What drives cultural practitioners to experiment, discover, and create?
John Collins, founder and artistic director of the ensemble theater company Elevator Repair Service, discusses the discovery process his ensemble engages in at the outset of a new theater piece.
Musician and Pew Fellow Chris Madak on artistic motivation, the notion of "perfection," and more.
We spoke to poet Yolanda Wisher (2015), who merges the personal and the political, writing for both artistic and community-oriented pursuits.
Pew Fellow Bhob Rainey talks about the relationship between noise and music.
Susan Lankin-Watts talks about her family's rich musical legacy, the importance of her audience's support, and more.
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.
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.
Blanka Zizka, Wilma Theater's Artistic Director, on risk in theater-making.
Choreographer Ralph Lemon talks about ephemerality in relationship to his work in the dance field, and the complexity of memory.
In 2015, we spoke with Sam Miller about the relationship between risk and artistic process.