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

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

PRISM Quartet. Photo by Office of Development. 
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Roots and Branches

Lenape items from the Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center collection. Photo by L. Allen Viehmeyer.
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Cultural Exchange with Delaware Tribe Cultural Education Department

We Are the Seeds' 2021 arts and culture festival at Cherry Street Pier in Philadelphia, where they shared Lenape culture through dance, song, and storytelling. Pictured: Red Blanket Singers highlighting Chief Urie Ridgeway’s family. Photo by Max McDonald.
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this situation: an examination of myth and memory

TERRA: Bodies & Territories is a work of experimental dance theater by Silvana Cardell, set in a forest with a multi-generational ensemble of women and femme dancers ranging in age from 7-70.

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Anne Ishii and Zach Blackwood. Photos by Bianca Chun and Heidie Mojica.
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Anne Ishii to Join The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage as Director of Grantmaking Programs; Zach Blackwood Named Program Officer for Fellowships

Dito van Reigersberg. Promotional photo for Pig Iron Theatre Company's I Promised Myself to Live Faster. Photo by Jason Rothenberg. 
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In Memoriam: Dito van Reigersberg, Theater Artist and Pew Fellow

Dito van Reigersberg, 2002 Pew Fellow. Photo by John Hawthorne.
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Dito van Reigersberg

Shavon Norris, 2024 Pew Fellow. Photo by David Evan McDowell.
Questions of Practice

Pew Fellow and Movement Artist Shavon Norris on “Positive Obsession” and the Stories Our Bodies Tell

Interview
Eric Bazilian, collaborator on WXPN's Declarations of Independents, performs at the Sing Us Home Festival, May 2025. Photo by Ellen C Miller. 
Front & Center

Interpreting the American Experience Through the Arts: A Center Guide to the Semiquincentennial

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.
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Let Freedom Ring

Melanie Smith, Orange Lush, 1995/2015, installation view of Strange Currencies, The Galleries at Moore. Photo by Kait Privitera.
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Moore College of Art & Design

Privacy and Intellectual Property Statements

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
Questions of Practice

Authorship, Artistic Voice, and AI: Seven artists on the rapid advance of new tech

Interview
Bettina Escauriza, 2024 Pew Fellow. Photo by David Evan McDowell.
Questions of Practice

Pew Fellow and Filmmaker Bettina Escauriza on the Narrative Power of Images

Interview
Artist Guadalupe Maravilla. Photo courtesy of RAIR.

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