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Recent grantee publications. Photo by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.
Teaching at the End of Times (2023), an exhibition by Vox Populi presented at Atelier Gallery, featuring a mobile learning unit and public workshops exploring collective teaching and creative exchange. Photo by Constance Mensh. 
Odean Pope, Coltrane Celebration, 2017. Photo courtesy of the artist.
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Anna Deavere Smith.
Alaa Eddine Aljem, The Travels of Ibn Jubayr, film still, 2025.
Susan Kleckner, SPK Self Portrait, 1976-77, mixed media. 
King Britt, seen from above, sits at a table filled with synthesizers, samplers, and a microphone.
James Ijames on a research trip to Eatonville, FL, the hometown of Zora Neale Hurston, with the Arden’s Producing Artistic Director and the artistic leadership of Orlando Shakes. Photo by Jim Helsinger / Orlando Shakes. 
Installation view, Vera X Diary, 2023, eight channels video, 12:25, dimensions variable. Photo by Goway Lu. 
Jeri Lynne Johnson conducts Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra at Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral, July 25, 2025. Photo courtesy of Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra.  
Indira Allegra on the Delaware River, 2023. Photo by Rob Blackson.
Mark Loughney , Pyrrhic Defeat: A Visual Study of Mass Incarceration, 2025, Eastern State, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Photo by Bob Watts, courtesy of Eastern State. 
An on-set reenactment of William Penn working at a desk, shot at the Colonial Preservation Farmstead at the Ridley Creek State Park on September 25, 2025. Photo by Jonathan Kohl, courtesy of History Making Productions. 
Philadelphia Fife and Drum. Photo by James Winston.
Derrick Hodge, Grammy Award winner, bass guitarist, and music director. Photo by Kevin Mohatt.
V. Cybil Charlier, What happens to a dream deferred, 2020, screenprint, 18” x 12”, printed and published by Coronado Printstudio, Austin, TX. Image courtesy of The Print Center.
St. Eustatius, United States Department of the Navy. Image courtesy of The Weitzman.
Devon Gilfillian, collaborator on WXPN's Declarations of Independents, in performance at the Brooklyn Bowl, Philadelphia, September 2023 . Photo by Melissa Simpson.  
Pew Fellow Adebunmi Gbadebo, a Clay Studio resident artist and featured artist in Clay As Care, in her studio at The Clay Studio. Photo courtesy of The Clay Studio.
Moki Cherry, Title Unknown (Dragon), 1975; textile appliqué tapestry (silk, cotton, mixed fabrics). Photo courtesy of: Anders Sune Berg, Galleri Nicolai Wallner.
Lindsay Smiling in Inua Ellams’ The Half God of Rainfall, The Wilma Theater, 2025. Photo by Johanna Austin.
Alba Martínez, creator of La Guagua 47: An American Musical, standing on the SEPTA 47 bus. Photo courtesy of Alba Martínez. 
TOWN, 2022, Theatre Horizon, Norristown, PA. Pictured: Cassidy Gabrielle-Elise Peay. Photo by John C. Hawthorne.
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