Danger and Discovery: Cauleen Smith and Linda Earle on Potential in Archives
Dr. Linda Earle spoke with filmmaker and visual artist Cauleen Smith about how archives inform her work.
Reflections on the Black Cultural Archive Project
The Center invited nationally recognized educator, administrator, funder, and curator Linda Earle, to act as the Center’s 2021 Visiting Scholar, exploring how Black archives can serve as a framework for a multivalent exploration of Black cultural production. In this essay, Earle considers her time in this role.
Webinar Series: Archivists, Curators, and Scholars on Archiving Black Culture
Our online conversation series Archiving Black Culture: Ethics and Practices of Change brought together archivists, scholars, and curators to explore the work being done to restore Black cultural presence, expand content, and reimagine access.
David Gordon Reads Two Artist Statements from The Sentient Archive
David Gordon reads from The Sentient Archive.
Balanchine Dancer Allegra Kent Reads "My Discovery of Dance" from The Sentient Archive
Allegra Kent Reads "My Discovery of Dance" from The Sentient Archive.
Women, Art, and Technology: Kelsey Halliday Johnson and Amy Beste in Conversation
Curator Kelsey Halliday Johnson and media scholar Amy Beste consider why women artists have often only received serious recognition later in their lives and careers.
Questions of Practice: Actor Dulé Hill on Nat “King” Cole’s “Quiet Revolution”
Actor Dulé Hill describes why the simple act of “being” can be an “act of quiet revolution.
Questions of Practice: Pew Fellow Hellmut Gottschild on a Life of Dance, with Tania Isaac
Pew Fellows Hellmut Gottschild and Tania Isaac sat down for an extended conversation about Gottschild’s artistic history and practice.
Questions of Practice: Pew Fellows Sonia Sanchez and Major Jackson on Legacy and the Joys of Teaching
Pew Fellows and poets Sonia Sanchez and Major Jackson visited the Center for an extended conversation, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Pew Fellowships in the Arts.
A Barbara Kasten-Inspired Disruption
2014 Pew Fellow Brent Wahl reflects on how Barbara Kasten's Construct works helped him "make some sense of the forces of the postmodern climate of the 1980s."