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Curating A Milestone

Inside Three Philly Institutions Embracing Complexity for America 250

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The Bearded Ladies perform at Laurel Hill Picnic, 2023. Pictured: Josh Machiz, Jarbeaux, and Heath Allen. The Bearded Ladies are performing a weekly series to reflect on artistic sustainability through a queer cabaret lens. Photo by Wide Eyed Studios.

Priority Hoarding: A Retrospectacle

The Bearded Ladies Cabaret
Coming UpPriority Hoarding: A Retrospectacle
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A Photograph of Don Buchla with an assortment of his creations from across his career. Photo courtesy of BuchlaUSA.

Instruments That Talk Back: Celebrating the Legacy of Don Buchla

Museum of Music Technology / EMEAPP
Coming UpInstruments That Talk Back exhibition
Grant details
A Black woman in a black and white patterened shirt stands in front of film posters.

“The stories I tell are a vessel to honor the care between people, the traditions passed down in kitchens and living rooms, the dreams whispered into existence, and resistance born from love.”

— Jos Duncan-Asé, Pew Fellow, 2025
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.

PrintLab

Brandywine Workshop and Archives
Happening NowPrintLab: Material Futures
Grant details
Tyshawn Sorey, 2024 Pew Fellow. Photo by David Evan McDowell.

“My work concerns itself with developing a creative model that altogether obliterates musical boundaries, expands consciousness by going inward, and facilitates emotional transcendence.”

— Tyshawn Sorey, Pew Fellow, 2024

Questions of Practice: Discover new perspectives in our hub for the exchange of ideas on evolving cultural practice.

Rebecca Wright, 2024 Pew Fellow. Photo by David Evan McDowell.

Pew Fellow and Theater Artist Rebecca Wright on Plays as “Communication Acts”
Interview Creative Process Practice & Process

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