GRANTS & GRANTEES

Yvonne Bobrowicz

1996 PEW FELLOW

Updated
30 Nov 2016

Pew Fellow, 1996
Visual Arts

References

Yvonne Bobrowicz at the Senior Artists Initiative website

Questions of Practice

Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview with Theater Artist Rhodessa Jones

Rhodessa Jones (2020) spoke to us about being drawn to art early in life in a family of Black migrant workers, why she makes work for and with other women, and what she hopes to accomplish during her time in Philadelphia. This interview was transcribed from an audio recording and edited for length and clarity.

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Fatu Gayflor

Fatu Gayflor (Pew Fellow, 2014) learned music, dance, and traditional arts at an early age in rural Liberia. She states that her goal is "to use singing and songwriting to build cooperation and community among Liberians."

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News

Pew Fellows News: Kate Watson-Wallace Premieres Work at LA’s REDCAT, Tayarisha Poe’s Film to be Adapted by Amazon Studios, Benjamin Volta’s Mural Honored by Americans for the Arts

Catch up on this month’s Pew Fellows news, including the latest recognition, new works, and press coverage.

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Dito van Reigersberg

Dito van Reigersberg is a theater artist, a co-founder and co-artistic director of Pig Iron Theatre Company, and a 2002 Pew Fellow.

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Fred Wilson

New York City-based conceptual artist Fred Wilson is known for repurposing objects and artifacts to lead people to see them in a different way.

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Fellows Friday: Q&A with Theater Artist Jennifer Kidwell

Theater artist and Pew Fellow Jennifer Kidwell on how she became an artist, the role of humor in her work, Philadelphia’s arts scene, and more.

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Melanie Bilenker

Melanie Bilenker (Pew Fellow, 2010) translates the historic art of Victorian hair jewelry into work that reflects upon the contemporary era.

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Felix "Pupi" Legarreta

The melody needs some dress. I cannot send it naked, so I dress it up with the harmony, you know?

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Lela Aisha Jones

Jones is a movement performance artist who intertwines personal history, diasporic movement, social commentary, and interdisciplinary methods, drawing from, in her words, "the individual and collective lived experiences of blackness."

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Kimi Takesue

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

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Jamillah James

Jamillah James is curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ICA LA).

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Hellmut Gottschild

Hellmut Gottschild is a seminal figure in Philadelphia dance, and was part of the first generation of Pew Fellows in 1992.

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LaVaughn Robinson

LaVaughn Robinson (1927–2008) was a tap dancer and a 1992 Pew Fellow.

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John Corbett

John Corbett is a writer, musician, radio host, teacher, record producer, concert promoter, and, with co-owner Jim Dempsey, of Corbett vs. Dempsey art gallery in Chicago.

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Paula Marincola

Paula Marincola was named the first executive director of The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage in June 2008. She leads the organization in developing and implementing its strategic agenda as both grantmaker and hub for knowledge-sharing.

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Tracie Morris

Tracie Morris is a poet, performer, and scholar. She works extensively as a singer, sound artist, writer, bandleader, and actor.

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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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J. Rufus Caleb

Playwright and 2008 Pew Fellow J. Rufus Caleb strives to create theater experiences that are "as visceral as they are intellectual."

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Rachel Blau DuPlessis

Rachel Blau DuPlessis is a poet, critic, and a 2002 Pew Fellow.

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News

2018’s Cultural Highlights: Our Year in Review

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