Questions of Practice: Choreographer Boris Charmatz on “Re-Enchanting” Public Space Through Dance
Boris Charmatz on why dance is “the right medium to re-enchant the public sphere.”
Questions of Practice: Pew Fellow Major Jackson Reads Urban Renewal
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.
Questions of Practice: Pew Fellow Sonia Sanchez Reads 10 Haikus for Max Roach
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.
Questions of Practice: Choreographer and Performer Nora Chipaumire on Art and Advocacy
Nora Chipaumire on how advocacy and the principles of law figure into her artistic practice.
Fellows Friday: Q&A with Electronic Musician King Britt
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.
Fellows Friday: Q&A with Visual Artist Sharon Hayes
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.”
Fellows Friday: Q&A with Filmmaker Mark Kendall
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.
Fellows Friday: Q&A with Visual Artist Annabeth Rosen
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.
Fellows Friday: Q&A with Choreographer and Movement Artist Lela Aisha Jones
We spoke to Lela Aisha Jones (2016) who intertwines personal history, social commentary, and interdisciplinary methods, drawing from, in her x, “the individual and collective lived experiences of blackness.”
Fellows Friday: Q&A with Visual Artist Eileen Neff
We spoke to visual artist Eileen Neff (1994), who conflates physical and photographic space in artworks that challenge the ways in which photography mediates perception.