Awards

Kulu Mele has received some of the region's most prestigious awards and competitive grants including:

Founder Baba Crowder: Pew Fellowship in the Arts; Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship, PCA Master Traditional Artist.

Artistic Director Dorothy Wilkie: Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Folk Arts Apprenticeship (numerous times), Leeway Foundation, and Independence Foundation. For her choreography for Lantern Theater Company, Ms. Wilkie was nominated for a Barrymore Award (2005).

The ensemble: support from the Dance Advance funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts and administered by Drexel University, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and the Philadelphia Cultural Fund. Individual ensemble members have also received support from Leeway and PCA