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Tyshawn Sorey, 2024 Pew Fellow. Photo by David Evan McDowell.
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Tyshawn Sorey

Stewart Thorndike, 2024 Pew Fellow. Photo by David Evan McDowell.
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Stewart Thorndike

Tshay, 2024 Pew Fellow. Photo by David Evan McDowell.
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Tshay

Rebecca Wright, 2024 Pew Fellow. Photo by David Evan McDowell.
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Rebecca Wright

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

Raúl Romero, 2024 Pew Fellow. Photo by David Evan McDowell.
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Raúl Romero

Koyo Kouoh, photo courtesy of RAW Material Company.
Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Curator Koyo Kouoh on Transdisciplinary Practice

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Curator Koyo Kouoh on Politics and Socially Engaged Practice

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MacDowell Library at night. Joanna Eldredge Morrissey photo, courtesy of MacDowell.

Pew Fellow Artist Residencies

Composer Evan Williams. Photo by Amurica Photo.
Grant

Recomposing the Past: An African American Perspective

Artist jackie sumell working in the Solitary Gardens on Andry Street, New Orleans, Louisiana. Photo by Maiwenn Raoult. sumell will plant and tend a new Solitary Garden as part of the Michener Museum's Behind These Walls: Reckoning with Incarceration.
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Behind These Walls: Reckoning with Incarceration

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Front & Center

Four Pew Fellows Receive 2025 Artist Residencies to Develop Creative Work

Koyo Kouoh. Photo courtesy of the Venice Biennale. 
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Koyo Kouoh

Yolanda Wisher, 2022 Philadelphia's Cultural Treasures fellow and 2015 Pew Fellow. Photo by Mark Palacio.
Front & Center

Four Philadelphia’s Cultural Treasures Fellows on Care and Community Impact

Carl Cheng/John Doe Co., Erosion Machine No. 4, 1969; plexiglass, metal racks and fittings, plastic, water pump, LED lights, black light, pebbles, erosion rocks, wood base; 15" x 25" x 9". Photo by Jeff McClane, courtesy of Carl Cheng and Philip Martin Gallery.
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Carl Cheng: Nature Never Loses

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

Pew Fellow Homer Jackson. Photo by Alexis Simmons.
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In Memoriam: Homer Jackson, Interdisciplinary Artist and Pew Fellow

Sharon Hayes, 2016 Pew Fellow. Photo by Ryan Collerd.
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Sharon Hayes