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Our Questions of Practice research series includes in-depth publications on issues critical to artistic practice that derive from our experience as cultural grantmakers. Explore our web-based and print publications here.

Books & Major Publications

In Terms of Performance, A Keywords Anthology

Books & Major Publications

The Sentient Archive: Bodies, Performance, and Memory

Books & Major Publications

danceworkbook: A Steady Pulse: Restaging Lucinda Childs, 1963–78

Books & Major Publications

What Makes a Great Exhibition?

Books & Major Publications

Pigeons on the Grass, Alas: Contemporary Curators Talk About the Field

Books & Major Publications

Curating Now: Imaginative Practice/Public Responsibility

Books & Major Publications

Gray Area: Provocations on the Future of Preservation

Books & Major Publications

Letting Go? Sharing Historical Authority in a User-Generated World

Books & Major Publications

danceworkbook: Susan Foster! Susan Foster! Three Performed Lectures

Programs at the Center

Shelf Life

Books & Major Publications

danceworkbook: Belonging and Solo: Roko Kawai

Grants & Grantees

Demetrius Oliver: Canicular

New York-based artist Demetrius Oliver's Print Center exhibition consisted of live-feed video projections that drew from telescopes aimed at the constellation Canis Major.

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J.C. Todd

J.C. Todd's (Pew Fellow, 2014) poems investigate the impact of war, with an insistent eye and ear on language.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Musician Bhob Rainey on Finding Meaning in Noise

Pew Fellow Bhob Rainey talks about the relationship between noise and music.

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News

Pew Fellows News: Artists in Whitney and Venice Biennials, an Academy of American Poets Award, and New Works Around the World

Catch up on this month’s Pew Fellows news, including the latest recognition, new works, and press coverage.

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Questions of Practice: Artist Pepón Osorio on the Role of the Arts in Expanding Dialogue Beyond the "Local"

Visual artist and Pew Fellow Pepón Osorio talks about the relationship between artistic practice and "the local."

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Bill Nace

Nace’s experimental improvisations and compositions extend the boundaries of electric guitar technique, using bows, metal, wood, glass bowls, and other implements. His distinctive musical vocabulary references folk, rock, and punk traditions as he works to make a ubiquitous instrument sound new.

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Our Class

The Wilma Theater produced the U.S. premiere of Tadeusz Słobodzianek'a play, which, beginning in a Polish primary-school classroom in 1925, follows 10 students—five Catholics and five Jews—over 80 years.

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News

On Stage This Summer: Pennsylvania Ballet Performs Trisha Brown Work, Prism Quartet Collaborates with Partch Ensemble, and More

A number of Center-supported performances take the stage this summer, including seven new musical commissions by The Crossing and the world premiere of Pablo Batista's music and dance production *El Viaje (The Journey)*.

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Taylor Mac’s A 24-Decade History of Popular Music Gets “Philadelphianized” at the Kimmel Center, June 2 & 9

On June 2 and 9, The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts presents the Philadelphia premiere of MacArthur fellow Taylor Mac’s epic performance work A 24-Decade History of Popular Music.

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Mixing Memories – Sharing History Community Exhibition

Cliveden presents an exhibition of kitchen objects and recipes collected from members of the community.

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Pew Fellows News: Sonia Sanchez Wins Wallace Stevens Award, Glenn Holsten’s Wyeth Documentary Makes PBS Debut, David Hartt’s Solo Exhibition at Art Institute of Chicago, and More

In September, Pew Fellows from across all art disciplines were nationally recognized for their work, launched new and innovative projects, and received prestigious honors and awards. See the latest updates in our news roundup below.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Boris Charmatz

Boris Charmatz is a choreographer, dancer, and director of Musée de la danse (Museum of Dance).

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Cynthia Oliver

Cynthia Oliver is a New York Dance and Performance Award ("Bessie")-winning choreographer whose work has been presented nationally and internationally.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Marian Bantjes on Textual Embellishment

Graphic artist Marian Bantjes talks about how embellished text can provoke engagement with the reader.

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Grants & Grantees

The Case of Chen Shimei, The Wild Boar Forest, and The Jade Bracelet

The Philadelphia Chinese Opera Society presented three traditional Beijing operas, two dramas and a love story, featuring three leading performing artists from China.

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Tina Davidson

Tina Davidson is a composer and a 1992 Pew Fellow.

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Common Touch: The Art of the Senses in the History of the Blind

A multi-sensory exhibition based on the Library Company of Philadelphia's collection of pre-Braille texts for the blind, curated by artist-in-residence and Pew Fellow Teresa Jayne.

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Vera Nakonechny

Vera Nakonechny, a 2008 Pew Fellow, is a Ukrainian embroiderer, bead worker, and weaver.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Bruce Altshuler

Bruce Altshuler directs the museum studies program in the Graduate School of Arts and Science at New York University.

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News

Scribe Video Center's Great Migration Films to be Screened at BlackStar Film Festival, August 6

Four films commissioned by Scribe Video Center through its Center-funded project, The Great Migration, will be screened at the 2016 BlackStar Film Festival.

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