The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage is dedicated to stimulating a vibrant cultural community in the five-county, Southeastern Pennsylvania region. Established in 2005, the Center houses seven funding Initiatives of The Pew Charitable Trusts. Through these Initiatives the Center supports area artists and arts and heritage organizations whose work is distinguished by excellence, imagination, and courage. Each year, the Center's grants make possible more than 800 performances in dance, music, and theatre as well as history and visual arts exhibitions, and other public programs for audiences in Philadelphia and its surrounding counties. In addition to its grantmaking, The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage functions as a nexus for the exchange of ideas around artistic expression and cultural interpretation. The Center also produces lectures, symposia, workshops, and publications that engage critical issues in the fields we serve.

Pew Fellowships in the Arts (PFA), a program of The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, was established in 1991, and annually awards up to 12 fellowships of $60,000 to artists of exemplary talent working in a wide variety of performing, visual, and literary disciplines. The goal of PFA is to raise the visibility, both within and beyond the region, of the Philadelphia area's most talented individual artists by concentrating support on practitioners in all disciplines and at all stages of their career, whose work is characterized by excellence, imagination, and ongoing exploration and growth. Through such support, PFA aims to elevate the quality and raise the profile of individual artistic work in the region.