Pew Fellowship in the Arts

Jazz musicians who received the Pew Fellowship in the Arts: list of 7 recipients by year.

The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage is a nonprofit grantmaking organization and knowledge-sharing hub for arts and culture in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US established in 2005. In 2025, Christina Vassallo was named its second executive director, following Paula Marincola. The Center receives funding from The Pew Charitable Trusts and makes project grants in two areas, Performance and Exhibitions & Public Interpretation, as well as awarding grants to individual artists through Pew Fellowships. In 2021, the Center announced the introduction of Re:imagining Recovery grants to assist in COVID-19 recovery, and in 2024 it introduced Evolving Futures grants to support institutions undertaking structural change to strengthen their sustainability.

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Recipients

2016Jymie Merritt American bassist (1926–2020)
2012Marshall Allen American jazz saxophonist, flutist and oboist (born 1924)
2012Greg Osby American saxophonist (born 1960)
2011Jamaaladeen Tacuma American musician
2010Orrin Evans American musician
2003Uri Caine American pianist and composer (born 1956)
1996Dave Burrell American musician