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Allison Janae Hamilton, still from A House Called Florida. Photo courtesy of the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York and Aspen.  
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A Slow Drag for the Conjure Women (working title)

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You Caught Me on Your Shoulders by Kinetic Light

Leonard Pearlstein Gallery's 2025 project grant will feature the work of installation artist Tabitha Nikolai, pictured here at the Liquid Dungeon Byproduct group exhibition, Holding Contemporary, Portland, OR, October 2020. Photo by Mario Gallucci.
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Escape->Control->Play

Judah Burke performing at Monument Lab's Declaration House Block Party, curated by Yolanda Wisher for the opening of Sonya Clark’s The Descendants of Monticello, 2024, Philadelphia, PA. Photo by Steve Weinik.  
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[birdsong]

misael soto, Reflecting Pools, 2019. Two performer-operators, one musician, two industrial gas-powered water pumps, approximately 400 filled sandbags, two recycled billboard vinyl tarps, and water. Photo by by Natalia Molina, courtesy of misael soto. 
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New Deals: Artists Commune with Infrastructure

A Photograph of Don Buchla with an assortment of his creations from across his career. Photo courtesy of BuchlaUSA.
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Instruments That Talk Back: Celebrating the Legacy of Don Buchla

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

Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra as they perform Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 6 on April 10, 2025. Photo by Allie Ippolito. 
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The Party

Alba Martínez, creator of La Guagua 47: An American Musical, standing on the SEPTA 47 bus. Photo courtesy of Alba Martínez. 
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La Guagua 47: An American Musical

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

Teaching at the End of Times (2023), an exhibition by Vox Populi presented at Atelier Gallery, featuring a mobile learning unit and public workshops exploring collective teaching and creative exchange. Photo by Constance Mensh. 
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An Endless Meeting: Collective Process, Artistic Labor, and the Politics of Working Together

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

The Bearded Ladies perform at Laurel Hill Picnic, 2023. Pictured: Josh Machiz, Jarbeaux, and Heath Allen. The Bearded Ladies are performing a weekly series to reflect on artistic sustainability through a queer cabaret lens. Photo by Wide Eyed Studios.
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Priority Hoarding: A Retrospectacle

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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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

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Eric Bazilian, collaborator on WXPN's Declarations of Independents, performs at the Sing Us Home Festival, May 2025. Photo by Ellen C Miller. 
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Interpreting the American Experience Through the Arts: A Center Guide to the Semiquincentennial