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Sharon Hayes, Ken Lum and Brian Phillips: Pew Center Funding

Three PennDesign faculty members— Sharon Hayes, Ken Lum and Brian Phillips (M.Arch’96)—have received funding from The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage for new research and public programs. Penn alumna Kelsey Halliday Johnson (MFA’12) also received funding.

Ms. Hayes received a $75,000 Pew Fellowship. Hayes employs various media to probe the complex intersections of history, politics and speech within private and public spaces. Her current large-scale project, Ricerche, uses a series of single-channel video, photo, projection and performance installations for an inquiry into sexuality in contemporary America.

Philadelphia Mural Arts received a $300,000 grant for Monument Lab: A Citywide Public Art and History Exhibition, which is co-produced by Mr. Lum. Monument Lab builds on a 2015 public-art project curated by Lum, Paul Farber of Haverford College and A. Will Brown, of the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design. 

Mr. Phillips, architect and lecturer in the department of architecture and principal at Interface Studio Architects, received a $60,000 grant for a yearlong project that will survey and document 15 Philadelphia row houses, as well as the families and stories within them, across five different neighborhoods selected by distinct phases of city development over the past 200 years. An exhibition planned for 2017 will allow visitors to experience the diverse and nuanced histories of communities through the lens of individual homes and their physical and social transformations and adaptations through time.

Ms. Johnson, curator at Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, received a $60,000 grant to present the exhibition Making/Breaking the Binary: Women, Art & Technology 1970-1985.

 

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