Fellows Friday: Q&A with Tim Portlock
Q&A with Tim Portlock
What drives cultural practitioners to experiment, discover, and create?
Q&A with Tim Portlock
We spoke to musician and composer Chris Forsyth, whose career remains devoted to his roots in rock music, while questioning and expanding upon them.
Nonfiction writer and 2005 Pew Fellow Jay Kirk, "creative documentarian" of An Experiment in Five Acts, reports on the events of the Act IV session.
When asked about his sense of ethical responsibility in creating work, Whit MacLaughlin of New Paradise Laboratories responded with a reflection on his place in the performance world.
Discomfort is a sign that one is working with integrity, says poet Emily Abendroth, a 2013 Pew Fellow, in this Questions of Practice video.
Finding a "form to contain [the mess]" is one way that 2013 Pew Fellow Jenn McCreary describes her motivation for writing poetry. An avid note-taker, she tasks herself to find forms for disparate ideas.
We asked Philadelphia Poet Laureate and 2013 Pew Fellow Frank Sherlock what it's like to speak on behalf of others.
We spoke to poet J.C. Todd, whose current work-in-progress is a collection of sonnets that “complicates and contemporizes the tradition of war poems.”
Lê Thi Diem Thúy is a poet, novelist, and performer who speaks eloquently on the intangibles of the artistic process. When she was at the Center recently, we asked her, "How does an artist's approach to working evolve over time?"
We spoke to filmmaker and Emmy-nominated director Ted Passon, whose work explores human relationships and how they shape our world.