Questions of Practice: Musician Bhob Rainey on Finding Meaning in Noise
Pew Fellow Bhob Rainey talks about the relationship between noise and music.
Fellows Friday: Q&A with Klezmer Musician Susan Lankin-Watts
Susan Lankin-Watts talks about her family's rich musical legacy, the importance of her audience's support, and more.
Fellows Friday: Q&A with Playwright James Ijames
We spoke to actor and playwright James Ijames (2015), who was recently awarded the Philadelphia Theatre Company’s Terrence McNally New Play Award for the development of his play White.
Fellows Friday: Q&A with Poet Brian Teare
A former NEA Fellow in Literature, Brian Teare has been a resident at Headlands Center for the Arts and the MacDowell Colony, and a recipient of the Ruth Lilly Fellowship and the Wallace E. Stegner Fellowship.
Questions of Practice: Wilma Theater's Blanka Zizka on Risk in Theater-Making
Blanka Zizka, Wilma Theater's Artistic Director, on risk in theater-making.
Questions of Practice: Choreographer Ralph Lemon on Ephemerality
Choreographer Ralph Lemon talks about ephemerality in relationship to his work in the dance field, and the complexity of memory.
Questions of Practice: Arts Leader Sam Miller on Risk and Artistic Process
In 2015, we spoke with Sam Miller about the relationship between risk and artistic process.
Questions of Practice: Musician & Curator Argeo Ascani on Experimentation
How can a curator approach artistic risk? Argeo Ascani, Curator for Music at EMPAC, Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, prefers to use the term “experimentation”.
An Experiment in Five Acts in Review: A Conversation with Ain Gordon
Playwright and director Ain Gordon reflects on An Experiment in Five Acts, a critical feedback program for mid-career artists of his own design. Here, he speaks candidly about the project's impact, what worked and what didn't.
Act V: A Final Report: The Archive of Gestures by Jay Kirk
Nonfiction writer and 2005 Pew Fellow Jay Kirk, "creative documentarian" of critical feedback program An Experiment in Five Acts, reports on the events of the Act V session, the final installment of this series.