Fellows Friday: Q&A with Toshi Makihara
2013 Pew Fellow Toshi Makihara's performance work blends percussion with dance-like body movement, exercising a rigorous, systematic, and practiced process of experimentation and repetition.
What drives cultural practitioners to experiment, discover, and create?
2013 Pew Fellow Toshi Makihara's performance work blends percussion with dance-like body movement, exercising a rigorous, systematic, and practiced process of experimentation and repetition.
2013 Pew Fellow Kinan Abou-afach is a cellist, composer, and classical Arab musician born in Damascus, Syria, who performs extensively with Philadelphia Arabic cultural organization Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture.
Emily Abendroth, 2013 Pew Fellow
2013 Pew Fellow Paul Swenbeck is a visual artist primarily working in clay whose fascination with the macabre has filtered into his idiosyncratic sculptures, paintings, photographs, and installations.
We speak with 2012 Pew Fellow Bhob Rainey, a soprano saxophonist and composer, one half of improvisational duo nmperign, and leader of the BSC, an eight-member ensemble that uses both acoustic and electronic instruments.
Lee is the publisher at Corollary Press and author of the poetry collections Underground National, That Gorgeous Feeling, and Solar Maximum.
Dove encourages artists to dance in unusual places. Why? Out of necessity, he says.
At the time of Occupy Wall Street, the Center commissioned this essay by Moore, one of the instigators of *The Real Estate Show*, a 1980 exhibition in New York's Lower East Side on gentrification and property ownership.
Raphael Xavier, 2013 Pew Fellow
Karen M'Closkey and Keith VanDerSys are 2013 Pew Fellows, founding partners of PEG office of landscape + architecture, and PennDesign faculty at the University of Pennsylvania.