The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage

The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage is a multidisciplinary grantmaker and hub for knowledge-sharing, funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts, dedicated to fostering a vibrant cultural community in Greater Philadelphia. The Center invests in ambitious, imaginative, and catalytic work that showcases the region’s cultural vitality and enhances public life, and engages in an exchange of ideas concerning artistic and interpretive practice with a broad network of cultural practitioners and leaders. The Center’s recent publications include The Sentient Archive: Bodies, Performance, and Memory (2018, Wesleyan Press) and the digital keywords anthology In Terms of Performance (2016).

Above: Association for Public Art’s presentation of Cai Guo-Qiang: Fireflies in Philadelphia, 2017, supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Photo by Jeff Fusco.