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Polly Apfelbaum: For the Love of Una Hale, installation view, 2022, Spruance Gallery, Arcadia University. Photo by Sam Fritch.
William Edmondson, untitled (Adam and Eve or Egyptian Couple), 1940. Photo courtesy of The Museum of Everything.
Pew Fellow Jesse Krimes, Apokaluptein:16389067, 2010–13; prison bed sheets, transferred newsprint, color pencil, graphite, gouache; 480" x 180". Photo by Karsten Moran.
Pig Iron Theatre Company, promotional image for The Path of Pins or The Path of Needles, 2022. Pictured: performers Jessica Almasy (L) and Courtney Henry (R). Photo by Jaŭhien Sasnoŭ. 
Mark Thomas Gibson, 2021 Pew Fellow. Photo by Ryan Collerd.
Shrouding of the LOVE sculpture in John F. Kennedy Plaza, Philadelphia, World AIDS Day / Day Without Art, 1992. Photo by Office of the City Representative, City of Philadelphia, courtesy of the John J. Wilcox, Jr. Archives, William Way LGBT Community Center. 
Recent grantee publications. Photo courtesy of The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.
Bill T. Jones, creator, director, and choreographer of Deep Blue Sea, accompanied by a group of community dancers during a performance in New York. Photo by Maria Baranova. 
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Left: Julian Talamantez Brolaski, 2019 Pew Fellow. Photo by Charles Ludvig.Right: Tina Satter, 2019 Pew Fellow. Photo by Michael De Angelis.
Sun & Sea (Marina), opera-performance by Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, Vaiva Grainytė, and Lina Lapelytė, La Biennale di Venezia, 2019. Photography by Andrej Vasilenko, courtesy of the artists.
Jonathan Lyndon Chase, 2019 Pew Fellow. Photo by Rafael Martínez.
Tot-Guard, 1973, Ford Motor Company. Photo courtesy of the Collections of The Henry Ford Museum.
Sculpture: Courtney Bowles and Mark Strandquist, On the Day They Come Home, 2021, part of Staying Power exhibition, The Village of Arts and Humanities, Fairhill-Hartranft neighborhood, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mural: Lily Yeh, Obatala, 2018. Photo courtesy of The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.
Pew Fellow Major Jackson. Photo by Erin Patrice O’Brien.
Still from the film Test Pattern, 2018, directed by Pew Fellow Shatara Michelle Ford. Pictured center: Brittany S. Hall as “Renesha.”
Pati Hill, Alphabet of Common Objects, c. 1975-79, 45 black and white copier prints, each 11” x 8.5,″ part of Arcadia University Art Gallery's 2015 exhibition Pati Hill: Photocopier. Courtesy Estate of Pati Hill and Arcadia.