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Dito van Reigersberg. Promotional photo for Pig Iron Theatre Company's I Promised Myself to Live Faster. Photo by Jason Rothenberg. 
Dito van Reigersberg, 2002 Pew Fellow. Photo by John Hawthorne.
Contributor, Pew Fellow

Dito van Reigersberg

Shavon Norris, 2024 Pew Fellow. Photo by David Evan McDowell.
Eric Bazilian, collaborator on WXPN's Declarations of Independents, performs at the Sing Us Home Festival, May 2025. Photo by Ellen C Miller. 
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.
Derrick Hodge, Grammy Award winner, bass guitarist, and music director. Photo by Kevin Mohatt.
Melanie Smith, Orange Lush, 1995/2015, installation view of Strange Currencies, The Galleries at Moore. Photo by Kait Privitera.
Kristy Edmunds.
Contributor, Panelist

Kristy Edmunds

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.
Artist Guadalupe Maravilla. Photo courtesy of RAIR.
Susan Hiller, Witness, 2000. Installation view in Sydney Biennale, 2002. Image appears in What Makes a Great Exhibition?, published by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage in 2006.