October 29, 2010 October 2010 Introducing the 2010 Pew Fellows in the Arts!   Earlier this month, 12 Philadelphia-area artists checked their mailboxes and got some exciting news. They had each received a substantial award of $60,000 for outstanding artistic work from Pew Fellowships in the Arts (PFA), a program of The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Imagine hearing that you’ve just received a $60,000 fellowship to advance your work with no strings attached. How would you use the money? What possibilities would open up for you?   For the first time in PFA’s history, artists were considered from all fields in the same cycle, including those working across disciplines, resulting in one of the most diverse rosters of Fellows that the program has ever seen. Visit The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Center Spotlight page to learn more about the new Pew Fellows and hear about their work, in their own words.   "I want to wake up the audience, make them wonder where they have ended up.” —James Sugg, solo theater artist/sound designer/composer and 2010 Pew Fellow in the Arts Estelle Parsons on Acting   While in Philadelphia to perform August: Osage County in April 2010, Academy Award-winning actress Estelle Parsons met with local theater professionals at The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage to talk about acting. Stating that her real interest is in “exploiting [her] one opportunity of being alive,” Ms. Parsons revealed herself to be not only a scholar of American theater but an eternal student of humanity.   Watch videos from Estelle Parsons' visit to the Center in which she discusses bravery on the stage, the history of the Actors Studio, and more. Watch: Andrea Witcomb   On September 13, 2010, Heritage Philadelphia Program hosted a lecture and discussion by Andrea Witcomb, a distinguished writer and thinker about contemporary museum practice and theory from Melbourne, Australia.   Watch videos of a Q&A with Witcomb on contemporary museum exhibition practice and creatively engaging audiences with history. In the Press   Catch up on recent press about Center grantees and and Center-funded projects:   The New York Times on the Quay Brothers' collaboration with Philadelphia's famously macabre Mütter Museum (2010 Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative grantee)   Seduction Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958–1968 travels from Philadelphia's University of the Arts to the Brooklyn Museum (2007 Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative grantee)   The Philadelphia Inquirer calls Roland Petit's Carmen at the Pennsylvania Ballet "sexy", "saucy", and "a breath of fresh air" (2010 Dance Advance grantee) The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage 1608 Walnut Street 18th Floor Philadelphia PA 19103 http://www.pcah.us   Follow The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage on Twitter Watch films on The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Vimeo channel Subscribe to The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage e-newsletter     from this newsletter go to . Forward to a Friend To view this newsletter on the web, .