Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview with Theater Artist Rhodessa Jones
Based in San Francisco, theater performer, director, teacher, and writer Rhodessa Jones is a Fellow-in-Residence who will begin her one-year residency in Philadelphia next year.
Site Read: Seth Siegelaub in Conversation with Teresa Gleadowe
“You would deal with the catalogue as you would normally deal with a catalogue, except the sites of the exhibition were Niagara Falls or The Hague or wherever the artists were working. In that sense, it was like a catalogue for a world exhibition.”
Site Read: Innovating Sites by Bruce Altshuler
The Center's new publication, Site Read: Seven Curators on Their Landmark Exhibitions, published by Mousse Publishing, is an anthology of essays from exhibition makers who illuminate the site-based innovations in now-iconic exhibitions they organized.
Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview with Visual Artist Jonathan Lyndon Chase
Visual artist Jonathan Lyndon Chase (2019) spoke to us about their art-making routine and the artists, early experiences, and aspects of Philadelphia culture that most influence their work.
Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview with Visual Artist Lisa Marie Patzer
Visual artist Lisa Marie Patzer (2019) spoke to us about how her practice and interests have evolved during the pandemic, the most useful piece of artistic advice she ever received, and her favorite “brain candy” for relaxing.
Questions of Practice: Set Designer Mimi Lien on a Design-First Theater-Making Process
Mimi Lien discusses the challenges and opportunities presented by an inverted process.
Poet & Pew Fellow Sonia Sanchez Discusses Her Creative Life & Legacy with Major Jackson [Full Interview]
Sonia Sanchez Discusses Her Creative Life & Legacy with Major Jackson
Questions of Practice: Curator Koyo Kouoh on Transdisciplinary Practice
Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa Executive Director and Chief Curator Koyo Kouoh theorizes that social shifts inform new methods of artmaking and presentation, allowing and even necessitating that artists “draw from different registers,” and explains how a transdisciplinary practice can emerge from such an approach.
Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview With Vocalist Zaye Tete
Liberian vocalist, composer, and dancer Zaye Tete (2018) spoke to us about her artistic development in Liberia, music’s transformative power, and her fondness for Paul Simon.
Questions of Practice: Bisi Silva on the Contemporary Curatorial Practice in Africa
Bisi Silva on the Contemporary Curatorial Practice in Africa