What drives cultural practitioners to experiment, discover, and create?
Edmunds, executive and artistic director of the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA, is The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage's first visiting scholar. Paula Marincola, the Center's executive director, spoke with her about the opportunity.
Two seminal figures of the New York dance world—Bill T. Jones and Susan Rethorst—sat down to talk about their distinct practices and the evolution of the field.
We asked our 2013 No Idea Is Too Ridiculous project facilitators, Kathleen McLean and Mark Beasley, to reflect on where they see constraints to doing creative work.
In the third and final segment of our three-part conversation with Center Visiting Artist Ain Gordon, he gives us a glimpse of how he has entered into conversations at the Center and proposed alternative possibilities for our approach to our work.
In the first segment of a three-part conversation between Center Visiting Artist Ain Gordon and Center Executive Director Paula Marincola, they discuss Gordon's role as a conduit between the Center and its grantees.
Tacita Dean speaks about time's myriad forms, from the geological and the celestial to the biological or the structural.
Tacita Dean shares her thoughts about the making of her film JG in advance of its international debut at Arcadia University Art Gallery.
Ain Gordon, the Center's 2011–13 Visiting Artist, spoke with choreographer and director Merián Soto about her Center-supported piece, *SoMoS*.
Jenny Sabin writes about designing a "Greenhouse for the Future," part of the American Philosophical Society's Center-funded Greenhouse Projects.
Campuzano, a visual artist and 2009 Pew Fellow, spent an entire night in the Center office, with only the staff's belongings for company. He used the experience as inspiration for a new set of drawings.