The Pew Center for Arts and Heritage (formerly the Philadelphia Center for Arts and Heritage) serves as home for Pew’s dance, theater, visual arts, music, heritage, artist fellowships, and cultural management initiatives. The center—which opened in November 2005—is administered by the University of the Arts and is vital to Pew’s strategy of building a strong cultural community in the five-county southeastern Pennsylvania region.

The center is a showcase for Pew’s three-part strategy to support artistic endeavors—primarily in Philadelphia—by fostering creativity, building strong organizations and promoting the arts.  

The center’s office on Walnut Street in Philadelphia’s Center City houses seven Pew initiatives: Dance Advance, Heritage Philadelphia Program, Pew Fellowships in the Arts, the Philadelphia Cultural Management Initiative, Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative, Philadelphia Music Project, and Philadelphia Theatre Initiative.

For more information, visit the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage. 

Photo on previous page by T. O'Keefe for GPTMC. Swann Memorial Fountain.