What drives cultural practitioners to experiment, discover, and create?
Artist Sarah Crowner questions the idea of a painting as “fixed and static,” and proposes that a painting is “an archive of all the actions and gestures that surround it.”
We speak to Wilmer Wilson IV (2017), who works across mediums including performance, sculpture, collage, video, photography, and installation to explore the nature and social value of ephemera and bodily presence in public spaces.
Composer and guitarist Nels Cline describes the inspiring journey through Philadelphia artifacts, sites, and musical moments that led to the creation of Lovers (for Philadelphia).
Moon Molson's films portray the stories of people of color, capturing the humor and lyricism of, in his words, “the language of the streets.”
Pulitzer Prize- and Grammy Award-winning composer David Lang on creating a score for 400 broken instruments, music education, classical music, and more.
We spoke to landscape architects Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha (2017) whose collaborative work imagines new possibilities for design of the built environment and explores the lines separating land and water, and urban and rural environments.
We spoke to Tayarisha Poe (2017), whocreates complex portraits of young people of color in her multisensory work that blends film, photography, and prose across media platforms.
In conjunction with Orchestra 2001’s Philadelphia premiere of Frank Zappa’s The Yellow Shark, Jayce Ogren and Dr. Joseph Klein consider the Zappa’s legacy and the process of bringing scores to life for a contemporary audience.
Poet, performer, and scholar Tracie Morris describes what inspires her to “follow her muse.”
We spoke to interdisciplinary artists Camae Ayewa and Rasheedah Phillips (2017) who describe themselves as “afrofuturistic cultural producers.”