Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview with Media Artist Tayarisha Poe
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.
On Frank Zappa’s “Relentless Pursuit of Interesting Sounds:” An Interview with Orchestra 2001’s Jayce Ogren and Zappa Expert Joseph Klein
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.
Questions of Practice: Poet and Performer Tracie Morris on “Serving Her Muse”
Poet, performer, and scholar Tracie Morris describes what inspires her to “follow her muse.”
Pew Fellows of the Week: An Interview with Interdisciplinary Artists Camae Ayewa & Rasheedah Phillips
We spoke to interdisciplinary artists Camae Ayewa and Rasheedah Phillips (2017) who describe themselves as “afrofuturistic cultural producers.”
Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview with Choreographer and Performer Annie Wilson
We spoke to Annie Wilson (2017), a choreographer and performer whose work intertwines experimental dance, humor, feminist practice, and audience interaction.
Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview with Poet Julia Bloch
We spoke to poet Julia Bloch (2017) whose lyric and prose poems blend the personal and the political to, she says, “negotiate tensions between individual forms of expression and webs of social meaning.”
Questions of Practice: Ernesto Pujol on Durational Performance
Social choreographer Ernesto Pujol explains why durational performance “fights our cult of speed."
Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview with Writer and Cultural Scholar Brenda Dixon Gottschild
We spoke to Brenda Dixon Gottschild (2017) whose 50-year career as a writer and cultural scholar surveys the presence and influence of the black dancing body in America, in what she calls “choreography for the page”—an “embodied, subjunctive approach to research writing.”
Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview with Poet M. Nzadi Keita
We spoke to poet M. Nzadi Keita (2017), whose work weaves intricate narratives with historical research and vivid imagery in both lyric and prose forms.
Pew Fellows of the Week: An Interview with Media Artists Michael Kuetemeyer & Anula Shetty
Pew Fellows and media artists Michael Kuetemeyer and Anula Shetty on creating community-engaged work, the best advice they ever received, and more.