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Yannick Nézet-Séguin and The Philadelphia Orchestra, Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts. Photo by Jessica Griffin.
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The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Announces 2019 Grants for Philadelphia Artists, Organizations

Christ Church, Philadelphia. Photo by Tom Crane. 
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The Philadelphia Matter - 1972/2020

Curtis students Abigail Fayette and Jean Kim in a Curtis 20/21 performance. Photo by Pete Checchia.
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Rehearsing Philadelphia, new commission by Ari Benjamin Meyers

Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley, Rand/Goop, 2019, painted wood, found objects, embedded video. Photo courtesy of The Fabric Workshop and Museum. 
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Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley: Blood Moon

Nichole Canuso, The Garden, 2013. Photo by Yi Zhao.
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Being/With: Live

Soprano Kiera Duffy in Breaking the Waves, 2016, composed by Missy Mazzoli and produced by Opera Philadelphia. Photo by Dominic M. Mercier.
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The Listeners

Mushroom playwright Eisa Davis with a community stakeholder in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, mushroom growing house. Photo by Bobby Plasencia.
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Mushroom

Yannick Nézet-Séguin and The Philadelphia Orchestra, Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts. Photo by Jessica Griffin.
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Beethoven: Missa solemnis 2.0

Haitian band Lakou Mizik, part of WXPN's Kanaval: Haitian Rhythms and the Music of New Orleans project. Photo by Maxence Bradley.
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Kanaval: Haitian Rhythms and the Music of New Orleans

Polly Apfelbaum, Waiting for the UFOs (a space between a landscape and a bunch of flowers), 2019, installation view at Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri. Courtesy of the artist; Alexander Gray Associates, New York; Frith Street Gallery, London, England; and Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria. Photo by E.G. Schempf.
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Polly Apfelbaum: For the Love of Una Hale

Jeffrey Cheung, Untitled.
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Unity at the Initiative

Douglas Dunn (left), Carolyn Brown (rear), and Merce Cunningham (far right), Persepolis Event, Shiraz Arts Festival, 1972. Photo courtesy Cunningham Dance Foundation archive.
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Beyond Borders research and development

Rendering of The Clay Studio's new building, exterior. Image courtesy of The Clay Studio.
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Making Place Matter

Ernesto Pujol, Speaking in Silence, Hawaii, 2011. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Ernesto Pujol on Reciprocal Relationships with Communities

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Philadelphia Assembled, 2017, exterior view. Photo by Joseph Hu, courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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Questions of Practice: Visual Artist Jeanne van Heeswijk on the City as Subject

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Nichole Canuso, 2017 Pew Fellow. Photo by Ryan Collerd.
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Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview with Choreographer Nichole Canuso

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The Center's Pew Fellowships at 25 anniversary celebration received two Pepperpot Awards from the Philadelphia Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America.
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The Pew Center is Recognized with Two Awards from the Public Relations Society of America

David Felix Sutcliffe, 2017 Pew Fellow. Photo by Ryan Collerd.
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Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview with Filmmaker David Felix Sutcliffe

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Hellmut Gottschild, Brenda Dixon Gottschild, Chloe Perkes, and Gary W. Jeter II in Nicolo Fonte’s Beautiful Decay, 2017. Photo by Bill Hebert, courtesy of BalletX.
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Questions of Practice: Pew Fellow Hellmut Gottschild on a Life of Dance, with Tania Isaac

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