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Terence Nance, film still from Swimming in Your Skin Again, 2014. Courtesy of Terence Nance.
Portraits of Pew Fellows Asali Solomon and Denice Frohman
Sabaah Folayan and Camille Acker, 2022 Pew Fellows. Photos by Neal Santos.
The Barnes Foundation, Returning to Before, performed as part of William Edmondson: A Monumental Vision exhibition, choreographed by Brendan Fernandes. Photo by Daniel Jackson for Embassy: Interactive.
The Barnes Foundation, Returning to Before, performed as part of William Edmondson: A Monumental Vision exhibition, choreographed by Brendan Fernandes. Photo by Daniel Jackson for Embassy: Interactive.
Pew Fellows Maia Chao and James Maurelle. Photos by Neal Santos.
Stewart Thorndike, 2024 Pew Fellow. Photo by David Evan McDowell.
Tshay, 2024 Pew Fellow. Photo by David Evan McDowell. 
Shavon Norris, 2024 Pew Fellow. Photo by David Evan McDowell.
Two men, Zac Manuel and his father Phillip, sit in a dimly-lit video editing station, silhouetted by the greyish-blue light of their computer screen
Bettina Escauriza, 2024 Pew Fellow. Photo by David Evan McDowell.
The First Salute: An Untold Story of the American Revolution at the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History, 2026. Photo by Christopher Brown  / Shoot From Within Photography. 
Rennie Harris Puremovement company in Losing My Religion, 2026, Penn Live Arts. Photo by Mark Garvin. 
action is primary, Meg Foley, 2016. Photo by Tasha Doremus.
ArtPhilly, Basil Biggs, 2026, The Wilma Theater. Photo by REC Philly.
Anna Deavere Smith in Second Stage Theater’s production of Let Me Down Easy at Washington’s Arena Stage, December 31, 2010 to February 13, 2011. Photo by Joan Marcus.
A man with a beard wearing glasses, a hat, and a blue shirt sits in a room surrounded by instruments and poster art.
Score for Lucinda Childs' Melody Excerpt. This score represented all the possible pathways that each dancer may traverse during the course of performing Melody Excerpt, along with stage measurements in feet. In this version the dimensions are 32 by 28 feet. Each dancer is represented by a discrete color. In her archive Childs refers to this as a “grid.” Courtesy of Lucinda Childs.