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Pew Fellow Adebunmi Gbadebo works in her studio at The Clay Studio.
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Clay as Care

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Postmortem: Mütter Museum

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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Reshaping Historical Narratives through the Atwater Kent Collection

Shad nets used by workers to catch shad as they swam in from the Atlantic Ocean to their breeding ground in the Upper Delaware. Courtesy of Independence Seaport Museum.
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Breaking Uncommon Ground on the Delaware River

Artist jackie sumell working in the Solitary Gardens on Andry Street, New Orleans, Louisiana. Photo by Maiwenn Raoult. sumell will plant and tend a new Solitary Garden as part of the Michener Museum's Behind These Walls: Reckoning with Incarceration.
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Behind These Walls: Reckoning with Incarceration

Michelle Lopez: Pandemonium work in progress. Image courtesy of the artist.
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Michelle Lopez: Pandemonium

Enrique Bostelmann, Autoretrato: Mi Ceguera (My Blindness), 2000.
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Enrique Bostelmann: Apertures and Borderscapes

Artist Guadalupe Maravilla. Photo courtesy of RAIR.
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Fellowship with Guadalupe Maravilla

Pew Fellow Jos Duncan Asé (right) and cinematographer Marie Hinson behind the scenes on set of Queen Mother: Falaka Fattah & The House of Umoja film shoot. Photo by Tezarah Wilkins.
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Video: Our Grantees on Their Creative Visions and Dreaming Big

Stewart Thorndike, 2024 Pew Fellow. Photo by David Evan McDowell.
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Pew Fellow & Filmmaker Stewart Thorndike on the Emotional Heft of Horror

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Sosena Solomon, 2025 Pew Fellow. Photo by Argenis Apolinario.
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Sosena Solomon

Lindsay Smiling in Inua Ellams’ The Half God of Rainfall, The Wilma Theater, 2025. Photo by Johanna Austin.
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The Animal Farm Project

Melanie Julian, Dane Eissler, Eric Kramer, Kristin Quinn, Ed Swidey, and Stephanie Leeann perform in EgoPo Classic Theater's Seagull, Latvian Society, February 2017. Photo by Dave Sarrafian.
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Building EgoPo’s Future: Strategic Planning for a Permanent Home Theater

The Fabric Workshop and Museum's Print Project Manager Jill Adler (at right), screenprints Mary Heilmann’s Serape yardage with Studio Assistant Andrea Arts and Senior Project Technician Allen West (at right). Photo by Carlos Avendaño.
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FWM Forward: Evolving the Fabric Workshop at 50

Mendelssohn Chorus of Philadelphia, A Feast of Carols. Photo by Torello Productions. 
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Philadelphia Choral Collective

SAADA's staff at the Archives Month Philly event at the Free Library's Parkway Central Branch. Photo courtesy of SAADA. 
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Beyond Boundaries: Expanding SAADA's Business Model for America's Immigrant Communities

The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage 2025 Grantee Celebration, the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA. Photo by Constance Mensh.
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Celebrating Our Newest Grantees: Photos & Video

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In Memoriam: Isaiah Zagar, Mosaic Artist and Pew Fellow

Jeri Lynne Johnson conducts Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra at Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral, July 25, 2025. Photo courtesy of Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra.  
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Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra

Spruce Street Harbor Park, 2025. Photo courtesy of the Delaware River Waterfront Corporation.
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Delaware River Waterfront Corporation

Film series director Andrew Ferrett and key crew preparing to film copy of the Declaration of Independence printed in 1776 at American Philosophical Society; May 12, 2025. Photo by Jonathan Kohl, courtesy of History Making Productions. 
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History Making Productions

Installation view, A Certain Slant of Light. Pearlstein Gallery. 2025. Photo by Jaime Alvarez. 
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Leonard Pearlstein Gallery, Drexel University

A prototype The Magic Flute, a unique user interface created by Don Buchla in 1965. Photo by MMT/EMEAPP. 
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Museum of Music Technology / EMEAPP

Vijay Iyer performs at The Clef Club in 2025. Photo by Tim Koen.
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Philadelphia Clef Club of Jazz & Performing Arts