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The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage

Grants Awarded

Dance Advance

Jaye Allison

New work with the 2nd Generation Silver Belles
$11,500

Marianela Boan

Office
$11,500

Bryn Mawr College

Presentation of Les escailles de la memoire (The Scales of Memory) by Urban Bush Women and Compagnie Jant-Bi
$23,000

Community Education Center

New Edge Artists Service Program and Performance Series
$46,000

Eleone Dance Theatre

Americana
$46,000

Headlong Dance Theater

Improvisation Lab
$46,000

Kimmel Center

Presentation of Gathering Clouds by Black Grace
$80,500

Lisa Kraus

Red Thread
$17,250

Koresh Dance Company

Acquisition of Passomezzo, by Ohad Naharin
$81,650

Jaamil Kosoko

An Expectation of Violence
$11,500

Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers

Company training with Hsu-Hui Huang of Cloud Gate Dance Theater
$23,000

Leah Stein Dance Company

ECHO: Repeating Lines
$46,000

Melanie Stewart Dance Theatre

nEW 2009
$28,750

Montgomery County Community College

AXIS Dance Company Residency and Performance
$41,400

Nichole Canuso Dance Company

TAKES
$46,000

Painted Bride Art Center

Commission of Rigidigidim De Bamba De: Ruptured Calypso by Cynthia Oliver
$63,250

Pennsylvania Ballet

Acquisition of In the Middle Somewhat Elevated by William Forsythe
$80,000

Philadelphia Dance Projects

Philadelphia Dance History Project
$46,000

Philadelphia Folklore Project

Collaboration between Germaine Ingram, Bobby Zankel and John Dowell
$40,000

Philadelphia Live Arts and Philly Fringe

Presentation of Chunky Move’s Mortal Engine
$92,000

Raices Culturales LatinoAmericanas

Inter-American Latino Arts Festival
$46,000

Janet Pilla

The Farewell
$11,500

Merian Soto

Branch Dance Series
$17,250

Kate Watson-Wallace

Everywhere
$23,000

Voloshky Ukrainian Dance Ensemble

Costuming and re-orchestration of the Carpathian dances
$46,000

Exhibitions Initiative

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 Museum of Art

Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective
$250,000

Philagrafika

The Graphic Unconscious
$200,000

Vox Populi

Dead Flowers
$30,000

Aaron Igler/LURE Projects

2009 Planning Grant
$5,000

Philadelphia Art Alliance

2009 Planning Grant
$17,000

Heritage Philadelphia Program

Cliveden of the National Trust

Preservation/Implementation
$200,000

Fairmount Park Art Association

Interpretation/Implementation
$199,720

Historic Germantown Preserved

Interpretation/Implementation
$200,000

Philadelphia Folklore Project

Interpretation/Planning
$70,000

Philadelphia Mural Arts Advocates

Interpretation/Implementation
$200,000

Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia

Preservation/Planning
$56,350

Wyck Association

Interpretation/Planning
$75,000

Cultural Management Initiative

Bristol Riverside Theatre

$85,000

Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe

$85,000

The Academy of Natural Sciences

$85,000

Philadelphia Mural Arts Advocates

$85,000

Lantern Theatre Company

$85,000

Settlement Music School

$120,000

People’s Light & Theatre Company

$120,000

Arts & Business Council of Greater Philadelphia

$120,000

Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance

$120,000

Music Project

Ars Nova Workshop

Free/Form: Composer Portraits
$45,000

Astral Artists

Aaron Jay Kernis Residency
$95,000

Choral Arts Society

The Mystical Experience
$45,000

The Crossing

Month of Moderns
$25,000

Curtis Institute of Music

Samuel Barber’s Antony and Cleopatra
$100,000

International House Philadelphia

Anti-Jazz: The New Thing Revisited
$45,000

Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

Fresh Ink 2009-10 Season
$100,000

Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia

Roberto Sierra’s Missa Latina
$45,000

Montgomery County Community College

Sabor Latino: A Caribbean Journey
$52,000

Opera Company of Philadelphia

Tan Dun’s Tea: A Mirror of Soul
$100,000

Orchestra 2001

Three Premieres!
$45,000

Philadelphia Chamber Music Society

Engage 2.0 Premiere Project
$75,000

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Wayne Shorter Commissioning Project
$45,000

The Philadelphia Orchestra

Philadelphia Firsts
$100,000

The Philadelphia Singers

Glass Persephone and Reich Variations
$45,000

Piffaro, The Renaissance Band

Music from a Golden Era: 17th Century Portugal and Spain
$45,000

SRUTI, The India Music & Dance Society

Instrumental Maestros of Indian Classical Music
$21,500

Tempesta di Mare

Jan Dismas Zelenka’s Lamentations for Holy Week
$45,000

Warriors of the Wonderful Sound

The Wizards of the Saxophone Meet the Warriors of the Wonderful Sound: Creating a 21st-Century Jazz Vocabulary
$50,000

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

The First Day of School
$65,000

Arden Theatre Company

Sunday in the Park with George
$110,000

InterAct Theatre Company

The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity
$60,000

Kimmel Center, Inc.

August: Osage County
$76,591

New Paradise Laboratories

Freedom Club
$30,000

Painted Bride Art Center

Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell
$25,000 – first-time grantee

Philadelphia Live Arts Festival & Philly Fringe

The Sun Also Rises
$107,000

Philadelphia Theatre Company

Golden Age
$110,000

Pig Iron Theatre Company

A Midsummer Night’s Dream
$150,000 over two years

Wilma Theater

Leaving
$110,000

Madi Distefano

Meanwhile…
$14,520

Sara Felder

A Queer Divine
$20,000

Charlotte Ford

Chicken
$20,000 – first-time grantee

Karen Getz

The AI Project
$20,000

Thaddeus Phillips

MICROWORLD(s)
$20,000