmaker working in documentary, narrative, and experimental genres.

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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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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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Jane Irish

The overall intent of my work is to develop a visual myth about the build up and aftermath of war.

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Jonathan Olshefski

Olshefski’s documentary films depict intimate portraits of contemporary American life, rooted in the long-term relationships he develops with his subjects.

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Ursula Rucker

Rucker’s interdisciplinary poetry and spoken word performances—which she characterizes as situated “along the edge of the terrains of poetry”—reflect on personal history, family, and place.

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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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King Britt

King Britt is on a journey, exploring the patchwork of rhythmic textures from many urban dance music cultures: deep house, hip-hop, broken beat, nu-jazz, funk, and afro-tech.

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Mary Jane Jacob

Curator Mary Jane Jacob is professor and executive director of exhibitions and exhibition studies at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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