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Samantha Rise
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Samantha Rise

Pew Fellow Karen Smith stands playing drums.
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Karen Smith

Pew Fellow Kristen Neville Taylor seated in her studio.
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Kristen Neville Taylor

Portrait of Pew Fellow Sumi Tonooka posed outside, leaning on a small keyboard.
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Sumi Tonooka

Armando Veve, 2023 Pew Fellow. Photo by Neal Santos.
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Armando Veve

Pew Fellow Phillip B. Williams performs a reading at National Sawdust, Brooklyn, NY. Photo by Elijah Bean.
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Phillip B. Williams

Barbara Earl Thomas, A Joyful Noise, 2022, paper cut with hand-printed color. Photo by Spike Mafford / Zocalo Studios, courtesy of Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, and the artist. 
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Arthur Ross Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania

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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Brandywine Workshop and Archives

Atwater Kent Collection material on display at the Philadelphia History Museum, c. 2018. Drexel University’s Reshaping Historical Narratives through the Atwater Kent Collection presents overlooked artifacts and narratives from the collection. Photo courtesy of Drexel University.
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Drexel University

Enrique Bostelmann, Autoretrato: Mi Ceguera (My Blindness), 2000.
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The Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art

Science History Institute, Downstream, 2022, installation view, Hach Gallery, Philadelphia, PA. Photo courtesy of the Science History Institute.
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Science History Institute

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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Taller Puertorriqueño

Woodmere Art Museum (Exterior View). Photo by Darryl W. Moran Photography, courtesy of Woodmere Art Museum.  
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Woodmere Art Museum

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PURE LUCIA: The life and work of Lucia Dlugoszewski

Shayla-Vie Jenkins, lead artist for Christ Church Preservation Trust’s On Buried Ground. Photo by Anna M. Maynard.
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On Buried Ground

Garrick Vaughan and Dwayne Alistair Thomas in Hymn, 2023, Inis Nua Theatre Company. Photo by Ashley Smith of Wide Eyed Studios. 
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The Playboy of the Western World: a new adaptation

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Eight Eight Time

Painted Bride, Blood Baby: Carpet Womb. Photo by Erin Johnson.
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Blood Baby

Rennie Harris Puremovement company, American Street Dancer, 2025. Photo courtesy of Rennie Harris Puremovement. 
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Rennie Harris in Residence

Music director Madeline Benson and composer Daniel Lazour at a developmental workshop for Night Side Songs, Northwestern University. 
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Night Side Songs

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Franklin’s Key

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

Camas Root as depicted in Edwards's Botanical Register v.18, London, 1832. Image courtesy of the Academy of Natural Sciences. 
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Botany of Nations: Indigenous Ecological Knowledge and the Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery

Barbara Earl Thomas, A Joyful Noise, 2022, paper cut with hand-printed color. Photo by Spike Mafford / Zocalo Studios, courtesy of Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, and the artist. 
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Barbara Earl Thomas: The Illuminated Body