What drives cultural practitioners to experiment, discover, and create?
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.
While in Philadelphia to perform August: Osage County in April 2010, Academy Award-winning actress Estelle Parsons met with local theater professionals at the Center to talk about acting.
The following case study chronicles Fatebook, a 2009 production by New Paradise Laboratories.
We asked Oliver, a choreographer and dance professor, "Should we dance in museums?"
We talk to Sherlock, a 2013 Pew Fellow and Philadelphia's newly designated poet laureate, about his dream collaboration with Yoko Ono and what made him want to become a poet.
The following artist statement was written by David Gordon circa 1995 for a funding agency in pursuit of a grant.
2013 Pew Fellow Hafez Javier Kotain is a percussionist and educator fluent in Arab and Latin rhythms.
2013 Pew Fellow J. Louise Makary's works on film combine dance, still photography, and experimental techniques, introducing unexpected, challenging elements into traditional narrative structure.