The Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative (PEI), a program of the Philadelphia Center for Arts and Heritage, funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts, and administered by University of the Arts, was established in 1997 to stimulate artistic development and excellence in the region’s visual arts community. PEI supports public visual arts exhibitions and accompanying publications of high artistic caliber and, cultural significance. PEI awards grants of up to $250,000 for exhibitions implementation and up to $25,000 for exhibitions planning to applicants meeting the program’s eligibility requirements, goals, and objectives. Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative grants are awarded annually on a competitive basis and are selected by a panel of internationally recognized visual arts professionals. The Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative provides professional development opportunities through curatorial roundtables and symposia that address important issues in the field, travel grants for curatorial research and development, and access to its research library of over 1,600 volumes. PEI also publishes critical writing on curatorial practice as a service to the community and the field, including proceedings from the symposium Curating Now: Imaginative Practice/Public Responsibility and an anthology entitled Questions of Practice: What Makes a Great Exhibition? Between 1997 and 2008, the Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative funded 83 projects, investing more than $8.6 million in bringing visual arts exhibitions to the region and the field. **Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative Announces 2008 Grants** 2008 Guidelines and Application Now Available .