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The Mann Center for the Performing Arts, Darin Atwater's Black Metropolis, July 19, 2023, Philadelphia, PA. Photo courtesy of the Mann Center.

Panelists

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. 
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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.
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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.
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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. 
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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. 
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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

Jūshin Satō and Takahiko Iimura at Filmmakers Cooperative. Photographer unknown, courtesy of Japan America Society for Greater Philadelphia.
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Community of Images: Japanese Media Artists in the US, 1960s-1970s

She Summers in Vienna, 2022. Music by Emily Bate and John Jarboe. Photo credit: Christopher Ash., courtesy of The Bearded Ladies Cabaret. The Fabric Workshop and Museum presents a new installation of the work.
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The Rose Garden

Soprano Kiera Duffy in Breaking the Waves, 2016, composed by Missy Mazzoli and produced by Opera Philadelphia. Photo by Dominic M. Mercier.
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The Listeners

BalletX company performs choreographer Jennifer Archibald’s Maslow’s Peak, 2024. Photo by Whitney Browne, courtesy of BalletX. 
Newsroom

Over $10 Million in New Funding to Strengthen Philadelphia-Area Cultural Groups and Artists

Jon Grinspan.
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Jon Grinspan

Sonja Kostich.
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Sonja Kostich

Julio César Morales
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Julio César Morales