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Big news for Pennsylvania’s humanities, arts, culture, and community-based practitioners: PA Humanities has launched the new PA Cultural Exchange Fellowship (PaX).

This statewide fellowship will bring together practitioners from across Pennsylvania for immersive learning exchanges, peer connection, leadership development, and community-based project support. Selected fellows will receive a $10,000 fellowship award and participate in cultural exchange weekends in Pittsburgh, the PA Wilds, and York.

Curious about whether PaX is right for you? Join our informational webinar on June 16, 2026 at 2pm to learn more about the fellowship, eligibility, application process, and to expect.

Applications are due July 8, 2026, by 11:59 p.m.

The PA Cultural Exchange is made possible through the generous support of Spring Point Partners and The Heinz Endowments, with additional support from Pennsylvania state legislators, the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development, and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).

PA Cultural Exchange (PaX) PA Cultural Exchange is an 18-month fellowship that convenes cultural practitioners from creative hubs in a dynamic learning exchange, encouraging creativity, deepening connections, and building relationships that strengthen Pennsylvania’s humanities network.

“...that kind of grit and that kind of determination is Pennsylvania born and Pennsylvania made.”

PA Humanities’ own Dawn Frisby Byers, senior director of content and engagement, is featured in PBS's American Stories: A Reading Road Trip. This episode explores Pennsylvania’s rich literary legacy, from historic libraries and landmark bookstores to the writers, journalists, poets, and cultural leaders who have shaped stories across generations. Watch to celebrate the people and places that make our literary landscape so vibrant.

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American Stories: A Reading Road Trip | Pennsylvania Fasten your seatbelts and join PBS Books and the Library of Congress as we visit Pennsylvania on our next stop in American Stories: A Reading Road Trip. Join...

PA Humanities was honored to premiere Voices of History Erie with Erie's Black Wall Street at the Erie Art Museum, sharing eight moving stories from local Erie residents about family, migration, community care, pride, perseverance, and transformation.

We were grateful to welcome Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Dr. Edda Fields-Black, author of COMBEE, for a powerful conversation on preserving history through story.

Huge thanks to our partners Erie’s Black Wall Street, Kyra Taylor, Dr. Rhonda Matthews, our community storytellers, filmmaker Morgan Moody, creative director Terrell Robinson, HICAAE, Hagen History Center, and Erie Art Museum.

Voices of History Erie is made possible by funding provided by Erie Insurance, Thomas B. Hagen, the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development's PA Arts and Culture Recovery Program, the Pennsylvania Department of Education Job Training and Education Programs Grant, and The Erie Community Foundation.

All the videos from the premiere will soon be posted at PAHumanities.org/Voices and on PA Humanities’ YouTube channel.