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Jheanelle Brown

Panelist, 2023

Jheanelle Brown is a film curator/programmer, educator, and arts administrator based in Los Angeles whose curatorial practice creates frameworks to explore the boundlessness of Black life in experimental and non-fiction film and video. She is a programmer for Los Angeles Filmforum and project director/curator for its upcoming film series and publication All Kinds of Experiments. Brown is currently special faculty at California Institute of the Arts and co-curator for film at REDCAT.  

Grant Years
Michelle Lopez, Ballast & Barricades solo exhibition, installation view, 2019–20, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania. Lopez is creating new works for Moore College of Art & Design’s Michelle Lopez: Pandemonium. Photo by Constance Mensh, courtesy of the artist. 

Introducing Our 2023 Grantees

$9 million in new grants from The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage supports artists and public events that connect art with healing, explore cultural identity, and tell diverse and unique Philadelphia stories.

Learn more about our 2023 grantees