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Tanya Hamilton’s Night Catches Us embraced by Sundance Film Festival audiences

According to the LA Times, Pew Fellow Tanya Hamilton’s Night Catches Us is one of the many in the Sundance awards hunt under the U.S. Dramatic Competition banner. The film, starring The Hurt Locker‘s Anthony Mackie, Kerry Washington, Jamie Hector, Wendell Pierce and Jamara Griffin, is set in mid-1970s Philadelphia, around themes of former Black Panthers and revolutionary ideals and love exploding, etc.
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Pew Fellow Jennifer Higdon Wins Grammy

Jennifer Higdon, 1999 Pew Fellowships in the Arts Grantee
52nd Annual Grammy Awards, February 1, 2010

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June 2, 2009
Pew Fellowships in the Arts Announces 2009 Recipients: 12 Artists Receive $60,000 Fellowships
Pew Fellowships in the Arts today announced the Philadelphia-area artists who have received $60,000 fellowship awards for 2009 — the largest such grant in the country for which individual artists can apply.

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