Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview with Theater Artist Rhodessa Jones
Based in San Francisco, theater performer, director, teacher, and writer Rhodessa Jones is a Fellow-in-Residence who will begin her one-year residency in Philadelphia next year.
Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview with Visual Artist Jonathan Lyndon Chase
Visual artist Jonathan Lyndon Chase (2019) spoke to us about their art-making routine and the artists, early experiences, and aspects of Philadelphia culture that most influence their work.
Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview with Visual Artist Lisa Marie Patzer
Visual artist Lisa Marie Patzer (2019) spoke to us about how her practice and interests have evolved during the pandemic, the most useful piece of artistic advice she ever received, and her favorite “brain candy” for relaxing.
Questions of Practice: Set Designer Mimi Lien on a Design-First Theater-Making Process
Mimi Lien discusses the challenges and opportunities presented by an inverted process.
Poet & Pew Fellow Sonia Sanchez Discusses Her Creative Life & Legacy with Major Jackson [Full Interview]
Sonia Sanchez Discusses Her Creative Life & Legacy with Major Jackson
Questions of Practice: Curator Koyo Kouoh on Transdisciplinary Practice
Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa Executive Director and Chief Curator Koyo Kouoh theorizes that social shifts inform new methods of artmaking and presentation, allowing and even necessitating that artists “draw from different registers,” and explains how a transdisciplinary practice can emerge from such an approach.
Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview With Vocalist Zaye Tete
Liberian vocalist, composer, and dancer Zaye Tete (2018) spoke to us about her artistic development in Liberia, music’s transformative power, and her fondness for Paul Simon.
Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview with Theater Artist Alex Torra
Theater artist Alex Torra (2018) spoke to us about his concentration on physical theater and why language sometimes feels “limiting,” as well as his in-progress work rooted in his Cuban American familial history.
Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview with Choreographer Leah Stein
Choreographer Leah Stein (2018) spoke to us about the origins of her site-specific choreography, her present-day process, and the “inexhaustible” qualities of Philadelphia.
Questions of Practice: Guitarist Nels Cline on Virtuosity
Composer and guitarist Nels Cline explains the distinction between when virtuosity is an “aesthetic obstacle” to music and when it “changes the way you think about sound.”