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The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage

Grants Awarded

2013

Asian Arts Initiative

Pearl Street, Philadelphia, PA
$250,000

The Barnes Foundation

Yinka Shonibare: Magic Ladders
$250,000

Brandywine Conservancy and Brandywine River Museum

The Welling Project
$25,000

The Galleries at Moore College of Art & Design

Strange Currencies
$20,000

Institute of Contemporary Art

Barbara Kasten
$25,000

International House Philadelphia

Free to Love: The Cinema of the Sexual Revolution
$79,000

Philadelphia Mural Arts Advocates

Katharina Grosse: Some of Them Throw Things at Him
$250,000

Vox Populi

Jigsaw Youth
$76,000

2012

Ars Nova Workshop

Han Bennink and Peter Brötzmann: Drawings, Paintings & Objects
$15,000

Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania

Jason Rhoades
$250,000

James A. Michener Art Museum

Paul Evans: Crossing Boundaries and Crafting Modernism
$250,000

Philadelphia Art Alliance

Installation by Song Dong and Yin Xiuzhen
$200,000

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Dancing Around the Bride: John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Marcel Duchamp
$250,000

The Print Center

Demetrius Oliver: Canis Major
$118,700

Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education

Urban Equilibrium—Planning for New Environmental Art
$25,000

2011

Asian Arts Initiative

Social Practice Lab Series
$25,000

Dan Murphy / Anthony Smyrski (aka Megawords)

Mobile Publication Studio
$5,000

David Dempewolf / Yuka Yokoyama (aka Marginal Utility)

Chronicles of Dissent
$24,900

Institute of Contemporary Art

Stefan Sagmeister: The Happy Show
$250,000

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Zoe Strauss: Ten Years
$250,000

Philagrafika

Doing Time
$80,000

Slought Foundation

Mixplace Studio
$25,000

The Fabric Workshop and Museum

Artistic Residency with Sarah Sze
$195,000

Vox Populi

Self-organized spaces on their own terms (Title TBD)
$20,000

2010

Arcadia University

Tacita Dean: JG
$200,000

The College of Physicians/Mütter Museum

Quay Brothers: Anatomica Aesthetica
$250,000

Institute of Contemporary Art

2010 Planning Grant
$24,430

International House Philadelphia

Pop Cinema
$29,000

James A. Michener Art Museum

2010 Planning Grant
$24,335

Philadelphia Art Alliance

Let Me Tell You About the Dream I Had: The Miss Rockaway Armada
$169,273

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Michelangelo Pistoletto: From One to Many, 1956–1974
$250,000

Slought Foundation

John Cage / How to Get Started
$28,855

University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Wharton Esherick and the Birth of the American Modern
$90,000

Vox Populi

Quadruple-Consciousness
$39,670

2009

Aaron Igler/LURE Projects

2009 Planning Grant
$5,000

Arcadia University Art Gallery

Ai Weiwei: Dropping the Urn
$89,500

Basekamp

Plausible Artworlds
$19,850

Eastern State Penitentiary

Release
$47,090

Institute of Contemporary Art

Sheila Hicks: Fifty Years
$188,000

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool
$160,000

Philadelphia Art Alliance

2009 Planning Grant
$17,000

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective
$250,000

Philagrafika

The Graphic Unconscious
$200,000

Vox Populi

Dead Flowers
$30,000

2008

Arcadia University

2008 Planning Grant
$25,000

Institute of Contemporary Art

Dirt on Delight: impulses that form clay
$250,000

Megawords

Megawords Storefront
$20,000

Philadelphia Mural Arts Program

Love Letter
$237,535

Philadelphia Museum of Art

James Castle: A Retrospective
$250,000

Rosenbach Museum & Library

2008 Planning Grant
$24,900

Screening (Nadia Hironaka and Matt Suib)

2008 Planning Grant
$5,000

The Clay Studio

2008 Planning Grant
$25,000

The Design Center at Philadelphia University

Lace In Translation
$200,000

The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Peter Saul: A Retrospective
$128,796

2007

John Bartram Association

Bartram’s Travels Reconsidered
$171,650

Philadelphia Art Alliance

2007 Planning Grant
$20,000

Philadelphia Museum of Art

(Notations) William Kentridge: Ten Tapestries
$150,000

Philagrafika

2007 Planning Grant
$20,000

Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, The University of the Arts

Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists 1958–1968
$200,000

The Design Center at Philadelphia University

2007 Planning Grant
$20,000

Tyler Exhibitions

2007 Planning Grant
$20,000

2006

Asian Arts Initiative

2006 Planning Grant
$20,000

InLiquid.com & Basekamp

2006 Planning Grant
$19,500

Institute of Contemporary Art

2006 Planning Grant
$20,000

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Tom Chimes
$200,000

Philagrafika (formerly Philadelphia Print Collaborative)

Re:Print Re:Present Re:View
$90,000

The Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia & Peregrine Arts, Inc.

Hidden City
$200,000

The Print Center

2006 Planning Grant
$20,000

The Village of Arts and Humanities

Bearing Witness
$177,050

2005

Eastern State Penitentiary

2005 Planning Grant
$20,000

Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College of Art & Design

Artur Barrio: Actions after Actions
$197,200

Institute of Contemporary Art

Architecture + Design Series: van Berkel /Bos & Eisenman/Olin
$200,000

Philagrafika (formerly Philadelphia Print Collaborative)

2005 Planning Grant
$20,000

Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia

2005 Planning Grant
$20,000

The Fabric Workshop and Museum

Ed Ruscha
$200,000

The Print Center

Taken With Time
$150,000

The Village of Arts & Humanities

2005 Planning Grant
$17,250

2004

Abington Art Center

J. Morgan Puett: The Lost Meeting
$122,490

Asian Arts Initiative

Chinatown In/Flux
$200,000

Fabric Workshop and Museum

2004 Planning Grant
$20,000

Institute of Contemporary Art

2004 Planning Grant
$20,000

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Ellen Harvey: Mirror
$161,730

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Pontormo, Bronzino, and the Medici: The Transformation of the Renaissance Portrait
$118,000

The Print Center

2004 Planning Grant
$18,397

The Rosenbach Museum & Library

2004 Planning Grant
$20,000

University of Pennsylvania School of Design, Architectural Archives

Crafting a Modern World: The Architecture and Design of Antonin and Noemi Raymond
$200,000

2003

Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College of Art & Design

Jorg Immendorff: I Wanted to Become an Artist
$181,500

Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania

Accumulated Vision: Barry Le Va
$180,000

Main Line Art Center

Past Presence: Contemporary Reflections on the Main Line
$150,000

Taller Puertorriqueno

2003 Planning Grant
$15,000

The Fabric Workshop and Museum

Experiments with Truth
$200,000

2002

Arcadia University Art Gallery

Olafur Eliasson: Your colour memory
$180,000

Asian Arts Initiative

2002 Planning Grant
$25,000

Eastern State Penitentiary

Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller: Pandemonium
$166,440

Gershman Y / Borowsky Gallery

A Happening Place
$173,080

Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College of Art and Design

Raymond Hains: Art Spectacular (1947-2002)
$122,000

Philadelphia Folklore Project

2002 Planning Grant
$25,000

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Museum Studies 7: Christian Marclay
$70,000

Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial

2002 Planning Grant
$25,000

Sedgwick Cultural Center

2002 Planning Grant
$25,000

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Exhibitions