What drives cultural practitioners to experiment, discover, and create?
We spoke to 2011 Pew Fellow Joy Feasley, a self-described “landscape painter” whose work tends to be small-scale and intimate—supernatural scenes painted in rich, saturated colors that result in a hybrid of abstract and figurative art.
We speak to 2013 Pew Fellow, poet, and ampersand lover Jenn McCreary, author of the new collection & now my feet are maps.
Nonfiction writer and 2005 Pew Fellow Jay Kirk, "creative documentarian" of *An Experiment in Five Acts*, reports on the events of the Act I session.
Nonfiction writer and 2005 Pew Fellow Jay Kirk, "creative documentarian" of An Experiment in Five Acts, reports on the events of the Act II session.
We asked the 2013 Pew Fellow poets to share samples of their work. Watch Frank Sherlock read a selection from his poem "Little Sensation."
We asked the 2013 Pew Fellow poets to share samples of their work. Watch Emily Abendroth read a selection from her poem "Always Hook a Gift Horsey Dead in the Kisser [An Invocation]."
2012 Pew Fellow Deron Albright is a filmmaker whose work spans documentary, installation, poetic animation, and short- and long-form narrative.
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.
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.
Emily Abendroth, 2013 Pew Fellow