What drives cultural practitioners to experiment, discover, and create?
2013 Pew Fellow Kinan Abou-afach is a cellist, composer, and classical Arab musician born in Damascus, Syria, who performs extensively with Philadelphia Arabic cultural organization Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture.
Emily Abendroth, 2013 Pew Fellow
2013 Pew Fellow Paul Swenbeck is a visual artist primarily working in clay whose fascination with the macabre has filtered into his idiosyncratic sculptures, paintings, photographs, and installations.
We speak with 2012 Pew Fellow Bhob Rainey, a soprano saxophonist and composer, one half of improvisational duo nmperign, and leader of the BSC, an eight-member ensemble that uses both acoustic and electronic instruments.
Lee is the publisher at Corollary Press and author of the poetry collections Underground National, That Gorgeous Feeling, and Solar Maximum.
Raphael Xavier, 2013 Pew Fellow
Karen M'Closkey and Keith VanDerSys are 2013 Pew Fellows, founding partners of PEG office of landscape + architecture, and PennDesign faculty at the University of Pennsylvania.
While in Philadelphia to perform August: Osage County in April 2010, Academy Award-winning actress Estelle Parsons met with local theater professionals at the Center to talk about acting.
The following case study chronicles Fatebook, a 2009 production by New Paradise Laboratories.
We talk to Sherlock, a 2013 Pew Fellow and Philadelphia's newly designated poet laureate, about his dream collaboration with Yoko Ono and what made him want to become a poet.