Questions of Practice with Kristy Edmunds: Why Do You Do What You Do?
During a conversation at the Center, performance impresario and Center visiting scholar Kristy Edmunds was asked, "Why do you do what you do?"
Pew Fellow Poetry: Sueyeun Juliette Lee
The 2013 Pew Fellow poets—Emily Abendroth, Jenn McCreary, Sueyeun Juliette Lee, and Frank Sherlock—brought Philadelphia verse to the West Coast in early May, when they read at San Francisco State University’s Poetry Center.
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.
Fellows Friday: Q&A with Kinan Abou-afach
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.
Fellows Friday: Q&A with Emily Abendroth
Emily Abendroth, 2013 Pew Fellow
Fellows Friday: Q&A with Paul Swenbeck
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.
Fellows Friday: Q&A with Bhob Rainey
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.
Fellows Friday: Q&A with Sueyeun Juliette Lee
Lee is the publisher at Corollary Press and author of the poetry collections Underground National, That Gorgeous Feeling, and Solar Maximum.
Questions of Practice: Simon Dove of the Crossing the Line Festival
Dove encourages artists to dance in unusual places. Why? Out of necessity, he says.
Excavating Real Estate: Alan W. Moore on The Real Estate Show (1980)
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.