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Wilmer Wilson IV, 2017 Pew Fellow. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Questions of Practice

Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview with Visual Artist Wilmer Wilson IV

Interview
Riddles of the Sphinx, 1977, film still, directed Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen. Photo courtesy of British Film Institute.
Questions of Practice

Women, Art, and Technology: Kelsey Halliday Johnson and Amy Beste in Conversation

Interview
Amy Beste. Photo courtesy Joe Mazza, Brave Lux.
Contributor

Amy Beste

Paula Marincola. Photo by Julia Lehman.
Newsroom

Center Executive Director Paula Marincola Receives Honorary Degree from Drexel

Ursula Rucker, 2018 Pew Fellow. Photo by Sven Frenzel. 
Newsroom

The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Announces 2018 Grants for Philadelphia Artists, Organizations

David Hartt, 2018 Pew Fellow. Photo by Ryan Collerd.
Pew Fellow

David Hartt

Allyson Mitchell and Deirdre Logue, Killjoy’s Kastle, audience members participate in a conversation regarding their tour. Photograph by Tony Coelho.
Grantee

Timothy Belknap

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

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.
Grant

Jayson Musson: His History of Art

Dance troupe from Modero Dance, founded by Indonesian dance artist Sinta Penyami Storms. Photo courtesy of Modero Dance.
Grant

360 Culture Lab

Archival documents from Chronicling Resistance, Enabling Resistance, Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries, 2018. Photo by Mariam Williams and Zoe Jeka.
Grant

Chronicling Resistance

Ulysses Jenkins, Ulysses Jenkins: Without Your Interpretation, 2021, installation view, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania. Photo by Constance Mensh.
Grant

Ulysses Jenkins: Without Your Interpretation

A man wearing headphones stand in front of a wooden display that features framed embroidery, archival imagery and contemporary photos. The words Mae & Anna / Danielle appear on the display. Adjacent to the display is a larger than life-sized archival portrait of a middle-aged Black woman.
Grant

File/Life: We Remember Stories of Pennhurst

A map of Philadelphia's Historic 7th Ward. Photo courtesy of Philadelphia City Archives.
Grant

7th Ward Tribute

Betsy Casañas with Ian Pierce, Sanctuary City, Sanctuary Neighborhood, 5th and Huntingdon Streets, Philadelphia, 2019. Photo by Kimberly Paynter for WHYY.
Grant

Arte pa’l Barrio

Artist Nathan Young records sounds along the Delaware River for the sound installation nkwiluntàmën at Pennsbury Manor. Photo by Ryan Strand Greenberg. 
Grant

nkwiluntàmën: I long for it; I am lonesome for it (such as the sound of a drum)

Futurefarmers in collaboration with local builders, Flatbread Society Bakehouse, 2017; wood, rammed earth, glass. Photo by Monica Løvdahl, courtesy of Futurefarmers.
Grant

S(tree)twork

Maeng Wookjae, Secret Forest, 2019; porcelain, gold, paper, wire frame, elastic band, light, sound; 110" x 67" x 67". Photo courtesy of Korea Ceramic Foundation.
Grant

The Shape of Time: Korean Art After 1989

Carmen Winant, Billboard from the series ZYX-SOB-ABC, 2019, installed for the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, Canada.
Grant

A Brand New End: Survival and Its Pictures

Susan Dreher, composite photograph of Mira Sharpless Townsend over her papers. Courtesy of the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College.
Grant

Rosine Association 2.0

Millwood Justice Residence, designed by Minerva Parker Nichols, Narberth, PA. Photo by Elizabeth Felicella.
Grant

Minerva Parker Nichols: The Search for a Forgotten Architect

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.
Grant

Sun & Sea

Yesterday Tomorrow, created and directed by Annie Dorsen, presented at La MaMa, New York City, 2016. Photo by Maria Barnova.
Grant

Algorithmic Theater

Pew Fellow Yolanda Wisher in Be Holding, 2023, Girard College, Philadelphia, PA. Photo by Ryan Collerd.
Grant

Be Holding