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Death and the Powers (Dallas Opera, 2014). Photo courtesy of Tod Machover.
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Pew Center hosts online talk with Tod Machover on music and AI

Joiri Minaya, Container #4, 2020, 60" x 40". Photo courtesy of the artist.
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Joiri Minaya: Venus Flytrap

Christina Vassallo, Pew Center for Arts & Heritage executive director; Pew Fellow José Ortiz-Pagán; A performance at Monument Lab's Declaration House.
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Media Spotlight: Center Grantees and our New ED in the News

Michelle Lopez: Pandemonium work in progress. Image courtesy of the artist.
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Michelle Lopez: Pandemonium

A hot mid-morning lunch in school, Ashwood Plantations, South Carolina, 1939. Science History Institute’s Lunchtime examines the history and contemporary implications of the US School Lunch Program. Photo from the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
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Lunchtime: The History of Science on the School Food Tray

Cindy Gosselin, Untitled, 2022; mixed media sculpture with acrylic thread, wood, tinsel, foam, ping pong racket, plastic doll hand. Image courtesy of the Hurford Center for the Arts and Humanities.
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LOOK HERE

Pew Fellow Adebunmi Gbadebo works in her studio at The Clay Studio.
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Clay as Care

Open gallery rendering, Calder Gardens, 2022. Image courtesy of The Barnes Foundation, Herzog & de Meuron, and Calder Foundation, New York. Photo courtesy of Calder Foundation, New York / Art Resource, New York; photo © Calder Foundation, New York; work by Alexander Calder © Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; rendering © Herzog & de Meuron.
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Operational partnership for Calder Gardens opening

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Eight Eight Time

Pew Fellow Syd Carpenter, 3 Mother Pins on a Vine, 2021; Clay, mixed media, 18" x 37" x 26". Photo courtesy of the artist.
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Syd Carpenter: Planting in Place, Time, and Memory

Artist El Anatsui signing prints made with Brandywine Workshop and Archives staff and affiliated master printer Alexis Nutini. Brandywine’s PrintLab supports eight artists in a creative residency to explore emerging printmaking techniques and technologies. Photo by Gustavo Garcia.
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PrintLab

Composer-pianists Suzzette Ortiz, Terry Klinefelter, Sumi Tonooka, and Kendrah Butler-Waters perform Eight Eight Time, presented by Journey Arts, April 2025. Photo by Steve Weinik.
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Applying for a 2026 Pew Center Grant: What You Need to Know

John W. Mosley Photograph Collection, Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection, Temple University Libraries.
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The Tenants of Lenapehocking in the Age of Magnets

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Wrestling with Justice: Quakers and Northern Slavery at Stenton

Zac Manuel, 2024 Pew Fellow. Photo by Hennen Payne.
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Zac Manuel

Actor Lee Ann Etzold and aspiring actor Erin McNulty after reading a of A Fierce Kind of Love. Photo by Christy Beck.
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Institute on Disabilities at Temple University

Lucinda Childs. Photo by Cameron Wittig, courtesy of Pomegranate Arts.

danceworkbook: A Steady Pulse: Restaging Lucinda Childs, 1963–78

Site Read: Seven Curators on Their Landmark Exhibitions, 2019, edited by Paula Marincola.

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Pew Fellow Jos Duncan Asé (right) and cinematographer Marie Hinson behind the scenes on set of Queen Mother: Falaka Fattah & The House of Umoja film shoot. Photo by Tezarah Wilkins.
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Video: Our Grantees on Their Creative Visions and Dreaming Big

Stewart Thorndike, 2024 Pew Fellow. Photo by David Evan McDowell.
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Pew Fellow & Filmmaker Stewart Thorndike on the Emotional Heft of Horror

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The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage 2025 Grantee Celebration, the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA. Photo by Constance Mensh.
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Celebrating Our Newest Grantees: Photos & Video

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In Memoriam: Isaiah Zagar, Mosaic Artist and Pew Fellow

errell Gibbs, Trees, 2019, oil on canvas, 36" x 48", The Margaux and Raphael Blavy Collection, Saint Epain, France. Brandywine Museum of Art is presenting the first monographic exhibition of Gibbs’ work. 
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Jerrell Gibbs: No Solace in the Shade

Gabriela Estephanie Solís performing with Tempesta di Mare, 2024. Photo by Sarah Giampietro.
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Hidden Virtuosas: music by and for the extraordinary female musicians of baroque Venice