Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview with Filmmaker David Felix Sutcliffe
We spoke to documentary filmmaker David Felix Sutcliffe (2017), who creates intimate, character-driven stories rooted in racial justice and advocacy.
What drives cultural practitioners to experiment, discover, and create?
We spoke to documentary filmmaker David Felix Sutcliffe (2017), who creates intimate, character-driven stories rooted in racial justice and advocacy.
We spoke to choreographer and performer Nichole Canuso (2017), whose work spans genres and experiments with the participation of audience bodies, personal narratives, and what she describes as “the kinesthetic intellect.”
Ann Hamilton on “consuming” versus “having” an experience.
Major Jackson reads two sections from Urban Renewal, the opening suite of poems in his book Leaving Saturn (2002), winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry.
On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Pew Fellowships in the Arts, award-winning poet, playwright, professor, and Pew Fellow Sonia Sanchez (1993) visited the Center for a conversation with her former student and Pew Fellow Major Jackson (1995), as well as a poetry reading of 10 Haikus for Max Roach.
Nora Chipaumire on how advocacy and the principles of law figure into her artistic practice.
In conjunction with the Center’s celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Pew Fellowships in the Arts in 2017, we spoke to electronic musician and DJ King Britt (2007) whose work explores the musical possibilities that arise at the intersection of club, experimental, and electronic music.
We spoke to Sharon Hayes (2016) who employs various mediums—including video, performance, installation, and photography. Hayes’ work is concerned with interrogating the present political moment, often through works staged “in the street,” a practice that she says arose from her “interest in public speech and the conditions of public address.”
We spoke to artist and filmmaker Mark Kendall(2016), whose experimental documentary films reflect on, as he says, “the everyday conditions of our everyday lives” in ways that bring together the physical, sensuous and perceptual with the intellectual.
We spoke to visual artist Annabeth Rosen (1992), who creates elaborate sculptures of clay that are “volcanic, beastly, catastrophic, and unnervingly funny,” as described by writer and critic Nancy Princenthal.