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US performs at The Bearded Ladies’ Late Night Snacks. Photo by Johanna Austin

Frequently Asked Questions

William Edmondson, untitled (Adam and Eve or Egyptian Couple), 1940. Photo courtesy of The Museum of Everything.

10 World Premieres and New Exhibitions to See This Summer

Pew Fellow Jesse Krimes, Apokaluptein:16389067, 2010–13; prison bed sheets, transferred newsprint, color pencil, graphite, gouache; 480" x 180". Photo by Karsten Moran.

Pew Fellows News: Five Artists in The New York Times, and Major Prizes for Brenda Dixon Gottschild, Sonia Sanchez, and CAConrad

Pig Iron Theatre Company, promotional image for The Path of Pins or The Path of Needles, 2022. Pictured: performers Jessica Almasy (L) and Courtney Henry (R). Photo by Jaŭhien Sasnoŭ. 

9 Must-See Arts & Culture Events in Philly This Fall

Mark Thomas Gibson, 2021 Pew Fellow. Photo by Ryan Collerd.

Pew Fellows News: Mark Thomas Gibson Wins Guggenheim, James Ijames and Raven Chacon Win Pulitzers, and Roberto Lugo and Kukuli Velarde Works in the Smithsonian

Shrouding of the LOVE sculpture in John F. Kennedy Plaza, Philadelphia, World AIDS Day / Day Without Art, 1992. Photo by Office of the City Representative, City of Philadelphia, courtesy of the John J. Wilcox, Jr. Archives, William Way LGBT Community Center. 

William Way’s Remembrance Takes Pride in Memorializing Philadelphians Affected by HIV/AIDS Crisis

Recent grantee publications. Photo courtesy of The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.

Summer Syllabus: 15 Documentaries, Books, and Other Artistic Works to Watch and Read

Pew Fellows News: Four Artists in Whitney and Venice Biennials, Major Awards for Sonia Sanchez, and Imani Perry’s Latest Book

Bill T. Jones, creator, director, and choreographer of Deep Blue Sea, accompanied by a group of community dancers during a performance in New York. Photo by Maria Baranova. 

Spring Forward with 11 Arts and Culture Events in Philadelphia

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Black History in the Making: Five Artists and Culture Workers on the Art that Inspires Them

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Words to Envision a New Year

Left: Julian Talamantez Brolaski, 2019 Pew Fellow. Photo by Charles Ludvig.Right: Tina Satter, 2019 Pew Fellow. Photo by Michael De Angelis.

Welcoming Our First Pew Fellows-in-Residence

Sun & Sea (Marina), opera-performance by Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, Vaiva Grainytė, and Lina Lapelytė, La Biennale di Venezia, 2019. Photography by Andrej Vasilenko, courtesy of the artists.

12 Exhibitions, Performances, and Arts Events in Philadelphia This Fall

Jonathan Lyndon Chase, 2019 Pew Fellow. Photo by Rafael Martínez.

Pride 2021: Seven Artists on the Queer Works that Shaped Their Practices

Bayt al-Suheymi, interior with wood-turned mashrabiya, Cairo, Egypt.
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Museum for Art in Wood

Pennsbury Manor House and kitchen house. Photo courtesy of Pennsbury Manor (PHMC).
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Pennsbury Society

Girard College Choir. Photo by Adam McGrath.
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Girard College

Black Nativity, Theatre Horizon, 2016. Photo by Matthew J Photography.
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Theatre Horizon

Scientists from the Patrick Center for Environmental Research at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University collecting samples. Photo by John Hutelmyer, ANS.
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Watershed Moment

Linda Earle, 2021 Visiting Scholar. Photo by Joseph V. Labolito/Temple University.
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Center Visiting Scholar Linda Earle to Explore Black Cultural Production

Rising Sun: Artists in an Uncertain America, 2023, installation view, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA. Photo by Constance Mensh.
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Rising Sun: Artists in an Uncertain America

Terence Nance, Swimming In Your Skin Again, 2015; video, two-channel projection, water, mirror, plants, sound system; installation view at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA. Photo by Constance Mensh.   
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Swarm: Terence Nance, 2012-2022

Seeing Through Space installation view, 2023, part of The Mashrabiya Project, Museum for Art in Wood, Philadelphia, PA. Photo by John Carlano.
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The Mashrabiya Project

Jayson Musson as “Jay” with “Ollie.” Jayson Musson, in collaboration with The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, His History of Art, 2022. Photo by Carlos Avendaño.
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Jayson Musson: His History of Art