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The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage

Grants Awarded

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
$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
$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
$200,000

Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial

2002 Planning Grant
$25,000

Sedgwick Cultural Center

2002 Planning Grant
$25,000

The Rosenbach Museum and Library

Flirting With…Artists projects at the Rosenbach: Ben Katcher
$70,000

2001

Institute of Contemporary Art

Architecture + Design Series 3 and 4: Karim and Hani Rashid, Lise Ann Couture; Greg Lynn
$180,000

Paley Design Center, Philadelphia University

What is Design Today?
$172,345

Philadelphia Museum of Art with Tate Gallery, London

Barnett Newman
$200,000

The Print Center

IMPRINT
$181,516

2000

James A. Michener Museum of Art

George Nakashima and the Modernist Movement
$139,500

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Out of the Ordinary: The Architecture and Design of Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Associates
$200,000

Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, University of the Arts

Yvonne Rainer: Radical Juxtapositions 1961-2002
$154,900

The Fabric Workshop and Museum

Doug Aitken: Interiors
$176,200

The Library Company of Philadelphia For PASCL (Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries)

Leaves of Gold
$167,125

1999

Beaver College Art Gallery

The Sea and the Sky
$72,228

Brandywine River Museum

Milk and Eggs: The American Revival of Tempera Painting, 1930 – 1950
$100,000

Fairmount Park Art Association

New Land Marks: public art, community and the meaning of place
$200,000

Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College of Art

Valie Export: Ob/De+Con(Struction)
$162,645

Institute of Contemporary Art/Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial/Mural Arts Project

Wall Power
$189,550

Rosenbach Museum and Library

Drifting: Nakahama Manjiro’s Tale of Discovery
$71,201

The Clay Studio

River
$48,500

1998

Beaver College Art Gallery

Period Room: A Project by Amy Hauft
$46,750

Chester Springs Studio

Reenactment/Rapprochement
$77,250

Foundation For Today’s Art-Nexus

Context
$33,525

Main Line Art Center

Points of Departure: Art on the Line
$200,000

Moore College of Art and Design, Goldie Paley Gallery

La Futurista: Benedetta Cappa Marinetti (1917-1944)
$114,772

Philadelphia Folklore Project

Folk Arts of Social Change
$69,985

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Museum Studies 4: Rirkrit Tiravanija and Museum Studies 5: Gabriel Orozco
$84,500

The Fabric Workshop and Museum

Jorge Pardo: New Work
$91,650

Exhibitions