Four members of the PennDesign community have been recognized by the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage in the latest round of fellowships and grants. Anuradha Mathur, Professor of Landscape Architecture, andDilip da Cunha, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture, as well as alumnusWilmer Wilson IV (MFA’15), received Pew Fellowships. In addition, Fine Arts Lecturer Kayla Romberger received a project grant for a new publishers-in-residence program at Ulises, the nonprofit Philadelphia bookshop that she co-founded.
Mathur and da Cunha were described by the Center as “landscape architects whose collaborative work imagines new possibilities for design of the built environment and explores the lines separating land and water, and urban and rural environments.”
Working across mediums, including performance, sculpture, collage, video, photography, and installation, Wilson explores the nature and social value of ephemera and bodily presence in public spaces.
Other awardees include filmmaker and installation artist Yael Bartana and artist Trenton Doyle Hancock.
The 2017 awards total more than $10.3 million for 12 Pew Fellowships, 39 Project grants, and 2 Advancement grants that support a wide range of extraordinary work from independent artists and emerging organizations, as well as some of the city’s largest and well-established institutions.
The awards were announced on June 19 by Pew Center Executive Director Paula Marincola.
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