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James Sprang, 2022 Pew Fellow. Photo by Neal Santos.
Pew Fellow

James Allister Sprang

Ada Trillo, 2022 Pew Fellow. Photo by Neal Santos.
Pew Fellow

Ada Trillo

Cesar Viveros, 2022 Pew Fellow. Photo by Neal Santos.
Pew Fellow

Cesar Viveros

An exhibition of carved stone sculptures on salmon pink pedestals. Painted on the wall in dark green is the exhibition title: "William Edmondson: A Monumental Vision."
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William Edmondson: A Monumental Vision

The 1728 John Bartram House at Bartram’s Garden in Southwest Philadelphia. Photo by Steve Weinik for Mural Arts' Art@Bartram's project.
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A Storied Landscape: New Public Interpretation at America's Oldest Surviving Botanic Garden

Orghast Part II, 1971, Shiraz Arts Festival. Photo courtesy of the Archaeology of the Final Decade Archives.
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Beyond Borders

Sharon Hayes, If They Should Ask, 2017, Philadelphia City Hall. Presented as part of Monument Lab in partnership with Mural Arts Philadelphia. Photo by Steve Weinik.
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Monument Lab

Esperanza Academy dancers. Photo courtesy of Esperanza Arts Center / Nueva Esperanza.
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Esperanza Arts Center / Nueva Esperanza

Mikael Owunna, Infinite Essence: Uche, 2019. Image courtesy of the artist. Owunna is a collaborating artist on University City Science Center’s Futures Without Guns.
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University City Science Center

Institute on Disabilities at Temple University, Rhythm Bath, 2023, Christ Church Neighborhood House, Philadelphia, PA. Photo by Wide Eyed Studios.
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Rhythm Bath

Rapper Chill Moody performs with The Philadelphia Orchestra for Darin Atwater’s Black Metropolis.
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Black Metropolis: Improvisations on Paint Factory

Ain Gordon in a 2017 performance of Radicals In Miniature, with Ed Fitzgerald and Josh Quillen. Photo by Paula Court.

Ain Gordon, 2018-19 Visiting Artist

Visiting scholar Kristy Edmunds in conversation with Limor Tomer at The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage on May 28, 2014.

Kristy Edmunds and the Visiting Scholar Program

Jérôme Bel, Le dernier spectacle (The last performance), 1998. Photo by Herman Sorgeloos.

In Terms of Performance

Ann Carlson's The Symphonic Body: Stanford at the Performance Studies International 19 conference, June 2013. Photo by Toni Gauthier.

An Experiment in Five Acts

Lucinda Childs. Photo by Cameron Wittig, courtesy of Pomegranate Arts.

danceworkbook: A Steady Pulse: Restaging Lucinda Childs, 1963–78

Adebunmi Gbadebo, 2022 Pew Fellow. Photo by Neal Santos.

Major Awards for Adebunmi Gbadebo and Jesse Krimes, New Writing from Airea D. Matthews and Justin Cronin, and More Fellows News

Terence Nance, 2018. Photo by Ken McFarlane. 
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Terence Nance

Terence Nance, film still from Swimming in Your Skin Again, 2014. Courtesy of Terence Nance.
Questions of Practice

Artist Terence Nance on Presenting Film in a Gallery Space

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Portraits of Pew Fellows Asali Solomon and Denice Frohman
Questions of Practice

Fellow to Fellow: Writers Asali Solomon and Denice Frohman on Humor, Unconventional Inspiration, and Artistic Lineage

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Screenshot of events listings on grant page for William Edmondson exhibition at the Barnes Foundation.
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A Closer Look at the Center’s New Website

From left to right: Bailey Dodds, Ana Gabriela Jiménez, and Alec Unkovic.
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Get to Know the Center’s Newest Staff Members

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