Pew Center for Arts and Heritage

Get our monthly newsletter in your inbox for the latest on cultural events, ideas, conversations, and grantmaking news in Philadelphia and beyond.

Main page contents
Music director Madeline Benson and composer Daniel Lazour at a developmental workshop for Night Side Songs, Northwestern University. 
Grant

Night Side Songs

Allison Janae Hamilton, still from A House Called Florida. Photo courtesy of the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York and Aspen.  
Grant

A Slow Drag for the Conjure Women (working title)

Judah Burke performing at Monument Lab's Declaration House Block Party, curated by Yolanda Wisher for the opening of Sonya Clark’s The Descendants of Monticello, 2024, Philadelphia, PA. Photo by Steve Weinik.  
Grant

[birdsong]

misael soto, Reflecting Pools, 2019. Two performer-operators, one musician, two industrial gas-powered water pumps, approximately 400 filled sandbags, two recycled billboard vinyl tarps, and water. Photo by by Natalia Molina, courtesy of misael soto. 
Grant

New Deals: Artists Commune with Infrastructure

Carmen Mardonez, I dare, textile installation, 30 discarded bed sheets hand embroidered, 2022. Photo by Carmen Mardonez. 
Grant

Held Within

Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff, and Thom Bell of Philadelphia International Records. Photo courtesy of Gamble-Huff Music.
Grant

For the Love of Philly

Dance Lab New York rehearsal with Tommie-Waheed Evans. Photo by Jenna Maslechko. 
Grant

SERMON

Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra as they perform Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 6 on April 10, 2025. Photo by Allie Ippolito. 
Grant

The Party

PRISM Quartet. Photo by Office of Development. 
Grant

Roots and Branches

Birthplace of Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, c. 1690. Photo courtesy of the Historic American Buildings Survey, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Grant

Poquessing Creek Trail of History: The Land, The People, The Stories

Dissection, from the Drexel Archives, Women's Medical College of PA. Source material for The Woman Question at People's Light.
Grant

The Woman Question

Photography related to this content
Grant

A Hundred Years On

Rennie Harris Puremovement company, American Street Dancer, 2025. Photo courtesy of Rennie Harris Puremovement. 
Grant

Rennie Harris in Residence

Photography related to this content
Grant

A View from Inside: David Tudor at 100

A Photograph of Don Buchla with an assortment of his creations from across his career. Photo courtesy of BuchlaUSA.
Grant

Instruments That Talk Back: Celebrating the Legacy of Don Buchla

Paul Ramírez Jonas, Let Freedom Ring, 2022, Washington, DC. The Association for Public Art is installing the public artwork in Independence National Historical Park. Photo courtesy of the Association for Public Art.
Grant

Let Freedom Ring

Carmen Arteaga demonstrates the intricate bobbin lace-making technique called mundillo, or “little world.” Guatemalan and Puerto Rican designers are leading textile workshops for Taller Puertorriqueño’s Tramando. Photo by Xavier Garcia, courtesy of Taller Puertorriqueño.
Grant

Tramando

Photography related to this content
Grant

Lunar Retreat

Palisades High School students during their second round debate. Photo by Conrad Erb, courtesy of the Chemical Heritage Foundation.
Grant

Conflicts in Chemistry: The Case of Plastics

Teaching at the End of Times (2023), an exhibition by Vox Populi presented at Atelier Gallery, featuring a mobile learning unit and public workshops exploring collective teaching and creative exchange. Photo by Constance Mensh. 
Grant

An Endless Meeting: Collective Process, Artistic Labor, and the Politics of Working Together

Odean Pope, Coltrane Celebration, 2017. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Grant

RECESS

Anna Deavere Smith.
Grant

The Basil Biggs Project

Alaa Eddine Aljem, The Travels of Ibn Jubayr, film still, 2025.
Grant

The Travels of Ibn Jubayr

Susan Kleckner, SPK Self Portrait, 1976-77, mixed media. 
Grant

Raw Material: The Art and Life of Susan Kleckner