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Peek into a rehearsal and hear from the creative team behind “The Re-Emancipation of Social Dance," which premiered in June 2024 at Christ Church Neighborhood House in Philadelphia. Presented by @interculturaljourneys6357 and conceived by #PewFellow Yolanda Wisher and acclaimed choreographer @rajafeatherkelly6898, the show explores the lineage of social dance in “ordinary” spaces. #PewArtsGrants

Writer and filmmaker Vernon Jordan, III shares the tools they use to maintain momentum as a writer.

On this week’s #PewFellowsInProcess, YA author @CandiceIloh-wj5mj shares a favorite passage from their latest novel “Salt the Water,” available from @PenguinRandomHouse.

On this episode of #PewFellowsInProcess, performance artist Vitche-Boul Ra creates a sculpture study for Ra’s evolving immersive installation work, “CRIBS.”

On this episode of #PewFellowsInProcess: percussionist, playwright, and poet Karen Smith shares her morning rituals.

For this #30SecondFieldTrip we visit @ThePhiladelphiaOrchestra as they rehearse composer William Grant Still’s work, “Wood Notes,” using a new set of definitive orchestra materials. Principal librarian Nicole Jordan and assistant conductor Austin Chanu share a behind-the-scenes look into the process of preparing this work for public performance. The rehearsal was conducted by music & artistic d...

Emily Zimmerman, curator and interim director of exhibitions & programs at @penn's @arthurrossgallery4219 explains how the intricate cut-paper works exhibited in “Barbara Earl Thomas: The Illuminated Body” resonate with the design details of the @fischerfineart7373 Library.

Asian Arts curator Joyce Chung gives us a tour of "A Utopian Stage, an exhibition of unearthed photos, footage, and ephemera from the little-known Festival of Arts, Shiraz-Persepolis.

Co-curators Hyunsoo Woo and Elisabeth Agro share insights and background for their sweeping exhibition “The Shape of Time: Korean Art After 1989” at the @philadelphiamuseumofart. #PewArtsGrants #arteducation #culturalhistory #exhibitionart

Multidisciplinary artist Brendan Fernandes created the dance piece "Returning to Before" as part of the @BarnesFoundation’s retrospective on early 20th-century sculptor William Edmondson. Exploring the exhibition’s themes through movement, Fernandes’ choreography examines not just Edmondson’s work, but also the relationship between Black cultural production and the American museum. In this inte...

For our final #PewFellowsInProcess video of 2023, poet and performer @DeniceFrohman shares some of the challenges and surprises encountered in making her first one-woman show “Esto No Tiene Nombre.” The show premiered in June 2023 at Christ Church Neighborhood House, presented by @interculturaljourneys6357, and was directed by Fellow Alex Torra.

Pew Fellows in Process: Theater artist Rhodessa Jones

Pew Fellows in Process: Visual artist Cesar Viveros

Pew Fellows in Process: Photographer Ada Trillo

Hear From Our 2023 Pew Center Grantees!

Choreographer Brendan Fernandes on How Dance Converges with Sculpture at the Barnes Foundation

Pew Fellows in Process: Media artist Rashid Zakat

Artist Terence Nance on the Experiment of Presenting His Film Work in a Museum

Poet Ross Gay on Sport and the Act of Looking

Musical Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin on Leadership

Director Josephine Decker on Creating Theater About the Experience of Pregnancy

Directer Josephine Decker on Using "Poetic Structure" When Devising Theater

Filmmaker Josephine Decker on her Return to Making Live Theater with Pig Iron Theatre Company

Pew Fellows in Process: Roberto Lugo

Pew Fellows in Process: angel shanel edwards

Pew Fellows in Process: Tayarisha Poe

Pew Fellows in Process: Emily Bate

Writer and Curator Laura Raicovich on “Not Normal” Museum Practices

Artist Hank Willis Thomas on Photography and Framing