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The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage

Most Recent Grants Awarded

Dance Advance

Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts

Basil Twist’s Petrushka
$92,000

Bowerbird

American premiere of More Movements for Lachenmann
$80,500

Bryn Mawr College

The Lives of Giants by the Khmer Arts Ensemble
$64,400

Eleone Dance Theatre

Acquisition of choreography by Dianne McIntyre
$92,000

Germaine Ingram

Parallel Destinies
$20,000

Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers

Company training project
$48,000

Amanda Miller

Choreographic research with Sophiline Cheam Shapiro
$8,000

Nichole Canuso Dance Company

TAKES
$66,700

Painted Bride Art Center

Presentation of Fly: Five First Ladies of Dance
$80,500

Pennsylvania Ballet

Acquisition of Roland Petit’s Carmen
$99,750

Philadelphia Live Arts and Philly Fringe

Presentation of Lucinda Childs’ Dance
$172,500

Jumatatu Poe

Flatland 2010
$20,000

Raices Culturales Latinoamericanas

Latin Roots & Rhythms Festival May 2011
$46,000

Meredith Rainey

New work with collaborators Todd Reynolds and Luke Dubois
$20,000

Susan Hess Modern Dance

2010-2011 Choreographers Project and Master’s Exchange
$30,000

Voloshky Ukrainian Dance Ensemble

Restaging dances for tour
$75,000

Exhibitions Initiative

Arcadia University

Tacita Dean: JG (a working title)
$200,000

The College of Physicians/Mütter Museum

Quay Brothers: Anatomica Aesthetica
$250,000

International House Philadelphia

Pop Cinema
$29,000

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

Institute of Contemporary Art

2010 Planning Grant
$24,430

James A. Michener Art Museum

2010 Planning Grant
$24,335

Heritage Philadelphia Program

Bartram’s Garden

Preservation/Planning
$48,100

Beth Sholom Synagogue Preservation Foundation

Preservation/Planning
$50,000

Cliveden of the National Trust

Interpretation/Planning
$75,000

Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site

Preservation/Implementation
$175,000

First Person Arts

Interpretation/Planning
$75,000

Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Preservation/Planning
$63,200

Legacy Center, Drexel University College of Medicine

Interpretation/Planning
$75,000

National Constitution Center

Interpretation/Planning
$75,000

Scribe Video Center

Interpretation/Planning
$69,854

Cultural Management Initiative

Asian Arts Initiative

Planning Grant
$30,000

Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance

Project Grant
$150,000

Melanie Stewart Dance Theatre

Planning Grant
$30,000

Opera Company of Philadelphia

Project Grant
$150,000

People’s Light & Theatre Company

Project Grant
$150,000

Pig Iron Theatre Company

Project Grant
$150,000

Tempesta di Mare

Planning Grant
$30,000

Wagner Free Institute of Science

Planning Grant
$30,000

Wilma Theater

Planning Grant
$30,000

Wyck Association

Planning Grant
$30,000

Music Project

American Composers Forum, Philadelphia Chapter

SoundExchange
$45,000

Ars Nova Workshop

Composer Portraits: Ancient to the Future (and Beyond)
$45,000

Bowerbird

CHANGE/PERSIST
$25,000

Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia

A Composer’s Portrait
$75,000

The Crossing

Seneca Sounds
$25,000

Curtis Institute of Music

The Cunning Little Vixen
$100,000

Dolce Suono Chamber Music Concert Series

Mahler 100/Schoenberg 60
$65,900

Mann Center for the Performing Arts

An Imaginary Tale of Facts
$100,000

Montgomery County Community College

Blues at the Crossroads
$56,000

Network for New Music

Trade Winds: New Music Explores Asia
$45,000

Opera Company of Philadelphia

Phaedra
$100,000

Painted Bride Art Center

Dave Holland Big Band
$60,000

Philadelphia Chamber Music Society

Next Generation Project
$75,000

Philadelphia Chinese Opera Society

The Case of Chen Shimei, The Wild Boar Forest, and The Jade Bracelet
$30,000

Philadelphia Live Arts Festival/Philly Fringe

Bang on a Can Marathon
$100,000

Philadelphia Museum of Art

New Commissions based on Ellsworth Kelly’s Seine
$60,000

Piffaro, The Renaissance Band

A Royal Christening
$45,000

Tempesta di Mare, Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra

Johann Friedrich Fasch Premieres
$90,000

Pew Fellowships

Marc Brodzik

Media

Anthony Campuzano

Visual Arts

Sarah Gamble

Visual Arts

Daniel Heyman

Visual Arts

Ken Kalfus

Literature

Jennifer Levonian

Visual Arts

Robert Matthews

Visual Arts

Ben Peterson

Visual Arts

Frances Elaine McElroy

Media

Marco Roth

Literature

Ryan Trecartin

Visual Arts

Nami Yamamoto

Visual Arts

Theater Initiative

1812 Productions

Your Show of Shows and Laughter on the 23rd Floor
$83,000

Act II Playhouse

The Pride of Parnell Street
$60,000

Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts

The Cripple of Inishmaan
$75,000

Arden Theatre Company

The Flea and the Professor
$110,000

Brat Productions

Are We Not Men? The Devo Musical
$50,000

Inis Nua Theatre Company

Dublin by Lamplight
$14,500

New Paradise Laboratories

Extremely Public Displays of Privacy
$52,000

People’s Light & Theatre Company

Dividing the Estate
$110,000

Philadelphia Live Arts Festival & Philly Fringe

The Devil and Mister Punch
$110,000

Philadelphia Theatre Company

Ruined
$110,000

Theatre Exile

The Lieutenant of Inishmore
$60,000

Wilma Theater

Macbeth
$110,000

Thaddeus Phillips

Whale Optics
$20,000