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Jonathan Lyndon Chase, 2019 Pew Fellow. Photo by Rafael Martínez.
Tot-Guard, 1973, Ford Motor Company. Photo courtesy of the Collections of The Henry Ford Museum.
Sculpture: Courtney Bowles and Mark Strandquist, On the Day They Come Home, 2021, part of Staying Power exhibition, The Village of Arts and Humanities, Fairhill-Hartranft neighborhood, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mural: Lily Yeh, Obatala, 2018. Photo courtesy of The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.
Pew Fellow Major Jackson. Photo by Erin Patrice O’Brien.
Still from the film Test Pattern, 2018, directed by Pew Fellow Shatara Michelle Ford. Pictured center: Brittany S. Hall as “Renesha.”
Pati Hill, Alphabet of Common Objects, c. 1975-79, 45 black and white copier prints, each 11” x 8.5,″ part of Arcadia University Art Gallery's 2015 exhibition Pati Hill: Photocopier. Courtesy Estate of Pati Hill and Arcadia.
Asian Arts Initiative, Unity Within the Initiative capsule exhibition, 2021, Pearl Street view. Photo by Zsa Zsa Dali. 
Musician Leyla McCalla, part of WXPN's Kanaval: Haitian Rhythms and the Music of New Orleans project. Photo by Sarrah Danzinger.
Eric Battle at the Black Lives Always Mattered! exhibition, Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection, Temple University. Photo by Ryan S. Brandenberg courtesy of Temple University. 
Rasheedah Phillips and Camae Ayewa, 2017 Pew Fellows. Photo by Ryan Collerd.
Wilma Theater HotHouse members during workshop for The Cherry Orchard with Dmitry Krymov, 2018. Photo by Kristin Finger.
Airea D. Matthews, 2020 Pew Fellow. Photo by Wes Matthews. 
Milford Graves, mixed media collage, 1994. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Pew Fellow Karyn Olivier, Wall, 2020, installation view of Everything That’s Alive Moves exhibition, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia. Photo by Constance Mensh.
Lee Francis, Weshoyot Alvitre, and Will Fenton, Ghost River: The Fall and Rise of the Conestoga, 2019, colored spread of Lenape peoples united in prayer, Red Planet Books and Comics.
Mark di Suvero, Iroquois, 1983-1999; Roxy Paine, Symbiosis, 2011; Benjamin Franklin Parkway. Photo by James Ewing Photography, courtesy of the Association for Public Art.
Pew Fellow Major Jackson. Photo by Erin Patrice O’Brien.
There at the Wilma Theater. Photo by Johanna Austin.
Jennifer Higdon, 1999 Pew Fellow. Photo by Andrew Bogard.
Jonathan Lyndon Chase, sweet gospel men, 2019. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Emerging Voices: Art Song & Social Connection, 2019. Joelle Harvey, soprano, and Shannon McGinnis, piano, performing Reynaldo Hahn. Photo by Matt Genders.
Karyn Oliver, The Battle is Joined, 2017, Vernon Park. Presented as part of Mural Arts Philadelphia’s Monument Lab. Photo by Mike Reali.