The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage
Center History
Established in 2005, the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage houses seven funding Initiatives of The Pew Charitable Trusts. Since the inception of our very first Initiative, Philadelphia Music Project in 1989, the Center has awarded a total amount of over $76 million to artists and arts organizations in the area. In addition, the Center has granted over $1.5 million in professional development funds to its growing list of constituents.
The Center's grantee projects have included world premieres and commissions, exhibitions that travel from area museums and galleries to international arts organizations, imaginative and experimental public history programming, and interdisciplinary collaborations. The Center's impressive list of Pew Fellows includes recipients of Guggenheim, MacArthur, and United States Artists Fellowships.
Our timeline below provides a look into our history and the culmination of the Center as it exists today.
1989 Philadelphia Music Project
1991 Pew Fellowships in the Arts
1993 Dance Advance
1995 Philadelphia Theatre Initiative
1997 Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative
1998 Heritage Philadelphia Program
2001 Philadelphia Cultural Management Initiative
2005 Programs brought together as the Philadelphia Center for Arts and Heritage
2008 Center renamed The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage
Photo at top: Historic Yellow Springs, Project Portal, Shaun M. Baer: Speak to Me.
