What drives cultural practitioners to experiment, discover, and create?
Drummer, composer, educator, and Pew Fellow Chad E. Taylor offers thoughts about making space for an array of creative voices in his work, as well as the philosophy behind his practice, and tells stories about his roots as an artist. He also shared a playlist of the music that moves him.
Pew Fellows Shehrezad Maher and Kristen Neville Taylor both consider the nature of memory and personal and collective histories in their creative work. Here, they discuss their artistic practices and processes.
Pew Fellows Carmen Maria Machado and Vitche-Boul Ra might work in different mediums, but both are storytellers, through and through.
Pew Fellows Candice Iloh and Armando Veve both know a thing or two about conjuring worlds that resonate with young and old alike.
Composer/musician Sumi Tonooka and poet/author Phillip B. Williams discuss commonalities in the ways they “channel” their compositions and how they’ve experienced shifts in their artistic identities.
Filmmaker Darius Clark Monroe and musician Karen Smith talk about tapping into creativity at an early age, striving to extend their artistic legacies, and finding peace at the ocean’s edge.
Pew Fellow James Allister Sprang shares about his transformative encounter with 4DSound and what it means to be a “listener.”
Visual artists Adebunmi Gbadebo and Odili Donald Odita discuss their shared Nigerian heritage and the materiality of their respective mediums.
Interdisciplinary artist Maia Chao and visual artist James Maurelle discuss how they create productive work environments for themselves, their earliest interests in artistic expression, and why they’ve made Philadelphia their home.
Exploring the exhibition’s themes through movement, Fernandes’ choreography examines not just Edmondson’s work but also the relationship between Black cultural production and the American museum.