The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage

Would you like to learn more about our 2025 grant application process? Join our program staff for an overview of this year's Creative Projects and Evolving Futures grant application guidelines, followed by a Q&A session on April 3 at 11 a.m. EST. These grants are open to eligible independent and fiscally sponsored organizations in the 5-county Philadelphia area. Find the registration link on our website and join live or receive a recording later. #PewArtsGrants https://bit.ly/4gNY5Jn

Grantee Spotlight: During this Neurodiversity Celebration Week, we're highlighting "LOOK HERE," a project that illuminates how neurodivergent artists challenge and expand conventional approaches to artmaking. Coming this fall, the collaboration between Haverford College's Hurford Center for the Arts and Humanities and the Center for Creative Works includes two group exhibitions, along with engagement with progressive studios across the US that support artists with disabilities. "We want to make it clear that art is for everyone," Haverford's Kristin Lindgren tells us. #PewArtsGrants #NeurodiversityCelebrationWeek Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eUpQ3XUP

What role should libraries and museums take in addressing social justice issues? The Library Company of Philadelphia examines this question in the exhibition "Beyond Glass Cases: Reflections," the culmination of a three-year project exploring new approaches to interpreting and exhibiting challenging collection items. Stop by the Library Company on Tuesday, March 18 at 5:30pm for an opening reception or visit to see videos, photos, and artworks form the project through July 3, 2025. #PewArtsGrants

Grantee Spotlight: Brandywine Museum of Art will present "Jerrell Gibbs: No Solace in the Shade," the first solo exhibition for the eponymous artist. Curated by Angela N. Carroll, the show will center Gibbs’s vibrant paintings of his family and friends and highlight his concerns with identity, community, and emotional and psychological health. For more information about the #PewArtsGrants-supported exhibition, visit: https://lnkd.in/e_H67wnv

"There used to be a time in my practice where I concretely separated my disciplines and they each distinctly stood on their own without needing to interact, but now it’s becoming clear that all roads will usually lead to performance. I guess that’s what keeps leading me back to it as my primary practice, when fabricating performance I get the chance to skirt through all the mediums I’m interested in." #PewFellow and performance artist Vitche-Boul Ra talks with author Carmen Maria Machado about their creative practices, their city, and their dream collaborators.

Poet and #PewFellow Major Jackson has become the first recipient of Yale Library's newly created Patricia Cannon Willis Prize for American Poetry. Jackson was recognized for his 2023 collection, “Razzle Dazzle: New and Selected Poems 2002–2022,” published by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Watch this video of Major reading from his series "Urban Renewal," filmed at the Center in 2017.

#PewFellow Shatara Michelle Ford was recently interviewed in IndieWire about filmmaking, festivals, and why their current mantra is "Buy my movie, give me a job." Their second feature-length film, "Dreams in Nightmares," screened at the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) last week after premiering at BlackStar in August of 2024. Read the interview here:

Have questions about #PewArtsGrants? We have answers. Here are some of the frequently asked questions we receive from cultural institutions that are considering an application. Scroll through, and then find additional information here: https://lnkd.in/eejEV4CB

Obie Award-winning director Taibi Magar of Philadelphia Theatre Company talks with us about "Night Side Songs," the new one-act musical by The Lazours, on stage at PTC through March 9. Taibi discusses the show, her collaborators, and how they're telling the stories of patients, doctors, nurses, and caregivers. Read our interview:

Grantee Spotlight: First Person Arts has teamed with playwright, performer, and scholar Anna Deavere Smith to develop "Black Girls and Guns," inspired by the United States’ upcoming 250th anniversary. The play centers around Smith's own family's migration north from the American South and is informed by research into pre-20th-century Pennsylvania and true family histories. First Person's executive director, Jamie J. Brunson, reveals more in this video. #PewArtsGrants