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Questions of Practice

Pew Fellow Zac Manuel on Filmmaking and the Ethics of AI

Interview
Larry W. Cook, Horizons, 2022. Photo by the artist.
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Wherever There is Light

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.
Front & Center

Media Spotlight: Center Grantees and our New ED in the News

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A View from Inside: David Tudor at 100

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

Carmen Arteaga demonstrates the intricate bobbin lace-making technique called mundillo, or “little world.” Guatemalan and Puerto Rican designers are leading textile workshops for Taller Puertorriqueño’s Tramando. Photo by Xavier Garcia, courtesy of Taller Puertorriqueño.
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Tramando

TOWN, 2022, Theatre Horizon, Norristown, PA. Pictured: Cassidy Gabrielle-Elise Peay. Photo by John C. Hawthorne.
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Wishing to Grow Up Brightly

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

Judy Hussie-Taylor. Photo by Michael Hart.
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Judy Hussie-Taylor

Pablo Helguera. Photo courtesy of SITE Santa Fe.
Contributor, Panelist

Pablo Helguera

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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

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A Hundred Years On

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