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Portraits of Darius Clark Monroe and Karen Smith
Questions of Practice

Fellow to Fellow: Darius Clark Monroe and Karen Smith on Artistic Legacy and Connecting with Ancestors

Interview
Barbara Earl Thomas, A Joyful Noise, 2022, paper cut with hand-printed color. Photo by Spike Mafford / Zocalo Studios, courtesy of Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, and the artist. 
Grant

Barbara Earl Thomas: The Illuminated Body

Pew Fellow Karen Smith stands playing drums.
Pew Fellow

Karen Smith

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.
Grant

Futures Without Guns

Composer Fred Wesley. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Grant

Generate Music

Abak, the giant puppet who loves to hug, created by Papermoon Puppet Theatre. Photo courtesy of Papermoon Puppet Theatre.
Grant

Ramayana

EgoPo Classic Theater, rehearsal for Ramayana with Papermoon Puppet Theatre and Kalanari Theatre Movement, 2023, Java, Indonesia. Photo courtesy of EgoPo. 
Questions of Practice

Projects in Process: Wilma Theater and EgoPo on Creative Collaborations

Essay
The Wilma Theater, The Cherry Orchard workshop, 2021. Pictured: Krista Apple (center) with the Wilma HotHouse Company. Photo by Johanna Austin. 
Grant

HILMA: An Opera

Raja Feather Kelly, Wednesday, 2021, presented by the feath3r theory, New York Live Arts. Photo by Kate Enman.
Grant

The Re-Emancipation of Social Dance

Side-by-side portraits of Sumi Tonooka and Phillip B. Williams.
Questions of Practice

Fellow to Fellow: Sumi Tonooka and Phillip B. Williams on Expanding Their Artistic Identities

Interview
Enrique Bostelmann, Portrait of Cora Flores, 1980, part of Mirages series.
Questions of Practice

Projects in Process: Discoveries in the Archives with Berman Museum and Japan America Society

Essay
Pew Fellow Phillip B. Williams performs a reading at National Sawdust, Brooklyn, NY. Photo by Elijah Bean.
Pew Fellow

Phillip B. Williams

Portrait of Pew Fellow Sumi Tonooka posed outside, leaning on a small keyboard.
Pew Fellow

Sumi Tonooka

Joy Bivins. 
Panelist

Joy Bivins

Pew Fellows Candice Iloh and Armando Veve. Photos by Neal Santos.
Questions of Practice

Fellow to Fellow: Candice Iloh and Armando Veve Find Inspiration in Each Other’s Mediums

Interview
Sonya Clark, The Descendants of Monticello, 2024, part of Declaration House, Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia, PA. Photo by Steve Weinik, courtesy of Monument Lab.
Front & Center

Fall Arts Preview: From the Personal to the Historic, 17 Events to Add to Your Calendar